Taco Bell 1.99 Burritos are a Disappointment

Recently Taco Bell has made a pitch to promote three of their half-pound burritos priced at 1.99. These tacos have double the beef and are supposed to be able to be plenty of food for anyone...at two-dollars Taco Bell provides a deal that cannot be found anywhere else. The prime commercial of these burritos features boxing great Evander Holyfield. Here is the commercial, unfortunately the video quality from YouTube is not very good:



While advertising is almost always somewhat misleading and it is expected that the food item featured in a commercial will never look as good when ordered in real-life as it does in the picture, the Taco Bell half pounders fall even farther below these expectations. These burritos plain and simply are tiny. I could have figured that Holyfield could probably eat more than one burrito, but I still expected the burrito to be relatively substantive. As it turned out, at my recent visit to Taco Bell I found out that someone my size, much lighter than Holyfield at 150 pounds, needs a half-pound burrito in addition to: one chicken ranch gordita, one soft taco, and two apple turnovers.

Below are the realistic images of an actual half pound burrito. However, I do not see Taco Bell showing these pictures to anyone.