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From: "Rick Massey" 
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Subject: Re: Del Taco has arrived
Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2011 10:01:39 -0500
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"Venger"  wrote in message 
news:j261fa$hnc$1@dont-email.me...
> On 8/13/2011 8:06 AM, Rick Massey wrote:
>> "Venger"  wrote in message
>> news:j244f0$2bb$2@dont-email.me...
>>>
>>> ...and it's kicking Taco Bell's ass wholesale.
>>>
>>> ...
>>>
>>> I don't care what Demolition Man says, Del Taco is going to eat Taco 
>>> Bell
>>> alive.
>>
>> More accurately, Del Taco has returned. We had them in these here parts 
>> back
>> in the 80's, but they pulled out of north Texas a while back.
>>
>> It's good to have an alternative to flavorless "No Bueno,"
>
> I can't describe how much better it is than Taco Bueno's tacos - which I 
> have never, ever cared for, though I do like greatly their taco salad with 
> their pico and hot sauce... Mexidips and Chips is pretty decent as well. 
> But their tacos - bleh.
>
> > bottom of the barrel "Toxic Hell,"
>
> I actually think their Taco Bel Grande is a decent taco (and the Burrito 
> Supreme is decent as well), though most of the rest of the food there 
> makes a taco truck look like the Morton's. They create menu items like a 
> child would - let's put a taco in a taco! Lame. Their patented Food 
> Poisoning Rollup is a clever creation (this describes half their menu).
>
> And worst. Nachos. Ever.
>
>> and the overpriced "Toxic Banana."
>
> Trying to remember if that's where they served me a taco salad that 
> actually was like a tossed salad with purple cabbage and carrots, like 
> that bagged supermarket salad with a leftover taco broken over it.
>
>> Now I just have to wait for them to get down to civilization from 
>> southern
>> Oklahoma.
>
> I have to think the expansion will happen soon - everything else good from 
> California is moving here, Del Taco should be no different...

Perhaps it's because here they can make some money, while in California 
they're still having pretty substantial unemployment problems.

I wouldn't use the word "good" to describe all of the imports, however. Some 
of them are the product of spin more than substance.

What are you putting the category of "everything else" and "good" that is 
coming in from the left coast? 

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