{"id":10000,"date":"2019-07-03T18:30:49","date_gmt":"2019-07-04T01:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=10000"},"modified":"2019-07-06T18:34:30","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T01:34:30","slug":"tortillapocalypse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2019\/07\/03\/tortillapocalypse\/","title":{"rendered":"Tortillapocalypse"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/news\/taco-bell-tortilla-shortage-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"from Food and Wine (opens in a new tab)\">from Food and Wine<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Taco Bell Confirms \u2018Tortillapocalypse\u2019 Is Real, Recommends Gorditas Instead<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Many locations around the country are running out of tortillas used for burritos and quesadillas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/contributors\/mike-pomranz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Mike Pomranz<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.franchisetimes.com\/images\/cache\/cache_2\/cache_9\/cache_7\/Taco-Bell-tortilla-shortage-Blurb-17383792.jpeg?ver=1562168859&amp;aspectratio=1.4285714285714\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption>Image from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.franchisetimes.com\/news\/July-2019\/Tortilla-Shortage-a-Supreme-Headache-for-Taco-Bell\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"FranchiseTimes.com (opens in a new tab)\">FranchiseTimes.com<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Taco Bell has mastered the art of\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/news\/taco-bell-menu-test-items-december-2018-buffalo-chicken-nachos-flatbread\" target=\"_blank\">stretching their menu<\/a>\u00a0by creating new items out of existing components. A \u201cDouble Decker Taco\u201d is just a\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/holidays-events\/cinco-de-mayo\/when-use-corn-or-flour-tortillas\" target=\"_blank\">hard taco wrapped in a soft taco<\/a>. A \u201cQuesarito\u201d is just a burrito with a quesadilla shell. And so on and so forth. But there a potential pitfall to that strategy: If one major ingredient runs out, a large chunk of the menu can collapse like a house of cards. And sadly, Taco Bell is apparently facing a major shortage of a real doozy: their ten-inch tortillas. Welcome to the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/recipes\/basic-homemade-flour-tortilla\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">Tortillapocalypse<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Taco Bell has been playing down the shortage in its official statements, the problem \u2014 to some extent at least \u2014 is nearly nationwide.\u00a0<a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/food\/taco-bell-tortilla-shortage\/\" target=\"_blank\">The company told People<\/a>, \u201cWhile some Taco Bell restaurants are experiencing supplier shortages, we are working diligently to replenish the supply of our tortillas (used for products like quesadillas and burritos) in those restaurants and encourage fans to try any of our other delicious menu items like the Power Menu Bowl or Cheesy Gordita Crunch in the meantime.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foodandwine.com\/news\/taco-bell-tortilla-shortage-2019\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"click to continue reading at Food and Wine (opens in a new tab)\">click to continue reading at Food and Wine<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Food and Wine Taco Bell Confirms \u2018Tortillapocalypse\u2019 Is Real, Recommends Gorditas Instead Many locations around the country are running out of tortillas used for burritos and quesadillas. By\u00a0Mike Pomranz Taco Bell has mastered the art of\u00a0stretching their menu\u00a0by creating new items out of existing components. A \u201cDouble Decker Taco\u201d is just a\u00a0hard taco wrapped [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}