remembering mr. bell
When Glen Bell - the founder of Taco Bell - died last week, I was pretty upset. His passing was overshadowed by the devastating tragedy that was the earthquake in Haiti, but both lamentable events deserve attention. Like some others, I was also surprised to learn that Taco Bell was actually named for a person. But it's good to know that the work of the man will persist in the colons of his patrons for years to come. And it's also good to see that the company's website is remembering their founder with good spirits in lieu of dreary somberness:
Sometimes a mourning salsa packet says it all.
fire down below
There's nothing quite like competing for a record which* no one knows exists. I recently ingested no less than ten "fire" hot sauce packets at Taco Bell...on just one taco. Those who witnessed this feat know how I did it - for every bite I took, I added one more packet of sauce until my final bite was absolutely dripping with fiery goodness. Some may balk at this accomplishment, but it's easily been my second-most impressive feat accomplished within the last year or so. Impeccable.
*Perhaps more interesting than the preceding paragraph is this sentence that I just found on Merriam-Webster's website when looking up when to use "which" (versus "that"):
Which - used as a function word to introduce a nonrestrictive relative clause and to modify a noun in that clause and to refer together with that noun to a word or word group in a preceding clause or to an entire preceding clause or sentence or longer unit of discourse
(Color added for emphasis.) For some reason, that "clarification" didn't help me in my decision between "which" and "that" - perhaps it was the six conjunctions and overall verboseness?