Taco Bell is offering customers an alternative to the usual pumpkin pie this holiday season.
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Starting tomorrow, Nov. 6, the fast food chain will begin offering the Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie. The neon-colored, citrusy confection is infused with the tropical lime flavor of the popular beverage, which has been a Taco Bell staple for several years.
Is Taco Bell Playing a Joke on Us?
This pie certainly has an unusual appearance, as you can see on Taco Bell's website. It looks like it might glow in the dark!
But this is a real menu offering. Taco Bell first shared the idea for the dessert at its Live Más convention earlier this year. Fans loved it, with many describing it as similar to a key lime pie. It even has a graham cracker crust and a dollop of whipped cream on top.
"Driven by a wave of fan-made memes, the community kept the dream alive until Taco Bell finally made it fork-ready for the fans," the restaurant shared in a press release.
If you're lucky enough to live in Southern California or Texas, you can also try the Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie Chiller. Available only at the chain's Live Más Cafés, it's a "sweet and creamy frozen blended beverage" with bits of the pie blended with vanilla ice cream. It will also be available beginning tomorrow, Nov. 6.
There Is a Catch, Though
This new dessert offering is probably Taco Bell's best idea since it started offering breakfast items in 2014 or when it brought back its Mexican Pizza (thanks, Dolly!). But this time around, the restaurant believes we can't have too much of a good thing.
It is describing the nationwide introduction of Mountain Dew Baja Blast Pie as "one of Taco Bell's most exclusive fan launches ever."
The dessert will be available in limited quantities and only as a whole pie. It will be $20, both in-store and at the drive-thru, at participating locations, with a limit of one pie per order.
That means if you want to offer your family and friends a slice of this blue-hued dessert, you'd better get one now because they're sure to run out.
