Pat Imig posted on August 06, 2012 09:36
A couple of things about the new Cantina Bowl. I still need to try it. I also get the urge to go to Chipotle when I see the commercial. Then I realize neither Taco Bell nor Chipotle is anywhere near as good as El Rancho in Columbia, (few things are). At that point, I am interrupted by the realization that Chef Lorena Garcia is the Alberto Del Rio of Taco Bell. She needs to begin yelling at the voiceover guy on the commercial until he submits to become her personal ring announcer.
Regardless of her vicious and demanding prodding, Chef Garcia has joined notable company in our society's circle of pop culture as being a spokesperson for Taco Bell. She joins people such Little Richard ...
She also joins the guy in the 1979 letterman's jacket ...
Charles Barkley ...
And of course the Taco Bell Chihuahua ...
Then there's the guy who looked like Sherman Helmsley and Cheech Marin put together ...
And how about the prototypical 80's slow-eater?
And Shaq, Hakeem the Dream and Spike Lee. (The nacho cheese double decker taco still looks good for being 17 years old).
And Raiders Tight End Todd Christiansen!
And detained terror suspect Brian Wilson!
And the openly gay man who gets aroused by the Patrick Swayze look alike at the 0:11 second mark ...
How about the quartet of singers who were the Wiggles before the Wiggles. (Consider me one of the people who had no idea Bel Biv Devoe had their own collector cup at Taco Bell).
This next one is Taco Bell's answer to the era of Billy Ocean and Phil Collins. How'd we get here?
Eating a fire grilled burrito with Carmen Electra? Sure; let's do it.
I want to meet the ad team who came up with the concept of a jingle-singing Giant hanging out with a normal sized couple at a Taco Bell located in an isolated part of the Grand Canyon. If Gulliver's Travels was a fast food musical, this is the evidence ...
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