This meme is once again being resurrected, and is a great example of how fake news is generated. Taco Bell was NOT voted “Best Mexican restaurant.” This comes from a survey about brand equity, which lets companies see how their brand is doing with consumers.
▪️The original meme dates back to 2018, when news articles picked up on the annual Harris Poll results. This is a survey on brand identification, not some effort to discover the best restaurants. The 2018 link no longer works, but here’s the 2021 poll:
https://theharrispoll.com/briefs/the-harris-poll-announces-this-years-brands-of-the-year-2021/
▪️Respondents weren’t voting on their favorite Mexican restaurant, they were answering online questions about thousands of brands across hundreds of categories (i.e. cars, travel, insurance, tech, media, restaurants, etc.)
▪️In the Mexican restaurant category, there were only 6 options: Taco Bell, Chipotle, Moe's Southwest Grill, Qdoba, Baja Fresh & Del Taco. The chains were judged on three qualities: familiarity, quality & future consideration. Taco Bell prevailed, but Moe’s & Chipotle also won in recent years.
▪️Taco Bell was awarded “brand of the year” in the Mexican restaurant category, it was the first time it won the award in 30 years. The winner of the “burger restaurant” brand of the year category was Wendy’s, yet no one would equate that with “Wendy’s was voted best burger restaurant!”
▪️But media outlets saw an opportunity for click bait, and an easy “look how stupid Americans are” story. Some admitted it wasn’t really a vote of Best Mexican restaurant in the actual article, but since no one reads articles the headlines won, turned into memes, and fake news was born.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/taco-bell-america-apos-no-192600054.html
▪️Far from this being an example of what happens “when you don’t vote”, it’s a pretty apt comparison. You’re forced to choose among a small number of options that you probably don’t really like, the winner gets undue recognition and is declared the representative of the entire country.
As with the leftist freak out over “banned books” this is not banning books, it’s still easy to get Harry Potter and bookstores should be able to limit whatever books they want for whatever reason. But not only does it show a double standard, the rationale is far less justifiable than removing certain content from school libraries. At least there the justification was the content of certain books are inappropriate for children, clearly not every book should be available in a school library. Here, there’s no argument about the content they just don’t like the author’s politics!
Because news came out about his letter to the FBI, revealing he was a nutcase. The letter was rambling and incoherent, claiming he was trained by the US military off the books, and that Walz had instructed him to kill Amy Klobuchar so he could run for Senate. None of it made any sense (Walz is not running for Senate) and none of the assassinations made any sense, even in a diabolical way.
Nearly all of his hit list was Democrats (including Walz) and abortion clinics, but he was supposedly working for Walz?! Plus, one of the guys he killed wasn’t even on his list, and others were no longer in office or deceased. None of it makes sense from any coherent angle.
Basically, it appears the guy was mentally ill and neither the left or right can use the incident to push their agendas anymore, so the story was dropped.
This is so dumb. First, this means LA began as Spanish land founded to support Spanish missions (i.e. colonialism). Which contradicts their entire premise. But the reality is that Los Angeles is a quintessential American city.
▪️When the US acquired California in the 1840s, LA was a small town of less than 2,000 people. It was basically nothing. It became large only after the gold rush and the railroads completed in the 1870-80s, which brought thousands of new settlers and a booming commercial center.
▪️But LA had a major issue limiting its growth, no water. It wasn’t until Mulholland found a water source and built an aqueduct down from Northern California that LA had the infrastructure to grow into a major city.
▪️Then, a combination of oil, real estate and the film industry caused it to boom in the early 1900s. Post WWII, industries like aerospace continued its spectacular growth. Calling this “Mexican land” is a brain dead take. Neither the Mexicans, Spanish nor ...
