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Taco Bell Trying to Create Healthy Image: Are You Buying It?

We know, you and your food-snob friends turn up your noses at fast-food chains. McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, Taco Bell -- "Ugh, gross." "I don't eat that fake junk," you say in public, while secretly passing through a drive-thru while wasted on your way home from the bar. Well, closet junkfoo ... More >>

Casa Frida: Finally – an Excellent Mexican Restaurant in Fort Lauderdale

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Taco Bell Cool Ranch Doritos Locos Tacos Are Available: We Try Them

When Taco Bell launched the Doritos Locos taco, with a shell made from nacho cheese Doritos tortilla chips, stoners everywhere said a little prayer of gratitude.The product also translated into an out-of-the-ballpark hit for the fast food giant. USA Today reports that in less than one year, over 350 ... More >>

"Live Más" at Taco Bell -- After Super Bowl Commercial, Free Churro With Any Purchase

Don't just live más. Celebrate Live Más Monday at Taco Bell Feb. 4 and get a free churro with any purchase.We're pretty sure you've already seen Taco Bell's Super Bowl "Viva Young" video commercial, which the fast food restaurant chain released on Facebook and YouTube early last week. The video pl ... More >>

Bugatti Burrito Run: What's a $2.5 Million Car Doing in a Taco Bell Drive-Thru?

Free Taco Bell For Stolen Bases During World Series: The Promo (and Series) Start Today

When the Tigers blew the Yankees out of the running for the 2012 MLB World Series, lots of South Florida baseball fans probably checked out of the event altogether. But even if you're not rooting for the Tigers or the San Francisco Giants, Taco Bell has devised a reason to keep people invested in th ... More >>

Love the Beans, Hate the Beaner

South Florida's Best Brunch

Taco Bell may have invented "second dinner" as an utterly transparent way to sell more tacos to drunken college kids and stoners (happy 4/20, by the way), but whoever invented brunch -- essentially second breakfast -- deserves a tasty trophy constructed out of French toast, a croissant, and maple sy ... More >>

Taco Bell is Marketing the Hell out of the Doritos Locos Tacos: Have you been sold on it?

​Taco Bell, everyone's favorite drive-through to hit after a night of serious drinking, released its  Doritos Locos Tacos nationwide (including throughout South Florida) with a midnight debut last Thursday. A story on forbes.com begs the question of whether the new product -- essentially a ta ... More >>

Epic Meal Time Herman Cain Edition: Fast Food Pizza (Video)

Republican Party? Pizza Party!​Since we're all impatiently awaiting Herman Cain's important announcement today, we decided to figure out possible public relations strategies for Cain to get back into the good graces of the American public.Cain has a background in managing a fast food chain and a p ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Dirt Cheap Happy Hour Eats

​Recession or no, it seems that everyone loves a deal, whether it's a happy hour buffet, dollar eats, or slashed prices on favorite items. Would you eat dinner for a dollar, or less? (I'd likely skip it, though I'm in the minority.) Here's a round up of recs for low brow fare on days when money's ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale's Dirt Cheap Happy Hour Eats

​Recession or no, it seems that everyone loves a deal, whether it's a happy hour buffet, dollar eats, or slashed prices on favorite items. Would you eat dinner for a dollar, or less? (I'd likely skip it, though I'm in the minority.) Here's a round up of recs for low brow fare on days when money's ... More >>

Humiliate Your Dog For Halloween: Ten Terrible Food Costumes For Fido

Costumesfordogs.com​Your dog gives you unconditional love every day of his life. Seriously! Has a human ever greeted you with such fierce devotion?  Sure, he peed on the carpet and he licks his butt, but if you want to punish your dog, take away his favorite chew toy. But in the name of all t ... More >>

Not Just For Dessert, Fast Food Minis Are A Whole Meal

​USA Today reports on the mini-dessert trend, which includes today's rollout at Baskin Robbins of the four bite cake-and-ice-cream dessert that fits in the palm of a hand. While fine and mid-range dining restaurants have featured mini sweets for decades, the trend is finally hitting the mass ... More >>

The Ten Worst Food Tattoos... Ever

Forget Mom....we love meat more!​The 16th-annual South Florida Tattoo Expo takes over the Marriott Coral Springs Hotel and Convention Center this weekend, filling the center with a cornucopia of talented ink artists and painted ladies and gentlemen. Tattoos are a thing of beauty. Dating back to th ... More >>

Taco Bell Nachos Supreme: Drunk Food For Under a Buck

Taco Bell's Nachos Supreme - drunk food done right.​Sure when we're sober we turn our noses up at the thought of Taco Bell (eating it is neither good for our image as foodies nor good for fitting into our skinny jeans).But after a happy hour at Himmarshee Bar & Grille that turns into a late ni ... More >>

Taco Bell Nachos Supreme: Drunk Food For Under a Buck

Taco Bell's Nachos Supreme - drunk food done right.​Sure when we're sober we turn our noses up at the thought of Taco Bell (eating it is neither good for our image as foodies nor good for fitting into our skinny jeans).But after a happy hour at Himmarshee Bar & Grille that turns into a late ni ... More >>

Real Food Products That Only Sound Like a Joke

The (totally genuine, but now off-the-market) sports energy drink your 8-year-old self could only dream of.​Snack foods that all but promise to send you to the emergency room. Fast-food items that invoke natural disasters and use meat in place of grains. Bacon dishes that require weaving skills. A ... More >>

Interview With Chef and Owner of Nacho Bizness, Aaron Byers, Part II

Laine Doss​Yesterday, we shared Part I of our interview with the chef and owner of Nacho Bizness, Aaron Byers. If you missed it, you can read it here. We continue with Part II. Clean Plate Charlie: What's a day in the life of a food truck owner like? Where do you prep the food; do you cook ... More >>

An Open Letter to Taco Bell

​Dear Taco Bell:  I heard about the false-advertising lawsuit filed against you by a California woman alleging that the "seasoned ground beef" in your tacos, burritos, chalupas, etc., doesn't contain a whole lot of, you know... beef.  In fact, the woman's attorney is quoted as saying tha ... More >>

Fake Blueberries -- the Scandal !

​Just in time for national Blueberry Pancake Day (Friday, Jan. 28) and just on the heels of the Taco Bell faux beef scandal comes a report that those "blueberries" you think you're eating in many cereals, pastries and muffins actually aren't blueberries at all, but rather chemical concoctions of s ... More >>

Hey, Taco Bell -- Yo Quiero Meat, Not Mystery!

Flickr/The Impulsive Buy Taco Bell - Meat or Mystery?​Taco Bell is the universal staple food of teenagers and stoners everywhere. While no one ever claimed that Taco Bell was good for you, it's been the go-to cheap hangover food for years, and since most people eat Taco Bell only ... More >>

"Buried" Features Ryan Reynolds and an Oddly Powerful Cell Phone

Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere

Got an interesting post or bit of news to share? Email it to Charlie and we'll include it in Eating Around the Blog-o-Sphere.  Here's a little diatribe on why now, more than ever, it's important for journos to stick to the SPJ Code of Ethics.The Burger Beast braves the new Taco Bell cantina tac ... More >>

Top 10 Grossest Foods We Eat Everyday

Walls and walls of yuck.​On Bizarre Foods, host Andrew Zimmern travels the world eating eyeballs, testicles, bugs, and rotted meat. But the show isn't just Fear Factor with a balder, plumper version of Joe Rogan. The program is supposed to illustrate the difference in foodways between us and other ... More >>

Been Drinking? Think Meat.

flickr user: wharman​I'm relatively sure that I'm not the only person who, after an evening of cocktails with friends who recently headed home, has stood in his kitchen looking desperately for an easy, late-night, meat-based meal. But cooking abilities are questionable for someone who's holding on ... More >>

Anatomy of a Bad Meal at Latitudes Beach Cafe

John LinnMiso sea bass at Latitudes: Oh, the humanity.​Last week I checked out Ron Duprat's restaurant in the Hollywood Beach Marriott, Latitudes Beach Cafe. I high hopes for Duprat's food after catching the Haitian-born chef on this season of the Bravo series Top Chef, even if longtime critic Gai ... More >>

Has Dog; Needs Nickname

Flickr: "Kendall"There's a dog pirate terrorizing South Florida.​The week after the gayest dog ever was stolen in Wilton Manors by a man with the gayest tattoo ever, the case is a national sensation -- following the original Sun-Sentinel article, there's this Huffington Post article and then this ... More >>

My Brother's Keeper: Second Suspect Caught in Taco Bell Murder

Photo: Broward Sheriff's OfficeTesfaye Ritchie​After 20-year-old Karari Ritchie was arrested Tuesday in the homicide case of a Taco Bell manager, Broward Sheriff's detectives say he told them about a partner from Miami -- but that was a red herring. Detectives believe he was trying to protect his ... More >>

Reviewing the Chains: Bacon Cheesy Potato Burrito at Taco Bell

​I'm certainly not the first person to notice that Taco Bell primarily has about five ingredients: Beef (sometimes ground, sometimes in larger chunks and called steak), chicken, tortillas, rice, and cheese. Every couple weeks, the powers that be at Taco Bell headquarters will come up with a new co ... More >>

BSO Report: Foul Play in Death of Taco Bell Manager

Tikkitress Johnson, the 39-year-old manager of a Taco Bell on Oakland Park Boulevard did not die this morning from an accidental fall. Rather, Broward Sheriff's Office detectives believe she was murdered. From the BSO release: Just before 9 am, Oakland Park Fire Rescue was dispatched to a reported f ... More >>

Fast Food Fiascos!

The fast food news is as hot and heavy this Monday morning as a Big Mac with a side of fries. In England, the Sunday Sun reports an exploding rat population (there are currently more rats than people living in the Queen's Realm) explained by fast food trash thrown in the street. Rats are becoming no ... More >>

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