Tacos you say?

Tacos...one of my most favorite treat foods for only once in a while ever! *Next to Nachos from Mexicali Rosa's * - Check this out- there is one in Ottawa and One in Halifax, you need to go if you have never been. Very tasty.

Back to the point, not mentioning any name brands, but anyone that shops in Atlantic Canada in the larger stores will know which MAIN TACO brand I am referring to.

Why oh why do I get my packages full of what? STALE TACO Shells!! Oh no you didn't!!!

I am sorry, but I must take a bit of offense at this. For those of us that so love the taste of tacos, and there are so very many of us out there, why would we go to all the trouble of doing all the grating, frying and shredding only to come to the sad realization as you bite into one of your most loved foods, that it is stale.

You run, check the date on the box for expiry which of course you have already done. You've done it twice even! And low and behold, the date on the box has not changed, and in fact it is not even near the date... so why oh WHY are my taco shells stale?

If there are any taco shell makers on this blog site, please feel free to comment. I understand some of the arguments that could be made as I myself worked in a grocery environment at one point in my life, as have many of us.

But the bags the tacos in are not punctured, the box has not been tampered with, nor crushed. You can say the store kept the product in the backroom or on the shelf too long, but that brings us back to the expiry date.

If it says good until such a date, I expect my food to be good until such a date. Mind you I generally always check my my food, but with taco shells, when the expiry is far enough away, I would hope that the shells would not be stale...but life likes to throw around these little surprises no?

The whole point, is that I hope someone from this company will read my blog, or even my readers to let me know if they have experienced this same problem. The last 4 boxes I have purchased have been stale. (I requested that this store order in a box in their next shipment and that I would purchase that box. - Yes that is expensive, but at least I can be sure they are not stale...)

Last night I found my first stale box out of the case that I purchased, so out of the 5 boxes I have had, 1 is not bad. I just hope the next time that I go, there will be some tasty, non-stale taco shells for me to enjoy.

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