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Comment by wkat4242 | Hacker News Reader

Taco Bell here in Barcelona is ridiculously expensive and extremely poor quality. There's so many great taco restaurants here where you actually get great food for good money.

I guess they're just aiming at rich tourists.

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I live in Boston, MA. Taco Bell is horrendously low quality, I can only imagine it's right at the border of being "barely legal to sell" it as food. If you eat it and don't get explosive diarrhea you should consider yourself lucky. People still eat it because (1) it used be (before COVID) actually extremely cheap (really, in Boston's expensive standards it was almost as cheap as cooking food at your home, but worse quality) now it's about the same as any other fast-food chain maybe slightly cheaper (2) some people like the comfort food aspect of it.

Taco Bell isn't really a taco place, it's a particular type of food. Other chains like Taco John's and Del Taco are very similar. And there is the occasional independent place that makes Taco Bell-style food. But normally tacos are Mexican food, and Taco Bell does not serve Mexican food.

FWIW Taco Bell places I tried in CA were poor quality as well. Guess it's one of the things you have to grow up with to enjoy.

Ah ok I never visited the US. I just couldn't imagine people would like this quality so I assumed it was better over there

You just wait until you try Hershey's chocolade…

More like drunk or hungover tourists.

That's about the only time I can stomach Taco Bell.

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