LAKE FOREST,
CA—In what the Southern
California-based fast-food chain says is a response to consumer demand for a
more extensive menu, Del Taco today announced the addition of Gummy Burritos to
its list of mouth-watering Mexican cuisine.
"Obviously," Del Taco CEO Paul Murphy said in a
statement, "the decision to expand our menu to include the 'extreme' taste
experience our valued customers crave was driven in part by the success of Taco
Bell's Doritos taco shell line. And no, we didn't totally rip them off."
Gummy Burritos are offered in two distinct flavors—Gummy
Chicken, made from specially-crafted chicken-shaped gummies, and Gummy Carne
Asada, made from cow-shaped gummies. The respective gummies are then shredded, topped
with generous helpings of shredded lettuce, shredded cheese, shredded tomatoes,
shredded onions, and non-shredded sour cream. The ingredients are then wrapped
in a fresh flour or corn tortilla and bathed in the chain's signature hot sauce.
"Dude, this is so good!" said local stoner Jacob
Enzo as he bit into a Gummy Carne Asada Burrito he received at one of Del
Taco's convenient drive-thrus. "You can totally taste the gummy. This is
soooo good."
"Totally, brah," agreed fellow pothead and vehicle
passenger Tyler Schneider. "The gummy is so good, you can hardly taste the
sour cream or the tortilla. It's like they offset each other or something. It's
so juicy and fruity and gummy."
"Dude," Schneider added. "So extreme."
"Extreme to the max," said Enzo.
