Triple the steak.
Even if you aren't a Taco Bell aficionado, you likely have seen the ad for XXL Steak Nachos. The tall basketball player can handle the XXL Steak Nachos and not break a sweat. After all, XXL Steak Nachos contain triple the meat and not everyone can handle that.
If you even slightly feel intimidated, don't bother. Yes, Taco Bell XXL Steak Nachos contains triple the steak: a whole 4½ ounces.
That's right. The "huge" XXL Steak Nachos contain slightly more beef than a McDonald's Quarter Pounder.
The fine print on the ad for the XXL Steak Nachos is that triple refers to the amount of meat on a regular steak nachos: 1½ ounces.
You could argue that 4½ ounces of steak produces more beef than 4½ ounces of hamburger due to a lower fat content, but we are talking fractions of fractions of difference.
Most pub burgers are 8 oz., almost double the meat found in a Taco Bell XXL Steak Nachos. Most meat eaters can easily handle 4½ ounces of steak, even if they aren't really tall basketball players.
Now one XXL Steak Nachos does contain 1190 calories, 540 of them from fat. The dish has 60g of fat, 11g saturated fat. There is plenty going on with calories and fat, even with only 4½ ounces of steak. The description via Taco Bell:
Tortilla chips prepared fresh daily piled high with hearty beans, a three-cheese blend, warm nacho cheese sauce, guacamole, pico de gallo, reduced-fat sour cream, and steak, steak and more steak.
Sounds like a lot of food; just not that much steak.
Yes, 4½ ounces is 3x the amount of 1½ ounces, but this selling point of triple the steak relies on deception and people's ignorance of math (a recent point driven home on BalanceofFood.com).
Given Taco Bell's approach to "beef," you are likely to gravitate to steak if you have eat at Taco Bell. To get a decent amount of meat, the XXL Steak Nachos might be your best choice. But let's not pretend that you're getting a huge amount of meat.
The tall basketball player may be one of the few people who can handle the fat and saturated fat of the XXL Steak Nachos. But even a small child can handle 4½ oz. of steak.
A 300% increase in something you like, such as steak, sounds really awesome. Except you have to know the base amount. After all, 3x0=0.
photo credit: Taco Bell
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