Taco Bell founder Glen W. Bell Jr. has died at 86.
I’d like to say something nice about Taco Bell, but I always confuse it with Del Taco. I remember when the logo used to be a sleeping man in a sombrero and serape.
I love Taco Bell. I shall eat there today in his memory.
Will he be buried on a bed of shredded lettuce?
Yes, and the family has paid extra to get chopped tomatoes and sour cream.
I don’t eat at TB very often; and when I do, I remember why I don’t.
Still, everyone once in a while I crave that reminder.
See? That shit’ll kill you.
first the taco bell dog last year… now the founder… who will the taco bell toll for next?
in food related news, the creator of spagetti-o’s passed away earlier this month. he was just a tad younger than mr bell.
I guess the pressures of dual citizenship finally did him in.
The obituary in the New York Times suggests that he invented the crispy taco shell. Is that correct? Did crispy taco shells not exist before him?
Ahh, a paen to Taco Bell. The most authentic Mexican food that you could get in most of the United States up until the past decade.
The Wikipedia article on Tacos says a recipe for a hard, U-shaped taco shell was in a 1949 cookbook. Taco Bell first started in 1962. (Yes, there are cites for both.) Taco Bell may have help popularize it.
It’s too rainy to go out to TB tonight, but I’ll douse my TJ’s chicken enchiladas with a few packets of Border Hot Sauce in his honor.
I think I have a copy of that! Quick and Easy Recipes for Postwar Malaise, by Billie Holiday. Published to celebrate the birth of Patrick Duffy.
My after-school job in high school was at a Taco Bell. It was an interesting job as fast food goes. Probably the location, right next to a sex phone line hub where they sold “supplements” and gently pre-owned vehicles.
It’s always been one of my favorite fast food places to eat. RIP Mr. Bell.
Oh wow I just realized his last name was Bell. Taco…Bell.
He did live to be 86, so it looks like all those tacos prolonged his life substantially.
RIP Mr. Bell. If I weren’t now diabetic, I’d eat there more often.
insert tasteless joke about Taco Bell meat here
Yeah, I had a backup joke about embalming. Please, don’t make me use it.
Funeral services will be held Thursday, January 21,
at 7:00 p.m., at the Taco Bell located at
1502 Encinitas Blvd., where Mr. Bell, Jr. will be finely
ground and expelled through a canister into a warm tortilla,
followed by a brief reception for family and friends.
And I thought Sweeny Todd was gross.
Anyways, I love Taco Bell. I still think they came up with some formula to make it where you cannot get full on their food. It may not taste like Mexican or Tex-Mex food at all, but it is just dad-blasted addicting.