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Breakfast Tacos On United Airlines?

Matthew Klint Posted onAugust 25, 2018November 14, 2023 8 Comments

Each week, my Meal of the Week  feature examines an airline meal from my travels over the years. This may be a meal from earlier in the week or it may be a meal served over a decade ago.

My upgrade did not clear on a recent flight from Washington Dulles to Las Vegas but I wasn’t worried. Why? It would finally give me the chance to try United’s new breakfast tacos.

The breakfast tacos have actually been on the menu a few months, but it was my first opportunity to try them. Here’s how the menu describes them:

United Airlines Tacos

Egg and chicken chorizo tacos

Scrambled eggs, chicken chorizo, Monterey Jack cheese sauce, Swiss American cheese, charred chipotle salsa and chives in corn and flour tortillas

Two tacos per order

$8.99

I was sitting in the exit row of EconomyPlus and snagged the last tacos onboard. I figured they would taste good, but was skeptical the taco shells would be crispy.

Turns out I was right: the shells were indeed soft, bordering on soggy. But the contents inside were tasty and I very much enjoyed the tacos, polishing both off very quickly. The tortillas, by the way, were described as “corn and flour” but tasted like corn to me.

a white package with black text on it

a close up of a paper

a close up of a label

a group of tacos in a cardboard container

a tacos in a paper container

a tacos in a box

a close up of food

Both the meat and eggs were nicely spiced with no extra sauce necessary.

The last time I had tacos on United was in 2009 on a flight from Mexico City to Washington Dulles.

a plate of food on a tray

While tasty, the portion size was tiny. That’s the problem with the new breakfast tacos as well. Two is simply not enough: I could have easily eaten six.

CONCLUSION

I do recommend these tacos, even if the taco shells are not as crispy as I’d like. The chorizo / egg / cheese combo works well.

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Matthew Klint

Matthew is an avid traveler who calls Los Angeles home. Each year he travels more than 200,000 miles by air and has visited more than 135 countries. Working both in the aviation industry and as a travel consultant, Matthew has been featured in major media outlets around the world and uses his Live and Let's Fly blog to share the latest news in the airline industry, commentary on frequent flyer programs, and detailed reports of his worldwide travel.

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8 Comments

  1. Anthony Reply
    August 25, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    They look decent, but I wish they wouldn’t mess with the recipe to try to appeal to everyone:

    1.) Corn tortillas.
    2.) Pork chorizo.

  2. Henry Ruiz Reply
    August 25, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    The softer the tacos, the easier and faster United will conquer the latin market, particularly flying to Latin America. Real tacos are not crispy or hard shell. They are soft and made out of corn.

    • Matthew Reply
      August 25, 2018 at 10:17 pm

      Fair point. Maybe UA even intends them that way. I just thought I read somewhere that they were intended to be crispy.

  3. Zygy Reply
    August 26, 2018 at 2:37 am

    The disparity between their advertised photo and actual product is worse than McDonald’s. Wish they would stop doing that. Show me what I’m actually ordering.

    • Howard Reply
      August 26, 2018 at 3:32 pm

      You think they’d sell anything if they did that?

  4. Rohan Reply
    August 26, 2018 at 2:46 pm

    The sheer number of ingredients on that list is quite worrying. The food we eat is ridiculously processed…

    • Matthew Reply
      August 26, 2018 at 6:32 pm

      Agree…the number of ingredients are a bit much for my liking.

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