Fast Food Review: Is El Pollo Loco Ashamed of its Dessert Nachos?

(Note: this review was requested by Danny Baldwin of Criticspeak.com. if you have a request for a fast food review, and the item in question is available in the Southern California area, email it to the regular tip line on the right hand side.)

So let me get this straight, El Pollo Loco. You come up with a new menu item that actually gets people talking because nobody else has it, and not only do you not mention it at all on your official website, but this is the only picture you make available, via your Facebook page?

Don’t call this a new promotion. Call it a semi-hiding, similar to the way Fox released Mike Judge’s Idiocracy into theaters without press screenings, publicity of any kind, or even posters in some theaters. We know they came to regret that mistake, and the movie has gone on to become a staple of DVD shelves and cable TV rotation. Who will discover the untapped potential of the chocolate nacho?

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