Here you go

You have much faith in humanity, some EU people are in here not understanding most Americans have shitty colons, pun intended.

I don’t think it’s the spice, but rather the inedible slop from that kind of fast “food” chain that greasily slides through intestines and slips out the colon, like a bat out of hell.

I think any dish with beans in it is so much more fiber-rich than anything else a lot of people eat.

If you’re not used to dietary fiber, a sudden increase can cause flatulence and other fun reactions.

IBD do be like that…

Taco Bell serves fast food of average quality and that’s the dull reality of it. I have never in my life experienced bowel discomfort from Taco Bell, nor have I known anyone who has. I’m convinced that people who go on about such a thing are from inferior stock - the type of people who, in an apocalyptic scenario, are the ones who become food.

Most people in America have never eaten fiber in their lives so if they eat beans they get the shits.

As someone else mentioned, it’s the lack of fiber in so many US folks diets. When we finally get more fiber than they are used to, they tend to poo a lot. The food itself is fine for fast food.

I used to eat at Taco Bell on a near daily basis because it was my favorite fast food, cheap, and in the mall I worked in. I have never once had bowel discomfort from the food there. Even now, I ate it a few weeks ago, no problems at all.

To be honest it’s usually a last minute decision when I can’t decide what to eat. I had an experience like this last week, though, for the first time in YEARS. Thus: this post.

taco bell was the first exposure to anything approaching mexican or latin american food for a lot of white people in statesia. a lot of statesia was, up until the 80s and 90s, a food desert. most meals were made from largely canned goods. not a lot of spices or heat in the meal. you remember seeing all those cookbooks from the 50s with nasty recipes? that’s because they had to get inventive. so like taco bell and panda express were pretty adventurous for a lot of middle statesia when it comes to food.

tie in the racist “don’t drink the water, it’s mexico” jokes, mash it all up over a few decades and now the joke is taco bell gives you the runs. it’s not even real mexican food it’s become so americanized but *shrugs*

i have gut problems out the wazoo (which is unsurprising. that’s where you’d expect the gut problems) and taco bell is a reliable, safe place to eat when i’m on a road trip. they do not make me sick, which is more than most fast food places can say. Taco Bell, in general, maintains clean kitchens. That is the most important feature of a restaurant, just more important than a clean shitter. So like, ymmv but i like them. Don’t eat there often, but they are safe and that’s the important part.

Well there was that time they were sued over not meeting the definition of “beef” (it’s apparently 88% beef, so yay?).

The uk horse meat “beef” scandal.

And the metal shavings scandal.

But mostly it’s just ultra-processed crap that has enough salt and fat to make people think it’s food.

Chipotle would be more accurate

My wife once dropped a noxious stench, in a National Trust gift shop, that was so bad that a little old lady blamed her dog.

Mine is now “The Bix is Back”.