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/librar...y/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]

Originally Posted by 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.

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]

Originally Posted by activemx

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.

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

[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!

[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.