You can make your own slop bowl at home for a fraction of the price.
The main ingredients in a Chipotle meal are beans and rice...
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At Chipotle, US$3 for guacamole is too much. and the portions got smaller. the value is no longer there. $20 meal per person with no beverage is too high!
Good. Rice/grain bowls are fucking burrito nihilism and the worst thing millennials have done. If you want a fucking burrito then order one. Take it with you and eat it on the go. It's a sustainable, self contained, portable meal, unlike its deconstructed evil cousin which involves plastic and utensils and you can't even eat it while walking. Seriously fuck these things so hard. I fucking hate how they have completely killed burrito culture and innovation because some delicate fucking tryhards refuse to eat with their hands as God intended.
Good. Rice/grain bowls are fucking burrito nihilism and the worst thing millennials have done.
That large tortilla adds another 300 calories by itself, which is about 25% of the calories of a large burrito. I like to skip those extra tortilla calories. A bowl does that.
Yea. Came here to say this. The tortilla is the most unhealthy part of the burrito
Oh no, more energy!
The horror!
This may come as a shock to you, but most of the people in the western world have an energy surplus which creates other health risks. The most logical way to address this is to consume less energy, but here we are with other people being upset by my choice to not eat something.
Hey, at least you're paying less for getting less energy.
if you look to Chipotle for this "burrito culture" you talk of you are already lost.
Chipotle was only one of the bigger players, but there were tons of smaller local burrito shops which simply don't exist anymore, at least not on the east coast. Maybe things are different in California and Texas, but like I said in another comment, my college town had two amazing local burrito places which I ate at all the time, and they both went out of business in the mid/late 2000s and were unironically replaced by a Cava and a bubble tea shop. If you can't tell, I am still bitter about this. The children are wrong and they need to understand why.
From my perspective Chipotle was just a bellwether anyway. I remember all of a sudden around like 2004 or 2005 when it just seemed to switch from people ordering 80% burritos to 80% bowls overnight. I don't even remember them advertising bowls heavily until after the (objectively incorrect) shift in consumer preference. It killed the local places, it killed the "overstuffed" wars, and now it seems like your average chipotle cook can't actually roll a burrito properly because nobody orders them.
Some people don't want the tortilla dude. Whether it's to avoid the extra, little-nutrition calories, avoid gluten or the extra carbs plenty of people prefer to skip it. You eat how you wanna eat and I'll eat how I wanna eat.
I'm spoiled here in CA, we got some really legit spots. Did the birra craze hit the east coast too?
Definitely. I can get legit goat or beef birria, al pastor, and sopes easier than a burrito these days. I'm not kidding when I say they are all but extinct in my area, and it's all because of the stupid fucking slop bowls.
I'm sorry but "burrito culture" kind of took me out of it.
I agree with your point though.
There was definitely a culture surrounding burritos in the late 90s, with all the different fast casual Mexican restaurants competing for who had the biggest or most overstuffed burrito. And it was also the prime drunk food up there with pizza - I remember a local college dive having "the dumpster" with french fries and mozz sticks. In popular media, burritos were generally trendy, and now it's basically just disappeared.
Well said, man. Well said.
Wait, consumers tightening spending? Isn't that something that only happens in a recession that we're not in?
The archive[.]is service you're using changes saved content and weaponizes visitors to DDoS a blog.
Say what?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archive.today
Around 11 January 2026, archive.today inserted malicious JavaScript code in its CAPTCHA page to involve visitors in a DDoS attack against Gyrovague. Over the following weeks, the archive.today blog posted public criticisms of Patokallio, accusing him of doxing the website's operator, and engaged in personal attacks against him. Emails released by Patokallio include archive.today threatening him with AI pornography. On 20 February 2026, English Wikipedia banned links to archive.today, citing the DDoS attack against Patokallio and evidence that archived content was tampered with to insert Patokallio's name.
Article refers to .today but .is is the same service. There's a list on the article sidebar.
So nobody should use that site anymore? Do you have an alternative?