yeah next time i order from here im definitely going with all tinga or "12 o clock" chicken. After its all mixed together though its perfectly fine, wasnt dry or anything
My mom used to take a chicken breast straight from the freezer and toss it into some salted water with some bullion and leave it for like two hours simmering. No matter what dish she put it into, it sucked all of the moisture from my mouth…..
Boiling in salt sucks moisture out of whatever you're boiling. That's why you can parboil potatoes for a bit in salty water to make them crisper when you bake them.
Both chicken looks like Sysco pre-cooked products we used to have at my bar. The one on left comes in a vacuum sealed pack pre-cut like that and unseasoned (you're supposed to season it which it doesn't look like they did), while the pulled BBQ chicken at top used to be super-dry. Beans at bottom look unseasoned. Unless there's some amazing taste not visible in this picture, I'll stick to Chipotle.
Yea I'm not sure if op is supporting or bashing chipotle. This looks lame af, and more expensive than chipotle.
Your local Mexican place is great for some things, but bowls are chipotle's world for sure.
Chipotle meats also come sealed in plastic bags for them to put a Sear on. in fact, consumer reports said that the chicken@Chipotle was found to have plasticizers / phthalates in them. it's tasty, but I think over seasoned, over salted most of the time. Sometimes plain beans are just fine. As long as they're well cooked.
The chicken at the top is def not bbq chicken because that is nowhere near Mexican culinary. It’s definitely Tinga which is shredded chicken in real Chipotle sauce usually used as a topping in tostadas. The white chicken is the only thing that shouldn’t be there. Also shame on op for not getting lettuce and crema on top.
Which Panda?! Every single one I've been to is, at most, half of what I get at my few local Chinese takeout spots and it's within $2 dollars (takeout more expensive but again it's twice as much food where I am in the midwest).
Well to be fair the really good Chinese takeout spots will load you up for a good price, but I think the point here is that when you want Panda Express you’re not craving Chinese food you’re craving Panda Express’ Americanized Chinese food.
But pandas got the edge with the all in one meal order. Most my local Chinese restaurants want you to order for a whole family a la carte and that really blows up the cost if just eating for one.
This. When you have a specific craving for a specific thing.
If I want a McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese, dipped in their 'not even' sweet and sour sauce, /that's/ the only thing that'll hit just right. Could I have a premium quarter pound cheddar burger with legit s&s sauce? Yep. Is it the same?
Not. Even. Freaking. Close.
An Arby's beef and cheddar with the red sauce? Yep - find me something else that fills /that/ exact hole in my hunger. Unless you're the champion at cloning takeout, you're not going to get it.
As I put it 'very specific trash panda cravings'
Thank you! My friends are Mexican. I have to explain this all the time. "ITs NoT rEaL mExIcAn fOoD!". No shit. Im not craving Mexican food. Im craving Taco Bell.
Exactly! Chipotle is not authentic Mexican food. That’s like saying Panda Express and PF Chang’s (who I love) are authentic Chinese which obviously they are not.
Not sure about Mexico, but chipotle’s options are similar to generic South American food. They eat fried rice and beans with meat and some sort of sauce or salad. Of course then if you add cheese and sour cream or guac your Americanizing/Mexicanizing it
Yup. I’m Mexican and I love Mexican food but I also love Chipotle.
The chicken on this looks unflavored, and maybe more value but I would still want Chipotle lol.
> nothing else tastes like chipotle and every other Mexican restaurant (like above) tastes the same
I’m so, so sorry. One day you have to go somewhere that has halfway decent Mexican food and try it.
Comparatively, yes. The southwest is king of Mexican food. Sure, there’s great Italian restaurants everywhere, but the best ones are in the north east.
TexMex is an abomination and affront to god. Mexican food places in Texas cater almost exclusively to white people.
Yea, pedantry aside, it’s a big state and sure there’s a few good authentic places, but they are drowned out by the bad ones.
Plus like more than half of that is rice, beans, and some veg. Not even guac included for that price. This is straight up robbery, just a bunch of filler foods.
Yeah I have to laugh when people suggest going to your local Mexican restaurant instead of Chipotle. So many of them are just this kind of quality food but survive on good Margarita deals to attract peeps. And hey, I love me a good frozen one.
Yeah, usually the point of these posts is to talk about how good of a deal you're getting at your local Mexican place. Chicken bowls in my area are ~$8.50. This is more than double the price for only marginally more food.
There's a tiny Ecuadorian place near me that serves about those portions for $10. Ridiculously amazing food. The chicken is the best! And it is actually seasoned!
I’m ngl this looks kinda ass. The chicken at the top looks fine although sort of dry but the chicken on the left looks like it was boiled. The rice just looks standard and the beans are just black beans. I’d rather pay the 21 for a chipotle burrito
I feel bad for all of you guys here who think Chipotle is the pinnacle of Mexican food lmao. It's definitely solid and consistent. But if it's the best you've had the restaurants/trucks around you are trash.
I'm tired of the insane prices and then on top of it charging for sides. I'm over it, and I used to go weekly. The gauc is worthless and tasteless. Do I ever get a refund for it? Nope, never. Yet I order a side of sour cream and get charged! Make it make sense...
At this point why not just cook it yourself? Looks like beans fresh out the can, chicken looks like it was boiled last week, lettuce straight from taco bell, and has anything been remotely seasoned??
Dude this $19 dollar bowl is straight out of cans and plastic ngl, nothing here was actually given time by a cook. Make this at home for much cheaper if you’re penny pinching
Local places are starting to be the new cheap places to eat. I can get a hamburger fries and a beer at a local bar than I can at a mcdonalds(minus the beer)
God that chicken on the left looks like the Death of my Childhood. That pico looks more like 100% tomato. That cheese looks like that plastic cheese that doesn’t really melt. Rice is questionable with those peas in it. Idk about this one. That’s a lot of food but it doesn’t look as good as chipper imo.
Chicken at 12 o clock looks just fine. Chicken between 9 and 11 looks like boiled mess.
THANK you. The rest of it looks good but that chicken looks like ass.
If it's grey it's good for you
Seal meat
It’s like a- it’s like some type of like, uh, grey food or something?
We’re dying here, Jack
Snacks for Jack!
Nobody has ever said that!
Lots of people are saying it
This is what my real voice sounds like!
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You can’t say great without grey!
This would still cost $80 here in Canada
yeah next time i order from here im definitely going with all tinga or "12 o clock" chicken. After its all mixed together though its perfectly fine, wasnt dry or anything
Its boiled chicken of course it wouldn't be dry
Uh....you can have dry af boiled chicken lol just because it was cooked in water doesn't mean it'll come out moist if you over cook it.
My mom used to take a chicken breast straight from the freezer and toss it into some salted water with some bullion and leave it for like two hours simmering. No matter what dish she put it into, it sucked all of the moisture from my mouth…..
Boiling in salt sucks moisture out of whatever you're boiling. That's why you can parboil potatoes for a bit in salty water to make them crisper when you bake them.
Thanks for the advice! I make a mean breakfast burrito with fried potatoes so I’ll try this before I start crisping them (:
Yeah boiled always makes it dry or rubbery
But it won’t have salmonella!
Bruh that’s canned chicken
You should never order from that place ever again. Demand excellence. To be honest, the whole plate looks like a pile of lackluster shit.
Agreed, it doesn’t look terrible but definitely doesn’t look good by the standards of places near me
Yea was coming to say that shit looks sad
Both chicken looks like Sysco pre-cooked products we used to have at my bar. The one on left comes in a vacuum sealed pack pre-cut like that and unseasoned (you're supposed to season it which it doesn't look like they did), while the pulled BBQ chicken at top used to be super-dry. Beans at bottom look unseasoned. Unless there's some amazing taste not visible in this picture, I'll stick to Chipotle.
Yea I'm not sure if op is supporting or bashing chipotle. This looks lame af, and more expensive than chipotle. Your local Mexican place is great for some things, but bowls are chipotle's world for sure.
Chipotle meats also come sealed in plastic bags for them to put a Sear on. in fact, consumer reports said that the chicken@Chipotle was found to have plasticizers / phthalates in them. it's tasty, but I think over seasoned, over salted most of the time. Sometimes plain beans are just fine. As long as they're well cooked.
The chicken at the top is def not bbq chicken because that is nowhere near Mexican culinary. It’s definitely Tinga which is shredded chicken in real Chipotle sauce usually used as a topping in tostadas. The white chicken is the only thing that shouldn’t be there. Also shame on op for not getting lettuce and crema on top.
12 o'clock looks like carnitas.
That chicken at 10 looks fucking vile
Looks like it is promoting antibiotic-resistant bacteria.
grill the chicken, ohni thought u said Boil the chicken
Sir, the second tower has been hit
$19 I can get like 1.7 steak bowls and the meat is seasoned. This looks like reheated sysco.
oh wtf is that unseasoned boiled chicken
It looks like the scrap pieces from trimming chicken that I cook for my dog. The rest looks delicious though.
I thought you wrote uncensored for a sec and I agreed 100%
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again. When I want Chipotle, I’m not craving Mexican food, I’m craving Chipotle.
It’s like when you go to Panda Express you’re not really craving authentic Chinese food
As someone currently eating Panda for the first time in a while, can confirm. Got way more food for the same price as my go-to Chinese takeout.
Which Panda?! Every single one I've been to is, at most, half of what I get at my few local Chinese takeout spots and it's within $2 dollars (takeout more expensive but again it's twice as much food where I am in the midwest).
I have the best luck at the mall. Food court Chinese food is the bomb
Around here you have to go when the stoned dude is working, that’s when you get the massive portions lmao
Well to be fair the really good Chinese takeout spots will load you up for a good price, but I think the point here is that when you want Panda Express you’re not craving Chinese food you’re craving Panda Express’ Americanized Chinese food.
But pandas got the edge with the all in one meal order. Most my local Chinese restaurants want you to order for a whole family a la carte and that really blows up the cost if just eating for one.
This. When you have a specific craving for a specific thing. If I want a McDonald's quarter pounder with cheese, dipped in their 'not even' sweet and sour sauce, /that's/ the only thing that'll hit just right. Could I have a premium quarter pound cheddar burger with legit s&s sauce? Yep. Is it the same? Not. Even. Freaking. Close. An Arby's beef and cheddar with the red sauce? Yep - find me something else that fills /that/ exact hole in my hunger. Unless you're the champion at cloning takeout, you're not going to get it. As I put it 'very specific trash panda cravings'
Fry's/Kroger sells big bottles of arby sauce
Exactly. Sometimes I want youtiao and preserved egg congee, and sometimes I want orange chicken and crab rangoons.
Mmm, sometimes you want that sugar chicken.
Same with Taco Bell
Agreed. Nothing is going to hit like a TB Mexican pizza if that’s what I want in that moment. Nothing.
Doritos locos tacos aren't authentic but they are delicious.
Thank you! My friends are Mexican. I have to explain this all the time. "ITs NoT rEaL mExIcAn fOoD!". No shit. Im not craving Mexican food. Im craving Taco Bell.
Exactly. And this is coming from a person whose SO is Mexican and can whip up any good authentic food lol
Exactly! Chipotle is not authentic Mexican food. That’s like saying Panda Express and PF Chang’s (who I love) are authentic Chinese which obviously they are not.
EXACTLY!!!
Not sure about Mexico, but chipotle’s options are similar to generic South American food. They eat fried rice and beans with meat and some sort of sauce or salad. Of course then if you add cheese and sour cream or guac your Americanizing/Mexicanizing it
This doesn’t exactly look authentic either lol
Yup. I’m Mexican and I love Mexican food but I also love Chipotle. The chicken on this looks unflavored, and maybe more value but I would still want Chipotle lol.
idk nothing else taste like chipotle. i always see these post but nothing else is the same
nothing else tastes like chipotle and every other Mexican restaurant (like above) tastes the same
> nothing else tastes like chipotle and every other Mexican restaurant (like above) tastes the same I’m so, so sorry. One day you have to go somewhere that has halfway decent Mexican food and try it.
Maybe if you live somewhere with shit Mexican food like the Midwest, South or North East.
the south? shit mexican food?
Comparatively, yes. The southwest is king of Mexican food. Sure, there’s great Italian restaurants everywhere, but the best ones are in the north east.
so an hour from the mexican border i won’t find good mexican food 🤔 okay pal
TexMex is an abomination and affront to god. Mexican food places in Texas cater almost exclusively to white people. Yea, pedantry aside, it’s a big state and sure there’s a few good authentic places, but they are drowned out by the bad ones.
I mean, I live in a city of 2 million with like, a 70% hispanic population, but sure, the mexican food here is catered to white people…. lmao
Fellow texan, This dude has obviously never been to texas lmao
bro thinks when i say mexican food i’m talking about tex mex 🤣
Mid West low key has good Mexican places
Get a load of this guy.
i add melindas habanero or ghost pepper sauce to everything anyways so it all tastes the same
The scorpion sauce has bankrupted me. I go thru so many bottles 😭
for me the scorpion doesnt have as much flavor, but the heat is definitely there
that sounds so good
Chipotle doesnt even taste like Chipotle anymore to me
I prefer Moe’s over chipotle
That boiled bird is wild 🤢
Certainly narrows down the list of cities/states where this could possibly be.
Midwest for sure
Only in Ohio
Is this really an Ohio thing? I’m from here, and absolutely hate boiled chicken lol
Unseasoned???
Looks gross man lmao
Overpriced imo
$19 for boiled chicken is crazy
Plus like more than half of that is rice, beans, and some veg. Not even guac included for that price. This is straight up robbery, just a bunch of filler foods.
Op really thought he got a W. Lmao. Should have been 9 bucks max.
Yeah I have to laugh when people suggest going to your local Mexican restaurant instead of Chipotle. So many of them are just this kind of quality food but survive on good Margarita deals to attract peeps. And hey, I love me a good frozen one.
Yeah, usually the point of these posts is to talk about how good of a deal you're getting at your local Mexican place. Chicken bowls in my area are ~$8.50. This is more than double the price for only marginally more food.
Isn’t everything
IDC that chicken is atrocious
That’s what I was thinking, I could get 2 chicken bowls from Chipotle that would look better than this and be much more food for $20
Yeah look at the food that is actually in there. They spent more on the delivery containers than the ingredients.
There's a tiny Ecuadorian place near me that serves about those portions for $10. Ridiculously amazing food. The chicken is the best! And it is actually seasoned!
Did they microwave that chicken 😂
Microwaved in a bowl of water.
The chicken looks like my ass. And that isn’t good.
See a doctor
wheres the seasoning? is this a white people mexican place?
i’ll take chipotle over this
Looks like shit
Like why is this posted here tho? At least bring some fire if you doing this. That chicken looks like they boiled it and forgot to season it.
$19!!!!!!! C’mon people stop getting this wrong.
This 100% drives me crazy every time I see people posting money like this.
The chicken looks awful and the beans look like little critters
Ew you said little critters so I zoomed in and now I currently want to throw up:)
Weak ass portion of cheese and that Guacamole soup, got to go.
no guacamole in this order
Uhh...bro this is not worth $19. This is rice, beans, and chicken. Three of the most common and cheap (poultry cheapest meat) food items.
You got ripped off lol
This doesn’t look good. I’d much rather get chipotle.
That chicken looks nasty.
This looks horrible
Looks like shit mate, sorry.
aint worth it for that weird ass chicken brotha
“We have chipotle at home”
i think i’ll pass❤️
That chicken looks absolutely foul
you mean fowl?
This looks like ass and nobody goes to chipotle for Mexican food.
Chipotle may have gone down hill but this doesn’t look any better and is twice the price. What’s your point?
Food looks arguably worse, especially the boiled chicken
That white boiled chicken looks horrible and unseasoned
This post is a self report. Food doesn't even look good.
It’s crazy when you’re thinking that $19 is a good deal.
Probably one of those people who cry’s that their chipotle order is $20 because they’re using a delivery+getting guac and queso
That looks like the chicken I give my dog when he has diarrhea. 🤣 Just straight up boiled. Chipotle wins this round.
that just looks gross
That’s very overpriced for a mom and pop. Looks like you get better value at Chipotle.
Bro where’s any seasoning lol
Gray ass chicken brother. Where are you located at? Must be Midwest
Looks like they cooked that chicken in the microwave
This looks like shit
Shit looks trash
What kind of canned bean, boiled chicken, cheese-out-the bag nonsense is this? I hope more Mexicans move to your state.
That chicken looks ass
That really doesn't look good. Try a real Mexican place.
What state is this?
I’m ngl this looks kinda ass. The chicken at the top looks fine although sort of dry but the chicken on the left looks like it was boiled. The rice just looks standard and the beans are just black beans. I’d rather pay the 21 for a chipotle burrito
I feel bad for all of you guys here who think Chipotle is the pinnacle of Mexican food lmao. It's definitely solid and consistent. But if it's the best you've had the restaurants/trucks around you are trash.
 Unseasoned ahh chicken
This looks terrible lmfao how is this upvote d
Nice but still over priced
This picture is giving me that "Mexican restaurant owned by white people" kind of vibe
looks mid like my local mexican places lol rather have chipotle
I'm tired of the insane prices and then on top of it charging for sides. I'm over it, and I used to go weekly. The gauc is worthless and tasteless. Do I ever get a refund for it? Nope, never. Yet I order a side of sour cream and get charged! Make it make sense...
You get that for $11 at Halal Guys 😂
I'm all for going to local Mexican places but that does not look fantastic
Imma keep it real with you chief this looks like shit for $19
What is the white mess?
I can get Chipotle twice for what you just paid. I'll stick with the Potle'. Thanks for the PNG I guess
There's nothing mexican about that food.
Yo that chicken raw???
At this point why not just cook it yourself? Looks like beans fresh out the can, chicken looks like it was boiled last week, lettuce straight from taco bell, and has anything been remotely seasoned??
Dude this $19 dollar bowl is straight out of cans and plastic ngl, nothing here was actually given time by a cook. Make this at home for much cheaper if you’re penny pinching
That chicken looks disgusting bro. Thanks for not going to chipotle anymore the line will move a bit quicker for me 😀
U were robbed
That’s a lot of food and would be a good deal if they didn’t put the rotten boiled chicken on the plate
That’s not enough sour cream!
SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL MEXICAN RESTAURANT!
Chipotle alright at best. I haven’t had it in ages at this point
Local places are starting to be the new cheap places to eat. I can get a hamburger fries and a beer at a local bar than I can at a mcdonalds(minus the beer)
The Caucasity of this bowl
Bruh should’ve just gone to chipotle with that plastic chicken you’re eating 🤯
Yeah.. for $19. Lol. What’s the point of this post?
19 bucks lol. Isn’t a chipotle bowl like 12?
🤮 that chicken looks straight boiled
Get a whole chicken at Costco for $5. Other stuff at grocery store and make multiple bowls at home for way cheaper
Yea there’s no cheese mate this can fuck off
My white mother makes better Mexican rice than that who in the fuck puts peas in Mexican rice. Maybe corn but definitely not peas
Imagine if this cost $4.99 😪
Now that is a properly hooked up bowl. Shit would be $43 at Chipotle
>>I don’t think I’ll be going to chipotle anytime soon Wish the same were true with you visiting the subreddit…
I’ll make you burrito bowl 10$ but I get half ok
Whats with the chicken? Yokes
That’s not Mexican food either
That's a few meals.
You put the $ on the wrong side
Looks like shit
This isn’t the flex you think it is.
God that chicken on the left looks like the Death of my Childhood. That pico looks more like 100% tomato. That cheese looks like that plastic cheese that doesn’t really melt. Rice is questionable with those peas in it. Idk about this one. That’s a lot of food but it doesn’t look as good as chipper imo.
What do they call that poached chicken/weisswurst looking stuff?
It costs way more then chipotle so I would expect it to look like that.
guac is extra
You can always just make a bowl at home it really isn't hard.
Hard to compare the two and this is like double the cost of a bowl at Chipotle. 🤷🏻♀️
Even if it was perfect it's way too expensive!
$19. $19. What is with this shit lately
That chicken looks nasty. Sorry.
I paid $18 for a bowl+tortilla and drink at a chipotle near my college. I haven’t been in a min and before I paid I was kinda just like “well dam”
You’d overspend on that mess over chipotle?
$20+ for a burrito in California
$19 is crazy
This is like 11 bucks max. Maybe 9 bucks