Tag Archives: Taco Bell

Taco Bell in damage control over fake-beef allegations

Pushing back against negative publicity over a class-action lawsuit alleging that ground beef is a minor ingredient in its meat products, Louisville-based Yum! Brands subsidiary Taco Bell purchased advertisements in several major daily newspapers today claiming that such charges are baseless because, well, it was printed in the goddamn newspaper so it’s gotta be true. [...]

Downtown Arena Named After Fattie-Factory

It’s official, folks: The new home of the University of Louisville’s men’s NCAA basketball team shall now be known, henceforth, as the KFC Yum! Arena. Why? Because $13.5 million can get your name just about anywhere these days. Via The C-J: Yum! Brands, which once said it wasn’t interested in the naming rights, has agreed [...]

Yum! Brands Makes Empty Envrionmental Gesture

What? Just because the toilet water in that KFC bathroom is rain water run-off somehow offsets the vast, fossil-fuel dependent distribution system required to transport millions of unsustainably harvested mutant chickens to your thrice-stapled American stomach? A KFC/Taco Bell co-branded store in Northampton, Mass., has been awarded LEED Gold certification, according to Yum Brands. Leadership [...]