7 Times Taco Bell’s Menu Pushed the Boundaries of Science

Earlier this month, Gizmodo reported on a brand new high-tech drive-through Taco Bell that the Tex-Mex chain opened in Minnesota; at “Taco Bell Defy,” you order by way of a cellular app, scan a QR code once you drive up, and have your meals delivered by way of a sequence of tubes, by no means interacting with one other human being. But that isn’t the primary time the restaurant chain pushed the envelope, for higher or for worse—the corporate’s slogan was actually “think outside the bun” till 2012.

Taco Bell’s makes an attempt at innovation have left the corporate with quite a lot of hits, from the daring Nacho Fries, to the enduring Baja Blast. But with the hits come the misses: The forgotten Taco Bell menu gadgets that had been too bizarre to outlive. Here’s a glance again at a number of the extra questionable menu gadgets the chain has supplied lately.