{"id":430,"date":"2010-09-07T00:55:50","date_gmt":"2010-09-07T04:55:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/?p=430"},"modified":"2010-09-06T20:01:20","modified_gmt":"2010-09-07T00:01:20","slug":"off-the-plate-taco-bells-cantina-taco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/?p=430","title":{"rendered":"Off The Plate: Taco Bell&#8217;s Cantina Taco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- \t\t@page { margin: 0.79in } \t\tP { margin-bottom: 0.08in } -->Today I&#8217;m unveiling a new feature here on the site called Off The Plate. This feature will be about non grapes on plate news, events, and other such-and-such from wherever-dom.<\/p>\n<p>Our inaugural OTP will feature Taco Bell&#8217;s new Cantina Taco. Although I have favorites at most restaurants (OK, calling Taco Bell a restaurant is a stretch), I always try new menu items. You never know, you might find a new favorite&#8230; or you might find the Cantina Taco.<\/p>\n<p>For those of you who&#8217;ve been blessed and HAVEN&#8217;T tried the Cantina Taco, let me describe it to you:<\/p>\n<p>The two moisturelss, turn-to-paste-as-you-eat-them corn tortillas that crack and splinter  like The Mummy&#8217;s foreskin at a Thai strip club are filled with slimy meat seasoned with the sweat of an outsourced IT call center and topped off with half a pound of cilantro.<\/p>\n<p>American Civil War era hardtack is more appetizing.<\/p>\n<p>How bad are the Cantina Tacos? First, it&#8217;s been about month since I tried said tacos and I still can&#8217;t think of the Taco Bell brand without my stomach turning. Second, I can&#8217;t think of ANY Mexican food without my stomach turning. Third, it took me a month to write this piece because every time I started working on it, my stomach started turning. Finally, they were so bad I created a special feature on my website just to warn the populous.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I&#8217;m unveiling a new feature here on the site called Off The Plate. This feature will be about non grapes on plate news, events, and other such-and-such from wherever-dom. Our inaugural OTP will feature Taco Bell&#8217;s new Cantina Taco. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/?p=430\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[168],"class_list":["post-430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-off-the-plate","tag-off-the-plate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=430"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":433,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430\/revisions\/433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aplateofgrapes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}