The potato taco may not satisfy if you are craving something beefy, but if you are looking for something different while heading to the Taco Bell drive thru, it’s a good option. It is similar to the other menu items from Bell, but different enough to set them apart. The potato offerings, especially these two with no meat, have their own taste. So much of the menu at the Bell is just a remix of the standard ingredients, sometimes with a twist or sometimes just bigger and/or with more ingredients packed on. (And they are not too bad calorie-wise, either.) Second, they taste different than the other Taco Bell items. First, they are cheap (a buck fifty for the Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes and a buck for the taco), and I love cheap. There are two things I really love about these two items. However, those do tend to dominate the flavors in this case, so might I suggest Secret Aardvark Habanero Sauce? (I find that one works really well as a taco sauce.) If you want to add some heat, you will have to tear open a package of Fire or Diablo sauce. But surprisingly, that works pretty well. As with the Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes, the bites of spuds get pretty soft pretty quickly, and this is almost like a mashed potato taco. The potatoes combine really well with the lettuce and cheese, and the chipotle sauce adds a nice creaminess with just a touch of heat. The Spicy Potato Soft Taco offers a decent substitute to the meet-filled taco. So if you want to add a kick, drizzle on some Diablo or Fire sauce, and that makes for a tasty little dish. Neither the potatoes nor the cheese sauce deliver any heat. As for the sour cream? Completely unnecessary, and you are best off asking them to hold it. The cheese is the typical nacho sauce the Bell puts on many of its items which adds a good creaminess and actually goes really well with the potatoes. But by the time I got them home, the sealed bowl they were packed in had steamed out any crispness. As for being crispy? Maybe straight out of the frier. They taste more like well-seasoned home fries. The Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes have a nice amount of seasoning, but not nearly as much as the Nacho Fries. They also brought back the Beefy Potato-Rita-a burrito stuffed with the potatoes, nacho cheese sauce, and creamy chipotle sauce-but it wasn’t on the menu yet when I picked up the other two items. The Spicy Potato Soft Taco offers a flour tortilla stuffed with those potato bites, real cheddar cheese, crisp lettuce, and creamy chipotle sauce. The Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes deliver a bowl full of the crispy, seasoned potato bites topped with reduced fat sour cream and nacho cheese sauce. And that means the Cheesy Fiesta Potatoes and the Spicy Potato Soft Taco are back on the value menu. (Hey Bell execs, make those part of your permanent menu.) The “seasoned potato bites” that were available for years before the Bell scaled back its menu during the height of the COVID pandemic are available at the drive thru once again.
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