Taco Bell

While French fries have been a staple of move fast food joints since the McDonald brothers first started assembly-lining the process of making burgers, they’ve been noticeably missing from one popular chain’s menu: Taco Bell. The Tex-Mex brand, most notable for late hours, crave-able tacos, burritos, and wraps, and being a staple of intoxicated diners the world over, is finally diving into the fryer oil, as it were, and offering fries at its U.S.

In retrospect, it should have seemed inevitable. When Taco Bell announced earlier this year that the chain would be opening hundreds more of its alcohol-serving “cantina” locations, sure, one of them would probably eventually serve its own Taco Bell beer.

Sometimes it feels like Taco Bell has teamed up with every major brand under the sun. An ongoing partnership with Frito-Lay has blessed us with Doritos Locos Tacos. Thankfully, the chain convinced Hershey to let it put Kit Kats in its new Chocoladilla.

For the sixth time, Taco Bell and Major League Baseball (MLB) are partnering to bring every American a free Doritos Locos Taco. That is, if a player steals a base during any of the possible seven games during the 2017 World Series.

In the least shocking news ever, Taco Bell has decided to roll out yet another bizarre Mexican-inspired menu item. Meet the Naked Chicken Chalupa: Shredded lettuce, diced tomatoes, cheddar cheese and avocado ranch sauce stuffed inside a fried chicken taco shell.

Related: TACO BELL MAY BE A LOT HEALTHIER THAN YOU THINK

It may be the fast food chain associated with mystery beef ingredients and cheese dust-infused everything, but Taco Bell has launched a quieter campaign to be the healthier alternative to its fried chicken and burger competition. 

America’s diplomatic relationship with the Philippines may have become strained since President Rodrigo Duterte took office earlier this year and immediately started slinging mud (and curse words) at President Obama. But apparently our fast food relationship with the Asian nation is doing just fine seeing as America’s largest Mexican chain Taco Bell just exclusively blessed the country with the holy grail of fast food items – a Cheetos-stuffed quesadilla.

Making tacos great again?

Sure, the winningest team in the history of the NBA is just one game away from officially missing the Finals, but that doesn’t mean the last seven game series of the season can’t still be exciting. And not just because it will probably feature Lebron (sorry Raptors fans). Nope, the most exciting part of the NBA Finals is that we’ll all have the chance to win free tacos!

Back in September, we published an article entitled “Taco Bell Trying Out Taco Shells Made of Fried Chicken” reporting on the breaking news that – oh man – Taco Bell was trying out taco shells made of fried chicken. Well, if you’ve been sitting on the edge of your seat since last year wondering how that whole experiment went, the answer is finally here: Apparently, it’s going pretty well – because soon, everyone should be able to get those fried chicken taco shells.