Americans have their pick of all sorts of fast food delicacies, but a mystery remains: Why the hell do they keep eating Jack in the Box tacos?

As Wall Street Journal points out, the thin, arguably revolting tacos have been described as "a wet envelope of cat food," but Americans eat over 554 million of them a year. The taco is a tortilla wrapped around "beef filling," then dunked in a fryer before being topped with (American) cheese, lettuce, and hot sauce.

One woman interviewed by WSJ called the creation "vile and amazing"—but can these two adjectives coexist? Apparently, since Jack in the Box sells approximately the same amount of tacos as McDonald's sold Big Macs in 2007.

"You can't look at [the taco] too long before you eat it. You just kind of have to get it outside of the sleeve and into your mouth," Mike Primavera told WSJ, adding that the tacos manage to have a "soggy, nasty middle" with a "rim of crunchiness on the outside."

Well, if there's one thing America does right, it's eating garbage.

(H/T Wall Street Journal)

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