Word: taco
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...used to go to Real Taco a lot. And I wasn’t disappointed by Felipe’s,” said Brandon Madsen, a first-year at Northeastern University...
...restaurant, which moved into the storefront formerly occupied by Real Taco until it closed last December, attracted a steady stream of customers throughout the afternoon...
Windows looking out onto Mt. Auburn street, no longer obstructed by the criss-crossing polygons of Real Taco, fill the room with light. Customers filed past a large black and white photograph of a man in a Mexican hat, passing a ladder leaning next to the door—a sign that decorating is still in progress...
Those items include soups, sauces, salads (everything from beans and potatoes to chicken, tuna and pasta) and dishes like refried beans and taco meat that can easily be stirred with three-foot whisks in 150-gallon kettles...
Fast food restaurants are his most visible creators and sustainers of America’s dodgeball targets. A serving of McDonald’s French fries, for example, has gone from 200 calories in 1960 to 610 calories today. Critser says that the Del Taco Macho meal weighs in at four pounds. Schools have indulged in opportunities to outsource cafeteria lunches to fast food giants, which in turn fill hungry students with several hundred more calories than a traditional school lunch. Two factors are at work—Americans’ obsessions with largeness and value. Even in a society...