The crazy thing is, Taco Bell hasn't had a single confirmed case of Cyclospora tied back to their food. But they're leading the charge in working to prevent it. Probably a PR initiative that went overboard; now everyone is associating the diarrhea virus with Taco Bell.
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People who get diarrhea from Taco Bell need to look at their diet. Eat some fiber.
Don't taco bell food have fiber already?
Yes, but if you are getting diarrhea from Taco Bell, it is because you do not normally have fiber in your diet.
That's the issue. The average American diet is very low on fiber. Many of the foods at Taco Bell however are fairly high in fiber.
Inconsistency in fiber consumption causes gastrointestinal issues.
tell me you were raised on cocoa pebbles and chicken nuggets without saying you were raised on cocoa pebbles and chicken nuggets
Now you’re just making rash assumptions. I was not raised on cocoa pebbles.
Cocoa pebbles are nasty. I was raised on Frankenberry and Cap’n Crunch.
JULY 13, 2026, THE YEAR OF THE BEAN BURRITO LORD, HAS SPOKEN TO US ON THREADS
Actually, I appreciate that the date was included. So many posts get shared for years, to the point that nobody can tell if it's current or old news, all because the only time stamp says something like, "Thirty minutes ago" or "Two days ago."
Granted, if this post gets reused someday, it'd be a trivial task to edit the date stamp out. But at least there was an attempt to keep it tied to current times.
I hate it when people use CE in dates instead of AFAD. It's disrespectful of tradition to call it the Common Era instead of Anno Fabae Asini Domus.
I really hope no one who reads this studied Latin, the casing is definitely wrong.
here's the thing though. CE is an acknowledgement that this is the calendar that everyone has been forced to use in business thanks to colonial violence. Anno Domini and all its derivitive names prop up a theocratic hegemony that needs to be destroyed
No quiero Cyclospora.
For Taco Bell, this is probably purely a "money saving" strategy. Reduce the number of ingredients, some of which are expensive by fast food ingredient standards, but keep the prices of the items the same.
If there are enough people that don't know or don't realize it, the impact on sales versus the impact on costs might actually work out financially. And given that there are to this day in 2026 still Taco Bell customers tells me that there are quite a few suckers who won't know or won't realize. So, solid business decision, IMHO.
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