[url]http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-taco-bell-alaska-20120614,0,688755.story[/url]
[QUOTE=LA Times]SEATTLE -- In what has been described as an evil hoax, the town of Bethel, Alaska, has learned it is not getting a Taco Bell. Not now. Not ever.
“I repeat: Bethel is NOT getting a Taco Bell,” the local radio station, KYUK, broadcast this week in an attempt to dash the greased-up expectations — not to mention dozens of phone calls — sparked by the fake fliers posted around town promising gorditas in time for the 4thof July.
Bethel may be the largest town in bush Alaska, but it still barely tops 6,000 people; it’s reachable only by boat or plane; and Subway is as close as it’s ever managed to come to fast food.
It was some unique form of tundra humor at work, apparently, that led to the fliers posted on various local bulletin boards, promising an opening in time for Bethel’s annual Independence Day parade and offering employment.
“We got excited, because we don’t have any fast food chains out here, and the idea of Taco Bell coming in? And they were going to be here for the 4thof July?” Chamber of Commerce director Bonnie Bradbury said in an interview.
“You bring a McDonald’s or a KFC, people will go crazy out here,” said Tatiana Dotdot, who works at the local AC store, the rambling supermarket that sells everything from diapers to all-terrain vehicles, as long as it can be brought in on a barge or a plane.
On the flier, interested parties were directed to a fake website and a telephone number belonging to a local resident who told callers he had no intention of opening a Taco Bell.
“I called it, too. They said, ‘Of course this is not Taco Bell,’” Bradbury recounted in an interview. “Then he kept getting phone calls, and he asked me if there was any way to stop the phone calls, they would appreciate it.”
KYUK called up the company in Anchorage that operates Alaska’s Taco Bells, and what the Anchorage Daily News newspaper described as “an evil hoax” was confirmed. The perpetrator remains, for the moment at least, unknown.
Still, spring in the tundra is an optimistic time, and Bradbury’s thinking that all the phone calls and attention may wake somebody up to the fact that Bethel is in fact yearning for fast food.
“Maybe now they’ll think about it,” she said.[/quote]
Welcome to Alaska! If you think it's a good idea, it'll never happen!
Seriously, this place is a dump.
I can tell this'll make a hit on Yum!'s stocks, sellsellsell
That seems like an incredibly cruel thing to do.
Taco Bell doesn't serve real food, so they aren't really missing out.
Who knows? Maybe someone will order a whole lot of hamburger, taco shells and other delights and have a large community taco-fest? Just because taco bell isn't building an establishment there, doesn't mean they can't have tacos on July 4th.
[QUOTE=Leintharien;36334630]Who knows? Maybe someone will order a whole lot of hamburger, taco shells and other delights and have a large community taco-fest? Just because taco bell isn't building an establishment there, doesn't mean they can't have tacos on July 4th.[/QUOTE]
>Alaska
Shipping for all the items would be expensive as hell, so all of Bethel would need to pitch in something to make it happen.
They don't even have McDonalds? What?
and i take taco bell for granted
always be thankful kids
[QUOTE=valkery;36334622]Taco Bell doesn't serve real food, so they aren't really missing out.[/QUOTE]
A couple years eating salmon and rice will change a man so he will attack even the phoniest taco.
[QUOTE=Don Knotts;36334760]A couple years eating salmon and rice will change a man so he will attack even the phoniest taco.[/QUOTE]
I feel for you bro. But seriously, Taco Bell will make you shit faster than poorly made Chinese food.
I come from a small town, I know what they're going through right now.
I remember when we got our first DQ, it was like our town won the fucking lottery or something.
[QUOTE=valkery;36334787]I feel for you bro. But seriously, Taco Bell will make you shit faster than poorly made Chinese food.[/QUOTE]
maybe your ass is too sensitive, I eat taco bell once every few weeks and when I do I have normal shits
taco bell not coming to a town sounds like a good thing
[QUOTE=Blackizzle;36334704]They don't even have McDonalds? What?[/QUOTE]
Sounds like a place I want to move to.
Why are you guys making such a big deal about not getting a restaurant?
[QUOTE=The Unforgotten;36335073]Why are you guys making such a big deal about not getting a restaurant?[/QUOTE]
You obviously are not from the US, let alone Alaska.
You know your town is boring as fuck when people get hyped over a Taco Bell
[img]http://i.imgur.com/0VPAq.jpg[/img]
taco bell is anus in my mouth
you know it must be bland where you live when people get excited over a taco bell
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;36335150]
taco bell is anus[/QUOTE]
Taco Bell is like sex in your mouth.
in tulsa there are mexican food trucks everywhere with amazing food that costs more or less the same as whatever garbage they sell at taco bell
looks like anus, sure, but just like anus, it's fucking delicious
i feel bad for you guys who live in Bethel, Alaska...
[QUOTE=TheFilmSlacker;36334997]Taco Bell is delicious.[/QUOTE]
Shitty, pseudo-mexican cuisine is good? Okay...
Taco Bell Taco
[IMG]http://greaseweek.com/images/jpgs/tacos/henrystaco/tacohenryimg.jpg[/IMG]
VS
Legitimate Tacos
[IMG]http://www.leeabbamonte.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/tacos.bmp[/IMG]
I like eating mexican from authentic mexican delis.
Or Chipotle. Either way, the burritos are way more delicious than anything taco bell shits out.
We have a local fast-food chain that sells tacos and etc. in Western New York called Mighty Taco, blows any of Taco Bell's shit out of the water
Taco Bell looks bad compared to, you know, actual mexican food, but it still tastes amazing.
[QUOTE=salty peanut v2;36335150][img]http://i.imgur.com/0VPAq.jpg[/img]
taco bell is anus in my mouth
you know it must be bland where you live when people get excited over a taco bell[/QUOTE]
it's always great when pictures like this show the absolute ugliest most disgusting taco i have never seen at taco bell for their "actual food" comparison. i have never had a taco from taco bell that looked anything like that.
[QUOTE=The EpicNinja;36335368]it's always great when pictures like this show the absolute ugliest most disgusting taco i have never seen at taco bell for their "actual food" comparison. i have never had a taco from taco bell that looked anything like that.[/QUOTE]
But you probably have never had a taco that looked like their promo, have you?
[QUOTE=The EpicNinja;36335368]it's always great when pictures like this show the absolute ugliest most disgusting taco i have never seen at taco bell for their "actual food" comparison. i have never had a taco from taco bell that looked anything like that.[/QUOTE]
I have
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