Honey, Taco Bell shrunk the Chrunchwrap (and added steak)
The Steak & Queso Crunchwrap Sliders are a huge hit. I’m gonna go order more right now.
It’s not often a fast-food chain creates something truly revolutionary. Taco Bell captured this magic when it launched the Crunchwrap Supreme two decades ago.
There have been times in my life where I was obsessed with the Crunchwrap Supreme. Once, during a lengthy drive back to our apartment from a wedding in North Carolina, we stopped at a Taco Bell to get lunch. I got a Crunchwrap. Caitlin got a Crunchwrap. And then we bought a third Crunchwrap just in case we still had that Crunchwrap hunger after each finishing our own. (The third Crunchwrap wound up going uneaten, its lingering aroma from the backseat serving as a Tell-Tale Heart of our misguided fast-food ambitions.)
Taco Bell has never been content to be happy with their menu offerings. They’re constantly looking to innovate. Can a shell be a Dorito? Can a Cheez-It be bigger? What if the entire thing was made of chicken?
For their latest creation, the food scientists over at Taco Bell have shrunken down the Crunchwrap Supreme, swapping out the standard Taco Bell beef for the Steak & Queso Crunchwrap Sliders. (I was going to make a joke about Taco Bell pulling a Rick Moranis, but I was too depressed to learn that Honey, I Shrunk the Kids came out in 1989 ... not the 1990s.)
I do my best to catch new items for Snackology when they first debut. In the case of the Crunchwrap Sliders, I’m a week or two behind. But after a friend texted that “the steak Crunchwrap Sliders are delicious” in our group chat last week, I haven’t stopped thinking about them. So after eating salads for lunch all week, I made the journey to Taco Bell to pick up lunch on Friday ...
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