I just saw a report that e-coli bacteria has been traced to a taco hell stand-possibly hundreds sickened. Well, i guess they had it coming-how on earth can you get decnt food for 99 cents 9a taco)? I wonder if TH supplies free stomach pumps with take-out orders?
Wow, great post.
No link.
False information (There are currently 19 people sick, not hundreds).
And blaming the company without having all the facts, even though “an inspection of the restaurant, which was closed voluntarily, did not detect any significant health code violations.”
I’ve eaten 99c food dozens if not hundreds of times and not once gotten sick.
In fact, this thread has made me glad that come Wednesday, I will be able to have sweet, sweet Taco Bell again.
The thing is, Taco Hell does not grow its own lettuce, nor slaughter its own cows (or rats? Not sure what that stuff is). They get most of their food from wholesalers, where the problem may have originated.
The E. coli would have come from the beef supplier, not the restaurant. Granted, the restaurant probably has some culpability, since proper storage, cooking and holding ought to have inhibited the growth of and/or destroyed the bacteria. But the root cause most likely lies in the failure to properly follow procedures at the slaughterhouse and/or the processing plant supplying the beef to the restaurants.
What a truly dumb OP. No linky, a gross exaggeration of the scale of the outbreak, and the completely unsubstantiated suggestion that the outbreak was due to Taco Bell cheapitude.
ralph, you’re as much of an idiot when you aren’t talking politics as when you are. Thanks for giving me the opportunity to Pit you without my having to open a thread to do so.
I pit you too, OP. Are you the one that starts all the ridiculous email rumors?
Taco Bell is disgusting, but (alert! pile-on in progress! pile-on in progress!) that was still a pretty damn stupid OP.
Mmmmm…enchiritos for lunch. Thanks for the suggestion, ralph!
Hey. Hey. You shut the goddamned hell up. You know what? When I was drunk at 3 am and hungry, you know who was there for me? Taco fucking Bell. Not ralph124c. When I needed cheap and semi-delicious food at a ridiculous hour, Taco Bell came through, like a… combat medic of deliciousness or something. How dare you, sir. Can you provide me with 10 tacos for less than 10 dollars at an hour when most people are sleeping? Because Taco Bell sure as hell can. I’m sorry if you like to eat filet of panda garnished with dodo eggs after a few glasses of Cristal, but the rest of us have to make do with limited funds, you bourgeois un-american fuckbag.
Yours in semi-facetiousness,
nameless
Ernie Anastos, Is That You? (Ralph124c, you might consider making a run for the border.)
Most “authentic” Mom & Pop taco stands are far more disgusting than Taco Bell. I’d be willing to bet that the percentage of people who become ill from eating at “real” Mexican restaurants is much, much higher than it is for Taco Bell.
I just popped in to say that I have eaten at that particular Taco Bell many times. Thankfully it has been a while since the last time.
The OP is still idiotic.
If only the tacos were five dollars each – none of this would have happened.
Yep. Several years ago, I ate at a ‘real’ Mexican restaurant, and my stomach let me know the error of my ways for two days afterward. I eat at Taco Hell every so often, and have yet to get ill from their food.
I don’t know. I sort of like Taco Bell every now and then, but it ALWAYS makes me run for the – uh, “border.”
Ten times funnier and Pittier (pithier) than the OP. Bravo. 
“Combat medic of deliciousness?”
Funny, I’ve never experienced that. And I’ve ate at a lot of them. My luck with American cafes OTHOH hasn’t been as good.
Ralph124c, I’m glad you’ve opened this thread about Taco Hole, because now I get to complain about your most irritating habit.
Why, why, why, can’t you find the SHIFT key when you use parenthesis? If I had a nickel for every time you’ve used a 9 or a 0 to open or close parenthesis I’d be able to pay for my subscription.
I can forgive spelling and grammar errors and typos, some people just have a difficult time proofreading their own work, and some people are just plain dyslexic about spelling. But how can you miss seeing a “9” in the middle of a sentence? If you’ve got the time to spend a minute composing a thread, you’ve got the time to take ONE SECOND to glance over your immortal prose and notice glaring errors of this sort.
Just one second. Is that so much to ask?
Taco Hell - noun: where unrepentant tacos go to spend eternity.
Just wanted to thank you, nameless, for your brilliant post - you made my day!