Though Taco Bell's infamous waffle taco is dead, another pseudo-taco has risen like a phoenix from the ashes: the biscuit taco.
The fast food retailer's latest addition to its growing breakfast menu is a flaky taco-shaped biscuit, filled with eggs, cheese, sausage or fried chicken, paired with a jalapeño honey dipping sauce.
The biscuit taco underwent testing in 2014 in southern cities like San Antonio, Atlanta and Los Angeles, and it will join national menus on March 26.
Taco Bell launched its first breakfast menu in March 2014 to compete with the breakfast offerings at fellow fast food competitors, namely McDonald's and Burger King.
McDonald's is the the subject of Taco Bell's "Breakfast Defectors" ad campaign, which portrays the Egg McMuffin as a boring breakfast food forced on America through imagined propaganda posters. The hardly subtle ad paints Taco Bell breakfast-goers as "defectors" who have bravely broken the status quo with a love for greasy eggs shoveled into taco-shaped biscuits.
Misshapen biscuits aside, we'll welcome pretty much any step up from the oily waffle taco. May it rest in greasy peace.