Tuesday night, knowing it was the last of them, I pigged out and had 8:D

Sad.

That's gonna happen at our house this weekend. And I'm probably going to buy up and hoard all I can find on my trips to the store these next few trips there. If there are any left.

I just looked in the pantry, and I have 78 shells on the shelf now. But I'm still going to buy a few more if the stores still have any.

I'm thinking we're seeing the offenders with TP during COVID

LOL

Unless you eat tacos for every meal, those ****ers will be stale by the time you need them.

We do eat a lot of taco's. None are outdated. Like I said, we double up the shells. Some nights we use 18 shells, but most nights we use 24 shells and might have a couple left over. Taco's once a week here usually. Just buy the 12 and 18 packs when we are low.

No, it really isn't hard to replicate. A freshly fried taco shell will always be better than a store bought one that you warmed back up. You can make them better at home. You may require practice, but yours will then be better once you learn how to do it, and it is not a difficult thing to do.

I am jealous!

I can tell by some of the comments in this thread about them that many haven't tried them.

I have never had a stale one and they are so light that I can't imagine being able to come close to replicating them at home.

Those Taco Bell ones are so heavy and stiff they almost bite back!

Unless you do not have an air-fryer. It works wonders.

Yeah, corn tortillas are cheap and versatile. You can fry them if you really want taco shells and it's cheaper and tastes better.

I generally don't do fried shells. I love good, fresh corn tortillas.

Those Taco Bell ones are like that because they are made by a vendor and then sent along a long supply chain to each individual store. Then they sit on a shelf in a cardboard box. Then they are taken out of their plastic wrappers and set inside a serving tray for hours in a warming cabinet before being brought to the line. They used to be much better because they were made from stacks of corn tortillas. Those fresh corn tortillas were put in taco molds and deep fried in lard and those cooked taco shells were never more than a day old, in busy stores those shells were always less than 12 hours old. Because freshly fried taco shells are always better.

If you non cooking guys really want to blow your minds, takes some fresh corn tortillas and cut a stack of them like you would a pizza. Now take all of those corn triangles and put them in a frying basket and deep fry them in lard. Stir them continuously until nice and crispy. Take them out, drain them, salt them. Now go make the best nachos you ever had.

U fergot salt

Nope.

GAY