Cat food?

I understand it's going to look nothing like the ad. I know that. But at least give us some wilted lettuce and rotten cheese!

That picture on the left, that stuff inside the 'taco', that's literally the same exact stuff my cat throws up.

Fail taco.

I see what could be construed as "chicken", but where the hell is the lettuce, cheese, sour cream and whatever else is supposed to be in the darn thing? Appearance aside, doesn't it at least have to contain all the ingredients of a "taco"?

WTF?

Correct me if I'm wrong but in spanish, doesn't "del" me "of the"? If so the name of this place is "of the taco"

*me = mean, sorry.

@snoop-blog: you are correct sir, in much the same way that Au Bon Pain literally means "Of Good Bread."
I think the intended definition, something along the lines of "characterized by or pertaining to quality and taste in the relevant food group." Isnt quite as catchy. Sometimes imperfect literal translations are the better option.

@snoop-blog: @wattznext: Remember, grammar doesn't always translate into English. It may be correct in the original language and come out stupid in our's.

So if I read this correctly, because Del Taco employees don't include lettuce in the taco, Starbucks stinks.

Gotcha.

@MikeGrenade: Well either way, it looks like Del Taco gives you nada! Except for pollo.

@snoop-blog:

Actually, the company used to be known as the Delta Company (Delta Co.) back when they were manufacturing milkshake machines, but when the taco business exploded, they simply rearranged the capitals to Del Taco.

/The more you know?

There is a website somewhere that takes pictures of fastfood items.

I'm too lazy to look it up but shows you how much work they actually put in to the pictures.

If you would like to see more of these advertising versus reality, check out www.real-reality.com :) You can see a really sad cheeseburger from Mcdonalds!

El pollo del mar?

Or those tacos looked like they came out of the sea at least.

@snoop-blog: If you can even call that chicken...

Come on. If it was 5 bucks I would care, but at 99 cents. They still taste good. Looks aren't everything.

They kind of look like the "tacos del carbon" that Del Taco serves instead of the chicken soft tacos! Maybe they just got the order wrong and didn't totally fail.

"Del Taco"
We Save Your Digestive System All the Trouble!"

Being a Del Taco regular, every chicken taco I have ordered has looked closer to the menu pic .. I think whoever made those musta just come back from a serious bender weekend .. lol

That looks like tortilla and "chicken", no lettuce, cheese or anything else. I put chicken in quotations because it looks more like partially digested catfood and impacted hairballs.

When I lived in CA I was always afraid to eat at Del Taco. Everyone I knew said it was worse than Jack in the Box and that was literally not edible.

@brother9: You read this incorrectly.

Apparently the one in the picture also has the magical property of staying erect (tee-hee) without any visible means of support.

Is it False Advertising in having a picture advertisement look nothing like the product??

It's always looked like that... but they are oh-so-tasty

Taco Bell FTW! They're tacos are pretty good...for fast food.

Del Taco has the best cheeseburgers! Mmmm... 5 cheeseburghers after a long night at the bars for 5 bucks... mmmm....

... and the best 3AM fights.

This never would have happened at Naugles...

@snoop-blog: If so, I'm holding my breath for the inevitable merger with Pink Taco...

@Elaida:

Yes, but since McDonald's food is made of plastic, they look the same!!!! ;)

@JayDeEm:
Mmmmmmmmm Naugles, God I ended more drunken binges in the drive through at Naugles at 3am than I can count. What the hell was the name of that HUGE ASS burrito they used to serve?

I ordered some steak tacos there a few weeks ago~ I got "steak" and lettuce rolled up in a tortilla, all wrapped in a foil ball.

Steak balls not too appealing..

So happy I stopped eating meat :)

Not all Del Tacos are this bad at making a taco. Best one is obviously the original in Barstow. I eat at the local ones here and I've yet to receive a bad taco.

Oh Yeah, and Double Dels are the bomb.

@moeman1024: I doubt it unless there was alot of tacos without the fixings...this is just one incident. And I thought that some of the stuff from taco bell looked bad (except the .89 cheesy beefy things though...mmmmm.)

@thelushie: I need serious grammer help. *sigh* Can I use the excuse "My car died last night" as a reason to use "was" where "were" should be?

@bohemian: I went to Del Taco once. The food, decor, and overall experience pretty much screamed "We are Taco Bell's Retarded Cousin! The bastard love child of Taco John's and Wendy's"

@linus: The only page I know of is this one, but it hasn't been updated in quite a while. :(

@Sudonum: I was only about 12 years old when Naugles disappeared so I don't remember the menu all that well. Red Burrito seems to stick out in my mind for some reason though. I'm just glad that someone else remembered Naugles :)

What I really miss is the pre Carl's Jr. Green Burrito... Big Ed FTW.

What's odd is that I've found that Del Taco is the only "fast food" stuff (the stuff I order anyway...I've never ordered the chicken soft taco) that I think looks remotely like the menu pictures. Del Taco and Subway are really the only fast food places I can tolerate, actually. Makes me sad to see a picture of fail from one of them.

I'm assuming this person ordered the tacos without lettuce and cheese, since they're not on there. So... not quite a fair comparison here. I really wouldn't expect it to look anything like the picture in the first place -- no fast food ever has, and no fast food ever will.

Furballs.

Oh, you haven't heard about the USDA-ordered recall of tomatoes, lettuce, cheese, sour cream and zesty taco sauce?

They look pretty tasty to me. They just need a little cheese and a nice chunky chipotle salsa and they'll be good to go. They look way better than the menu IMHO anyway.

why people in los angeles choose to get tacos here instead of any one of the amazing taco trucks throughout the city is beyond me.

@The_Gas_Man: That's the first sensible comment of the thread.

Of course, there's something to be said about the photograph on the right being wholly unrealistic. No 'soft shell' will ever hold its shape in a perfect semicircle with any amount of filling. So really there are two things wrong with the article. The customer is silly for complaining that his 'grilled chicken and nothing else' taco doesn't look like a semicircle -- a clear sign that he's never had a proper taco from a real mexican restaurant or taco truck (where they're often served flat piled on small corn tortillas), and Del Taco is silly for promising physics-defying food shapes.

@JayDeEm:
The "red burrito" was an early Taco Bell creation, they had the red burrito and the green burrito, one was mild the other was hot, can't remember which was which. But Naugles had this ginormus thing we used to call the "aircraft carrier" but that wasn't how it appeared on the menu. Found it, the Macho Burrito! Those things were a total gut bomb.

Looks like the aftermath of a diaper change performed on one very sick baby.

I had Del Taco last night, and my chicken tacos came with lettuce and cheese. They were, in fact, pretty tasty.
I'm calling bullshit.