Posted on 05/21/2004 5:50:14 AM PDT by Blood of Tyrants
Irvine, CA--(HISPANIC PR WIRE - BUSINESS WIRE)--May 19, 2004--Taco Bell(R) is giving customers a taste of fame by publishing their "words of wisdom" on the nearly 5 billion sauce packets distributed to restaurants each year, in the company's Share Your Sauce Wisdom national contest launching today. Up to 12 customers will be selected to have their Taco Bell-inspired sayings on sauce packets in Taco Bell(R) restaurants nationwide and will receive a one-year supply of free food.
"We're putting our customers' words on the hottest place on the menu - our sauce packets," said Greg Creed, chief marketing officer, Taco Bell Corp. "This is a way for Taco Bell to recognize people who 'Think Outside the Bun' and help us deliver a bold dining experience everyday."
From May 19 to June 18, customers can enter the national contest by registering their "sauce wisdoms" at http://www.tacobell.com. Taco Bell defines a sauce wisdom as a humorous look at reality through the eyes of the Taco Bell brand. The message should be simple, left of center and provide insight on the little things in life - anything from going on a date to eating a meal -- and it should not exceed 70 characters. All sauce wisdoms will be judged according to humor, originality, length and suitability of use. For Official Rules and contest information, please visit http://www.tacobell.com.
There is no purchase necessary to enter. Open only to legal residents of the fifty (50) United States and the District of Columbia, age 18 or older at time of entry. Customers can enter as often as they wish; however, each wisdom must be different.
Earlier this year, Taco Bell enhanced its sauce packets with humorous phrases. The new packaging launched with 15 different sayings on "Mild," "Hot," and "Fire" packets.
The sauce packets are available at Taco Bell(R) restaurants for no extra cost.
Following are a few examples:
-- Live life one sauce packet at a time
-- Use your stomach, nacho mind
-- Single Fire sauce seeking friendship, maybe more
-- Polly want a taco?
-- My other taco is a Chalupa
Taco Bell Corp., based in Irvine, is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands Inc. and the nation's leading Mexican-style quick service restaurant chain serving tacos, burritos, signature Quesadillas, Border Bowls(R), nachos and other specialty items. Taco Bell(R) serves more than 35 million consumers each week in more than 6,500 restaurants in the United States. "Think Outside the Bun" and visit http://www.tacobell.com.
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CONTACT:
Taco Bell Corp., Irvine
Laurie Schalow or Sally George, 949-863-3915
- Your taco was dropped on the floor
roflmao
Whatta bunch of peckerwoods.
"remove rat fecal material & associated diseases before eating"
Check out Dimon's FEC records.
Should be left of center?
Contest ends June 18 - in time for Nov. 7?
Well, their stupidity is great for my wallet and cholesterol level.
bttt
When traveling along I-10 I preferred to drop a bit south and buy a burrito cooked on a hot rock to those things at Taco Bell.
His money seems to go to Clintonites.
(sigh)
Except to us politics freaks, left of centre does NOT always mean left-wing.
To most people, it means 'out of left field', 'off-kilter', wacky, zany, etc.
Context is important, people - and a sense of proportion.
I suspect the ad copy was written by someone for whom politics refers to a clock shaped like a parrot.
They almost certainly meant the phrase in the sense I describe above, rather than being anti-conservative.
Sadim
In light of Dimon's donations, I disagree.
I'm sure phrases can have more than one meaning, but everybody on the board has English as their first language as far as I can tell and, as a native English speaker, I have never heard that expression used in the way you use it.
Have I got a book for you :)
Click here.
I've tried some of the recipes, BTW. Turned out pretty well :)
Maybe in Britain and the Commonwealth countries, but not in the US.
How about:
"I contribute to greenhouse gasses."
"Fight Global Warming, eat Subway."
I still have - and put on the bedstand every night - a 15 year old "Border Buster" Taco Bell water sipper....they got recalled shortly after their introduction, due to a bit of Latino furor....
Taco Bell: Run for the bathroom.
I'm sure phrases can have more than one meaning, but everybody on the board has English as their first language as far as I can tell and, as a native English speaker, I have never heard that expression used in the way you use it.
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