An Ohio Taco Bell employee not too long ago tried the brand new Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie, which is a promotional merchandise that some commenters suppose is indicative of 2025’s unhinged quick meals advertising period.

TikTok creator TaCara (@tmprettyy) posted a video of her Baja Blast Pie evaluation on Oct. 30. The video reveals TaCara with a slice of the turquoise pie that she says she let thaw for about an hour.

The consistency of her slice is gummy, however she takes a chunk. She can’t fairly put her finger on the flavour. “It’s not terrible,” she says.

She takes a second chunk to make sure. “It’s not bad,” she confirms. “This is—it’s not bad. I definitely give this a seven out of 10. I can’t really tell y’all if it tastes like Baja Blast.”

Ohio Taco Bell Worker Taste Tests Baja Blast Pie

TaCara says she’s by no means had a key lime pie, so she will be able to’t particularly examine it to something. But she says, “Definitely let it sit. I don’t eat this frozen. I’ve seen people eat this frozen. It says ‘thaw for 30 minutes.’”

The directions are to permit it to thaw for at least 30 minutes or up to 4 hours. TaCara says, “It tastes like [something] for a summer day, not like Thanksgiving. [It’s] $20, though.”

The feedback diverse of their opinions concerning the pie’s look. “This look like something LUSH would sell,” stated one individual. “Why is it stretching like play doh?” one other individual requested.

Is TaCara Just Trying to Keep Her Job?

One individual prompt she solely did the video out of strain. “Y’all she just tryna keep her job,” they stated. One commenter famous that Taco Bell is straying away from its classics, saying, “They should’ve just kept the caramel apple empanadas.”

One individual made one of the best joke: “In a few years y’all gone be calling the number for the class action lawsuit for mesothelioma.”

TaCara made a follow-up video admitting she doubtless shouldn’t have bought the pie if she didn’t work at Taco Bell. But she says that as a result of she is extra of a “chocolate” individual versus going for citrus flavors. She additionally notes that every taking part location was solely allotted 12 pies.

Taco Bell’s Limited Edition Baja Blast Pie

The extraordinarily limited-edition pie sold out in lots of places after its launch on Nov. 6. It was first teased on the Live Más Live occasion in 2024 and made a cameo throughout Mountain Dew Baja Blast’s twentieth anniversary celebration.

Priced at $19.99, the graham cracker-crust pie is offered solely entire (not by slice) and is on the market in-store for a restricted time. It transforms the soda right into a citrus-flavored, key lime pie-adjacent dessert, explicitly designed to go viral on social media.

It’s a part of an escalating pattern the place quick meals chains create more and more weird collaborations purposefully designed to chop by means of digital noise. Right now, there’s every thing from Hidden Valley Ranch lip balm to just about no matter you need in dill pickle flavor, banking on shock worth and FOMO to push gross sales.

Food Network called it “otherworldly—sort of like an alien key lime pie” and positioned it as good for Friendsgiving. We’ll allow you to be the choose.

All hip hop reached out to @tmprettyy and Taco Bell for extra data.

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