This ad, played all the time all over TV these days, shows some teenage boy running away from a house at night in slow motion, eating the new Taco Bell Grilled Stuffed Nachos, and the announcer says: “Why would you ever need to eat nachos… on the go? Let’s say her parents… came home early.” Then we see that this boy is being chased (on foot) by an angry man (who is apparently supposed to represent some teenage girl’s father).
Wow, all I can say is Taco Bell’s food must be a lot worse for us than I thought if this girl’s father is so livid about a boy trying to give her some to eat. I mean, that is what’s going on here, right? This boy brought over a Taco Bell Grilled Stuffed Nachos for the girl to try, and her parents came home early, saw that the boy was trying to feed their daughter unhealthy fast food, they got angry, and the father chased the kid out of their house and down the street. And so as the boy runs away, he decides he doesn’t want the food to go to waste, even if it did get him into trouble, so he eats it. (Only tragically, he accidentally inhales some, chokes, tumbles to the ground, and the fanatical health food father refuses to perform the Heimlich maneuver, reasoning that the boy deserves to die from the inhaled fast food to teach him a lesson and prove it’s bad for him. {Health food enthusiasts can be quite fanatical in their opposition to fast food, you know.})
That is what’s happening here, right? Because otherwise they are glorifying the pre-marital sex of minors, aren’t they? And isn’t that a bit pervy for a major corporation? Plus, how may I ask does the Taco Bell fit into this equation, exactly? Is Taco Bell food like the new whipped cream for fetishists nowadays?
Here’s the seething sprinting spot:
