Discussion
Ode to Taco Bell, by Éros Brousson:
“For years I thought that Taco Bell was a fictional restaurant in video game like GTA, a place that only existed between a strip club, a gun store, and a man in a Hawaiian shirt committing a felony.
“Then I landed in Miami and there it was: between a strip club, a gun store, and a man in a Hawaiian shirt committing a felony. The purple bell glowing in the dark like a church for people whose evening has gone horribly wrong”
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Taco Bell Ode, cont. (3/?)
“I asked for the cheese taco thing and the cashier looked at me like I had walked into NASA and asked for the space button.
“Taco Bell doesn’t have a menu. It has a witness protection program for tortillas. Every item is tortilla, meat, cheese, more cheese, and a sauce named after a cologne sold next to vape pens”
Taco Bell Ode, cont. (4/?)
“If your night ends at Taco Bell, do not judge yourself. Taco Bell is not the bad decision, it’s where all the bad decisions meet afterward to exchange insurance information
Taco Bell Ode, cont. (5/5)
“Nobody chooses Taco Bell, Taco Bell chooses you. It’s not Mexican food, it’s American technology inspired by a rumor about Mexico. It’s what happens when a tortilla gets a marketing degree, moves to Las Vegas, and stop speaking to its family
“And somehow at 2:00 AM it tastes like forgiveness wrapped in industrial cheese”
- Éros Brousson
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Taco Bell Ode, cont. (2/?)
“And I walked in and looked at the menu. Why does every item sound like a medieval prince who inherited a gas station? You cannot just order a taco, you need a ‘Nacho Cheese Doritos Locos Taco Supreme.’ That’s not food. That’s a full legal name of a child whose father owned a boat.”