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captkw
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taco bell
HOLA< my baja dog would have made a hell of a better ad-dog... and the logo "run for the border" is spot on,, causs that's not mexican food,,dosnt
even look like mexican food..K&T
[Edited on 3-24-2012 by captkw]
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woody with a view
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taco bell is gross. now if you want some drunkage food the 2/$1 tacos (4-5 of em) or the old style filet-o-fish with nothing but a slice of cheese
product, secret sauce and a square piece of "fish" samitched between a steam bun that jack in the box slings....mmmmm!
if i want Mexican food i just go to the corner Robertos/Rigobertos/Adalbertos/Woodybertos! the only difference is a burrito in Mexico is a rolled taco
in America. kinda like a pinner joint!
[Edited on 3-24-2012 by woody with a view]
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captkw
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think 'thai stix'
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Bajahowodd
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Once upon a time, way back in the 60's, Jack In The Box was a national chain. My actual introduction to "Mexican" food was at a Jack In The Box on
Long Island. At that time, there were no Mexican Restaurant in the New York area.
Those of you lamenting Naugles, I'm with you. It was Del Taco that acquired Naugles, and fundamentally downscaled the quality of the food.
One other thing of note. Taco Bell is one of the companies under the corporate umbrella of Yum Brands. Two other Yum Brands companies, KFC and Pizza
Hut have a significant presence in Mexico. However, Taco Bell does not, but not for trying.
From the Yum wiki page:
"Taco Bell has attempted to enter the Mexican market twice. After a highly-publicised launch in Mexico City in 1992, all the restaurants were closed
two years later. In September 2007, Taco Bell returned to Monterrey, this time promoting itself as selling American food, but closed in January 2010
due to low patronage."
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dtbushpilot
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I like some of the stuff at taco bell and my wife loves jack in the box tacos....go figger....dt
"Life is tough".....It's even tougher if you're stupid.....
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Fifty years, or the "gold year" is an amazing accomplishment in and of itself for a business these days in America..congratulations on a successful
venture.
Happy Anniversary, Taco Bell.
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Gypsy Jan
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Hi Pompano
Regardless of the naysayers, I think that the bottom line (earnings) speaks for itself.
This has nothing to do with "appreciating authentic food", it is just about what sells.
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In the early 1960s on Firestone blvd in Downey California there was a large up-scale restaurant called the Silver Spur..Directly across the street was
a Mexican food stand owned by Glen Bell and next to it was a SCUBA Shop, called "Lee's Skin and SCUBA" where I taught occasional SCUBA diving classes.
I always stopped in at Glen's establishment before or after class for a pick me up...Had a number of conversations with Glen..even at that early date
he was thinking BIG...and Big he became. However as I recall he went into chapter 11--don't know disposition of this action.
His early offerings were great -- after he opened the fast food chain, Taco Bell, his offerings were a good substitute for food...
sdm
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Remembering "inside the bun"
My Taco Bell guilty pleasure was the "BellBeefer". Hamburger bun with a scoop of the ground beef mixture and some shredded lettuce.
But for taco's, when I'm alone, Jack-in-the-Box $.99 for two taco's is my go to for junk food.
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Had one across from the house in high school.
My mom let me take over the garage for surfboard making in the '70s. Guys always hanging out working on boards. Made over 250 boards in that garage,
totaly ruined it and blew the mind of my rooster I locked in it's cage at night in the garage...can't believe the water heater never blew up the
neighborhood.
Anyways...mom would always spring for bean burrito's for all the guys. Cheapest thing on the menu. Mom was a Saint, when I finished a new board for
myself...she'd let me stay out of school the next day, drive me up to Del Mar, drop me off, come back in afternoon to pick me up.
I know this isn't about moms...so thanks for the memories Taco Bell.
Thanks for the life, mom.
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Bajahowodd
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Quote: | Originally posted by tripledigitken
My Taco Bell guilty pleasure was the "BellBeefer". Hamburger bun with a scoop of the ground beef mixture and some shredded lettuce.
But for taco's, when I'm alone, Jack-in-the-Box $.99 for two taco's is my go to for junk food. |
Not to mention... Enchirito.
But, seriously, how can you refer to that stuff on the bellbeefer as ground beef? Was it not the same mysterious mix of whatever that they put in
their tacos?
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On a slightly different note, do y'all remember the gas flame fire pit all the original stores had. There was no inside eating back in the day.
Then, the oil embargo hit and bye bye gas flames. Same thing for the "free dry" at the laundromats.
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The guy who used to fly Glen Bell in 'Taco Bell One' is Larry Hahn... who has been flying to Baja since the 1950's. He has great old photos of Bahia
de los Angeles, Punta San Francisquito, Mulege, and Bahia San Luis Gonzaga at his site: http://www.bajadreams.com/flybaja.htm
Got to meet Larry when he flew to Oceanside from Texas for Viva Baja #3.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
On a slightly different note, do y'all remember the gas flame fire pit all the original stores had. There was no inside eating back in the day.
Then, the oil embargo hit and bye bye gas flames. Same thing for the "free dry" at the laundromats. |
Yeah, especially the one in Laguna in the 60s where the hippies would hang out. Bean/cheese burrito was my mainstay in high school there in the 70s.
Stopped at a Taco Bell in King City about seven years ago for old times sake and it was the worst dried up bean burrito I ever ate. Didn't even go to
one in Fort Worth, Texas which is saying something because that area is still lacking in quality Mexican food.
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I still think "Think outside the bun" was one of the best conceived advertising slogans ever, in the face of the ascendancy of the fast food hamburger
in the 60s and 70s.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Mexitron
Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
On a slightly different note, do y'all remember the gas flame fire pit all the original stores had. There was no inside eating back in the day.
Then, the oil embargo hit and bye bye gas flames. Same thing for the "free dry" at the laundromats. |
Yeah, especially the one in Laguna in the 60s where the hippies would hang out. Bean/cheese burrito was my mainstay in high school there .....
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I recall the Laguna Beach Taco Bell as if it was yesterday--the corner of PCH & Cleo Street.
An ocean going transport barge had sunk off Cleo in a winter storm in 1958...A few years later it was a "Lobster Hotel." Great diving during the day
but fantastic during at night.
All was great until the hippies moved into the large building on PCH directly across from Taco Bell. Things would disappear, so during the night
dives we always had a watchman.
One night we were ordering at Taco Bell after a dive and suddenly all hell broke out..Several undercover PD had caught several of the hippies dealing
narcotics and were in the process of cuffing them..by the light of the fire pit..
That had to be in the mid 1960s...
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The Taco Bell Riot in Laguna
Hey Dean,
It was reported in the news as an anti-war protest.
You probably have better information.
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Quote: | Originally posted by Bajahowodd
Once upon a time, way back in the 60's, Jack In The Box was a national chain. My actual introduction to "Mexican" food was at a Jack In The Box on
Long Island. At that time, there were no Mexican Restaurant in the New York area.
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Although this pic was taken in 1961 (note the Corvair) it was the first Jack in the Box, opened in 1951, and was on El Cajon Blvd in San Diego
Bob Durrell
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Hook
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I think that was the Hotel Firenze, if I recall, Dean. Or, at least it became the Hotel Firenze.
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I ate taco's in TJ in 1957, we had a Taco Tio in Hawthorne Ca, where I grew up, that's where we ate.
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