Grocery store aisles are often a place of great deliberation: Dark or milk chocolate chips, white or brown rice, hard or soft taco shells. If you're often caught up on the last one, we get you.

Michelle Groskopf for The New York Times Taco Fiesta in Highland Park continues a long tradition of hard-shell tacos in Southern California.

But, if you've ever found yourself craving hard taco shells and have none available, your toaster can save the day with a nifty hack. While you could heat a pan with oil and crisp up tortillas ...

Joe Avella: Taco Bell. We're talking tacos. At the US Taco Bell, you can get an individual hard-shell taco, or you can get three with a drink. I went with medium. Or you can get a party pack ...