What do you like in your breakfast tacos? Probably some eggs, cheese, salsa (so that’s tomato, onion, cilantro, maybe some garlic, if you’re cataloging ingredients with me), and a meat of some sort. Something spicy like chorizo. Doesn’t everyone want to start the day brimming with farts and doubled over with crippling heartburn? (Yes. We do.)
What I’m getting at here is that breakfast tacos are packed with a lot of flavors. Could the seasoning dust coating these new Breakfast Taco-flavored Tortilla Chips from 365 possibly encompass that broad range of ingredients to create something that would fulfill the promise of a breakfast taco experience?
Listen. Far be it from me to discourage brands from developing wild chip flavors. There are so, so few fun things in life when you’re an adult. I’m passing a kidney stone, like, as we speak. And I have to go to the DMV this week. New and exciting chips are kind of all I have. Sadly, these breakfast taco-flavored chips from Whole Foods housebrand 365 just don’t live up to their many-component promise. Sporked staff writer Danny Palumbo and I decided these were lacking any meaty flavor. In fact, they’re pretty one note, and that note is just chili powder. Sure, it gives them a little bit of a chorizo-y kick, but the other flavors don’t really make an appearance. Does anyone really want chips that taste like scrambled eggs? Maybe, maybe not. But don’t promise something you can’t deliver on. The chips themselves are sturdy, fresh, and crunchy. Dip them in queso to conjure up a more well-rounded flavor experience.
Howdy! I’m Gwynedd, Sporked’s managing editor. I live in Los Angeles and have access to the best tacos the U.S. has to offer—but I’m a sucker for a crunchy Old El Paso taco night every now and then. I’ve been at Sporked since 2022 and I’m still searching frozen mozzarella sticks that can hold a candle to restaurant sticks.
Why you should trust me: I’ve been a journalist for 20 years (yikes), a consumer of food for 40-plus years, and I’m truly hard pressed to think of foods I don’t like (or that I can’t tolerate at the very least). Oh and one time I cooked my way through Guy Fieri’s cookbook and wrote about the journey through Flavortown.
What I buy every week: Trader Joe’s Original Savory Thins. Fat free plain yogurt (usually Fage or Nancy’s). Honeycrisp apples. Sweet cream coffee creamer for my at-home Americanos. A frozen cauliflower crust pizza and some jarred mushrooms to top it with. Old El Paso Stand ‘N Stuff taco shells and Gardein Ground Be’f, even though I think “be’f” is a nightmarish contraction.
Favorite ranking: Stouffer’s frozen dinners. I don’t own a microwave (I get my cancers the old fashioned way!), so I love taste testing things that I don’t really buy to eat at home.
Least favorite ranking: Soy sauce. Don’t get me wrong, I love soy sauce—but consuming that much sodium in one sitting is probably illegal in some countries. Our frozen enchilada taste test was a close second; the smell of microwaved corn tortillas still haunts me.
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Gwynedd Stuart
Jordan Myrick
Sporked Staff
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