[Sca-cooks] Gorditas was New snack treat OT OP

[Johnna Holloway]

This is of course Taco Bell we are talking about.
The establishment is on Wikipedia so you would think that perhaps the ad 
geniuses
might be able to find the original Chicken Ranch on Google.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicken_Ranch_%28Nevada%29
(There is another in Texas I gather.)

But would anyone confuse the famous Chicken Ranch with Taco Bell?
As for Taco Bell it's only *
310 calories and 17 grams of fat for 89 cents. *

Johnnae

Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius wrote:
> On a marginally related note, on my way out this evening to see "Julie 
> & Julia", which, BTW, we ended up seeing in a theater about a mile 
> from where it was both filmed and much of the story takes place, and 
> about three miles from my home, I happened to pass a Taco Bell poster 
> that confused me for a few moments.
> Apparently there is a product called a Gordita, and this Gordita is 
> filled (I'm assuming) with chicken and Ranch Dressing, hence the name, 
> Chicken Ranch Gordita.
>
> Am I mistaken in the belief that once upon a time, the phrase "Chicken 
> Ranch" referred to a profitable, non-food branch of the hospitality 
> industry?
>
> Could this be a play on words, or another case of letting ignorant 
> post-teenagers handle the marketing and write the ad copy?
>
> Adamantius