Taco bell is not Mexican. It is, however, delicious <3

Ultratwinkie:

Greg Tito:
Sony Thinks Bad Mexican Food Can Sell Vitas

Buy a Taco Bell $5 box and get a chance to win Sony's new handheld.

Sony isn't exactly selling Vitas like hotcakes in Japan. This week, the new PlayStation Vita placed fifth in the hardware sales chart behind Nintendo's 3DS, the 6 year old Wii, and Sony's own PS3 and PSP. That's right, the unit the Vita was meant to replace sold better in Japan last week. Sony doesn't want such meager sales to continue in its February worldwide release so how do they plan to bolster confidence in the PlayStation Vita? Why, promote it through the purchase of Cheesy Gordita Crunches, of course.

Here's the brilliant scheme. If you buy a specifically labeled $5 Buck Box - which happily contains meat, cheese and tortillas in various combinations with high fructose corn syrup - between January 26 and March 11, 2012 you will get a code that you can enter online to win a PlayStation Vita. You will also be able to go online and battle your "friends" in Reality Fighters Dojo for a chance to win.

Barring that, you can record a video proclaiming to the world all you would do to earn a PlayStation Vita. Such videos will be posted and users will vote for the most entertaining boast. Predictably, the winner will get a PlayStation Vita.

(The prize pack for all these is actually a PS Vita 3G/Wi-Fi system, a copy of Little Deviants, a 4GB PS Vita Memory Card and your choice of one of the following: ModNation Racers: Road Trip, MLB 12 The Show or LittleBigPlanet. There's no word on how much you have to pay for the 3g service for these "free" Vitas.)

I'm as happy as the next guy to gorge on some tepid "tex-mex" slathered with Fire sauce, but I don't think I'll be schlepping down to Taco Bell just to get a PlayStation Vita. Am I crazy or is Sony betting a little too much on the fast food/gaming connection?

Source: PlayStation blog and NeoGaf

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Since when is Taco Bell Mexican food? Its watered down fast food. Its like saying French Fries are French or fortune cookies came from China. It doesn't make any sense.

Are we now saying Mexican food has to be made in Mexico or prepared by Mexicans? (I'm assuming they sell tacos - of whatever quality - and some other stuff that could be considered Mexican.)

Woodsey:

Ultratwinkie:

Greg Tito:
Sony Thinks Bad Mexican Food Can Sell Vitas

Buy a Taco Bell $5 box and get a chance to win Sony's new handheld.

Sony isn't exactly selling Vitas like hotcakes in Japan. This week, the new PlayStation Vita placed fifth in the hardware sales chart behind Nintendo's 3DS, the 6 year old Wii, and Sony's own PS3 and PSP. That's right, the unit the Vita was meant to replace sold better in Japan last week. Sony doesn't want such meager sales to continue in its February worldwide release so how do they plan to bolster confidence in the PlayStation Vita? Why, promote it through the purchase of Cheesy Gordita Crunches, of course.

Here's the brilliant scheme. If you buy a specifically labeled $5 Buck Box - which happily contains meat, cheese and tortillas in various combinations with high fructose corn syrup - between January 26 and March 11, 2012 you will get a code that you can enter online to win a PlayStation Vita. You will also be able to go online and battle your "friends" in Reality Fighters Dojo for a chance to win.

Barring that, you can record a video proclaiming to the world all you would do to earn a PlayStation Vita. Such videos will be posted and users will vote for the most entertaining boast. Predictably, the winner will get a PlayStation Vita.

(The prize pack for all these is actually a PS Vita 3G/Wi-Fi system, a copy of Little Deviants, a 4GB PS Vita Memory Card and your choice of one of the following: ModNation Racers: Road Trip, MLB 12 The Show or LittleBigPlanet. There's no word on how much you have to pay for the 3g service for these "free" Vitas.)

I'm as happy as the next guy to gorge on some tepid "tex-mex" slathered with Fire sauce, but I don't think I'll be schlepping down to Taco Bell just to get a PlayStation Vita. Am I crazy or is Sony betting a little too much on the fast food/gaming connection?

Source: PlayStation blog and NeoGaf

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Since when is Taco Bell Mexican food? Its watered down fast food. Its like saying French Fries are French or fortune cookies came from China. It doesn't make any sense.

Are we now saying Mexican food has to be made in Mexico or prepared by Mexicans? (I'm assuming they sell tacos - of whatever quality - and some other stuff that could be considered Mexican.)

No, its watered down fast food. As I said, it has no link to actual Mexican food. Its like trying to say the fortune cookie is an ancient Chinese custom. Its not, its American. Actual Mexican food is a soft taco, torta, or menudo. The picture below is an actual taco, not a taco bell taco.

This is what tacos normally look like (the stuff inside them change, so they are not uniform). The meat itself actually has flavor, and has a wider range of what can be put on it. Normally the meat itself is spiced or marinated. Taco Bell meat doesn't really have a taste at all.

The difference:
- only grated cheese (not the shredded cheese).
- lettuce is not the majority of the taco like Taco Bell.
- Cilantro is common.
- Meat is actually spiced and varies between chicken, beef, and pork.
- Onions and radishes are common.
- Lime and Lemon are common.
- The taco normally comes in a circular tortilla, hard shells like Taco Bell are unheard of.
- The sizes change depending on where you go.

Real hard shell tacos are, from what i seen, raw meat in a tortilla that is cooked in oil.

In taco bell the shell is made separately. Basically its a hooked tostada they stick "meat" in. So as you can see calling Taco Bell Mexican food doesn't really make sense to anyone who lives in the American West Coast.

GreatTeacherCAW:

Ultratwinkie:

GreatTeacherCAW:
I love Taco Bell. I don't adjust my monocle while sipping port and eating food I flew in from Mexico on my private food jet, like most of you apparently do. I live in Manhattan. Authentic Mexican food is few and far between here. I'll take taco Bell over "authentic" Mexican food any day, actually. I think it tastes better. Extra red sauce on everything = win.

I was going to buy a Vita next month anyway, so I might as well combine my weekly trips to Taco Bell with a chance to get a free one. But a 3G one? Just give me the wi-fi one, please.

The West Coast is full of Mexican or Tex Mex food. Saying Taco Bell is Mexican food is like going to France and asking for French Fries. Besides, Taco Bell cant equate to a good torta anyway.

Well, good for the west coast. I try to stay as far away from it as possible. And I never said that Taco Bell was mexican food, I just said that I'd take Taco Bell over real Mexican food any day. Or I'll take Del Taco. Last time I was in Los Angeles I found this fast food place called Del Taco. Best fast food place EVER. Well, next to Arbys.

You don't have Del Taco where you are? How do you LIVE?

As a Texan and Tarrasque-like threat to the continued survival of Mexican food in my vicinity, I LOVE Taco Bell.

It's not Mexican food really, but it's not bad by any means. It's just something totally different. And in any case, it's infinitely superior to McDonald's, Wendy's, Burger King, Arby's, etc etc etc etc etc etc etc. Where fast food is concerned, Taco Bell is god and emperor.

Now I'm gonna go and devour chips and salsa like a ravenous swarm of Tex-Mex locusts.

You'll need something to do while you're on the pot after eating Taco Bell, so buy a Vita! Is that what they're trying to say?

I love a whole variety of Mexican, Tex-Mex and South American cuisines. Taco Bell is about as removed from that as American Mall Chinese is from Cantonese, if not more.

No one ever went broke overestimating the human desire for cheap, lousy food, though, so this is probably a great marketing tactic.

Zachary Amaranth:
Taco Bell and PSV: Two half-ass flavours that go mediocre together.

Laugh!

but I have to point out, once again the rest of the world (you know the bit that ain't america) gets screwed.

(Then again I'd rather have no vita and no taco!)