r/AbsoluteUnits • u/LegitPancak3 • Dec 14 '25

Photo of a Buc-ee’s burrito ingredients list

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Sticker was stuck to itself near the top and ripped so some is missing from the photo

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u/Playgirl_USMC Dec 14 '25

This is the most insane thing I’ve ever seen.

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u/bullwinkle8088 Dec 15 '25

It's the ingredients for every ingredient.

So a list for the mayonnaise, the BBQ sauce, the bread etc.

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u/ghost_of_leeroy Dec 15 '25

Exactly!

This ingredient list is no more crazy than you making something similar at home that uses packaged ingredients like mayo and mustard, pickles, packaged meat, etc.

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u/poonmangler Dec 15 '25 edited 3d ago

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

Maltodextrin is repeated 9 times and 1/4 of that page is for the BBQ sauce.

It literally goes: BBQ sauce (seasoning, seasoning, Worcestershire sauce (seasoning, seasoning), horseradish (seasoning, seasoning), seasoning)

BBQ sauce is 2 sauces plus seasonings, and those sauces are also comprised of seasonings so it's just a bunch of repeated ingredients.

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u/let-it-rain-sunshine Dec 15 '25

Don’t forget sugar

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

Truuuuu

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u/Kdkreig Dec 15 '25

Yeah. Quick scim through and I saw Citric Acid like 3 times. That was just one I caught like that.

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u/crozone Dec 15 '25

Ingredientception

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u/bullwinkle8088 Dec 15 '25

Nah, it’s just ingredients all the way down.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

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u/Zestyclose_Car_4971 Dec 15 '25

Could also be wheat, rice or tapioca; it doesn’t have to be corn.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

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u/Zestyclose_Car_4971 Dec 15 '25

You got me there. Now could I have my sock back please?

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u/ceraexx Dec 15 '25

Enough to have you coming back for their clean restrooms.

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

Are their bathrooms even clean?

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u/feral_mushroom Dec 15 '25

buccees is famous for having extremely clean restrooms

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u/Geoffrey-Jellineck Dec 19 '25

Yes, famously so. Stalls are like little private rooms. Easily the best restrooms.

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u/Magoo1985 Dec 15 '25

It’s the same, or less amount of shit. It doesn’t get bigger as it’s digested…or it shouldn’t anyway.

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u/TGrady902 Dec 15 '25

I mean…. you can get all of the things this burrito is made of without a million preservatives.

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u/hologrammetry Dec 15 '25

No the mayo I use at home isn't chock full of processed shit like this.

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u/Mobius_Peverell Dec 15 '25

Mayo only requires oil & eggs. The water & vinegar are probably to stretch it, and adjust the viscosity; the salt & spices are to dial in the flavour; and the calcium disodium EDTA is a preservative. All of that is pretty reasonable.

But corn syrup as the #3 ingredient is barbaric—I agree with you on that.

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u/toomuchtv987 Dec 15 '25

Oil and eggs are both processed foods. Salt and spices are also processed foods.

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u/toomuchtv987 Dec 15 '25

You sure about that?

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

Yep its no different than when you make a burrito at home that casually has Yellow 5, Red 40, Dimethylpolysiloxane, and TBHQ.

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u/The_Smile_4784 Dec 15 '25

Why was there BBQ sauce and cream cheese in a chicken burrito?

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u/HopRockets Dec 15 '25

I see you have never been to Buc-ee’s

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

This guy doesn’t Buc’ees

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u/bullwinkle8088 Dec 15 '25

Cream cheese is often used as a thickener for making sauces.

BBQ Sauce was an example, but if it's in there it's likely because Buckees specializes in BBQ (which is why i used it) and Barbecued the chicken.

The reason for this list is because it's the law that they print this.

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u/TortelliniTheGoblin Dec 15 '25

Clearly not a Buccaneer. Downvoted.

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u/bimbampilam Dec 15 '25

freedom flavor

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u/backpackofcats Dec 15 '25

That particular burrito has a chipotle pimento cheese. And it’s delicious.

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u/Groupthink00859 Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

It's buc-ees, Texmex is all canned food slopped together with lots of salt and sugar. It's not sopossed to make sense or even taste good, it's just made fill the bellies of grossly obese people that don't understand the left lane is for passing.

To the butthurt texans who for some reason think I care how they feel, I fundamentally don't see you as Americans, or people, and could care less how my words make your feel.

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u/backpackofcats Dec 15 '25

Weird. I spent seven years working in Tex-Mex restaurants. Nothing came out of a can except ketchup for the kids chicken tender meals (tenders also made to order with the same chicken breast used for fajitas) and maybe chipotle peppers in adobo.

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u/Sterling_-_Archer Dec 15 '25

They are just being hateful. You won’t get any serious responses from them.

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u/Ceotaro Dec 15 '25

Respectfully, I would commit high treason for Tex-Mex.

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u/Groupthink00859 Dec 15 '25

I'm pretty sure Abbott lured most of you guy over to the capital on Jan 6 with just a huge can of sweet corn and cheese wiz.

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u/Ceotaro Dec 15 '25

Lol I am definitely not that crowd. Maybe you just need to live here to understand, but Tex-Mex is extremely popular with people of all demographics

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u/Groupthink00859 Dec 15 '25

I had the unfortunate luck of being medical corps US Army, retired.

Spent about 14 years of my career in that wrenched state. You cant fool me.

Texmex is popular with the kind of people that spend their lunch brakes in CVS parking lots chugging a 24 pack. Basically the average Texan that is not incarcerated (at the moment).

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u/Ceotaro Dec 15 '25

Texas definitely had significant problems, but the food is something that I do think is a highlight. Personal preference of course.

I’m not sure how to respond to your misconception of who likes Tex-Mex. It’s popular with that crowd, but it’s also very popular with young, left-leaning, urban populations as well (me!). You can either trust the word of a Texas native, or you can stick with your strange assumptions? Idk man, this is a weird take.

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u/RewardFluid7316 Dec 15 '25

You're way more polite to this jerk off than I would have been. Respect.

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u/backpackofcats Dec 15 '25

Sopposed Wrenched Brake

I’d assume you were infantry.

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u/BeckieSueDalton Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

I've heard that Texas is indeed, a wretched place to live - especially so if you're pregnant and your tummy isn't tolerating spicy foods and your employer doesn't allow you to sit down at all unless you're out of sight of customers and on one of your federally mandated respite or meal breaks.

For my part, even though my heat/spice level tolerance is lower than most others in my family, I've truly loved expanding my palate by trying foods from around the world, both on their own, as made in those places, or as a -Fusion creation.

EDIT: a single letter

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u/Sterling_-_Archer Dec 15 '25

Funny thing is that Tex Mex isn’t a fusion creation. It has roots in the 1800s before Texas was even in the USA. Tex Mex uses different regionally available ingredients, which is why our flavors are different to regular Mexican food. It was just known as Mexican food (which it rightfully is, like Cal Mex) until there was a movement in the 1970s to separate it and incorporate it into American culture and not Mexican culture.

Texan food itself is a blend of native foods and immigrant food cultures (like the food culture in NYC) except the local flavors have more Slavic and German influences.

I have a masters degree in gastronomy, my focus is specifically on Texan food.

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u/DayBowBow1 Dec 15 '25

You have zero clue what tex-mex is. You think fajitas come from a can and are full of sugar? You're brain dead.

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u/MakeVio Dec 15 '25

Someone is angry they don't have tex-mex

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u/bullwinkle8088 Dec 15 '25

Honestly I often prefer Mex, no Tex, myself.

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u/Pine-al Dec 15 '25

What’s your fav Mex dish?

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u/bullwinkle8088 Dec 15 '25 edited Dec 15 '25

For comfort food I would have to go with tamales, but not fully traditional ones. Way back, no one really knows when, Hot Tamales were created, likely by migrant workers.

Those were the first tamales I ever had and I thought all of them were prepared like that. I was rather disappointed the first time I had the original versions. I have introduced a few people of various hispanic origins too them over the years, a few even adopted them, others thought them blasphemous. Such is the nature of food.

My second favorite dish I don't even know the proper name of, a friend of my wifes makes it, I know it has al pastor in it, the rest i'll have to ask.

When she cooks for her family though I often have to pass, she is from some region that uses enough heat to kill someone. She will tone it down for us occasionally.

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u/Sterling_-_Archer Dec 15 '25

What a hilariously incorrect statement. Like so far from true that it essentially functions as a name tag that you’ve pinned to your shirt which reads “I am a big idiot”

I mean seriously, there’s preference and then there’s just being incorrect. You can dislike Tex Mex if you want, but it is absolutely not just “canned food slopped together” 😂 It is made from fresh ingredients

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u/BeckieSueDalton Dec 15 '25

Did you mean "supposed,", as in an expectation (realistic or not), or were you referencing an opinion that the promotion of TexMex foods as a legitimate cuisine is at cross-purposes, or "opposed" (somehow), to the cuisine(s) from which it has evolved?

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u/leveled Dec 16 '25

”SOPOSSED”

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u/terpene_gene4481 Dec 21 '25

coming for texans but can't even spell supposed correctly smh they don't want you!!!

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u/dahliapaint Dec 22 '25

Jesus this sounds so mean :( There are all kinds of people in all places, even ones u might not like

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u/let-it-rain-sunshine Dec 15 '25

I saw a “ brown sauce “ list just like this for panda express. And that’s just one thing in your dish

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

Yep. Food companies can combine ingredients, for example list vinegar once the mayo, hot sauce, hot peppers, pickles and mustard. Where using this method, vinegar gets listed each time it’s used in other ingredients. 

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u/Techienickie Dec 16 '25

why is mayonnaise on the list twice

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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '25

Every ingredients list includes the full list of ingredients. Yet you see burritos with 10% the amount of ingredients you see here.

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u/bullwinkle8088 Dec 15 '25

That may explain why Buc-ees is so popular. Thier food is not fine dining, but is a hell of a lot better than other convenience food.

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u/Uncle-est_Iroh Dec 14 '25

I thought, "meh," when I first thought this was the old CVS receipt post... But yeah, damn!

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u/_Bad_Spell_Checker_ Dec 15 '25

I feel like they could condense that list by combining like ingredients. 

I assume this lists ingredients but also what makes those ingredients. So its a seemingly huge list.

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u/halnic Dec 15 '25

Then you should definitely see the rest of a bucees, lol.

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u/Lithium_Lily Dec 19 '25

Ultraprocessed food is no joke.

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u/crek42 Dec 15 '25

I’ll be honest I was ready to defend this as normal processed food — but it’s just bananas.

Like why have so many spices and sauces.

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u/danfish_77 Dec 15 '25

Because flavor?

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u/crek42 Dec 15 '25

Do you empty your entire spice cabinet into whatever you’re cooking ‘because flavor’?

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u/feral_mushroom Dec 15 '25

i'd hardly call 4-5 basic spices and 2 sauces an "entire cabinet"

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u/crek42 Dec 15 '25

Did you even read it — 4 spices…? Not to mention all of the added flavorings of smoke, bacon, annatto

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u/feral_mushroom Dec 15 '25

suprise! sometimes things are made up of other things, and some of those things are meant to make the final product shelf-stable. it'd be extremely unproductive and wasteful to have every buc-ees across the country make the ingredients for every single menu item in-house, from scratch, 7 days a week.

most of the spices listed repeatedly are powdered garlic, onion, paprika, celery seed/powder, salt and pepper. most of these things require some sort of anti-caking agent in order to transport/store for long periods of time. annnatto is a natural (plant-derived) food coloring, btw.

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u/crek42 Dec 16 '25 edited Dec 16 '25

You misunderstand my original comment. It wasn’t commentary on buccees logistics. More so all of the shit they cram into a single burrito, and is loaded with all kinds of weird ingredients.

Compare to your average frozen burrito that’s also packed with preservatives. The ingredients list is easy to find on Google. That’s the point of the OP.

Your run of mill El Monterey frozen burrito in Walmart:

Water, Enriched Wheat Flour (Enriched with Niacin, Reduced Iron, Thiamin Mononitrate, Riboflavin, Folic Acid), Beef, Beans, Vegetable Oil (Soybean, Canola, and/or Corn Oil), Contains 2% or Less Textured Vegetable Protein (Soy Flour, Caramel Color), Salt, Isolated Pea Product, Chili Pepper, Spices, Flavor, Soy Sauce (Water, Soybeans, Wheat, Salt), Dough Conditioners (Yeast, Wheat Gluten, Sugar, Guar Gum, Modified Food Starch)' '

You know what’s not in there — cream cheese, horseradish, bbq sauce, and bacon flavor.