NEVER Goto taco bell again!!

[activemx]

i just read this article on about.com and im so sick and feel like gross thinking about the times ive eaten at taco belll...
NEVER NEVER NEVER!!
I dont even know if i believe it but its soo gross i can never go there again.
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa112598.htm

[Danakona]

Yeah, that's pretty messed up. You are right

[CrazyCarl461]

Since I don't live in Youngstown, Ohio, and because that story is false, I suspect that I will continue to eat and enjoy Taco Bell's reasonably-priced food. If I notice anything suspicious, I'll post here immediately.

[Elgin Clock]

Since I don't live in Youngstown, Ohio, and because that story is false, I suspect that I will continue to eat and enjoy Taco Bell's reasonably-priced food.
I second that!!

[Zzyzx]

To Me, this seems like a Jumbo, AAA Urban Legend...Pure Fantasy.
The first page because of 5 reasons:

1. Constant "friend of a friend" use.
2. The inacuracy of the data (cockroaches CAN NOT infest someones gums)
3. The admitted lack of media attention.
4. The failure of the place to close down even after it was reportedly "discovered".
5. The varried...although simmilar... claims of the same events

For the second page, it gives you seven resons already, which are

1. one or more pregnant roaches landed in a batch of chicken meat and remained there undetected
2. the roach — or, at any rate, her egg capsule (or "ootheca") — survived the standard 140-degree (F.) heat of the steam table
3. the crunchy body of the roach was not seen, tasted or otherwise detected by the customer
4. the small, hard egg capsule was not swallowed intact, but instead ruptured during mastication, spilling out its contents in the customer's mouth
5. the eggs "somehow got into her saliva glands" (?) instead of being swallowed and digested
6. the eggs survived exposure to the digestive enzymes in saliva
7. the customer was one of those fewer than one-in-four people who are allergic to cockroaches.

Given 12 different resons why this is unlikely, I can safely say that this story is a hoax.

[Kevin Karan]

when everything on your menu comes from a caulking gun, your asking for stuff like this to be made up...

[Joe Ross]

I dont even know if i believe it but its soo gross i can never go there again.

Well, that article was written as a joke, so don't beleive it.

http://snopes.com/horrors/food/tacobell.htm

[Ashley Weed]

Actually, I wouldn't pass it all off as jokes. I wouldn't pin it all on Taco Bell either though. A lot of weird things happen in restaurants and fast food joints. I have worked in enough of them to see weird things happen, and have had close relatives work in them to tell about it. I for one don't eat out often at all, you never can quite trust another human being with your food. :(

[Hailfire]

Even though that may seem like a false story, there is something similar to it but actually happened. My dad was telling me that there was this one woman who was sealing envelopes with her tounge as usual, but something you don't know is that since the envelopes are stored in warehouses, you're bound to find insects. It just so happens that there are eggs on the sticky part of the envelope that you lick. So apparently she cut her tongue and in a few days it became swollen. When the hospital opperated on her, one live roach came out of her tounge. So after hearing that, all I do now is run water from the tap to a sponge and seal it that way instead.

[Jessica Boucher]

I've heard of a similar urban legend with that same premise but with a can of soda....which is apparently why you should wipe the tops off of soda cans before you drink.

[Crop-Circles]

I thought this was very funny because I've heard people tell that story. I've heard things like that about all kinds of places, but I still eat there. If you think about it, unless you grow your own food, everything you eat could be infested with something. If you're not going to eat at taco bell because of a story like that, it doesn't make much sense to eat anywhere else. You can be sure someone once told a story about almost everywhere you may want to eat.

[Joe Matt]

Why do people always blame things on us Ohioans? Geeze, they are too busy at Cedar Point to care. :P

As for Taco Bell, I've gone cold turkey with them once Chipotle opened here. :cool:

[ranma_saotome20]

That story is utterly disgusting. Why would anyone want to publisize such a thing if they know it to be false. Unless they wanted to drive business away from Taco Bell, then it was utterly pointless. But I don't eat out much anymore anyways. I have about maybe 4 places I go, and all of them I hardly visit anymore. So whatever. I hope the person that wrote this article had a good laugh. I know I did!:D

[Jeff Rodriguez]

How would a dentist know that they were cockroach eggs?

How does Zzyzx know that cockraoches are crunchy? ;)

[Adam Y.]

I did something really stupid on easter. I asked a mechanical engineer,"Do they really fire chickens out of a giant air cannon to test airplanes?" Aparently, they do fire them to test the windsheilds and engines.
Odd things do happen like the cockroaches. I was watching my local news station and they had a man that had a sealed bottle of Tropicanna juice. A dead snake was floating within it. An odd site indeed.

[Jeff Rodriguez]

I did something really stupid on easter. I asked a mechanical engineer,"Do they really fire chickens out of a giant air cannon to test airplanes?" Aparently, they do fire them to test the windsheilds and engines.
Odd things do happen like the cockroaches. I was watching my local news station and they had a man that had a sealed bottle of Tropicanna juice. A dead snake was floating within it. An odd site indeed.

I bet if he went to tropicana with it, they would give him alot of something (juice or money). My 5th grade teacher told us once that he found a piece of hay in a sealed bottle of coke when he was a kid, in the 60s, and they sent him three cases of free coke.

[Adam Y.]

I bet if he went to tropicana with it, they would give him alot of something (juice or money). My 5th grade teacher told us once that he found a piece of hay in a sealed bottle of coke when he was a kid, in the 60s, and they sent him three cases of free coke.
In all honesty I would prefer he send it to the FDA like he said it would.:)

[Greg Ross]

Even though that may seem like a false story, there is something similar to it but actually happened (http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa040300b.htm). My dad was telling me that there was this one woman who was sealing envelopes with her tounge as usual, but something you don't know is that since the envelopes are stored in warehouses, you're bound to find insects. It just so happens that there are eggs on the sticky part of the envelope that you lick. So apparently she cut her tongue and in a few days it became swollen. When the hospital opperated on her, one live roach came out of her tounge. So after hearing that, all I do now is run water from the tap to a sponge and seal it that way instead.
Wow! Your dad actually knows this woman? ;)

[IMDWalrus]

Actually, the average Taco Bell is cleaner than most other restaurants, according to Dateline (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3473728/)...

I don't worry too much about it - I haven't gotten sick yet, and I'll only need to worry once I do.

[JakeGallagher]

My friend works at Taco Bell!

Wait...she was telling me about the restaurant's pet rat, Nibbles... /me shivers

Good thing I don't like much Mexican, eh?

[c-squared_2006]

Wow, why don't we just avoid all fast food joints? Like there's something wrong with every single one of them.

[Elgin Clock]

I was watching my local news station and they had a man that had a sealed bottle of Tropicanna juice. A dead snake was floating within it. An odd site indeed.
Anyone remember a few years back when people were mysteriously "discovering" syringes and needles in coke cans???

Yeah, sounds like people are just more than happy to do whatever it takes to:
A: Become known somehow
B: Get free products - like the hay in the coke cans
C: Sue a large company on an potentially unprovable issue

The stupidity of the human race as a whole never ceases to amaze me!

[Adam Y.]

Yeah, sounds like people are just more than happy to do whatever it takes to:
A: Become known somehow
B: Get free products - like the hay in the coke cans
C: Sue a large company on an potentially unprovable issue
Do you really think the news company would be stupid enough to report it if it was not true. I mean come on its almost impossible to get anything into a container without unsealing it. Also, I forgot to add this but it was not a regular orange juice container. It was plastic juice container that you could see the snake from without opening anything up. Sorry I have a tendancy to confuse people. I would understand why someone would not understand the story now and I wouldnt even believe it except for the fact that I saw it.:)

[Zzyzx]

How does Zzyzx know that cockraoches are crunchy? ;)

Trust me, I know.

[Kiwi_queen]

http://www.ciw-online.org/tz_site-revision/home/home.html

[Katie Reynolds]

Even though that may seem like a false story, there is something similar to it but actually happened. My dad was telling me that there was this one woman who was sealing envelopes with her tounge as usual, but something you don't know is that since the envelopes are stored in warehouses, you're bound to find insects. It just so happens that there are eggs on the sticky part of the envelope that you lick. So apparently she cut her tongue and in a few days it became swollen. When the hospital opperated on her, one live roach came out of her tounge. So after hearing that, all I do now is run water from the tap to a sponge and seal it that way instead.

Taken From: here (http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/weekly/aa040300a.htm).

"Unfortunately, not enough people paid heed, as evidenced by the following incident reported to me by a reader in January:

I have a coworker who states that his wife (who is a nurse) witnessed a situation involving someone who licked an envelope and then "hatched" a cockroach from her tongue. Supposedly while licking an egg-infested glue strip on an envelope, she got a paper cut. This then got "infected" but when she went to the hospital to have it examined, the doctor made an incision to release the pus and a roach crawled out.

"True story? Don't bet on it. The two accounts you've just read, the first set in Virginia and the second in California, arrived in my inbox five days apart. They are variants of the same urban legend.

"There are plenty of reasons to disbelieve. For one, cockroaches don't lay eggs in the manner implied by the story. A pregnant roach carries her eggs in a hard capsule called an ootheca, in which they incubate intact until they're ready to hatch. Outside the ootheca the eggs can't survive at all, let alone flourish within a human body. You wouldn't find cockroach eggs strewn about or deposited on envelopes."

;)

[Zzyzx]

Urban Legands are ment to scare people (usually uninformed people) into beliving an event occured that made a certain product or action unsafe. They are written in such a way that they make people want to belive them, not nessisarily in a logistical, and unbiased manner. These stories are false, now go back to Toco Bell and think about next year's competition.