Walking Taco
A single-serve corn-chip bag, slit open down its long side, packed with taco-seasoned beef, shredded cheese, lettuce, tomato, and sour cream, eaten with a plastic fork from the bag at a fair.
El Taco Tex-Mex
Taco Truck Taco
The wheeled mobile kitchen as institution: a vertical trompo, a flat-top, a tortilla warmer, a window, and three al pastor tacos out the gap in twenty seconds.
Taco Supreme
The hard-shell taco at its most loaded: seasoned beef and cheddar in a brittle fried corn shell, finished with cold sour cream and diced tomato. Taco Bell trademarked the name in 1978.
Taco Salad (in Shell)
Taco salad in shell: seasoned ground beef and salad layered into a deep-fried flour-tortilla bowl. An edible-vessel American Tex-Mex dish codified by Taco Bell in 1984.
Taco Bell Crunchy Taco
The iconic fast-food hard shell taco; seasoned ground beef, lettuce, cheddar cheese in crispy corn shell.
Street Taco (USA)
On a US menu, "street taco" promises what the kitchen leaves off. The restrained build has a precise American birthplace: a converted ice cream truck on an East Los Angeles curb in 1974.
Soft Taco (USA)
American soft taco; larger flour or corn tortilla with Tex-Mex fillings.
Puffy Taco
San Antonio specialty; masa dough fried until it puffs up, filled with picadillo or other fillings. Distinct from hard shell—lighter, air...
Nachos (Loaded)
A flat plate of fried totopos under melted cheese and piled toppings, eaten chip by chip while they still crack. Improvised in Piedras Negras in 1943 by Ignacio 'Nacho' Anaya.
Nacho Cheese Chalupa
Fried flatbread shell with nacho cheese, various fillings.
Meximelt
Soft taco with seasoned beef, pico de gallo, and three-cheese blend.
Mexican Pizza
Two fried flour tortillas with beans and beef between, topped with pizza sauce, cheese, tomatoes. Cult following.
Gordita Taco Bell
Taco Bell's gordita; flatbread-like shell, different from traditional.
Double Decker Taco
Refried beans glue a soft tortilla around a hard-shell taco, turning one fragile shell into a two-layer build that survives being carried. Launched 1995, permanent by 2006, cut in 2019, revived since.
Doritos Locos Taco
Taco Bell's shell is dusted in real Doritos Nacho Cheese seasoning, licensed from Frito-Lay and engineered for years to survive frying, shipping, and a fold without losing crunch or dust.
Crunchy Taco
Hard corn shell taco; U-shaped crispy fried corn tortilla, filled with ground beef, lettuce, cheese, tomato, sour cream. American inventi...
Crunchwrap Supreme
The Crunchwrap Supreme is a circle folded into a hexagon: six overlapping pleats sealed on a griddle, with a fried tostada disc inside acting as a dam between the hot layer and the cold one.
Crispy Taco (Ground Beef)
The American hard-shell taco traces to Lucia Rodriguez's Mitla Cafe, San Bernardino, 1937: ground beef, cheddar, iceberg, tomato in a fried shell. Glen Bell watched the lines and industrialized it.
Cheesy Gordita Crunch
Taco Bell's Cheesy Gordita Crunch wraps a soft flatbread around a crunchy beef taco and welds the two with melted three-cheese: soft, then crisp, then beef in a single bite.
Breakfast Crunchwrap
Crunchwrap with breakfast ingredients—eggs, bacon, cheese.