Goodbye, Taco Bell Founder

In between the ongoing coverage of the horror in Haiti and the brazen attacks in Kabul today, you may have missed the news that the founder of Taco Bell died over the weekend. Glen Bell Jr. was 86 and it looks like he lived a good life. Good for him.

Mr. Bell was quite the fast-food maven. He started a little called Bell's Drive-In and then added Mexican food to the menu and it eventually morphed into Taco Bell. He also created, along with a partner, the nightmare that is/was Der Weinerschnitzel. A former employee broke ranks and created Del Taco. So a lot spawned from a little place in San Bernadino, CA.

This much I'll say, Mr. Bell gave us the food equivalent of Liquid Plumber. No food has the power to drill through you and take out anything in its path like Taco Bell. Doesn't matter what you order...each item has the same "magical" power. I learned quickly, and nearly tragically, that eating anything Taco Bell in the car with nowhere to pull over is a bad, bad idea. I think this image says it best:

So goodbye, Mr. Bell. Thanks for making going through the drive-thru a real adventure.