Let's go on an adventure. If you never do it you'll never know. Tattoos or it didn't happen. Too bad you're not single. Don't worry we're not waxing poetic or flirting with you — it's just the Taco Bell sauce packets talking.
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The Secret Behind Sauce Sachets | What The Bell Happened? | Taco Bell
If you’ve ever wanted your fast food to compliment or affirm you the chain’s hot sauce will make you feel noticed. The free packets of sauce come in five flavors and are a convenient tasty way to jazz up your order but it’s only in the past two decades that Taco Bell has shaken things up and turned its hot sauce distribution system into a source of humor and whimsy. Whether squeezed onto a taco or stashed in your car’s glove compartment “for later” the packets are an improvement over the cups that came before them.
The company's humble sauce packet from decades ago has evolved into all manner of puns and cheeky sayings. Many are no longer available though serious Taco Bell sauce connoisseurs can find collections of various phrases on eBay. Clearly they haven't gone unnoticed unappreciated or even uninfluenced by customers who were invited to vote on new hot sauce phrases. From inspiring spicy Halloween costumes to the engagement-boosting "Marry Me!" Fire Sauce the packets have made an impact in ways big and small. For the nostalgic and curious the history of how Taco Bell's sauce packets went from merely practical to something more is well worth delving into.
Taco Bell's hot sauces didn't always come in pouches. Before squeezable sauces first made their debut in the '80s the chain had been serving to-go taco sauce in nondescript plastic cups with peel-off lids for a decade. Mild and Hot sauce pouches were introduced in 1994 but the chain's expansion of condiment selection was just beginning.
