Combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell

During an early Das Racist show at Wesleyan University, he used the phrase while freestyling, and received a strongly positive reaction, so he kept repeating the line.

[7] Pitchfork lauded it as "just a funny, stupid, silly, brainy, knowing song all at once" that "retains its inner Cheech and Chong and still seems leagues smarter for it", and noted that although it is "a one-idea track (...) that idea somehow becomes more endearing as it rolls on".

[8] The Tribune Business News likewise invoked Cheech and Chong, but suggested that the song may lead listeners to wonder if Das Racist may instead be "a couple of avant-garde dadaists taking on corporate America"[9] despite "seem(ing) like one of Andy Samberg's gag groups".

"[4] Death and Taxes compared it to "a three-minute koan" and "The Streets before Mike Skinner got all serious and bummed everyone out", calling it "both feverishly juvenile and somehow profound" and "an existential meditation on consumer identity in corporate America", and noting that "(t)he only lyrical deviations from the core phrase" —e.g., "I got that taco smell" and "I got that pizza butt"—are "beautifully executed".

[23] A rhetorical analysis in The Tartan claimed that the song's popularity derives primarily from three factors: first, the presence of repetition, for whose value The Tartan cited ancient Roman orator Quintilian;[24] second, the song's use of a "socioeconomically loaded location" which enables "audiences to identify with the common man"; and third, "semantic confusion"—not only does the pronoun "I" in the phrase "I'm at the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell" mean different things depending on whether Suri or Vazquez is the one saying it, so does "the combination Pizza Hut and Taco Bell", as evidenced by the fact that the two men are unable to locate each other.

[24] Slate suggests that the popularity also depends on the fact that the names of the two restaurant chains have the same number of syllables: "If the song took place at a combination Taco Bell and Long John Silver's, it would never work.

"[28] Comedian Hari Kondabolu—brother of Das Racist hype man Ashok Kondabolu—has asked "[Is] it simply a funny song about two friends going to the wrong fast-food restaurant, or [does] it say more about the state of American culture?

Brands who supposedly loved the song but felt the name of our band would be a 'problem' for marketing"; he emphasized that "(t)his is fortunate because my financial situation would not have afforded me the moral fortitude I would've needed to say no to money from Yum!