taco bell - taco 'salad'

Yep, another fake fast food, meat crammed and  random sh*t filled "salad" no surprise.

When they first came out with these they were pretty decent...haven't gotten one in a long time are they crappy now?

So, are you allowed to order extra lettuce or does that cost more?

Bena wrote: I'm glad you brought this one up. When the white guy asks the blonde girl if it's "technically a salad," the girl repeats the word "technically" like she'd never heard the word before.

And at the end where the main guy asks the friend if he thinks she likes him, and he says "technically? No...". WTF, TECHNICALLY this ad sucks. Technically speaking of course. If the ratio of lettuce to crap tips in favor of crap, it ISN'T a salad. Is a taco a salad because it's got lettuce? No. Lettuce + fork does not equal salad.

Jimmy wrote: Tortilla's are nothing more than snack items. Filling them with chopped & spiced ground beef, government cheese, bean paste, and disgustingly fake salsa is a poor excuse for food.

ROTFLMAO!!! Oh, Jimmy, that's priceless! I should consider making that my signature.

Okay JimAyzing...please report back to us...

I joined this forum just so I could in the proper setting express the deep and flabbergasting unsettlement that I experienced shortly after watching this, the taco salad commercial from the almighty, always-on-top-of-things marketing team of Taco Bell. I know my irritations will be sympathized with here. Problems with this commercial abound, so let me begin:

The first problem is that the entire dialogue (can we even call it that?) is predicated upon a mistaken definition. It is asserted in a most asinine manner which no one has the brains to correct, that for something to technically be a salad, it must contain lettuce. Lettuce to these people is the defining ingredient which determines when use of the term "salad" is appropriate and when it is not. If it is a salad, then it contains lettuce; and if it does not contain lettuce, it is not a salad. Which is strange, because I was almost sure that we use the term salad for a number of things that don't contain lettuce. Pasta salad, chicken salad, tuna salad, etc. Such a limited perspective of the concept of a salad, you'd almost think the fast food company didn't know much about the industry it works in. The commercial's characters continue to have a very charming and effective conversation about it.

This introduces us to the second major problem with the commercial: the word "technically". The marketing team takes this already utterly hopeless and misguided discussion (you remember, the invigorating and intellectually stimulating one) then sprinkles it all, randomly, with inexcusably moronic uses of this word. The commercial would have the same effect if it was done improvisationally by people who, despite not knowing what the word meant, were told they had to use it at least twice. It would also have the same effect if a man who likes to eat taco bell poolside (an attractive place to gorge one's face indeed) regurgitated the last polysyllabic word he overheard some cooler guy say earlier, which he worked hard to memorize exclusively so that he could attempt to engage and win-over a girl, impressing her with his wit and massive vocabulary. "Technically," the girl repeats the word with a suave tilt of her head, as if to say "oh yeah, I can play that witty vocabulary game too. Look at us we're just two intellectual superstars who find nothing more exciting to talk about or anything more to flirt over than a fast food salad." The travesties continue...

"Is she into me?" "Technically? No." So, the answer is "no"...but only technically speaking? Technically speaking as opposed to what?! Non-technically speaking?? I don't know what speaking non-technically would even mean, much less what technical aspect of the situation the friend was initially referring to.

Don't allow this commercial to permeate your living room without calling out its idiocy for the sake of anyone in the room.

Dedicated to the pursuit and explication of terrible commercials,
Celpha Fiael

Wow, Celpha...you really took that one apart!  Good job.  The typical first-time posts around here usually amount to little more than "I hate that commercial, too."

I'm not really here to complain about the commercial because it's too awful to even start..but I was just wondering if anyone knows who the white guy is in the commercial? It's driving me nuts cause I know I've seen him somewhere but I can't think of where. Anyone?

Pirate Alyx wrote: Okay JimAyzing...please report back to us...

Sorry, but I forgot about this thread until I just saw it. The taco sa;ad is good. It is not like this one Mexican restaurant that I go to. But it is up there

TexasRanger wrote: Buy two tacos, crush up and, voila, your own CHEAPER, taco salad.