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They don't have data on cheesy gordita crunches. Literally unusable. /s
You joke, but my orders are mostly chalupas and quesadillas, and this has neither. Also wtf is a lava taco?
Taco Bell's cheesy name for "spicy" -- although if one truly enjoys actual spicy these are just mild as far as "spice" goes. Runs more along the line of "they tried to add some pepper flavor, but forgot to add any heat".
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You have to battle the psychological aspect which says that they are different even if they smell, taste, feel the same. It really isn't that easy, if it was, parents of autistic kids would be doing it. There is also a reason why McDonald's nuggets are the go to for autistic kids the world over. They have been engineered over many decades to be the most acceptable taste and texture for children.
A friend of mine (with an autistic child) explained it as: If you give your kid a strawberry - even within the punnet the tastes and textures will vary - even mid summer some will be unpleasantly tart. If I make a sandwich it will be mildly different one day to the next, depending on the freshness of the items I put in, the brand of the ham, the spread, the bread. But junk food will ALWAYS BE THE SAME. If surprise an…
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I have an autistic kid who went through a phase where she would only eat McDonalds chicken nuggets... I live in a city and have 3 McDonald's pretty close to me, and the price for the same order of nuggets would vary by up to 50 cents between the 3... the cheapest place is only a half mile away from the most expensive one. It really is strange.
I don't mean to be rude but I'm just curious... did you try simply not giving them junk food? I have done some research on this and have not found any good evidence that most autistic children will actually starve themselves for any meaningful amount of time if their picky foods are not provided.
I have one kid who will demand the giant tray of cupcakes from Sam’s Club then proceed to eat half of a cupcake twice and never think about them again (in this case, we actually did buy the giant tray for a BBQ and had left overs). We simply continue to offer her other, healthy food while she goes through a phase on something.
The other kid remembers where everything is, despite being very young. She will scream about certain foods she wants (too young to talk) and work us to specific cabinets and drawers where that food was. We have to be a lot more mindful of what food we expose her to and be prepared to nudge her towards better options. Push her too hard and she simply gets stuck on that one specific food item she wants.
While you’re right that kids won’t literally starve themselves, food can be a battle point in a day filled with other things. Sometimes you just have to read the kid and bend so you don’t ruin other priorities.
Not sure why almost all of Tennessee is unavailable, but I can say that their prices here have risen astronomically. Our Taco Bell used to have a line around the building pretty consistently, now it’s essentially empty all the time.
1) Covid caused a huge reduction in business.
2) Businesses charged more per person to sustain themselves.
3) Post-Covid people are buying less due to the higher prices so its sticky.
My local Qdoba is so expensive I won't eat there any more, but a few people do. What would happen if they dropped prices significantly and advertised that to bring people back? I don't know... There are only so many person-meals in a day, so people are eating somewhere, are they staying home? Are grocery sales up?
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There's always a comment like this I find. Some extra layer of data people want to see that explains the first layer, and it never ends - the data on data. Sometimes we just want to know the damn burrito prices and don't care about the excuses.
If you want to know the burrito price, you open the app/website and look at the burrito price... you don't go to a "Taconomics" website comparing taco prices across a continent. As it stands, there are a number of uncontrolled variables that mean this is not an effective analysis of "How economical is your local Taco Bell?"
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Apparently the prices are scraped from the mobile app. I installed the mobile app and for some reason, and that location can’t be found inside the mobile app. Actually, you cannot (I can’t anyway) order from that location from the website either. It just goes to show data cleaning is hard. It’s true for statistics and it’s probably just as true for LLMs.
Why does Taco Bell have an app? What is its purpose?
So my conclusion it is just a data harvesting scheme.
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Not sure if you've been to the USA but it's not like many Americans have a choice. As an American from a smaller town it's something that depresses me a great deal. Basically every restaurant is an instance of a chain. Outside of the cities it's rare to find an original small business. Especially because the only place to get food is sometimes a parking lot "food court" or mall, and I guess only the franchisers can a…
We have long had access to unlimited recipes and YouTube videos showing how to cook quick, easy, tasty meals. And we have online shopping. A small minority of Americans live so remote (either in blighted urban or rural areas) that they don’t have a choice in cooking.