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2018-01-10, 09:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Taco Bell's "Belluminati" ad campaign
Taco Bell recently made a "Belluminati" marketing campaign to promote its dollar menu, with a series of ads (see youtube video), a website, social media stuff and so on. Anyway, just posting this to say that, looking at the youtube comments and #belluminati Twitter hashtag, the sheer number of people taking the "Illuminati" angle dead seriously (apparently most in both aforementioned media) is absolutely hilarious I mean, I know people love a conspiracy theory, but I'd never have guessed that so many people treat the Illuminati as such a serious subject.
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2018-01-10, 10:08 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Taco Bell's "Belluminati" ad campaign
I love the ads, but still don't eat at Taco Bell.
Arby's has run some great, geeky ads recently as well. I saw one last night where they rolled a d20 made from food cartons.Last edited by Leewei; 2018-01-10 at 10:08 AM.
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2018-01-10, 10:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Taco Bell's "Belluminati" ad campaign
I love taco bell, but don't watch TV so never saw the commercials, which is too bad because they had some merch (now sold out). I would have loved to grab one of the t-shirts.
Just after reading this here, a friend on facebook pointed out the reaction of country music singer Charlie Daniels :
https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news...BIaUdR?ocid=st
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2018-01-10, 10:25 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-10, 11:15 AM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-10, 11:24 AM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Taco Bell's "Belluminati" ad campaign
Me neither - not only I live many thousands of kilometers away from the closest Taco Bell (AFAIK), it's hardly the sort of place I'd go to in the rare occasions that I visit the US. Nor do the ads run here either, of course - I heard about it from the Charlie Daniels tweet.
Neither my posts on the matter nor the Taco Bell campaign are in any way indicative of the fact that people are on to the Illuminati andwethey are panicking and scrambling around for ways to use humor to direct people away from the truth... that would be absurd.The Heplion Contingency - Low-tech Cyberpunk with Psychic Powers!
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2018-01-10, 03:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Taco Bell's "Belluminati" ad campaign
I'd heard the ads on the radio, but the change in tone/voice made me think it was shifting from a fast food ad to an ad for cologne or something fancy.
I think I'm going to try getting one of those things they're advertising tomorrow. I didn't really understand what all it is, but it sounded good. If the weather is nice, it might be a fun walk with the kids (and walking to it instead of driving would be good exercise to couple with that meal.)
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2018-01-10, 07:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-10, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Holy moly, that comment section on Youtube is a thing to behold. And to think those people are allowed to vote...
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2018-01-10, 08:34 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-10, 09:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Taco Bell's "Belluminati" ad campaign
I regret looking.
This, I can never unsee.
Seriously, what?
The number of strongly religious comments in there is almost as disturbing as... well, people believing that (1) an intellectual's club from 1776 that was about thinking rationally and opposing obscurantism is somehow still around and is actually made of lizard people trying to deceive, eat, and/or control people, (2) not realizing the inherent irony in their fervent attempt to reveal the 'truth', and (3) believing that what amounts to epileptic trees formed from a collection of happenstance and youtube comments has more than a tangential relation to real life.
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2018-01-11, 12:14 PM (ISO 8601)
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Personally, I think it's one of the stupidest ad campaigns I've ever seen. Not the absolute stupidest, but it's up (or down?) there.
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2018-01-11, 03:11 PM (ISO 8601)
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It's pretty dumb, but not nearly as dumb as the people who apparently take it as an admission that Taco Bell is actually controlled by the Illuminati.
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2018-01-12, 09:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Wow, I wish I hadn't gone to that youtube video. Little more faith in humanity has been lost. Absurd how many nutjobs are out there that believe crap like that.
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2018-01-12, 09:04 PM (ISO 8601)
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...What does it say about me that I looked at thd comments and just laughed?
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2018-01-12, 09:22 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-18, 04:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-18, 04:46 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-18, 05:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Having worked for Taco Bell, I'm pretty sure that several of their corporate policies are designed to prevent a global disaster. Can't you feel the fabric of reality weakening in the middle of the night when the local taco bells turn off their lights? Can't you feel the existential anguish when cheap re-hydrated beans and cheaper beef are no longer being combined within the folds of tortillas? How do you hope to survive the coming storm of darkness without the ever-so-slightly spicy after taste to drive off the vampires?
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2018-01-18, 05:37 PM (ISO 8601)
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The Illuminati are using Taco Bell to cater their parties? If they have fallen that far, how powerful can the Illuminati really be? :)
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2018-01-18, 05:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-18, 08:28 PM (ISO 8601)
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Interestingly, someone handled me one of their... Stackers? a little bit ago. had a few extra so passed me one. Figured I'd see if Taco bell had improved any in the last several years.
Nope. Still incredibly bland meat, what appears to be fake cheese, and a hideous sauce. I've literally eaten raw insects I enjoyed more.
I know it is close to your home, but surely there has to be a better place that is worth traveling a bit further.... ?"That's a horrible idea! What time?"
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2018-01-18, 08:33 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Taco Bell's "Belluminati" ad campaign
Taco Bell is heavily dependent on the location. If I went to the two nearest to my house, ordered the same thing, and placed them next to each other on a table; it is very likely that it would be almost impossible to tell they came from the same chain. Of course, neither would be very good, but one of them (always from the same location) would be far worse.
It is frustrating, because my city usually gets new menu items first - last I checked we were one of their test markets. That would be a lot cooler if their food was better.
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2018-01-18, 10:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-18, 11:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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Yep, I love Taco Bell personally, it's the only fast-food restaurant that I eat at with regularity. I don't get fancy, just hard and soft taco's and Baja Blast Mt. Dew.
It's definitely down to the individual restaurant as well though, there are 4 in the nearest "big"* city, and only two of them are edible, and of those two, one of them is significantly better than the other still.
*By big city, I mean a city with a population over 2k. It's actual population is about 100k, and that includes all the surrounding rural areas, the city proper is only 30-35k or so I think.
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2018-01-18, 11:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Where I used to work there was a taco bell about a mile away and another about 3 miles away. My co-workers told me to go the the farther one, even though lunch break was short. Why? Because the one a mile away hired a lot of idiots to work the lunch shift so they were a) slow and b) probably not keeping up on their food safety checks. One co-worker claimed to have gotten food poisoning 2 of the 3 times he had eaten there.
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2018-01-19, 03:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-19, 05:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-20, 03:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-01-20, 03:58 PM (ISO 8601)
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