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

[Daniel Myers]

This is especially amusing as "gordita"  translates to "little fat  
girl".

- Doc

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On Sep 6, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Johnna Holloway <johnnae at mac.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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