Mad World

I would have 2 if I could. More dogs too. And maybe a highland cow, miniature donkey..some goats.

Maybe some day.

"I don't know what happened but the food changed somewhere around 19xx"

Gather 'round, children, I will tell you a tale.

From 1988 to 1991 I worked at Taco Bell and was a front-line witness to it's demise.

When I first started there, I would show up around 7am and would take heads of real lettuce and run them through the shredder.

A giant block of real cheddar cheese was next quartered up and shredded.

Real Sour cream was taken out of a giant food service bin and loaded into the cylinders for the sour cream gun.

Real tomatoes were diced, real green onions were sliced. Red sauce was water mixed with seasonings.

Beans were real, made with lard in the pressure cooker.

Grade A Beef was real and cooked in big pans by real people.

Every taco shell was fried on site, every nacho chip, every pizza layer, taco salad bowl, etc.

Steak came in trays and was pre-scored and marinated and was real Beef. Chicken came the same way.


The 49 cent taco was introduced and soon everything went to hell...

Beef started coming pre-cooked in bags you warmed up by placing in a hot bath. No longer beef, totally but oatmeal/beef/soy concoction.

Beans became some freeze-dried noodle looking thing you had to reconstitute in boiling water.

Real sour cream was replaced by reduced fat (fake) Sour cream.

Cheese was replaced with reduced fat (fake) cheese that came already shredded (with aluminum to keep separated)

Green onions and black olives went away entirely

Lettuce and tomatoes now pre cut in bags with preservatives.

All shells pre-fried. Just put'em under the heat lamp to revive them.

Steak and Chicken replaced with blocks of particle meat more akin to dog food than any actual product. By the time I went into the Army Taco Bell had been destroyed by greed and penny pinching under the new owners, Yummy Brands.

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You can still get the old-school Taco Bell treatment from Del Taco, though their seasonings and sauces just aren't as good as Taco Bell's used to be.

Everything you love will be ruined in your lifetime.

Taco Bell was ruined when PepsiCo bought them back in the 90's. They bought up KFC, taco Bell, pizza hut all so they could get Pepsi cola into fast food. Up until then they all served coca cola.

not at all! chinese medical reports pointed to wuhan as cluster hotspot for abnormal health conditions for years. it only takes one jump over a line for a lethal mutation to grab a foothold. tptb failed to recognize an outverted fibonanci contagion growth potential, despite the medical warnings. lol

This is where 'the fear' is going to grab everyone around the throat.


What are customs?

Kissing is one..kissing acquaintances, kissing relatives, kissing partners, kissing babies.

Shaking hands..is another.