Nutek

zzrmark

Every time I hear/see 'Taco Bell' that's the only image I ever get - it took a long while for me to realise that they were a real chain and the irony of the scene!

Pulaski

Ate there once, and it was closer to Applebee's than to the local Mexican restaurant owned and run by a Mexican. He opened his first restaurant in a small strip mall unit, and we tried it the first time just a week or two after it opened. At that time he didn't even have a licence to sell beer. We went back every week or two, and each time I asked for a beer. When he eventually got his licence he gave me my first beer free!

Business was slow at first, on one occasional we were the only customers in the restaurant, when someone stuck their head around the door and asked if it was any good? (We assured them it was.) But its popularity grew and after a year the restaurant moved to a much larger location nearby, up from seating perhaps 80 people to seating around 200 people, and it is usually pretty busy. Since little Miss P started school we haven't been able to go quite as often, but when we do the owner always comes over to greet us.

scrubbedexpat091

Anyone remember the Taco Bell commercials with the dog...? From the late 90's.





Do they still have 2 tacos for 99 cents?

Yorkieabroad

I'm confused...was the dog trying to get one, or worried he was going to be in one?

Nutek

He's safe. He has too much meat on him.

GeoffM

Around here we have plenty of Mexican restaurants and they're cheap. I think there is a Taco Bell - I know of a couple of Del Tacos within half an hour of here. But two Vallartas (Mexican supermarkets) which both have food courts. So we're spoilt!

One thing for Taco Bell though: they agreed to the Fair Food Program which supposedly ensures farm workers get paid a fair wage. I was watching (yet another) food doco last night on Netflix and these tomato pickers in Florida were earning barely $5 per hour - made to turn up for 12 hours a day but only paid for the hours they actually picked anything, and they had to wait around (unpaid) until given their assignments which could be hours. They reckoned that Publix supermarket just needed to charge 1c per pound more for tomatoes and it would nearly double their wages, yet cost the average Publix shopper just 44c per year. Walmart, McD, BK etc have all signed up to the Fair Food Program but not Publix.

Sally Redux

Yes that waiting around must be terrible - they don't even know where they'll be that day.

Taco Bell seemed to get worse over time though. Really meagre.

Sharky's is pretty good Sharky's Woodfired Mexican Grill |

WJS

OnwardandUpward, I just wanted to thank you for kindly posting that link me. I have finally taken the time to read it properly and have found it very interesting. Thank you very much again.

Pulaski

OMG!

The complete story, at least as of now.

zzrmark

Too soon for 'bun in the oven' type jokes?

Pulaski

Probably, though I fear the unborn baby was the focus of the attack. ..... There was a(nother) baby cut out story just yesterday.

Unfortunately these attacks seem to becoming more common, such that I am not sure there's ever much humour to be found in them.

scrubbedexpat091

Sad story. Makes you never want to hire a contractor, had they never hired him they would probably still be alive.

Hopefully they can determine if the remains in the wood stove are from the known victims or if he has killed before.

Pulaski

Exactly. I was thinking the same thing, having just spent most of my Saturday replacing some iron plumbing that had burst, installing a new kitchen tap (the old one leaked and was cheap junk), and preparing to install a tub surround and reinstall the toilet tomorrow. I saved a fortune in plumbers fees, but it's a chilling thought that I might also have saved my family's lives.

GeoffM

Murder is obviously never good but this particular one really makes you