OK, I know that this is the second War Crime to feature a wildly inappropriate seafood taco, but goddammit, Taco Bell should not be serving me shrimp.

Maybe it's irrational. Intellectually, I know that I eat Taco Bell's beef and chicken with impunity. But there's just something about the combination of Taco Bell's stellar reputation for ingredient sourcing and incredibly perishable shellfish that skeeves me right the fuck out.

I don't find shrimp that appealing a taco ingredient anyway. I mean, I'm sure a well-prepared one is nice enough, but there are so many more perfectly acceptable things to do with both tacos and shrimp that combining them just seems like pointless stunt-cooking. Especially from Taco Bell, and especially this soon after their wildly unsuccessful flirtation with bacon.

IN case you're wondering, the shrimp taco is covered in their generic pico de gallo (which they call Fiesta Salsa, because they're Taco Bell, goddammit) and avocado-ranch sauce, which, if their guacamole is any indication, won't have any avocado in it.

This is just like when Subway tried to serve salmon. Awful idea, and clearly the result of someone, somewhere, getting a deal on a big pile of ingredient. Let's hope that this experiment is as successful as the Chicken Caesar Salad Grilled Stuft (look, that's how they fucking spell it) Burrito, and within a couple of months, truckloads of marinated, precooked shrimp are buried in the desert next to all the E.T. cartridges.