I've had maybe a dozen Taco Bells in my life, and had no digestive issues. What is wrong with people?
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I don't eat at taco bell side there's a local place with 1000x better quality, but I have never once experienced intestinal distress after eating taco bell.
It's just a meme, right? Surely if they actually caused bowel issues, people wouldn't keep eating there...
It’s just people repeating the same hack joke that was rooted in racism 40 years ago because they can’t think of anything funny themselves. I’ve never had a problem eating there.
I don't think racism is the main issue.
I think it's largely more that most Americans don't eat nearly enough fiber in their daily lives. But nearly every item at Taco Bell has quite a bit of fiber in conparison. This throws their digestive system way out of balance.
It’s not overtly racist, but the original “x food gives you diarrhea” joke is rooted in racism and it’s proliferated for all these decades because people like hack, cliche jokes for some reason. I seriously doubt that it gives anyone diarrhea from it unless there is something wrong with the produce like we’re seeing now.
Yeah I don't get it either. I've never had digestive issues from Taco Bell. I imagine the only people who do are those who think their hot sauces are spicy. Either that, or you're right; it's just a meme.
The real reason is more likely that people who have this problem don't get enough fiber, so when they eat something with beans at Taco Bell, they get the shits.
I'm 100% sure it's a racist meme, I've never had bowel problems from Taco Bell nor known anyone irl who got digestional problems from the chain.
Taco Bell: Funny you should say removing the mouse ...
I smell a rat...
I think that's the Mountain Dew
I've never had diarrhea from a taco bell. Dunno what is wrong with you people
Weak ass GI tracts lmao
Not once for me either. Jokes have failed to land since the gatdamn 90s.
I feel like most of them haven't either, they just jump on the meme train
I've eaten too much taco bell to listen to some people's foolishness.
It's fast food, so I mean, not the healthiest option, probably best of the worst IMO.
But I think it's just a way to be polite racist, to determine if the conversation will continue.
Real racist dislike race traders the most.
I've never understood the "Taco Bell gives you the shits" thing. I'm no big fan of Taco Bell and I would never claim they make great food, but I've eaten there plenty in my life and I don't think I've ever gotten the shits from their food. Honestly I don't think I've ever even gotten the farts from Taco Bell. Is this really some common human experience I've missed out on?
EDIT I just read the other comments, apparently I'm not alone
It's literally because Taco Bell is one of the few fast food places that has a decent amount of fiber in most of their items, and most people's diets are sorely lacking in fiber. So the sudden influx gives them the shits, and they blame it on the Taco Bell, instead of their poor diet.
Eat your vegetables, eat more beans, and your Taco Bell shits will be no more.
The only fast food that had ever made me sick was White Castle. That shit is disgusting
Just ate taco bell today. Thats the fourth time this week I've eaten at taco bell. I have great solid shits. I'm so confused by the hate taco bell constantly gets.
True story, was constipated years ago and gf took me to Taco Bell FOR the diarrhea. Cleaned me out beautifully.
Fast food places and their dollar menus (it was a real thing like dinosaurs) got me through some very difficult times when balancing time and money was the difference between eating anything at all (even if it was junk) or going without entirely.
Taco Bell was one of my preferred places in those days because for reasons and such.
But times change and honestly every time I've given Taco Bell a second second chance again for the second or third time in the past 5 ish years or so, I've regretted it. Not because the food made me sick or gave me any unusual bowel symptoms, but because the food is now objectively gross and also way more expensive and the service has gone to shit.
If you cant normally handle taco bell, you probably should see a doctor, or you're of a weak bloodline.
Taco Bell is leaving the parasites there based on all this feedback they just announced it. The diarrhea is back, we did it gang!
Explosive diarrhoea for their customers has been just fine since the chain opened. But when it's suddenly caused by a parasite? Well, then, everyone loses their minds!
I don’t get the appeal of Taco Bell. I tried it for the first time about ten years ago and it was dreadful. If it’s not healthy then it should be some kind of guilty pleasure, but the whole meal just tasted cheap and nasty.
Like a lot of chain restaurants, the quality varies pretty wildly by location. There was a (thankfully brief) time in my life where Taco Bell was very nearly the cheapest source of food available, and a large percentage of my food intake came from their value menu. Not good for the ol' cholesterol, but I was young and needed calories, and I found a location that was consistently decent, so I would go there, spend two dollars, and get enough food to last me the rest of the day, and it was inoffensive enough that I could eat it every day and not get sick of it. Bringing my own hot sauce helped.
You ever think it's wild how illness is our bodies way of letting us know that damage is being done internally, yet people are so inured to self-harm that they think it's a funny joke to regularly give themselves diarrhea?
It reminds me how there was an old commercial, I think might've been for tums, where the guy is eating pizza then suddenly gets heartburn, pops the meds and goes back to eating more pizza. And when you think about it logically, it's his body screaming at him from abuse and he's just like meh shut up body, I'm eating more pizza and you can't stop me.
On one hand, it's just a silly ad to get the point of "our medicine works so well that you can keep doing the thing that made you need it." But somewhere between the lines, there's the connotation of "sating your appetites matters more than your well-being."
As a European how has been into a Taco Bell exactly once in their lifetime, I always assumed it was the low quality ingredients rather than the unexpected fiber. The ground beef looked like shredded tendons and cartilage bathing in motor oil.
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