--- title: Taco Bell Testing Sriracha Menu With Tacos, Nachos in Kansas City description: The chain is testing some spicy new menu items canonical: https://time.com/3506276/sriracha-taco-bell-menu/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-10-14T15:39:31.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:13:47.991Z og:title: Taco Bell Is Now Testing a Sriracha Menu og:description: The chain is testing some spicy new menu items og:url: https://time.com/3506276/sriracha-taco-bell-menu/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54ebbdacc4a7e8ec/698689f4e8524b6dd56024bc/ap780552288408.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Hot Sauce Controversy og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Taco Bell Is Now Testing a Sriracha Menu twitter:description: The chain is testing some spicy new menu items twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54ebbdacc4a7e8ec/698689f4e8524b6dd56024bc/ap780552288408.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Taco Bell's New Menu Will Make Sriracha Fans Very Happy > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 14, 2014 3:39 PM UTC  FILE - In this Oct 29, 2013 file photo, Sriracha chili sauce bottles are produced at the Huy Fong Foods factory in Irwindale, Calif. The Southern California-based maker of Sriracha has been told it can't ship any more of its popular hot sauce to food distributors until next month because the state Department of Public Health is enforcing stricter guidelines that require a 30-day hold on the product. Health department spokeswoman Anita Gore told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 that the 30-day hold is needed to "ensure an effective treatment of microorganisms present in the product." (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) FILE - In this Oct 29, 2013 file photo, Sriracha chili sauce bottles are produced at the Huy Fong Foods factory in Irwindale, Calif. The Southern California-based maker of Sriracha has been told it can't ship any more of its popular hot sauce to food distributors until next month because the state Department of Public Health is enforcing stricter guidelines that require a 30-day hold on the product. Health department spokeswoman Anita Gore told The Associated Press on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2013 that the 30-day hold is needed to "ensure an effective treatment of microorganisms present in the product." (AP Photo/Nick Ut, File) Nick Ut—AP by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Oct 14, 2014 3:39 PM UTC Hopefully you’re [not on an all-carb diet](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmanVH3Zut8), because you’re definitely going to want to hit up Taco Bell soon. The chain is now testing a new menu that incorporates a whole lot of Sriracha, the Washington _Post_ [reports](http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/style-blog/wp/2014/10/13/the-sriracha-taco-bell-menu-is-real/). Sadly, though, these spicy new items are only being tested in the Kansas City area, now through mid-November. Here’s what the menu includes: * Sriracha Beef Griller * Sriracha Taco and Taco Supreme * Sriracha Quesarito ([**this** ](http://time.com/2828010/taco-bell-is-officially-adding-a-quesarito-to-its-menu/)is a Quesarito, by the way) * Sriracha Nachos * Sriracha Quesarito Box * Sriracha Grande Scrambler Diehard fans of the beloved rooster sauce might notice, however, that the condiment Taco Bell is using is more of a “Sriracha creme” sauce with a bit less heat, as one Redditor [noted](http://www.reddit.com/r/tacobell/comments/2irylv/sriracha%5Fmenu/). In the meantime, if you’re not in the Kansas City area, you can just continue pouring Sriracha all over everything and get the same effect. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3506276/sriracha-taco-bell-menu/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3506276/sriracha-taco-bell-menu/"},"headline":"Taco Bell's New Menu Will Make Sriracha Fans Very Happy","datePublished":"2014-10-14T15:39:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:13:47.991Z","description":"The chain is testing some spicy new menu items","url":"https://time.com/3506276/sriracha-taco-bell-menu/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Sriracha","Food & Drink","Food","Taco Bell","Fast Food","Tacos"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54ebbdacc4a7e8ec/698689f4e8524b6dd56024bc/ap780552288408.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt54ebbdacc4a7e8ec/698689f4e8524b6dd56024bc/ap780552288408.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Hot Sauce Controversy","caption":"Hot Sauce Controversy","creditText":"Nick Ut—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3506276/sriracha-taco-bell-menu/","name":"Taco Bell's New Menu Will Make Sriracha Fans Very Happy"}}]}] ```