None of the obits I've found so far on Irvine-based Taco Bell founder Glen Bell are really worthy of reposting at this point, although the day is young and it is MLK Day. My thoughts on this fast-food pioneer will appear in next week's edition of This Hole-in-the-Wall Life. In the meanwhile, here's the official press release, his biography, Taco Titan: The Glen Bell Story, and this:
Any time I go to a Mexican fast food place I see Mexican people there eating and enjoying the food. The mere fact that you eat at one place doesn't prove it's the only place you eat at or that you think it's the best representation of a certain type of ethnic food. It might just be what works for you for that particular meal.
So on Sunday
[the day Mr. Bell passed]
at around 3:00, it started raining as I made a quick stop at the OCC Recycling Center on Adams. Approaching Fairview, I got caught up in a traffic jam of shoppers who must have been beating a path out of the Swap Meet when the skies opened up.
What was funny was on Fairview, a chica-piloted car had stalled and was being pushed off the road by 4 presumably Mexican men...into the parking lot of Taco Bell.
If you think about it, for them, that must've been a double-diss.....
@Diamond Dog : Probably the same reason why white trash does, because they are too lazy.
JB: You are hilarious, well done!
Gustavo: That was a great Mexican question. I always wondered if Mexican people thought Taco Bell Tacos are versions of tacos or do they think its some other sort of food all together that they just call a "taco" when they are in that restaurant? Are there any places in Mexico that have that crunchy yellow shell that are not Taco Bell? Finally, why do Mexican women leave their dirty diapers from their babies in the parking lot of Taco Bells?
Baba: Haven't in a while, but will do so soon for a story. Why?
Hey, Mexican?
How often to you eat at Taco Bell, Gustavo?
baba
Did anyone here ever eat a wienerschnitzel from there?
No?
Why?
Because they don't sell them there.
JB: You are right on Wienerschnitzel. AND one of his Taco Bell employees founded Del Taco. One can ridicule the food all they want, but his influence was enormous...
Seriously, I think I once read that Mr. Bell also founded Wienerschnitzel. If true, not a bad life, despite the questionable quality of both eateries......
First the Taco Bell chihuahua died, last summer, and now this......
.....they say death comes in bunches.....