Tampa Bay Food Monster

...eating food since 1985.

Taco Bell’s Cantina Bell Burrito

OHHH TACO BELL YOU’VE DONE IT AGAIN! bouncing straight off the wild popularity of your wildly mediocre doritos locos tacos, you’ve done a complete 180 and gone for the jugular of gourmet food. it works perfectly, because whenever i think “taco bell”, i immediately think “gourmet violent explosive diarrhea”. let’s see if they can expand that special flavor of gourmet directly into their food! this is the cantina bell menu… Read More

Seasons 52

every once in a while, some legitimate establishment, a classy joint, will get in contact with me and invite me to their place for something nice to eat. or drink. it is always very pleasant, but i tend to get the suspicion that perhaps they meant to message scallywag journeys, not me. and then when i show up, with scraps of my last meal still sitting in my full, luxurious.. Read More

Burger 21 VIB Tasting Event

every once in a great while there will occur an event that blurs the line between the safe, warm glow of the internet, and the harsh cold that is “real life”. this is the all-too-true story of one such event. it was the burger 21 “very important blogger” event, in westchase on linebaugh. and they were all there… all the important bloggers: carlos eats, my other city by the bay,.. Read More

Subway’s BBQ Pulled Pork Sandwich

while on the usf campus the other day, i noticed a sign on the window of subway – bbq pulled pork sandwich. i looked around me. …no sign of corpses. no still-living bodies writhing in pain. no puddles of fresh vomit. nothing. could subway be making a pulled pork sandwich that didn’t cause massive sickness, or the dead to rise again? i was dubious. i was also… hungry. i went.. Read More

Arby’s NEW Jr. Buffalo Chicken Sandwich, Steakhouse Onion Rings, and Cinnamon Bites

hello, harby’s. long time no eat. i missed you, baby! i missed you. i miss your 5 roast beef sandwiches for 5 dollars. i miss you now defunct “big montana“, and to a lesser extent, your giant roast beef sandwich. you may have changed a bit over the years, but you know what? you still serve up that great roast beef flavor i love so much. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6vxQqdFOeoM] hahaha oh arby’s… Read More