Taco Bell to serve beer in Chicago

[underpants]

The chain says it will open a location that serves wine, beer, sangria and frozen mixed drinks in Chicago next week, marking the first time it will serve alcohol in the United States. The new restaurant will also feature trends Taco Bell says it is seeing among millennials: "tapas-style" appetizers, a mural by a local artist and an open kitchen.

"You will literally be able to see the food" before it's prepared, said Meredith Sandland, Taco Bell's chief development officer. &quot Customers will be) able to see all the beautiful ingredients."

In addition to beer ($4), wine ($4) and sangria ($4.50), the Taco Bell location in the Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood will offer "Twisted Freezes" — frozen drinks that have rum, tequila or vodka mixed in. The latter will come in Mountain Dew Baja Blast, Cantina Punch and Cantina Margarita varieties, and cost between $6.19 and $7.19. The restaurant will open on Tuesday, Sept. 22.

www.foxnews.com

[mahatmakanejeeves]

1. Get the runs at the border. NT

[underpants]

8. THIS could be the turning point in the $15/hour min wage

It will cost at least $15 per to get someone to clean that bathroom

[mahatmakanejeeves]

11. Especially taking into consideration the Mountain Dew Baja Blast. NT

[LanternWaste]

14. Delicate digestion, eh?

Delicate digestive tract, eh? No worries, I can't eat mushrooms.

[awoke_in_2003]

22. I can't do mushrooms either...

the mere taste of them can make me throw up. That will be my biggest worry should I ever get to see Italy or France- they love those things.

[TexasProgresive]

2. Will that make it easier to swallow their abysmal food?

To my Mexican-American friends Taco Hell is the Trump of Mexican restaurants.

[Mosby]

18. their food isn't horrible

I like the original crunchy tacos and the fiesta potatoes.

Their customer base is very diverse, every time I go into one I see lots of Hispanic customers.

[pinboy3niner]

19. I like their Enchiritos

It's off-menu now, but still available if you ask for it.

[Mosby]

29. Funny you bring that up because I just googled the enchirito, I really liked them

If I recall correctly though the original used a soft corn tortilla.

[pinboy3niner]

30. It's always been a soft flour tortilla

https://www.tacobell.com/food/specialties/Enchirito

[Mosby]

43. maybe the later ones used flour

The early ones used corn tortillas with some sliced black olives on top.

I checked with Google.

[pinboy3niner]

44. I remember the olives

The olives and onions really made the dish.

[awoke_in_2003]

23. I'm a sucker...

for the Double Decker Taco Supreme. I loved their beef and potato burritos, too- not sure if they still have those.

[hobbit709]

3. You have to be drunk to eat that stuff.

[d_r]

4. they will probably

mix it with mountain dew and call it beeraco and put cherry soda in it and call it cheerylito

[d_r]

5. wow I actually read it

and they are using mountain dew

[KansDem]

6. "Taco Beer"

hmmm...it has a certain ring to it!

[AngryAmish]

7. Will they have the chili cheese burrito?

[olddots]

9. this is the answer to America's prayers

[Renew Deal]

10. That sounds like fun

[GummyBearz]

12. Can you order it from the drive thru?

[OriginalGeek]

16. I used to work at a liquor store that had a drive through window

In the old days (long before I got there) they actually served cocktails out the window but the laws changed and when I worked there we only sold package bottles through it.

I had to quit after about 9 months of it. I loved my boss and most of the people I worked with were great but it got very depressing watching people slowly (or sometimes more quickly) devolve. I had one regular that would drive through every afternoon and get two airplane bottles of Early Times. He gradually started getting bigger bottles and by the time I quit he was up to a quart a day and his son had to drive him through as he had lost his license.


I can't imagine Taco Bell will sell good beer though so I'm not interested in that. I could probably drink enough good beer to eat there but not gonna try with big 3 macro.

[underpants]

20. They still have those in Maryland

Not cocktails but drive up liquor stores

[MADem]

28. I saw one in ... Wyoming? ... I think, many, MANY years ago.

It was the oddest thing! I was just passing through, but I have never forgotten it.

There was a guy on a horse at the window, too!!



I thought, well, now I've seen everything!

[underpants]

35. Now THAT's a visual

[MADem]

36. The guy was Full Bore Marlboro Man, too--hat, boots, the whole nine yards!

I wish I'd had a camera handy!

[pinboy3niner]

37. I'm sure they were happy to serve him--and the horse he rode in on

[MADem]

38. Ha ha! I was the only one in 'gawk' mode--they were probably giving ME the sidelong glances

but I was just too agog to realize it!

In terms of fitting in, I was the outsider in that neighborhood!

[pinboy3niner]

40. I can imagine...

[MADem]

46. Hahaha!!!

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

13. Laxative with beer?!! Awesome!!!! nt

[awoke_in_2003]

24. ...

[Takket]

15. Dos Equis???

[pinboy3niner]

17. Probably Tres Pendejos

[awoke_in_2003]

25. In second semester Spanish...

at the local community college, the professor either gave you your equivalent name in Spanish, or asked if there is one you preferred. My first name is Owen- that's out. Somehow it came out that my wife is Mexican American. He asked me if she had given me a Spanish pet name. I said "Only if Pendejo counts". Pretty funny, right? Well, it stuck for the semester

[Taitertots]

21. I'm still waiting on the burweedo

But seriously, this is just more evidence that "demolition man" was a prophecy.

[awoke_in_2003]

26. Better start researching those shells. nt

[Taitertots]

27. It's just a rock (any solid object) shaped like a shell.

The question is... How do you keep the shells clean?

[Person 2713]

31. They will have s bouncer . Taco smell will reek even more with bean & beer farts

http://chicago.eater.com/2015/7/29/9069917/taco-bell-wicker-park-security-guards

[madinmaryland]

32. Yeah. It will be Natty Light and MD 20/20.

[janlyn]

33. In my 20's

when taco bell sounded good at 2am,my brother and I went through the drive thru and heard a deep southern voice coming from the car in front of us. He asked for 2 chicken fa-Gi-tas. And yes the emphasis is on the G so it sounded like a certain part of the female anatomy. I don't think I have ever laughed harder in my life!

[Sunlei]

34. They need a 6 lane drive through for Americas first drive through bar

[Kilgore]

39. Nothing good can come from this n/t

[jmowreader]

41. America's Home for Drunk Food finally figured out its customers will buy beer?

Gee guys, how long did it take to figure THAT one out?

[pinboy3niner]

42. Don't knock it, it's a swill idea!

[Initech]

45. Usually you go to Taco Bell *AFTER* the bars.

[TeeYiYi]

47. Sweet!

TYY