GENUIS!

GENIUS I meant. lol

or....Genius!

I love the mild sauce, but it's been difficult to find it in the stores lately. I usually ask for a ton of packets when I go through their drive through to get me through the dry spells.

I third that 'GENIUS!'.

Defition of GENUIS: A person with too much time on their hands.....

That's right - defition! LOL

He must like Taco Bell or just stealing there sauce... either way, wouldn't it be cheaper just to make tacos at home then eating out that much?

They give you so many packets every time you go, I can't imagine the need to buy their sauce.

@Heather Russell: Yeah, you can get the 35 packets in jsut two trips through the drive-thru.

Of course, then you're stuck with a bottle of nasty taco bell hot sauce. Ew.

@couldberunning: Maybe not, meat is expensive . . . as is cheese . .

@merekat: I couldn't imagine how many packets they'd give me if I asked for a ton--they always give me way more than anyone might ever need.

Do they just give you an unopened box at that point?

now the real question, why is taco bell sauce so good, when their food is so bad?

Why would anyone open the packets to fill a bottle? The sauce will last much longer in the sealed packets.

I use my taco bell sauces when I cook spanish rice, tacos and all sorts of things. I don't ever ask for extra, but always end up with two or three packets I didn't need.

I also never buy mustard, mayo or ketchup because I don't use it, but occasionally grab a packet or two when I order a sandwich to keep in my house for guests.

@couldberunning: If he's like me, he grabs handfuls upon handfuls of fire sauce packets every time he goes to Taco Bell. That only works, of course, at the ones who leave the sauces out in the dining room instead of behind the counter. :(

But I also used to buy the bottles of fire sauce back in the day (for tacos I made at home), but I can't remember seeing them anywhere in recent memory. I wonder if they stopped selling them in some regions?

But how big is the bottle? How much sauce is in each packet? These are the questions I need to know!!

@ryan_h: Because there is balance to The Force, young padawan.

@ryan_h:

Dunno, but every Taco Bell I have ever gone to always seems to screw up my order, or not make it correctly (different locations too).
Last night my fiancee and I went to Taco Bell. She ordered the Cheesy Gordita Crunch meal and somehow manage to forget the special sauce they put on it.
It is either that or they forget to put in a taco, or flat out give us the wrong thing.

not to mention the stuff in the bottle does not taste the same as the stuff in the packet. i love taco bells mild sauce but i tried buying it in the bottle once and it just wasnt the same

So is there HFCS in their hot sauce? I happened across the Wendy's Chili Sauce and sure enough...HFCS. I'm done. No more juice, sodas, syrup, Doritos even the pretzels we had in the pantry had HFCS.

Wait, did he mix different flavors together? Big no no. Mild needs to be left just how it is.

@Pink Puppet: I have a 25lb box of Arby Sauce. Mmmmmm.

How productive is this? Why not just leave them in the packets. What's next? How many salt packets does it take to fill your salt shaker.

Could this have been determined by the "Servings per Bottle"?? If not... were you short changed by the bottle estimates OR is there more than one serving per packet?

These are things I need to know!

@lonestarbl: Strange, I wrote that last line without seeing Ratted's post...

Next on Reader Dennis' plate... the great Tootsie Pop debate?

For some reason I can't stomach taco bell hot sauce on anything other than taco bell food. I think it's that taco bell represents its own distinct class of horrendously disgusting food which, if I'm in the mood for it, I dig in whole hog. But if I'm not in the mood for it, I don't want anything else to taste like it!

when there's a post on consumerist next year that Taco Bell is only handing out two hot sauce packets per taco or some such nonsense, we'll all know who to thank.

You could have just used basic math to figure out how many of the half ounce packets go into a twelve ounce bottle minus some spillage. If it matters I prefer Del Taco's mild sauce to taco bell's...

you should have seen the baffled look on the lady at the taco bell drive-thru recently when she gave me my four hard tacos and I asked for 2 sauces for each. I could see her trying to process the numbers and ultimately gave up and just threw about 20 in there.

@Wit: B/c Dennis never made it w/o biting.

Or you could have just used the coupon in the paper recently for a free bottle of Frank's Red Hot and saved not only your money but your dignity as well.

@Pink Puppet: Alright, so it's not just me. Every time I got to Taco Bell I swear I get at LEAST 20 packets of sauce.

@Quibbs0: That's not a button on the register...

@Mr-Mr: Agreed. Just keep the packets somewhere. They probably last longer anyways, because of less air exposure, etc.

fire sauce != hot sauce

@ Mr-Mr : what kind of salt packets? the ridged ones with two tubes or the little packets shaped like sugar packets? also what kind of shaker? publix pilgrims, glass ones with metal tops or the mortons mini can?

@Benguin: You guys are lucky, I used to go into the local store here because they had the bins out to grab 20-30 packets. Now they put them behind the counter and I'll be lucky to get 2 per item.

@chus3r: HFCS is in pretty much everything you'd get from Taco Bell save the fresh veggies.

Ew Taco Hell!

I do save salt packets and throw them in a container on our table. If I'm sitting around bored and watching t.v. I sit and open a bunch at a time and dump them into the salt shaker.

@noone1569: You're assuming there's meat and cheese in Taco Hell "food."

@couldberunning:

How is this stealing? They allow you to grab as much as you want and often throw in 10 packs when you do order something...

The guy is being cheap yes, but he is not stealing. And Taco's (I hate TB, BTW) are like less than a buck so it probably is cheaper buying their crap than actually making it at home.

I have packets of Fire Sauce here at work. Better than a cup of coffee for a quick perk-me-up. My doctor told me that capsaicin is better than caffeine for *waking* you up (caffeine is good for keeping you up once you're already alert), so a quick squirt an hour or two after lunch and I'm back on track.

At my local Taco Bell, they give us just enough to have one or two spares. I will have to start going inside and ordering and just grab what they got so I can just have a bottle of the Fire sauce.

@ Pink Puppet: a ton of packets is like 2 big handfuls. More than enough of whatever crap I ordered.

Dennis sounds like a guy who'd enjoy "How Much Is Inside": [www.cockeyed.com]

Well, There goes the free hot-sauce, I see a corporate memo going out to all stores. I hate it when a new person is working drive-thru, don't find out til you get home, they didn't include ANY even when you asked! Can't eat taco bell without hot sauce! Have you tried? YUCK!

where can you buy the bottle??????

TB Fire sauce is Very tasty.