November 19, 2025 • 8 mins
Much like other fast food restaurants, Taco Bell announces three new items inspired by their customers. The Show also finds out where all their loyalty points are going.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So does Lays still do this contest where they have
fans create a flavor every year? Is that still a thing?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Uh? Yeah, I mean, I know we reported on it,
but I don't know if that was a year ago,
two years ago. But I know for a while they
were definitely doing it year after year.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah it was every year, but I just I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah, I don't remember lost one or not.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So yeah, Lais has been doing that whole thing where
you know, you can create a flavor and all that
stuff for their potato chips. Well, apparently Taco Bell is
now getting into the game and letting fans create three
new menu items. Now, why can't we just have the turrito?
We just bring out the anserdo? Why are we doing
all these dumb flavors and menu items. I just want
(00:46):
to back normally.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
You miss it with it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm so sorry, sucks, sorry for your loss.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
You loved it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, that's what I would create.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh, you would recreate the ansurito. And they're like, but sir,
this is already something that exists.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I win.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, yeah, Taco Bell has been doing something through their
app which is very interesting. I guess there's there's been
a section on their rewards app for fan style customizations,
and basically that what that would be is if you
came up with like a cool customization of an item
(01:23):
that's already on their menu that you love and you
swear by, which reminds me of Eddies.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
My Taco Bell order is that it's a customization.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, I do a burrito, so it's a bean and
cheese burrito and then I add meat and sour cream
to it. Because they used to have a burrito that
was that. I forget what cream, no, because britospream has
lettuce and stuff like that, I know, but it was
it was called like the I forget what it was
called something. I don't remember what it was called, but
(01:54):
they used to have that burrito and then they got
rid of it. So when I forget it might have
been Dario then who went to Taco Bell and they
said they don't have that Breno anymore. But basically it
you can get a bean and cheese burrito and then
add the meat and sour cream and it's basically the
same thing. So I get that almost every Taco Bell Thursday.
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I kind of want one.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's a fan creation.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I might get one. Wow, tomorrow it's going to be
Taco Bell Thursday.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Look at you?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I do it so so Eddie, if you were
on the rewards app, you could submit that to you.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Why we're not. We'd be millionaires by now right? Are
eating for free?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I have that thought the other day when I was
at Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I have zero food rewards app, and for the amount
of times I go to Panda Express, Starbucks and Taco.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Bell, Like, how am I not getting those?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Fools? It is, Jamie, didn't you sign us up for
like the Einstein one or something like that or any
of those.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I've had the Einstein one for a few years now,
and I also have the Taco Bell one.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Do you use our points?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I have points? I don't use the points.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Get to order through the app to get the points?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yeah, sometimes order through the app where sometimes they'll be
there and be like, oh do you have the code,
and my phone is just like, oh, you could use
a code. Yeah, they have a code. So we have points,
we just don't use them like a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Not really.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Well that's why think yeah, because sometimes I just forget
to put in.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Some of the bitch.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
We could be Taco bellt Rich.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You can't want to talk about you could want to
talk about you could.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Seriously, Einstein's. Can you show a code, dude, so that
you don't have to order through the Apple?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And you've never asked no, So I'll just order there
because sometimes like the the orders are a little But.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Can you tell them your awards number to tie it in?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I just give them my phone numbers?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
So you do do that?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah, so I do?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
How many Einsteze rewards?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do you have?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
How much free stuff have you gotten from this?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah? This guy's eating for free every day.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Currently have seventy eight points on Einstein and not much really? No,
this guy one hundred and twenty five points for a
free bagel and cream cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
How could we have not earned that by now?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, he's not using it. You've got to use it
for all our orders, bro, I do? Oh and that
you only have like twice a week time?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Because every once in a while, say you have a
free bagel and cream cheese. Would you like to use that?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And do you get it? Yeah? For yourself? Yeah you
think that's okay?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
H R?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Do you think that's okay? I'm doing the I'm fine
with you doing that. You're right, but you don't run
it by us.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Well I also order a bagel sometimes too, so those.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Are also but you're one. You deserve the reward.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Wow, sweet baby James has been scamming us this whole time.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Bastard, He's a scammer.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Damn. I can't trust trust him.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You can't trust him. Wowow.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I won't talk about no available awards awards right now,
that's crazy. We have two hundred and thirty three points. Yeah,
no awards.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
They want to free Cantina Chicken Soft Taco.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yes, I would actually love that, of course you would.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I'll get you tomorrow. You know what.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I can't say, okay, and I think that just hurts
up us.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
So anyway, so Taco Bell has had this fan style
customization thing on their app for a while where you
could do that and kind of almost like that like
Amazon referral program. If someone were to order your customization,
you would get points on your account that you can
use for future purchases.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So people, I.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Guess really like this.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So they decided let's kick it up and make it
a full on contest where you will submit your thing,
your item, and then we will pick a handful of
winners and we will put it on the full actual menu,
not this special little side menu. So they got forty
thousand submissions and just announced the three items that will
(05:54):
start showing up on their menu tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
What we got first, we have.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Of the California crunch rap, which they say draws inspiration
from the San Diego style burrito, but was created by
Brock in Michigan. Brock's take on the crunch rap replaces
the seasoned ground beef with steak and then adds the
(06:21):
nacho fries and walk. So it's basically like a California burrito,
but in a crunch rap.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Why not get a steak burrito and add fries to it?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Because he wanted to do it with a crunch trap,
but Brock with the you know theris tostada in the middle,
and he wants to be on this list.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
One time Janie screwed up my tacobo order. I did not,
and I wanted my burrito, and then I wanted on
the side nacho fries. Obviously, somehow the nacho fries ended
up in my burrito, and I'm like, Jamie, what happened here?
I went up?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I ordered.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I said, can I get a beam burrito with meat
in sour cream? And then I paused for a second
because I was there putting in the system. And then
I say, and nacho fries. And then they said, like
the size I was like medium nacho fry whatever, it
was regular nacho fry.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't believe it. No, that's what I said. I
was there.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Can I get a bean bridea with meat ad meat
sour cream with nacho fries?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yea?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And Eddie didn't know it, like hey, they left out
by nacho fries and then went to take the first
of his burrito and his.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Wind was blown. It wasn't terrible because it was kind
of like California, but not really at all.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Okay, So that's one of the three in US.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Next is something called the Burrito Bliss that was created
by a guy in Kentucky. It's a vegetarian option.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So it's like a burrito with rice, beans, pico, tortilla strips,
and avocado ranch and then they grilled the tortilla wrapped.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay. And the final one is the Can't Tina.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Kraze, which was submitted from Sandra in Missouri, and that's
basically the cantina crispy taco.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah uh huh, and yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
She's basically making it a supreme. So she's adding lettuce, tomato,
and sour cream to the cantina.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
That's weird, isn't there, Like she's almost an outsider.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's like grilled, almost like Panini press type grilled.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So they all start tomorrow. And the crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Is is there's like no cash prize like with Lay's
and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You win, like.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You win the honor and then I think you get
points in the end.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Jamie just use them anyway,
So does Lays still do this contest where they have
fans create a flavor every year? Is that still a thing?
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Uh? Yeah, I mean, I know we reported on it,
but I don't know if that was a year ago,
two years ago. But I know for a while they
were definitely doing it year after year.
Speaker 1 (00:18):
Yeah it was every year, but I just I don't remember.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah, I don't remember lost one or not.
Speaker 4 (00:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:24):
So yeah, Lais has been doing that whole thing where
you know, you can create a flavor and all that
stuff for their potato chips. Well, apparently Taco Bell is
now getting into the game and letting fans create three
new menu items. Now, why can't we just have the turrito?
We just bring out the anserdo? Why are we doing
all these dumb flavors and menu items. I just want
(00:46):
to back normally.
Speaker 4 (00:48):
You miss it with it.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I'm so sorry, sucks, sorry for your loss.
Speaker 5 (00:51):
You loved it.
Speaker 1 (00:52):
Yeah, that's what I would create.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Oh, you would recreate the ansurito. And they're like, but sir,
this is already something that exists.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I win.
Speaker 4 (01:01):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Well, yeah, Taco Bell has been doing something through their
app which is very interesting. I guess there's there's been
a section on their rewards app for fan style customizations,
and basically that what that would be is if you
came up with like a cool customization of an item
(01:23):
that's already on their menu that you love and you
swear by, which reminds me of Eddies.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
My Taco Bell order is that it's a customization.
Speaker 1 (01:33):
Yeah, I do a burrito, so it's a bean and
cheese burrito and then I add meat and sour cream
to it. Because they used to have a burrito that
was that. I forget what cream, no, because britospream has
lettuce and stuff like that, I know, but it was
it was called like the I forget what it was
called something. I don't remember what it was called, but
(01:54):
they used to have that burrito and then they got
rid of it. So when I forget it might have
been Dario then who went to Taco Bell and they
said they don't have that Breno anymore. But basically it
you can get a bean and cheese burrito and then
add the meat and sour cream and it's basically the
same thing. So I get that almost every Taco Bell Thursday.
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (02:13):
I kind of want one.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
It's a fan creation.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
I might get one. Wow, tomorrow it's going to be
Taco Bell Thursday.
Speaker 1 (02:18):
Look at you?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Yeah, I do it so so Eddie, if you were
on the rewards app, you could submit that to you.
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Why we're not. We'd be millionaires by now right? Are
eating for free?
Speaker 3 (02:28):
I have that thought the other day when I was
at Starbucks.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
I have zero food rewards app, and for the amount
of times I go to Panda Express, Starbucks and Taco.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Bell, Like, how am I not getting those?
Speaker 1 (02:41):
Fools? It is, Jamie, didn't you sign us up for
like the Einstein one or something like that or any
of those.
Speaker 5 (02:47):
I've had the Einstein one for a few years now,
and I also have the Taco Bell one.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Do you use our points?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
I have points? I don't use the points.
Speaker 4 (02:55):
Get to order through the app to get the points?
Speaker 5 (02:57):
Yeah, sometimes order through the app where sometimes they'll be
there and be like, oh do you have the code,
and my phone is just like, oh, you could use
a code. Yeah, they have a code. So we have points,
we just don't use them like a lot.
Speaker 1 (03:09):
Not really.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Well that's why think yeah, because sometimes I just forget
to put in.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Some of the bitch.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
We could be Taco bellt Rich.
Speaker 1 (03:18):
You can't want to talk about you could want to
talk about you could.
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Seriously, Einstein's. Can you show a code, dude, so that
you don't have to order through the Apple?
Speaker 5 (03:26):
And you've never asked no, So I'll just order there
because sometimes like the the orders are a little But.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Can you tell them your awards number to tie it in?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (03:34):
I just give them my phone numbers?
Speaker 4 (03:35):
So you do do that?
Speaker 5 (03:36):
Yeah, so I do?
Speaker 4 (03:37):
How many Einsteze rewards?
Speaker 1 (03:38):
Do you have?
Speaker 4 (03:39):
How much free stuff have you gotten from this?
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Yeah? This guy's eating for free every day.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Currently have seventy eight points on Einstein and not much really? No,
this guy one hundred and twenty five points for a
free bagel and cream cheese.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
How could we have not earned that by now?
Speaker 2 (03:55):
Yeah, he's not using it. You've got to use it
for all our orders, bro, I do? Oh and that
you only have like twice a week time?
Speaker 4 (04:04):
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (04:05):
Because every once in a while, say you have a
free bagel and cream cheese. Would you like to use that?
Speaker 1 (04:10):
And do you get it? Yeah? For yourself? Yeah you
think that's okay?
Speaker 2 (04:16):
H R?
Speaker 1 (04:16):
Do you think that's okay? I'm doing the I'm fine
with you doing that. You're right, but you don't run
it by us.
Speaker 5 (04:24):
Well I also order a bagel sometimes too, so those.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Are also but you're one. You deserve the reward.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Wow, sweet baby James has been scamming us this whole time.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
Bastard, He's a scammer.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Damn. I can't trust trust him.
Speaker 1 (04:42):
You can't trust him. Wowow.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
I won't talk about no available awards awards right now,
that's crazy. We have two hundred and thirty three points. Yeah,
no awards.
Speaker 4 (04:53):
What do you do?
Speaker 5 (04:54):
They want to free Cantina Chicken Soft Taco.
Speaker 4 (04:57):
Yes, I would actually love that, of course you would.
Speaker 1 (05:00):
I'll get you tomorrow. You know what.
Speaker 6 (05:01):
I can't say, okay, and I think that just hurts
up us.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
So anyway, so Taco Bell has had this fan style
customization thing on their app for a while where you
could do that and kind of almost like that like
Amazon referral program. If someone were to order your customization,
you would get points on your account that you can
use for future purchases.
Speaker 4 (05:32):
So people, I.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Guess really like this.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
So they decided let's kick it up and make it
a full on contest where you will submit your thing,
your item, and then we will pick a handful of
winners and we will put it on the full actual menu,
not this special little side menu. So they got forty
thousand submissions and just announced the three items that will
(05:54):
start showing up on their menu tomorrow.
Speaker 4 (05:57):
What we got first, we have.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Of the California crunch rap, which they say draws inspiration
from the San Diego style burrito, but was created by
Brock in Michigan. Brock's take on the crunch rap replaces
the seasoned ground beef with steak and then adds the
(06:21):
nacho fries and walk. So it's basically like a California burrito,
but in a crunch rap.
Speaker 1 (06:27):
Why not get a steak burrito and add fries to it?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Because he wanted to do it with a crunch trap,
but Brock with the you know theris tostada in the middle,
and he wants to be on this list.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
One time Janie screwed up my tacobo order. I did not,
and I wanted my burrito, and then I wanted on
the side nacho fries. Obviously, somehow the nacho fries ended
up in my burrito, and I'm like, Jamie, what happened here?
I went up?
Speaker 4 (06:54):
I ordered.
Speaker 5 (06:55):
I said, can I get a beam burrito with meat
in sour cream? And then I paused for a second
because I was there putting in the system. And then
I say, and nacho fries. And then they said, like
the size I was like medium nacho fry whatever, it
was regular nacho fry.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I don't believe it. No, that's what I said. I
was there.
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Can I get a bean bridea with meat ad meat
sour cream with nacho fries?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
Yea?
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And Eddie didn't know it, like hey, they left out
by nacho fries and then went to take the first
of his burrito and his.
Speaker 1 (07:28):
Wind was blown. It wasn't terrible because it was kind
of like California, but not really at all.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Okay, So that's one of the three in US.
Speaker 2 (07:38):
Next is something called the Burrito Bliss that was created
by a guy in Kentucky. It's a vegetarian option.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:48):
So it's like a burrito with rice, beans, pico, tortilla strips,
and avocado ranch and then they grilled the tortilla wrapped.
Speaker 3 (07:56):
Okay. And the final one is the Can't Tina.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Kraze, which was submitted from Sandra in Missouri, and that's
basically the cantina crispy taco.
Speaker 4 (08:09):
Yeah uh huh, and yeah, I like that.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
She's basically making it a supreme. So she's adding lettuce, tomato,
and sour cream to the cantina.
Speaker 4 (08:19):
That's weird, isn't there, Like she's almost an outsider.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
It's like grilled, almost like Panini press type grilled.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
So they all start tomorrow. And the crazy thing.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Is is there's like no cash prize like with Lay's
and all that.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
You win, like.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You win the honor and then I think you get
points in the end.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
Jamie just use them anyway,
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