Taco Bell Extreme Cheese and Beef Quesadilla

Well guess what?  Taco Bell has launched a new item on their menu that involves "extreme cheese."

Having not tried this new quesadilla yet, I'm hesitant to officially endorse it, but I'm intrigued.

If anyone out there has tried the Extreme Cheese and Beef Quesadilla from Taco Bell, let me know how you liked it.

I'll be going to Taco Bell soon to try this out for myself.  Once I've tasted it, I'll be sure to post a review on the site asap.

From the Archives -- Could Ice Cream with Nacho Cheese Taste Good?

Recently a situation arose where I was put in a position to try nacho cheese with vanilla and chocolate ice cream.  Some of the friends I was with appeared disgusted at the thought of the mix and others were intrigued to watch me tempt my taste buds with two seemingly opposite flavors.

I used an inexpensive nacho cheese from a local Safeway grocery store.  Rather than pour hot nacho cheese all over my ice cream, instead I took a clean spoon and dipped it in the nacho cheese bowl.  Then I filled the rest of the spoon with a mix of chocolate and vanilla ice cream.

I ate it.

It did not taste good.  It could have been the worst thing I've tasted in a while.  This mix of nacho cheese with ice cream just does not work.  In fact, I drew a blank when I began thinking about other flavors of ice cream that might taste better with nacho cheese than the vanilla and chocolate did.

Frenchos? I'll take the Zero

If there's any nacho out there that could be classified as doltish, this is it. Just as it was declared earlier that fondue is not nacho cheese, this little recipe is in no way, shape, or form nachos. Lest anyone think that by melting a dab o' fromage on a tortilla chip automatically constitutes a nacho, they are sadly mistaken. Nachos should never have to be "plated" or "presented." Nachos are to be prepared by grabbing a handful of chips, thowing them into a bowl, and smothering it with molten hot nacho cheese. 

This recipe is a disgrace and an insult to all nacho lovers. Now excuse me while I slice a cube of Reblochon and pair it elegantly with a bold glass of 2003 Cotes du Rhone Villages Cairanne.

Taste Test: Cheese vs. Cheese

About a week ago I took it upon myself to conduct a head-to-head comparison of two popular grocery store nacho cheese varieties - Tostitos Con Queso & Fritos Chili Cheese. Both were microwaved in their containers for three minutes, mixing well at one minute intervals. Both were delicious and while each definitely had a unique offerings, the Tostitos brand Con Queso rose up as the winner in my opinion. In the end, I felt that the Tostitos Con Queso had a better consistancy and wasn't as runny as the Fritos Chili Cheese.

This Month in Nacho History: World's Largest Nacho

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Back on June 8th, 2002, Nachos Mexican Cantina entered into the Guinness Book for the world's largest nachos. The record had never been attempted until then, and it hasn't been broken since. The final weight clocked in at an amazing 2,768lbs (1258kg).

Bravo!

For more pictures of the record breaking nacho, click here.

[SOURCE: Nachos Cantina Restaurant]