Food News: Bacon Club Chalupa from Taco Bell Returns
Bacon Lovers Rejoice… Taco Bell’s Bacon Club Chalupa is back. Nutrition Info: 490 cal, 32g of fat, 50mg cholesterol, 980mg sodium, 28g carbs, 3g dietary fiber, 3g sugars, 23g protein.
Flavorful bacon, marinated all-white-meat chicken and a tangy club sauce inside our crispy, chewy Chalupa shell.
I’m on it!
By chance, did you guys get a review in the first time around?
1Nope…I don’t think we have any type of chalupa reviewed. I’ve had the Bacon Club Chalupa before though…I think it’s pretty good.
2I thought it was only a Bacon Club Gordita the first time around, but I may be mistaken.
I prefer Chalupas over Gorditas, so this one looks intriguing to me.
3I love the nacho cheese chicken Chalupa, this may be a suitable alternative. Looks pretty tasty.
4I just got a little bit fatter.
5I live vicariously through your blog [all the things I can't eat but want to] but can someone please explain the difference between a Gordita and a Chalupa [and isn't Chalupa really a Taco Bell creation - does that word even exist outside of Gordita land? Really?]
Their picture cracks me up – it looks like the whole thing is constructed out of perfectly sculpted clay – especially the cheese – this takes product presentation WAY over the edge.
6A Gordita is more like a Pita bread which is baked, so it is soft. The Chalupa is a deep fried wheat flat bread which makes it slightly crunchy. I prefer the Chalupa (of course, it isn’t as healthy as the Gordita).
7The gordita has a soft, unfried shell. The chalupa is a crispy fried shell. They may even be the same shell, just fried with the chalupa. God, I can’t believe I know that. I’m sad. I should live vicariously through this blog, but instead I eat it in real life.
8http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalupa. Chalupa is a fried gordita.
9The picture does look really overly fake, more so than other times. Their food stylist is out of control!
10I think bacon on tacos, chalupas, or anything like that is just wrong.
For years my standard order at Taco Bell has been a Meximelt with beans instead of meat and a chicken baja Chalupa.
The chicken baja Chalupa tastes so perfect to me, I just can’t see it needing bacon. Plus I think the bacon adds about 100 calories. Just not worth the extra treadmill time to me.
11I was on the 3 baja beef chalupas a day diet for a while. I got disgusting fat.
12best news EVER! going for lunch!
13Don’t they do this every summer?? I seem to remember eating these on the beach two years ago, and on road trip on the way to buying a car in another state last year (although i’m thinking that was some sort of hard shell wrapped in soft shell w/ cheese between and bacon). Anyway I think I’ll be steering clear this year after recently experiencing the 36 hour aftermath of eating 5 volcano tacos. Its so tempting because its right next to my grocery store!
14Thanks for explaining the difference between taco bell’s chalupa & gordita…I live near Mexico & the local ta
15querias have chalupas but they are called tostadas at taco bell..flat shell with lettuce beans & cheese
they definitely had the bacon chalupa in the past. they should bring back the chicken fiesta melt already. i just finished eating this chalupa and its delicious, nacho cheese chicken chalupa is still the go to. they have a box meal this time around w. the bacon chalupa for 5 bucks with a drink a taco and a burrito, thats not terrible – charles barkley
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