Taco Bell Nachos

jmcquown said:

Terry said:

I would like to find a nacho cheese that taste like Taco Bell's.
Anyone care to recommend some?

I love those Nachos BellGrande.

I don't know about their cheese sauce but you can buy canned cheese sauce
and add some jalapeno peppers to it.

Canned cheese sauce is garbage, but I guess that's what the OP was
shooting for.

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Jill

--Bryan

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Phred a écrit :

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Does anyone know what might be an Australian equivalent of
the "processed American cheese" used in the following recipe?

That is a misnomer as the process referred to as "American" cheese was
in fact developed in Canada, which is of course the better part of
North America :-)

It is a process which blends various cheeses, fats and emulsifiers to
achieve a uniform texture and mild taste:

"Pasteurized process cheese, for example, is made from one or more
cheeses, such as cheddar or colby, and may have cream or anhydrous
milkfat added. The cheese is blended and heated with an
emulsifier-typically a sodium or potassium phosphate, tartrate, or
citrate-and other optional ingredients such as water, salt,
artificial color, and spices or other flavorings.

"The cheese is then poured into molds to solidify and is later
packaged. This processing produces a smooth, mild-tasting cheese that
melts easily. For pasteurized process cheese, the final product can
have a maximum moisture content of 43% and must have at least 47%
milkfat. An interesting twist is that the product alternatively can be
labeled as pasteurized process American cheese when made from cheddar,
colby, cheese curd, granular cheese, or a combination of these; when
other varieties of cheese are included, it must be called simply
American cheese."

You can read more here:

http://pubs.acs.org/cen/whatstuff/stuff/7806sci2.html

There is nothing wrong with process cheese as far as wholesomeness, but
aesthetically, I'd avoid the stuff. In St. Louis, Missouri (where I'm
from) they make this junk called Provel. Like all process cheeses, it
is slimy.

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PeterL said:

BTW, I've seen this post *3* times already!!

Really ?
My original still hasn't shown up on aus.food, only rec.food.cooking - which
I didn't notice the x-post to at first ...
so I posted it again and dropped the x-

G'day Ms L,

If you saw it first in RFC, and if you have a half-decent newsreader,
then it wouldn't show up in aus.food as it would already have been
marked as "read" [that's as in "red" not "reed" ;-) ].

ISTR that I saw both your posts in aus.food, because I go there first.
(Had me wondering what you were smoking at the time; but now I think I
understand. :-)

Cheers, Phred.

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"Ms Leebee" <[email hidden]> wrote in
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PeterL said:

BTW, I've seen this post *3* times already!!

Really ?

Yep. One after the other in here. I don't do re.food cooking

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My original still hasn't shown up on aus.food, only rec.food.cooking -
which I didn't notice the x-post to at first ...
so I posted it again and dropped the x-

It's a glitch........ or you were [censored] and pressed the send tab 3
times!!

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Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

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On Tue, 25 Apr 2006 09:37:34 +0000 (UTC), PeterL <[email hidden]>

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Yep. One after the other in here. I don't do re.food cooking

You mean rfc doesn't do you.

You were booted out of there a couple of years ago.

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Craig

On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 15:38:53 -0700, Serene <[email hidden]>

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On Sun, 23 Apr 2006 21:58:02 +0000 (UTC), PeterL <[email hidden]>

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On 23 Apr 2006 07:58:31 GMT, PeterL <[email hidden]> wrote:

>As for the 'nachos'...... I've never been to a (Mexican) Mexican
>'restaurant' that serves tacos or nachos. It's only the barstardized
>Gringo versions that serve that [censored].

Nah, there are taco stands and shops all over Tijuana that serve
lovely tacos de cabeza, de cabrito, de res...

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Yep. 5mins walk from the US border. And they cater for..............????

Tijuana's a large place. I am talking about places like Matamoros, La
Mesa, and other places that are more like an hour's drive from the
border. Have you spent much time in Mexico? (Not saying you haven't,
just that our experiences are different.)

Peter Lucas is aus.food's version of rfc's Sheldon. Most of his
experiences have come from his web browser.

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Craig

mªdcªt said:

We have/had Taco Bell here in Oz. There used to be one at Canterbury
in Sydney, but that closed down.

A post I made in rec.food.cooking over two years ago:

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From today's AFR:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.

"Yum Restaurants, the second-bigges fast-food company in the world
and owner of chains such as KFC and Pizza Hut, is dismantling its
14-store Taco Bell chain in Sydney.

"Taco Bell first arrived in Australia in 1981, under the TAco Amigo
brand (TAco Bell was already registered here). Sales were sluggish
and the chain was closed in 1987. It was revived in 1998.

<snip>

"Yum worked hard to make Taco Bell a success, regularly rejigging
its menu, adding new products and running ad campaigns imported from
the United States. Nothing worked. Sales were weak and p8urchase
frequency - a key measure of success in the fast-food industry - was
low."

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Good riddance, says I!

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Craig

On 21 Apr 2006 00:14:10 -0700, "Rusty" <[email hidden]>

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Well, we don't put beets and hard boiled eggs on our hamburgers, if
that's what you mean.

How very quaint, not to put beetroot on one's hamburger.

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Craig

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mªdcªt said:

We have/had Taco Bell here in Oz. There used to be one at Canterbury
in Sydney, but that closed down.

A post I made in rec.food.cooking over two years ago:

==========================================================
From today's AFR:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.

Some years ago a Mexican restaurant set up here. It lasted nearly
three weeks. (I tried it, so I only wonder why so long.)

Cheers, Phred.

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Im impressed purely at the ability to pull that from your archive *s*
G.
"Phred" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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In article <[email hidden]>,

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mªdcªt said:

We have/had Taco Bell here in Oz. There used to be one at Canterbury
in Sydney, but that closed down.

A post I made in rec.food.cooking over two years ago:

==========================================================
From today's AFR:

"For the second time in 22 years, the American Taco Bell chain has
failed in Australia, showing that Australians might like eating in
Mexican restaurants and cooking Mexican meals at home, but Mexican
fast food is definitely not on the menu.

Some years ago a Mexican restaurant set up here. It lasted nearly
three weeks. (I tried it, so I only wonder why so long.)

Cheers, Phred.

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Phred said:

G'day Ms L,

If you saw it first in RFC, and if you have a half-decent newsreader,
then it wouldn't show up in aus.food as it would already have been
marked as "read" [that's as in "red" not "reed" ;-) ].

I like my posts to show up in both groups in x-posts though, and no, it
wasn't marked as read.
Never happened before, to my knowledge, and it's certainly not my first
x-post 😉

I've tried 'proper' newsreaders, and prefer this one 😉

In article said:

Phred said:

G'day Ms L,

If you saw it first in RFC, and if you have a half-decent newsreader,
then it wouldn't show up in aus.food as it would already have been
marked as "read" [that's as in "red" not "reed" ;-) ].

I like my posts to show up in both groups in x-posts though, and no, it
wasn't marked as read.
Never happened before, to my knowledge, and it's certainly not my first
x-post 😉

I've tried 'proper' newsreaders, and prefer this one 😉

There's no accounting for taste. 🙂

Cheers, Phred.

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