Taco bell was constantly having e coli outbreaks in the 00's and before.
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OP I suspect you have not had your 30th birthday yet.
Because your garden variety unhealthy american who survives off fast food and takeout eats very, very little fiber. So they eat something with beans in it and they are totally unprepared for a significant amount of fiber.
I've also heard theories that because it's already in little pieces people don't chew it well, which also will upset your stomach.
Some people can't handle spice.
Others just don't get enough fiber in their diet, so the fiber heavy Taco Bell food (beans, rice, even the meat has high fiber additives cut with the beef) makes them take a normal shit but it's looser than their constpiated ass is used to and call it diarrhea.
It doesn't give me diarrhea but it does burn coming out cuz I like the hottest hot sauce they got. Burns even more with my home made tacos, cuz I make hot sauce with habenero instead of jalepeno or cyanne pepper. It's worth the pain in one end for the pleasure of the other, tho.
If you don't eat enough fiber-- which a lot of Americans do not do-- suddenly eating a lot of it will cause it to speed run through your system. Beans are high in fiber.
As far as burning shits, that's just weakness to hot sauce.
Because joking about Mexican food causing the shits is a common practice, and so is trying to get cheap laughs in online forums.
Seeing as it's so similar to "Montezuma's Revenge" I'm betting that you're right, and it's all just racism.
No, that’s travelers’ diarrhea aka don’t drink the water.
Right. I think the "Mexican Food gives you the shits" probably started from people originally saying they got sick (drinking the water) in Mexico, and it stayed the rumor that Mexican food made in the US does the same.
You almost sound disappointed
Mexican food is more spicy. That's all. The scandals mentioned in other comments are easily debunked.
It's just spicy food
Spicy?
Taco Bell?
I mean their hottest sauce packets are not even Tabasco hot.
I’m not super spice tolerant and it’s WAY down on the hot scale.
It's all relative
I mean their hottest sauce packets are not even Tabasco hot.
Diablo sauce is pretty hot. Definitely hotter than Tobasco (and doesn't taste like fucking gasoline like Tobasco does).
It's low in fiber and greasy. When your body is conditioned to expect whole foods, stuff like that gets shot right back out.
When your body is conditioned to expect whole foods
Uh, sir. This is 'Murica. Our diet consists purely of ground beef disks or ground mystery meat tubes with either red, white, or yellow squirts on top. Accompany that with a big-gulp sized glass of Coca-cola. Or, even better, an ice cold—I'm talking Rocky Mountain ice cold—beer. n now we're talkin.
Wait, another comment said it's because it's high in fibre. Seems like it's a meme that nobody actually knows why, or even experiences it?
No idea why anyone would say that. A soft taco has like 2g of fiber. Here's the menu. Feel free to click around and prove me wrong but nothing I saw on the best sellers list had more than like 5g and those are things meant to be shared
I saw on the best sellers list had more than like 5g **and those are things meant to be shared **
Are you from the US? Nothing from the best sellers menu is meant to be shared.
Whenever I go to Taco Bell, I usually eat a few different items from the menu. Just 1 soft taco is tiny. I might do a grilled cheese burrito (7g) and 2 doritos locos tacos (2 x 3g), total 13g. Or a mexican pizza (8g) and a chalupa (4g), total 12g. Or if I want to pretend to be healthy, I'll get a cantina chicken bowl (10g).
Compare that to when I go to McDonald's, where a quarter pounder with cheese (or Royale With Cheese in France) just has 2g of fiber and that's definitely one meal (still not meant to be shared). https://www.mcdonalds.com/us/en-us/product/quarter-pounder-with-cheese.html#accordion-c921f9207b-item-842cb18782
Are both of these options terrible for me? Yes. Should I feel bad for eating portions that other countries consider are for two people? Probably! Am I waiting in a drive thru line right now? Absolutely!!
They use sub-standard ingredients in the least responsible way possible, and have been the subject of multiple food outbreaks and recalls going back to the 80's, when I'm pretty sure they were called out for using lower grade (by USDA standards) meat.
Then at some point they got caught for using Horse Meat in their food, and I think that sort of clenches it.
Ya spreading some bullshit here
No horse meat was ever found in Taco Bell meat in the United States
Traces of horse DNA (less than 1%) were found in Taco Bell meat in the UK due to shared processing equipment at upstream suppliers, at a time where supermarkets were selling up to 30% horse mixed in with beef (at Tesco)
The meat lawsuit you mention was also bullshit, and Taco Bell won that, proving their beef was of high quality and purity
Taco Bell has a fantastic track record. They were the ones that tested the lettuce, cut it off from sale, and blew the whistle on the supplier publicly
https://www.marketingscoop.com/consumer/does-taco-bell-use-horse-meat/