Posted on 05/23/2024 10:28:25 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
The strange saga of the Taco Bell art heist.
It all began in 2015 in Westlake, Ohio, when a burglar ran off with one of his pieces and disappeared, stumping local police
Though Taco Bell purchased the originals for their corporate offices in 2003, he explained, the prints have scattered like seeds in the underground art market, where they’re now listed for sale for as much as $10,000 apiece.
Unsurprisingly, it seems like employees are in on it.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
AND, IF YOU’RE LUCKY, your taco will actually have meat in it.
I worked for a corporation that spent a load of money on crappy art not too long before they sold at to a giant
Well Taco Bell did win the Franchise Wars.
If you’re lucky, your taco will digest down to solid matter. If you’re not lucky, it will come out in other phases ...
My son worked for a horribly managed company that had a whole bunch of those stupid motivational poster framed on their walls.
When they were going bankrupt just before Christmas he was one of the last employees to be let go.
We all got stupid framed motivational posters for Christmas.
Toxic Shell
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Only had food poisoning a few times in my life, two of them were from Taco Bell.
The artist seems to have a sense of humor about the whole thing. Naturally he isn’t making a dime of profit on the craze - in order to make money at art you have to die first - but a couple of those pieces do look pretty amusing.
The article stretches the concept of ‘art’ rather absurdly...
In the European release, it was Pizza Hut that won. They figured the Europeanizes wouldn't know what a taco was.
Dang autocorrect and me not reading what it corrected. Euroweenies. Not Europeanizes.
>>In the European release, it was Pizza Hut that won. They figured the Europeanizes wouldn’t know what a taco was.
That’s because the Europeans are all 47-year old virgins sitting around in beige pajamas, drinking banana-broccoli shakes and singing “I’m an Oscar-Meyer Wiener”.
“ In the European release, it was Pizza Hut that won.”
They’re running good deals on the app whenever you want to switch it up I get tired of the same brand
I was just about to order one
in order to make money at art you have to die first
There are some exceptions to that rule, David Hockney comes to mind.
Large 3 topping 10.99 carry out thank you very much indeed it’s 2 miles from my house
Same mother, different brother.
—”Well Taco Bell did win the Franchise Wars.
In the European release, it was Pizza Hut that won”
Taco Bell and Pizza Hut are subs of YUM! Brands.
So is KFC
YUM China to be exact
Yup, Andy Warhol too. But some of them I know really are “starving artists” or end up with a day gig.
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