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The End is Nigh: Taco Bell Introduces Waffle Taco in Orange County

Coming on the heels of the wild success of the Doritos Tacos Locos, it seems that Taco Bell has decided to just let the stoners completely take over the menu development side of their business, because Brand Eating is reporting that Taco Bell is testing a taco made from a waffle. And -- lucky us -- ... More >>

Top 5 Snacks to Emerge After the New Taco Bell Doritos Loco Taco

Last year's unleashing of the Doritos Locos Nacho Cheese beef taco was Taco Bell's biggest product launch ever, shaking the earth and forever changing what we mere mortals thought was possible in the fast food game. Turns out, Taco Bell may even win an award for their culinary black magic. Now, wi ... More >>

Taco Bell Benches Anti-Veggie Super Bowl Ad

If you were planning to bring a veggie platter to a Super Bowl party this Sunday, maybe raise your hands and yell, "Score!" Right. Team Taco Bell dropped the ball this week, when their trash-talking anti-vegetable TV commercial was blocked by an aggressive Twitter campaign by irate people from Tea ... More >>

Doritos Cool Ranch Tacos Locos: They're A-Comin'

Doritos Tacos Locos weren't just a good idea for Taco Bell, they basically saved the company. OK, maybe that's a bit of an exaggeration, but it made Taco Bell kick ass last year when sales had been declining in previous years.

Researchers Paying People to Get Fat on Junk Food

Raise your hand if you'd like to be paid to eat junk food every day. In a study that is proving popular with participants, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis are paying people to eat an extra 1,000-calorie fast food meal every day for three months, ABC News reports ... More >>

Top 6 Fast Food Items We're Guessing Michelle Obama Would Ask You To Avoid

The USDA recommends adults consume between 1,200 and 2,000 calories and no more than 2,400 milligrams of sodium on the daily, but based on fast food chain offerings, said establishments tend to disregard the USDA's suggestions. Instead, fast food vendors capitalize on the country's food culture by i ... More >>

Taco Bell Introduces Mountain Dew Cocktail The Death of Mixology

After surviving the Doritos Taco Loco and the Beefy Nacho Burrito -- billed a plate of chili cheese nachos rolled into a flour tortilla -- we figured that the indigestion engineers at Taco Bell would have a hard time outdoing themselves. It turns out we very, very wrong. Taco Bell recently introduc ... More >>

Doritos Locos Tacos: A Visit to the Taco Bell HQ Test Kitchens Doritos Existentialism

Since our first story on Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco, Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Tacos Taste Like Broken Dreams, we've received an abundance of new information courtesy of the friendly people at Taco Bell Corporate. We were invited to the new Taco Bell HQ in Irvine to re-sample the Doritos Locos T ... More >>

Taco Bell's Doritos Locos Taco vs. A Crunchy Taco and a Bag of Doritos

"Consumers said that's more than just interesting, it's like 'where have you been my whole life,'" Taco Bell's Chief Marketing and Innovation Officer Brian Niccol told Forbes recently, about the public's reaction to the Doritos Locos Taco. This taco concoction is exactly what you might think it is: ... More >>

Our Tacos, Ourselves: How Southern California Reinvented the Taco

How Southern California discovered, gave birth to, reinvented and loved the taco for more than a century

The Unhappiness Index: McDonald's Customers are Least Happy with Their Health Other Uncomfortable Insights Into Fast Food Choices

Apparently, one can guess whether you are happy or unhappy with your health based on your decision to have chicken nuggets from Chick-fil-A rather than from McDonald's. That is, according to the BIGinsight™ Monthly Consumer Survey, which ranked the happiness level of certain fast food customers o ... More >>

Marijuana-Like Compound in Your Brain Could be Magic Pill For Weight Loss: But Don't Reach For The Doritos Just Yet

Oh boy. You stoners are going to love this one. Turns out the key to weight loss might be a marijuana-like chemical that already exists in your brain. While there are skinny weed advocates out there like Seth Rogen (after) and James Franco, consider all the Taco Bell you ate in the name of bud or t ... More >>

Taco Bell Implicated in 10-State Salmonella Outbreak

When there was a multistate outbreak of Salmonella enteritidis in October, the Centers for Disease Control would identify the culprit only as "Mexican-style, fast-food Restaurant Chain A." Turns out, that's longhand for Taco Bell. At the time, the CDC refused to name the restaurant chain, saying the ... More >>

Top 10 Food-Related Lawsuits of 2011

Taco BellTaco Bell gives thanks for being sued over the contents of its meat​A look at this year through the lens of the food-related lawsuits is like watching the first season of The Killing: an exercise in frustration, bewilderment, and, occasionally, excitement. From the mother who sued N ... More >>

Yelping With Cormac: The Author of Blood Meridian Reviews Taco Bell

Yelping with Cormac​At its best, Yelp help can help you find a lunch that won't ruin your day.  At its worse, the website is, if not a petri dish for extortion, a willful enabler of bad, whiney writers.  The first big problem is, according to a judge, no longer up for debate, but the second ... More >>

Drunk Florida Man Tries to Use Taco as I.D.

Ground beef is not a valid form of identification. Not in Martin County, not in Los Angeles, not anywhere. A Florida man learned this the hard way, when he handed a taco to police officers who asked for his I.D. This was after he had passed out in his car. While sitting in the drive-through lane o ... More >>

Infographic: How Hot Is Fast Casual Dining?

Flickr/stevendamron​You might think of fast casual dining spots such as Panera or Jason's Deli as places to go whenever you're feeling a little classier than Wendy's or Taco Bell, but the folks of FastCasual.com want you to know the fast casual segment is the fastest (and most casual?) growing ... More >>

5 Weird Halloween Food Costumes

Halloween is only a few weeks away, meaning it's time to dry clean the old banana outfit or turn your bed sheet into a convincing ghost-like ensemble. But if those ideas are too easy or out-dated, check out these 5 Weird Halloween Food Costumes sure to make mouths water, or maybe just weird people o ... More >>

Top 5 Westwood Dishes UCLA Grads Will Miss

Flickr/Kyle StricklandIn-N-Out Double-Double​ With the mass exodus of thousands of UCLA graduates from their picturesque Westwood neighborhood -- picturesque if you've always envisioned a neighborhood where you'd search 30 minutes for a parking space before giving up, or if you've dreamed all ... More >>

Taco Bell Drive-Thru Robbery Claims Life of Joshua Michael Huizar, 20-Year-Old Southern Californian

Google MapsA young man was killed at this Taco Bell drive-thru.​Updated after the jump: Police say they have their man. There's a fast food killer on the loose in Southern California, and cops say he might have hit eight restaurants and convenience stores in the Inland Empire. The latest cri ... More >>

Marijuana Bust-Alert iPhone App Prank in L.A.'s '420 Times' Dupes San Diego Columnist Tom Blair: There's Not an App For That

420 TimesActually there's not an app for that.​It appears San Diego Union-Tribune columnist Tom Blair was duped by an April Fool's joke in L.A.'s own marijuana magazine the 420 Times. In a Monday column titled "What are these people smoking?" the journo blasts the Times for rolling out its "D ... More >>

What's in The Beef: Taco Bell President Gives Away "Secret Ingredients" On Video Amid Lawsuit

Screenshot of Taco Bell gorditas ​ There's only so much thinking "outside the bun" you can do before wondering what's inside the burrito. That may have been the thought-process of California resident Amanda Obney before she filed a lawsuit against Taco Bell for false advertising. The class ac ... More >>

Super Bowl XLV: The V Best Least Annoying Food Commercials

Guzzle & NoshSuper Bowl XLV as seen on television.​ Whether it was the angry Ewoks of middle earth sharing a Coke with a fire-breathing dragon or Adrien Brody crooning to bar full of weepy women (nice to see him finally bouncing back from that Oscar win), this year's bunch of Super Bowl spots ... More >>

Taco Bell Beefs Up Response to Meat Lawsuit

Malcolm Bedell/FromAwayExactly what is in that Taco Bell Crunchy Beef burrito?​ Taco Bell President Greg Creed told USA Today late Friday that his company is "retaining outside counsel" and is seriously considering a countersuit again the recent lawsuit that charges that his company's taco fil ... More >>

Taco Bell: In a Beef Over Beef

Lee Bennett/Flickr​ California resident Amanda Obney visited a local Taco Bell and bought herself a snack. We imagine that she ordered a brace of tacos, and upon contemplating her purchase--wee brown crumbles cupped in crunchy shells, topped with vivid orange shreds, watery lettuce, and the k ... More >>

Das Racist: Are They Laughing with Us or at Us? (Exclusive Interview)

Now you're hungry. Or grossed out. ​Das Racist might be genius. Or a big joke. Or maybe both. "We're not joking, just joking-we are joking, just joking- we're not joking," they intone dully on "hahahaha jk?," the funniest track from last September's very funny mixtape Sit Down, Man. But it's p ... More >>

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Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs & Beyond

-- Jamie Oliver turned down by L.A. school district. [Daily Dish] -- Grass Fed-Up. Or, a rant against foodies. (Hilarious.) [The New York Times] -- The Safe Drivers' Guide to Cupcake Calculation. [Alice Medrich] -- Do all cookbooks need photos? A poll. [MattBites] -- Justin Timberlake opens his ... More >>

Sex, Death and Pragmatism

Bill Plympton's DIY cartoon cottage industry

Happy National Taco Day 5 Very Fine Tacos

Anne FishbeinArturo's puffy tacos​ Is it National Taco Day today? We regret to inform you, it is. There are e-cards for it and everything. At Del Taco, National Taco Day is probably as holy as the Feast of the Epiphany, but with more tacos. At Taco Bell - expect funny hats and line dancing. I ... More >>

First/Last Bite: Taco Bell's New "Authentic-Style" Mexican Street Tacos

N. Galuten(Left to right) Carnitas, Carne Asada, and Flame-Grilled Chicken Cantina Tacos from Taco Bell​ Sometimes you get what you pay for, and sometimes $1.49 is a total rip-off. When we heard that Taco Bell was launching their "authentic-style" Cantina Taco, we were struck with a masochist ... More >>

The Tower of Torta: ampm's Secret Menu

Willy BlackmoreAdvertising ampm's Secret Menu​ We're used to finding our Mexican food in less-than-normal places: sold out of grocery carts, cooked in fly-by-night outdoor kitchens, served out of bicycle-mounted freezers. But the lexicon of this cuisine--tamales, huaraches, sopes, paletas, ra ... More >>

Melancholy 3-D Ninja Kid Mopes Hard in New Daedelus Video

Melancholy 3-D Ninja Kid Mopes Hard in New Daedelus Video

Short Attention Span Dinner Theater: Your Week in Food, 4/19-4/23

In which we highlight the past week in food, either at home or abroad. "Is this a cry for help? Very well, it is a cry for help."

Top 10 Food-Related Onion Headlines

The Onion, for those that don't know, is a satirical newspaper reporting fake stories on a wide range of worldly topics -- and often the best part about reading those stories is the headlines. In fact, it's precisely why following them on Twitter is so much fun ("Online University Cracks Down On Row ... More >>

LA Weekly Flickr Pool Reader Photo of the Day: Fast Food Silhouette

This LA Weekly Flickr pool photo, of the silhouette of Bob's Big Boy in Downey, comes to you courtesy of photographer Chris Saulit. Would that all fast food icons were photographed against the backdrop of a California sunset. Our strip mall horizon can be downright beautiful. Imagine what Lotte Rein ... More >>

Web Surfing: A Roundup of Posts from L.A. Food Blogs and Newsletters

-- Just can't take any more of Bret Favre? (Okay, wishful thinking.) Where to go to Avoid The Superbowl. [Grub Street] -- Food blogging from Taipei. [Potatomato] -- A goat terrorizes a gentleman's club. (Your old goat joke here ______.) [Eater LA] -- Brain to penis dining with Sinosoul ("yes, I a ... More >>

Taco Franchise Says R.I.P. To Mr. Bell

​The founder of Taco Bell passed away over the weekend, and stomachs across the land were upset over the news. Glen W. Bell, Jr., 86, died Sunday night at his home in the exclusive San Diego County enclave of Rancho Santa Fe, the Irvine company announced. He joins the chain's chihuahua mascot ... More >>

Taco Bell And The LAPD Go Way Back

​After we posted today about the death of Taco Bell founder Glen W. Bell, whose first franchise went to a Los Angeles police officer in 1964, we heard from sources who indicated that there are deep roots between the company and Los Angeles Police Department cops. In fact, we're told, about fi ... More >>

Eat Like a Caveman, Party Like a Rock Star

Like many of you who pushed away from the Christmas goose a little too late in the game, I have become obsessed with the feel-bad journalism that rolls around at this time every January, a roll call of groats, capon broth and certain death that is as dependable as a Lakers road loss to the Portland ... More >>

Fool's Gold & Mariah Carey - Love at First Screech (MP3)

​A handful of remixes of the Fool's Gold single "Surprise Hotel" have surfaced over the past couple of months, but so far none have managed to meet that track's funky soulfulness eye-to-eye. Well, leave it to Wallpaper, the Teddy Riley-loving beatsmith behind the viral megahit "Combination Piz ... More >>

Awesome or Awful? The Battle of Milkquarious

Awesome or Awful: The Battle of Milkquarious

Don't Mix Tequila With Irish Stout

The Death of Gidget the Chihuahua: Taco Bell Dog Felled By Stroke

Taco Bell/APAdios, GidgetAssociated Press reports that Gidget, the chihuahua that fronted an immensely popular series of Taco Bell TV ads, has died of a massive stroke, according to her handlers. She was 15. Although decried by some Latino groups for perpetuating cultural stereotypes, Gidget's cha ... More >>

Muy Caliente Summer Edition

The Mermaid & Sportsmen's Lodge Remembered

Two more vintage nightlife venues that helped define Southern California's quirkiness have closed or face possible extinction. L.A. Daily asked some longtime locals for their thoughts about Hermosa Beach's Mermaid bar and restaurant (whose lot is for sale), and Studio City's shuttered Sportsmen's Lo ... More >>

The Six Dollar Man

Give Us Liberty or At Least Give Us Dinner

Edited by Kateri Butler

Ask Mr. Gold

Talking Pictures

A view from the Writers Guild conference