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The Truth About Taco Bell Beef

There's a lot of talk right now about what really hides inside Taco Bell's beef — better known as "Taco Meat Filling" — and so naturally the fast food restaurant was bound to chime in with some rather angry words:

TACO BELL STATEMENT REGARDING CLASS ACTION LAWSUIT
"At Taco Bell, we buy our beef from the same trusted brands you find in the supermarket, like Tyson Foods. We start with 100
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percent USDA-inspected beef. Then we simmer it in our proprietary blend of seasonings and spices to give our seasoned beef its signature Taco Bell taste and texture. We are proud of the quality of our beef and identify all the seasoning and spice ingredients on our website. Unfortunately, the lawyers in this case elected to sue first and ask questions later — and got their 'facts' absolutely wrong. We plan to take legal action for the false statements being made about our food." -- Greg Creed, President and Chief Concept Officer, Taco Bell Corp.



Taco Bell "beef" pseudo-Mexican delicacies are really made of a gross mixture called "Taco Meat Filling" as shown on their big container's labels, like the one pictured here, which customers can't see. The list of ingredients is gruesome:

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Beef, water, isolated oat product, salt, chili pepper, onion powder, tomato powder, oats (wheat), soy lecithin, sugar, spices, maltodextrin (a polysaccharide that is absorbed as glucose), soybean oil (anti-dusting agent), garlic powder, autolyzed yeast extract, citric acid, caramel color, cocoa powder, silicon dioxide (anti-caking agent), natural flavors, yeast, modified corn starch, natural smoke flavor, salt, sodium phosphate, less than 2% of beef broth, potassium phosphate, and potassium lactate.

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It looks gruesome but passable... until you learn that, according to the Alabama law firm suing Taco Bell—only 36% of that is beef. Thirty-six percent. The other 64% is mostly tasteless fibers—which are there to increase volume while keeping the cost down—additives and some flavoring and coloring. Everything is processed into a mass that actually looks like beef, and packed into
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big containers labeled as "taco meat filling." These containers get shipped to Taco Bell's outlets and cooked into something that, again, looks like beef, is called beef and is advertised as beef.

But can you call beef something that looks ground beef but it's 64% lots-of-other-stuff? Taco Bell thinks they can.

That's the reason why an Alabama law firm is presenting a class action lawsuit for false advertising, claiming that what Taco Bell claims is "beef" in their commercials is just the aforementioned processed clustermass of disgust. It appears that they have a very good point.

According to the USDA, Taco Bell can't call this mixture "beef" at all. Beef is officially defined as "flesh of cattle", and ground beef is defined as:

Chopped fresh and/or frozen beef with or without seasoning and without the addition of beef fat as such, shall not contain more than 30 percent fat, and shall not contain added water, phosphates, binders, or extenders.

That is certainly nothing like the mix that Taco Bell is using in their products.

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Alabama Teen Shoots Record 57

At state junior championship, University of Alabama-bound Bobby Wyatt fires the lowest competitive round ever, according to the Guinness Book of World Records.

Michael Johnson needed to take his shoes off.

That was the only way he could truly convey the shocking and toe-tingling round of golf his good friend Bobby Wyatt was playing.

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The incoming University of Alabama freshman and recent graduate of the UMS Wright Prep School in Mobile (Ala.) fired a course-record 57 in the second round of

Alabama Golf Association’s State Boys Junior Championship on Wednesday.

Rated the No. 1 high school player from the Class of 2010 by Polo Golf, Wyatt blistered the 6,628-yard Country Club of Mobile course with an eagle, 12 birdies and five pars, easily breaking the course record of 63.

His 125 total is eight shots ahead of Smylie Kaufman (67-66-133), who was one hole behind Wyatt and trying to get updates from Johnson, one of Wyatt’s playing partners and future Alabama teammates.

According to an Alabama Press-Register story, Johnson couldn’t keep up with Wyatt’s record pace.

“We were very aware of what Bobby was doing,” Kaufman told the newspaper. “(Johnson) kept holding up fingers to say how many birdies Bobby had made. We said to ourselves he was going to run out of fingers and have to start using his toes too. Sure enough, he ran out of fingers.”

According to the Guinness Book of World Records, Wyatt’s round is the lowest of all time for competitive play on golf courses longer than 6,500 yards.

The only competitive round lower, according to reports, were by PGA golfer Homero Blancas, who shot a 55 in the 1962 Premier Invitational in Longview, Texas. Blancas was an amateur at the time.

But that was at a par-70 course that measure just longer than 5,000 yards and played over the same nine holes twice.

Wyatt shot a 9-under 26 on the front nine and 31 on the back, which featured back-to-back birdies on 16 and 17.

Country Club of Mobile is Wyatt's home course and his previous low score on any course was 62. He needed just 23 putts on the round and it was almost 22 as a birdie try on the 18th hung on the lip. He tapped in for a measly par.

“It was unbelievable,” Wyatt told reporters after the round. “I got off to a fast start with birdies on my first two holes, then was three-under after four and it kept going from there.”

If he can hold on, Wyatt will win his fourth straight state crown. He turns 18 over the weekend.

Wyatt won his first tournament as an 11-year-old, following in the footsteps of his older brother Ford and father Cliff.

“I just tagged along with them,” he told the Birmingham News in a 2009 story. “I’ve had a club in my hands since I could walk.”

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How Previous Heisman Winners Have Fared In BCS Title Games

It's a stat I've posted before, but it's also the STAT OF THE DAY.

• 2000: Chris Weinke, Florida State (lost 13-2 to Oklahoma).
Season: 61.7 percent, 347.3 yards per game, 33 TDs, 11 INTs.
Vs. Oklahoma: 49.0 percent, 274 yards, zero TDs, two INTs

• 2001: Eric Crouch, Nebraska (lost 37-14 to Miami)
Season: 55.6 percent, 218.8 yards (total offense), 25 TDs, 10 INTs
Vs. Miami: 33.3 percent, 176 total yards, zero TDs, 1 INT

• 2003: Jason White, Oklahoma (lost 21-14 to LSU)
Season: 61.6 percent, 274.7 yards, 40 TDs, 10 INTs
Vs. LSU: 35.1 percent, 102 yards, zero TDs, 2 INTs

• 2004: Matt Leinart, USC (beat Oklahoma, 55-19)
Season: 65.3 percent, 255.5 yards, 33 TDs, 6 INTs
Vs. Oklahoma: 51.4 percent, 332 yards, five TDs, no INTs

• 2005: Reggie Bush, USC (lost to Texas, 41-38)
Season: 133.8 rushing yards, 222.3 all-purpose yards, 19 TDs
Vs. Texas: 82 rushing yards, 279 all-purpose yards, one TD

• 2006: Troy Smith, Ohio State (lost to Florida, 41-14)
Season: 65.3 percent, 195.5 yards, 30 TDs, 6 INTs
Vs. Florida: 28.6 percent, 35 yards, zero TDs, one INT

• 2008: Sam Bradford, Oklahoma (lost to Florida, 24-14)
Season: 67.9 percent, 337.1 yards, 50 TDs, 8 INTs
Vs. Florida: 63.4 percent, 256 yards, two TDs, two INTs

• 2009: Mark Ingram, Alabama (TONIGHT vs. Texas)
Season: 118.6 rushing yards, 15 TDs
Vs. Texas: ????

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