Well.. Considering I worked at taco bell in 1979... The meat came from a local butcher wrapped in white paper, the lettuce was indeed head lettuce that we cut up, and we had to grate the cheese. We also got the beans in 50 pound bags and had to cook them ourselves, and the only thing we got from corporate hq was the meat seasoning.
They actually did cook it in the restaurant. Unfortunately, the quality was a crap shoot based on location. You could go to one location and everything was fine. Then you go to another location, and either the taco meat was partially burned or it was too greasy.
I miss Taco Bell from BEFORE 1985! They USED to be fresh, and had GREAT food like The Bell Beefer, and ORIGINAL Taco Bell Enchirito! (a special corn tortilla filled with ground beef (Cooked FRESH from raw ground beef at EACH store!), pinto beans (FRESH picked & cooked at EACH store! Not processed dehydrated shit!), and onions (Whole FRESH onions peeled and diced at EACH store, same with tomatoes, and lettuce!), and topped with red sauce, cheese (FRESH grated at EACH store, from a 50# block!), and olives (HAND sliced into 3 pieces!). AND REAL Sour Cream, not the processed "Sour Cream SAUCE" served for the last 20 years or so! Don't believe me? Check the Taco Bell website, and read the INGREDIENTS in the Sour Cream!!!!!! Since when does Sour Cream have INGREDIENTS??????? FRESH Cultured Cream is ALL it should say!!!! #TheGoodOLDDays!
Back when Taco Bell used good quality ground beef, and fresh ingredients, sliced & chopped right there in the store.... Hell, yeah, I'd *love* to chow down on some 1979 Taco Bell right now!!!!!!!
What happened to the Taco Bell food you ask? They were significantly more expensive than the burger chains and were losing money. I used to beg my mom to take me to Taco Bell, but usually she wouldn't because she said it was too expensive. They were actually the first fast food chain to introduce a value menu. Lower prices meant they had to cut back on quality unfortunately.
Twice during the 1970s - first in 1973 and then again in 1979 - there was an oil crisis (a shortage of availability) caused by global events. In the instance of 1979 much of it involved events taking place in Iran and Iraq, both huge oil producing / exporting countries. What it meant for people in North America was gasoline would be tougher to buy for your car, and some gas stations would run out. Rationing was a method of trying to keep things fair (some U.S. states had plans where if your license plate ended in an odd number you could buy gas on certain days, and if ended in an even number you could buy gas on other days) so that there wouldn't be long, long lineups of vehicles waiting for fuel - which had happened during the 1973 oil crisis.
robatsea2009 the cause of the gas lines were from price controls enforced by government. Because oil was more expensive to obtain due to middle east conflicts gas companies would have to raise their prices on gas to meet the demands, but since government prohibited how much they can raise their prices it took away their incentive to make gas available resulting in an artificial shortage caused by government. The exact same thing happened in 2012 during the hurricane in New York and New Jersey. Both of their governors put in place price controls for gas. Resulting in gas companies having less incentive to supply gas in a difficult area to meet demand.
+robatsea2009 Hah hah!! I had forgotten about the odd/even license plate number thing. Friends would switch their plates all around just for an hour or so (usually longer!) so that they could get gas two days in a row. I thought that was a waste of time because you could always get in the next day. But my world history is actually very poor for the Carter years---I must have purposely skipped it over or something because I thought he was a real jerk of a president. Remember the whole, "I'll wear a sweater and not a tie in the Oval Office" thing that he used to say? Well a book came out about him and he was one big, bumbling phony-baloney. He had a suitcase that was empty----EMPTY!!---and he would walk out of Marine One or whatever and carry it into the White House as if he was showing the world he could carry his own things. But then as soon as he was out of camera range, he tossed the empty bag to any Secret Service agent and he just walked away. Never said thank you---just went upstairs to the residence. Then he'd come back out again, carrying that same empty bag just to show for the cameras...Politicians are so slimy.
Whoever uploaded this video made my day! This made me laugh so much. Even though this was in 1979, it's still amazing how different the world was in general. I was just a year-old in '79. Thanks for uploading!
Rhas 'Churol i can't be sure high school history classes are arranged in the same way anymore but assuming you have american history in 10th grade that's probably when you'll learn it.
As so many others have said, the food was 10 times as good back then as it is today. Also as others have said - I miss the olives and the green onions.
Had folks realized the potential of Taco Bell in the 70s there would have never been a gas crisis. Simply head to the 'Bell when your gas tank is running on empty!
Once upon a time Taco Bell actually served up some really decent food. Then Pepsi (or Yum or whatever the hell they're calling themselves this week) got their grubby hands on the company and made it the slop house that it currently is. I wouldn't feed my dog the garbage that they churn out today.
I decided to go in to Taco Bell for the first time in 16 years, I ordered 3 tacos and WOW! They were paper thin with barely anything inside them. Two weeks later it was closed down & I wasn’t surprised. I bet it was really good back in the 70s though
This was the year I was born. I vividly remember how commercials in the 80's all seemed to have catchy little jingles. It would appear the late 70's weren't any different.
"Mort Crim" About 16 years ago, we're talking 2001, he did national radio spots for K-Mart. At about that time, he came out with a book entitled, "How to Be As Awesome As Your Dog Thinks You Are."
In 1985, I would get the taco light supreme, a bellbeefer with cheese and a Pepsi. In 1990 I ordered a bellbeefer with cheese at a TB. I had moved to another state. The dude said "a what?"
gosh the food at Taco Bell looks so much fresher and better quality then than today, Taco Bell used to be really good up until the early 2000's and then went downhill.
I haven't tried Taco Bell until around 1997 and thought it was great back then, I miss the days when you could get a good sized meal for under $5 and leave full.
@@NoEntertainment No WAY dumbass...hell no..taco bell food was really good back in late 80s...I KNOW WE MADE EVERYTHING FRESH !!!! when I worked for TB from 1986 to 1990 during my college years.
It's been shit since i was a kid in the early 90's. Still tastes basically the same, just with some new weird items. But i think the little shredded chicken burritos they have now are actually pretty bangin. Only thing i ever order there
Taco Bell has turned real bad. I usually just make my own, make the meat, by fresh lettuce, tomatoes, etc... I never have any stomach problems and tastes much better. That's also how I can tell that every thing is cheaper there. Because I spend more on just the meat for my tacos I make at home, then I do the actual taco and Taco Bell.
This jingle will be in my head until the day I die! Really catchy. The tortillas they used back then were really thin. When I was a kid I thought they were great, I wonder how I'd feel about them now!
Yep! and I also remember the amazing smell of the restaurants when my mom would take me to Taco Bell back then because everything was fresh, I wanted everything on the menu because my stomach would start to eat itself!
lolol i think the last bit was my favorite part. yes, gasoline rationing is eminent. we saw it coming in 70s but invested little to no money into sciences to permanently fix our dependence on natural resources. beautiful
That was a great commercial. I was born in 1979 and I love Taco Bell. Oh and that news clip that came after about gasoline rationing well seems history repeats itself.
It's a commercial, the food is supposed to look neater than IRL. Taco bell today is making a lot more money than it used to. Quite popular among teens and stoners (cuz mountain dew)
I'm gonna assume that the ingredients back in 1979 were actually more wholesome and made of real food rather than the modern food composed of fillers and additives.
OMG Thank you for this video!! When I was little I used to say Daba daba taco bell because I didnt know what they were saying, Now I know it's Tacataca Taco Bell!
Taco Bell started out like Chipotle now and sold out to cheap, ultra processed and unhealthy food. When I was young at this time it wasn't that bad for you.
They survived eating tacos made from good-quality ingredients....sounds lame, since all the *cool* kids prefer gristle mixed with cellulose and seasoning, but using quality ingredients was the way it was back then *AND WE LIKED IT* !!!!
taco bell, kfc and pizza hut all have something in common besides being owned by yum brands- they used to use better quality food than they do nowadays. taco bell has been disgusting for a good 15+ years as yum brands has been systematically lowering the quality of their food to see if customers will be satisfied with less. sadly, they seem to be plenty satisfied with the sludge they (yum brands) peddle.
filthy sanchez if it's from the animal it's supposed to be than I'm ok with eating low quality since it somehow tastes good but if it's the wrong animal or a mix of different wrong animals than that's disgusting. Haven't eaten fast food in years because there's no way to know
Damn, the food looked so much more authentic and real back then.Taco Bell food now looks like plastic compared to that. I'll just keep going to Taco Casa for now.
There wouldn't have been an energy crisis in the 1970s if they's learned to make cars run on fartpower. They could also use the car that runs on water, man...
I worked at Taco Bell as a night mgr from 79 to 80. All the food was made fresh back then. The beef and beans were made in house, the veggies fresh cut, etc.. The enchirito was a small flour tortilla filled with beans, beef, and fresh diced onions. It was then topped with sauce and black olives. I personally liked the green sauce on mine. I remember going to a convention years ago about the newest ad campaign. It was called "take a Taco Bell vacation" I don't see any of those ads on here though.
I meant that it had their own versions of Mexican food like tostadas, and other kinds of food that was Mexican I so happen to be Mexican and I love tostadas
Oh My God! I grew up in Escondido, California. There was a Taco Bell in town that looked just like the one in this commercial, complete with the bell and mission look. Taco Bell was the best back when they cooked their own meat and beans on-site. I used to work for them in the mid-80s, when the beans were still pressure cooked twice a day.
It’s been 10 yrs can we get the sequel to this video regarding gas rationing? The gap between sequels is like Avatar here. You can’t just end a video like that in this day in age with cliffhangers like we get from Marvel. We need closure :(
I still remember the items shown in this commercial actually tasting better back then too (especially the beef) vs. whatever ingredients they're using now.
We still have a couple of those old Taco Bell buildings around town. They're other restaurants now. I remember one of them having the restrooms on the outside of the building. The funny thing is the one near Superstition Springs Mall seems more dated since it still has its original 1990s color scheme.
Well.. Considering I worked at taco bell in 1979... The meat came from a local butcher wrapped in white paper, the lettuce was indeed head lettuce that we cut up, and we had to grate the cheese. We also got the beans in 50 pound bags and had to cook them ourselves, and the only thing we got from corporate hq was the meat seasoning.
there will be no gas rationing if you eat at taco bell
My compliments to the Chef...
**Bwwwwwwwwaaaaaaaaaappppp**
That's why Jimmy Carter went on TV to tell people to eat at Taco Bell during the energy crisis.
No rationing, just gas.
Best comment of the decade.
"IS GASOLINE RATIONING IMMINENT? A REPORT AT 11."
Guess it was back then lol
I'm surprised we don't have gasoline rationing now in 2015!
These comments are 4 years old ;-;
@@furryraver4ever .-.
@@a-hafangirl still don’t in 2021 haha. Crazy.
It's incredible to me Taco Bell is still in business since discontinuing food.
Wow, it looked like Taco Bell actually served real food back then.
Planet Z-97 they used to
They actually did cook it in the restaurant. Unfortunately, the quality was a crap shoot based on location. You could go to one location and everything was fine. Then you go to another location, and either the taco meat was partially burned or it was too greasy.
Thats the same thing I thought..Pepsico bought Taco Bell and Kentucky Fried Chicken many years ago..and you see what happened.!!!!
I miss Taco Bell from BEFORE 1985! They USED to be fresh, and had GREAT food like The Bell Beefer, and ORIGINAL Taco Bell Enchirito!
(a special corn tortilla filled with ground beef (Cooked FRESH from raw ground beef at EACH store!), pinto beans (FRESH picked & cooked at EACH store!
Not processed dehydrated shit!), and onions (Whole FRESH onions peeled and diced at EACH store, same with tomatoes, and lettuce!), and topped with red
sauce, cheese (FRESH grated at EACH store, from a 50# block!), and olives (HAND sliced into 3 pieces!). AND REAL Sour Cream, not the processed "Sour
Cream SAUCE" served for the last 20 years or so! Don't believe me? Check the Taco Bell website, and read the INGREDIENTS in the Sour Cream!!!!!! Since
when does Sour Cream have INGREDIENTS??????? FRESH Cultured Cream is ALL it should say!!!! #TheGoodOLDDays!
that's what I was just thinking too!!!
The ending was the best part of this. It was straight out of The Kentucky Fried Movie lol
Thank you - I've been waiting for someone to notice that similarity!
+Mark Schemers awesome!
Back when commercials had those catchy jingles. ^.^
"Taca-taca-taca... Bell" :)
That were abruptly ruined by the declaration of imminent gas rationing
I'm not sure what the big deal is. I always have plenty of gas after I go to Taco Bell.
Thank you.
Kish Jugo I see what you did there!
Thank you. It's comforting to see that my past thoughts have come into the future to enlighten present generations.
Kish Jugo ......Lmao! I completely understand lol
Taco Bell: Eat Here & Get Gas
Oh yes, it's like starting a chainsaw in a way. Just eat there, and let 'er rip!
Back when Taco Bell used good quality ground beef, and fresh ingredients, sliced & chopped right there in the store....
Hell, yeah, I'd *love* to chow down on some 1979 Taco Bell right now!!!!!!!
Dearest black olives, you made so much difference on taco bell's food, where did you go?
Barogas and the green onions
The way of the green sauce I used to get with my bean burritos. The stuff was maybe $0.59 an item around this point in time.
The only worse topping than block olives is pineapple. I don't want either on my taco or my pizza.
Ewww I’m glad they did
I remember the olives at Taco Bell, haven't seen them since 1984.
What happened to the Taco Bell food you ask? They were significantly more expensive than the burger chains and were losing money. I used to beg my mom to take me to Taco Bell, but usually she wouldn't because she said it was too expensive. They were actually the first fast food chain to introduce a value menu. Lower prices meant they had to cut back on quality unfortunately.
Back when each menu item didn't taste like eating the same thing.
"Taco-bell, Taco-bell ..."
"Taco-bell, Taco-bell"
I'm pretty sure I'm going to be singing this all day now.
what is gasoline rationing?
Twice during the 1970s - first in 1973 and then again in 1979 - there was an oil crisis (a shortage of availability) caused by global events. In the instance of 1979 much of it involved events taking place in Iran and Iraq, both huge oil producing / exporting countries. What it meant for people in North America was gasoline would be tougher to buy for your car, and some gas stations would run out. Rationing was a method of trying to keep things fair (some U.S. states had plans where if your license plate ended in an odd number you could buy gas on certain days, and if ended in an even number you could buy gas on other days) so that there wouldn't be long, long lineups of vehicles waiting for fuel - which had happened during the 1973 oil crisis.
robatsea2009 the cause of the gas lines were from price controls enforced by government. Because oil was more expensive to obtain due to middle east conflicts gas companies would have to raise their prices on gas to meet the demands, but since government prohibited how much they can raise their prices it took away their incentive to make gas available resulting in an artificial shortage caused by government. The exact same thing happened in 2012 during the hurricane in New York and New Jersey. Both of their governors put in place price controls for gas. Resulting in gas companies having less incentive to supply gas in a difficult area to meet demand.
***** It's what happens after you eat Taco Bell.
+robatsea2009 Hah hah!! I had forgotten about the odd/even license plate number thing. Friends would switch their plates all around just for an hour or so (usually longer!) so that they could get gas two days in a row. I thought that was a waste of time because you could always get in the next day. But my world history is actually very poor for the Carter years---I must have purposely skipped it over or something because I thought he was a real jerk of a president. Remember the whole, "I'll wear a sweater and not a tie in the Oval Office" thing that he used to say? Well a book came out about him and he was one big, bumbling phony-baloney. He had a suitcase that was empty----EMPTY!!---and he would walk out of Marine One or whatever and carry it into the White House as if he was showing the world he could carry his own things. But then as soon as he was out of camera range, he tossed the empty bag to any Secret Service agent and he just walked away. Never said thank you---just went upstairs to the residence. Then he'd come back out again, carrying that same empty bag just to show for the cameras...Politicians are so slimy.
+kxmode On purpose the Video juxt
Whoever uploaded this video made my day! This made me laugh so much. Even though this was in 1979, it's still amazing how different the world was in general. I was just a year-old in '79. Thanks for uploading!
lol at all the people who didn't pay attention in history class so they don't know about the gasoline shortage back in the 70s.
Drop Lick Unfortunately, history class isn't _that_ helpful anymore. They do not seem to teach recent events like that.
Rhas 'Churol well shit, i learned about the gasoline shortage in history (and from my parents) and i only graduated high school 5 years ago.
Drop Lick
What year had you learned it? Perhaps I haven't learned it yet... I am only starting high school in the Fall.
Rhas 'Churol i can't be sure high school history classes are arranged in the same way anymore but assuming you have american history in 10th grade that's probably when you'll learn it.
Drop Lick
I had American history in the 8th grade, just this last year. Hadn't exactly _finished_ the class, so I'm not near that part yet.
Funny how you could actually tell that the meat was beef back then.
Yes.
donangry I haven't eaten fast food in years because I'm paranoid about the meat being something gross like horse or something else
why be paranoid it won't kill you meat is meat and people have to eat.just put seasoning into it and you would never know.and don't tell anyone
As so many others have said, the food was 10 times as good back then as it is today.
Also as others have said - I miss the olives and the green onions.
It's always amazed me how they could make 87 different menu items out of like 4 ingredients...
I miss the black olives and green onions at taco bell.
i know me too and they don't even have jalapenos anymore
they are so full of gimmicks now
i just want simple food
Sonya CH .....I know! This is the taco bell I grew up on......miss those days.
Had folks realized the potential of Taco Bell in the 70s there would have never been a gas crisis. Simply head to the 'Bell when your gas tank is running on empty!
Once upon a time Taco Bell actually served up some really decent food. Then Pepsi (or Yum or whatever the hell they're calling themselves this week) got their grubby hands on the company and made it the slop house that it currently is. I wouldn't feed my dog the garbage that they churn out today.
There's no gas shortage after you eat taco bell.
Love it!
Too late. I can smell the gas.
*gagging, vomiting*
I decided to go in to Taco Bell for the first time in 16 years, I ordered 3 tacos and WOW! They were paper thin with barely anything inside them. Two weeks later it was closed down & I wasn’t surprised. I bet it was really good back in the 70s though
I was half-expecting to see a Mexican in the first 10 seconds of this commercial. Good job 1979.
Let me guess, because you think having a Mexican advertise Mexican food is racist, right? 🤦♂️
@@ViaticalTree do mexicans consider taco bell mexican food? more at 11.
LOL
"Is gasoline rationing imminent"? "Report at 11"
Perhaps it is, damn energy crisis =)
The joke is: It's the 70s.
BronzNazareth lol
just be thankful you are not driving a V8 mustang with 140hp, lol.
This was the year I was born.
I vividly remember how commercials in the 80's all seemed to have catchy little jingles. It would appear the late 70's weren't any different.
Wow! Looks like they put more stuff in the tacos and such. Hey, the guy mentions gas right after the commercial.
"Mort Crim"
About 16 years ago, we're talking 2001, he did national radio spots for K-Mart. At about that time, he came out with a book entitled, "How to Be As Awesome As Your Dog Thinks You Are."
does any one have a time machine just so I can go back and taste what taco bell tasted like back then.
It tasted a whole lot better back then...and up to the point they were bought by Yum.
Go to Taco Casa. It's like the new old Taco Bell.
CosmicGrooves
thanks I'll check it out when I'm able to get a plane ticket.
haha! It would make an interesting vacation story.
CosmicGrooves YES! Had some Taco Casa tonight! It's like Taco Bell sold their shops to them and replaced the "Bell" with the "Casa".
In 1985, I would get the taco light supreme, a bellbeefer with cheese and a Pepsi.
In 1990 I ordered a bellbeefer with cheese at a TB. I had moved to another state.
The dude said "a what?"
Man i miss those black olives. Shame when they took em off the menu. Seems like taco bell was the "subway" back then
how did they get the taco's to stand up????Lmfao.
gosh the food at Taco Bell looks so much fresher and better quality then than today, Taco Bell used to be really good up until the early 2000's and then went downhill.
Doobie1975 It was good up until about 1992, then it got nasty.
I haven't tried Taco Bell until around 1997 and thought it was great back then, I miss the days when you could get a good sized meal for under $5 and leave full.
I actually read an article that said it was worst in the late 1980's.
@@NoEntertainment No WAY dumbass...hell no..taco bell food was really good back in late 80s...I KNOW WE MADE EVERYTHING FRESH !!!! when I worked for TB from 1986 to 1990 during my college years.
It's been shit since i was a kid in the early 90's. Still tastes basically the same, just with some new weird items. But i think the little shredded chicken burritos they have now are actually pretty bangin. Only thing i ever order there
Taco Bells food was so much better back then.
ExMachina70 Everything's food was better back then. They didn't have to appeal to a super large population.
Girl at the register is so damned cute.
just wtf was happening with those strategically placed olives?
They look nice. My OCD smiled.
Taco Bell has turned real bad. I usually just make my own, make the meat, by fresh lettuce, tomatoes, etc...
I never have any stomach problems and tastes much better. That's also how I can tell that every thing is cheaper there. Because I spend more on just the meat for my tacos I make at home, then I do the actual taco and Taco Bell.
John Harvey Honestly, I've never seen anyone's home cooking come close to any form of fast food.
Rhas 'Churol they use special ingredients at these places and you don't want to know what it is
Right on so do I ..I make my own tacos
This jingle will be in my head until the day I die! Really catchy. The tortillas they used back then were really thin. When I was a kid I thought they were great, I wonder how I'd feel about them now!
When everything was fresh, why did they stop!!! This is sad.
They ration the food now
"Put a smile on your face at taca-taca-taca taco bell" thats gonna be stuck in my head for a while
Back when America was America!!
Yep! and I also remember the amazing smell of the restaurants when my mom would take me to Taco Bell back then because everything was fresh, I wanted everything on the menu because my stomach would start to eat itself!
lolol i think the last bit was my favorite part. yes, gasoline rationing is eminent. we saw it coming in 70s but invested little to no money into sciences to permanently fix our dependence on natural resources. beautiful
That was a great commercial. I was born in 1979 and I love Taco Bell. Oh and that news clip that came after about gasoline rationing well seems history repeats itself.
It's a commercial, the food is supposed to look neater than IRL. Taco bell today is making a lot more money than it used to. Quite popular among teens and stoners (cuz mountain dew)
+Devin Walleck No Code Red tho. D:
+Brother Malachai like you need code red when theres baja blast
fire2box I actually worked a job packaging some of the flavoring for the initial release of Code Red back in the day. :P
I'm gonna assume that the ingredients back in 1979 were actually more wholesome and made of real food rather than the modern food composed of fillers and additives.
The good ol days, when you could get actual food from Taco Bell.
I can still remember Taco Bell selling 5 tacos for $1.00. That was around 1971. San Jose, CA.
Why did old commercials always have singing in them?
I love how much passion the guy puts when he says Tostadas!!!!
As if they're more important, but i have no idea what the hell a tostada is...
Ha! Mort Crim! Our original real life "Anchorman"!
WDIV CHANNEL 4 BABY!!! GO4IT!!
Wow, Taco Bell food looked better back then. :P
+Brother Malachai Well, it's an ad. It will always look like crap in reality.
+Brother Malachai I think it probably really did! From what I've gathered, their food used to look almost as good as (or AS good as) Taco Time's.
Taco Bell is still good at 2 am after a night of drinking...
Geez... this just brought back a whole load of memories... and black olives were more prominently featured back then, too.
Now all the food is fake and bagged
OMG Thank you for this video!! When I was little I used to say Daba daba taco bell because I didnt know what they were saying, Now I know it's Tacataca Taco Bell!
I will go back in time and it would be 1979
This is gonna be stuck in my head for the rest of my existence.
Nice commercial, admittedly the Gasoline spot was appropriate for after the ad.
(I apologize that is a bad joke)
The whole news bit at the end with the rationing of gasoline was such a buzz kill after such a jolly commercial.
Taco Bell started out like Chipotle now and sold out to cheap, ultra processed and unhealthy food. When I was young at this time it wasn't that bad for you.
.... I miss commercial jingles, in general.... that's what wrong with advertising today.... they haven't employed jingles since the 80's....
Haha I wasn't even born yet when this was on TV.
I love the song of Taco Bell! It's so catchy! I just don't get how even though it's an American commercial, the commercial is about Mexican food.
Whaaaaaat? You mean they didn't have Doritos nacho cheesier gordito-burrito-chile quessadilla wrap supreme back then? How did they survive???
Who Knows...?
They survived eating tacos made from good-quality ingredients....sounds lame, since all the *cool* kids prefer gristle mixed with cellulose and seasoning, but using quality ingredients was the way it was back then *AND WE LIKED IT* !!!!
Their enchuritos were sooo good back then and packed full!
At 0:22 is actor Squire Fridell who went on to play Ronald McDonald in the mid '80's.
Beta MAX Wait really? Which one, the dad or one of the kids?
-Working late at Taco Bell-
THESE CUSTOMERS ARE TOO DAMN HIGH!
taco bell, kfc and pizza hut all have something in common besides being owned by yum brands- they used to use better quality food than they do nowadays.
taco bell has been disgusting for a good 15+ years as yum brands has been systematically lowering the quality of their food to see if customers will be satisfied with less. sadly, they seem to be plenty satisfied with the sludge they (yum brands) peddle.
filthy sanchez Hey, that sludge tastes good, and I haven't died from it yet, I see no issues.
filthy sanchez if it's from the animal it's supposed to be than I'm ok with eating low quality since it somehow tastes good but if it's the wrong animal or a mix of different wrong animals than that's disgusting.
Haven't eaten fast food in years because there's no way to know
Taco Bell's food actually looked EDIBLE back then.
Wow, I'd totally watch this show.
Taco Bell was,and always will be,the best place to go after a long night of drinking!
Oh how I miss the old school Taco Bell finely shredded cheese!
Damn, the food looked so much more authentic and real back then.Taco Bell food now looks like plastic compared to that. I'll just keep going to Taco Casa for now.
Very Doge You don't get food for looks. You get it for taste.~
+Minor Elite FINALLY SOMEONE AGREES!!!!
Dude, Taco Casa has like 5 stores in Texas, they could't afford a salesman/ advert guy if they wanted to.
They've brought the enchiritos back recently, but the ones back in the day were vastly better compared to the ones nowadays
This taco is hilarious Debby!
41 years later and we still don’t know if gasoline rationing was eminent
I wish fast food could look at that nowadays, the food on this commercial look to pretty to eat, but I would anyway!!
Holy shit, Mort Crim! This really brings me back.
Also, I miss Taco Bell back when it was good. Bring back the Bell Beefer!
Where are the olives today?
When waiting in line during the gas crisis, Mom would put us in the back of the station wagon and fill it with toys. Had the time of my life.
Tacotacotacobell!!
Yes! Thats when they had the original oldschool logo and the sauce containers instead of packets! Those were the days :)
There wouldn't have been an energy crisis in the 1970s if they's learned to make cars run on fartpower. They could also use the car that runs on water, man...
I worked at Taco Bell as a night mgr from 79 to 80. All the food was made fresh back then. The beef and beans were made in house, the veggies fresh cut, etc.. The enchirito was a small flour tortilla filled with beans, beef, and fresh diced onions. It was then topped with sauce and black olives. I personally liked the green sauce on mine. I remember going to a convention years ago about the newest ad campaign. It was called "take a Taco Bell vacation" I don't see any of those ads on here though.
Love the nod at the end to the Malaise Days Of A Jimmy Carter. The Modern American Dark Ages.
....Agreed, but at least the music and Taco Bell were good.... ;)
jpowell180
And Taco Bells all had an actual(or at least actual looking) bell on the building. That faux adobe stucco structure.
MysticInvestigations I thought Nixon took us there well before....I am not a croook, sure dick sure.
LOL! The fresh food place!
I barely remember when that MAY have been true!
Back when Taco Bell was more Mexican
by having no Mexicans?
Taco Bell was never Mexican.
I meant that it had their own versions of Mexican food like tostadas, and other kinds of food that was Mexican
I so happen to be Mexican and I love tostadas
Oh My God! I grew up in Escondido, California. There was a Taco Bell in town that looked just like the one in this commercial, complete with the bell and mission look. Taco Bell was the best back when they cooked their own meat and beans on-site. I used to work for them in the mid-80s, when the beans were still pressure cooked twice a day.
Report at 11.
It’s been 10 yrs can we get the sequel to this video regarding gas rationing? The gap between sequels is like Avatar here. You can’t just end a video like that in this day in age with cliffhangers like we get from Marvel. We need closure :(
Why can't they still serve things in foil tins?
I remember the Bell Beefer, I remember in the 90's asking for them in their drive-thru, I got crazy looks :(
The food looks decent in the commercial. If you go to Taco bell it's slop lol. I don't really go there anymore.
I still remember the items shown in this commercial actually tasting better back then too (especially the beef) vs. whatever ingredients they're using now.
73mathesar JL W7 FTW!!!!! :-D
73mathesar now its soybean with taco seasoning.
We still have a couple of those old Taco Bell buildings around town. They're other restaurants now. I remember one of them having the restrooms on the outside of the building. The funny thing is the one near Superstition Springs Mall seems more dated since it still has its original 1990s color scheme.
0:17 I wish they still made the employees wear those giant sacks on their head
I want to eat all of that food in that specific Taco Bell.
love this🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮
Love this commercial