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People who write for the internet will make a list out of anything. That said, I wish I had thought of this one first! It appears that tacos make people go crazy and commit crimes. They throw tacos, get in fights over tacos, complain about tacos, steal tacos, and smuggle things in tacos. Buzzfeed has thirty, count ‘em, 30 examples. Link
A man passed out in the drive-through lane at a Taco Bell in Jensen Beach, Florida. When police arrived and asked for ID, the suspect pulled a taco out of his pocket and offered it to the officer:
A deputy awoke Falkner and then asked for his ID. Falkner said no before reaching into his bag and presenting the officer with a taco. Another deputy clarified they were asking for an ID, not a taco. Falkner chuckled and began eating the taco.
The suspect is just ahead of his time. In the future, a Taco Bell taco will carry weight in society.
Link -via Dave Barry | Photo (unrelated) via Flickr user LindsayT….
Laura LeClair Kelley made this cake for her son’s 12th birthday. The ingredients are all sweet stuff! Read how it was done at Foodbeast. Link -via Buzzfeed
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Someone has got a beef with Taco Bell. A woman recently filed a lawsuit claiming that the fast food chain’s beef taco contain so little meat that it can’t be legally called "beef."
Attorney Dee Miles said attorneys had Taco Bell’s "meat mixture" tested and found it contained less that 35 percent beef.
The lawsuit on behalf of Taco Bell customer and California resident Amanda Obney does not seek monetary damages, but asks the court to order Taco Bell to be honest in its advertising.
"We are asking that they stop saying that they are selling beef," Miles said. [...]
The lawsuit says that Taco Bell’s "seasoned beef" contains other ingredients, including water, wheat oats, soy lecithin, maltodrextrin, anti-dusting agent and modified corn starch.
Link – via The Daily Dish | Taco Bell defends its beef and plans a counterbeef suit.
A restaurant in Tuscon, Arizona, plans to sell tacos made with lion meat starting in February:
Boca Tacos y Tequila says it’s accepting prepaid orders for African lion tacos, to be served starting Feb. 16. Orders must be placed by Feb. 7 and owner Bryan Mazon says there are already a few reservations from curious customers.
Mazon says his restaurant started offering exotic tacos on its menu every Wednesday about six months ago and has tried “just about anything we can get our hands on.”
According to the Food and Drug Administration, lion and other game meat can be sold as long as the species isn’t endangered.
The lion tacos will be sold for $8.95 each.
Link via Ace of Spades HQ | Photo by Flickr user Smudge 9000 used under Creative Commons license
The next time you munch on a taco, ponder this: Where does it come from? (And "the kitchen" or "Taco Bell" instantly pop up in your thoughts, stop reading here).
Landscape architect David Fletcher teamed up with art studio REBAR and students from the California College of the Arts in San Francisco to "explore the ingredients of your local taco, from pinto beans to the aluminum foil it all comes wrapped in."
BLDGBLOG explains:
Our premise was that a seemingly simple, familiar food like the taco truck taco could provide visceral insight into the connections between the systems we were exploring [in our studio's investigation of the city]. By thoroughly learning the process of formation and lifecycle for what it takes to make a taco, we would be better able to propose and design a speculative model of a holistic and sustainable urban future. What resulted was a richly complex network of systems, flows and ecologies that we call the global Tacoshed.
While the jury’s still out on whether playing video games lead to violence, one thing is clear: some people deserve to have their video games taken away from them. Here’s the story of one 19-year-old teen who attacked his mom with a taco when she unplugged his Xbox:
Dena Moir, 54, told deputy sheriffs she called her 19-year-old son Zachary several times to come downstairs for dinner Tuesday. When he didn’t respond, she went upstairs and unplugged his Xbox. She told deputies her son pushed her, called her names and ordered her out of his room.
The woman said she was cleaning the kitchen when her son came down to eat and that she pushed him to the side because he was in her way. At that point, deputies said, the man smacked his mother on the left arm, called her more offensive names and threw his taco in her face.
"I don’t think he believed I’ll call," the woman told a 911 dispatcher when she called the Sheriff’s Office. "He’s done this plenty of times before and I’ve never called."
The unruly teen is now in jail: Link – via Arbroath | Side discussion: Do video games cause violent behavior?
(Photo: Volusia County Sheriff’s Office)
