Yeah, I understand needing to recoup research expenses, but contrary to what the consulting folks might say, trying to do that by making the product too expensive for practical use is unlikely to be a winning move.

The company also notes that “unlike the annual monocrops used to make most vegetable oils, sugarcane is a perennial crop – meaning harvesting sugarcane is like mowing the lawn instead of ripping a plant out of the soil every year.”

Agreed. The question is why isn’t the Sausage McMuffin with egg the standard when it’s 1000x better. 

They need to go back to basics, lose the giant custom menu and light sour cream filler and nacho strips, and just sell tacos, burritos and nachos. Remember when Quiznos was desperate to beat $5 Subway footlongs, so they came out with all these smaller, cheaper sandwich options that were just ways to give you less and…

On the one hand yes, to expect the product to look like the advert out of the wrapper is a bridge too far.

Then maybe that’s okay.

They should be required, by law, to accurately depict a reasonable facsimile of the product that you will receive if all corporate training materials are followed. Food styling should not be allowed to add to or subtract from, the ingredients used, and only use substitutes for strictly technical purposes.

Compare a crunchwrap that you actually get to the advertising photo of one. They’re not even in the same universe. There is, quite literally, no way that food styling alone can accomplish that difference.

Frankly the court should test them. Randomly select a fully trained Taco Bell line worker, give them all the…

While people will jump on “That’s how it always has been...” should there be a limit on how different they can be from the marketing images? Like if you bought a new car and it had mismatched doors, assembly issues, etc. you would probably go after the dealer/company too. 

Drive-thrus are one of the best things God ever created.

As an east coast transplant to the flat cold upper mid west, I HATE SQUARE CUT PIZZA WITH AND UNDYING PASSIONATE RAGE THAT I WILL HAVE AND YELL ABOUT UNTIL I AM COLD IN THE GROUND!!!!!!!!!!

It is extremely common in Chicago. I’ve had them in Illinois, Indiana, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. Also Missouri, but that’s “St Louis Style” which is the only bad style of pizza. “Quad Cities Style” cuts it in strips with a scissors and that would include Iowa.

Another description of them:

“Nut squeezin’s”

Nut Juice. 

As Lewis Black noted, “there is no soy milk because there are no soy titties for it to come out of.”

The best thing that could come out of this is would be that all milks are required to be labeled by source - cow’s milk, oat milk, sheep’s milk, etc. - so we can be fucking done with it. 

That this trademark battle was just a Taco Bell marketing ploy to begin with?

Tiny shits? Some Taco Bell will rectify your situation up right quick.

How long until we find out that Yum Brands has purchased or will purchase Taco John’s, and this is all just marketing smoke?