Fox Business contributor, Scott Martin, claimed to have eaten $28 of Taco Bell for his lunch, allowing Twitter to do what it does best: make jokes.
Host Neil Cavuto seemed perplexed that Martin could have spent $28 for just himself. Others expressed similar doubts.
Fox Business contributor: “You want to know how bad inflation is? Yesterday, yes, I had a nice lunch at Taco Bell — cost me about $28 at Taco Bell for lunch.”
Um, how is that even physically possible? (Also, don’t think I’ll take financial advice from this guy.) pic.twitter.com/cdK39TlLO8
— Eric Kleefeld (becoming a parody of myself) (@EricKleefeld) October 12, 2022
Martin later tweeted the alleged contents of his order. Not quite the $28 amount he quoted, but $25.40 is respectable – or horrific, depending on how you look at it.
The ‘nice meal’ actually looks doable, and also looks like Scott was about to experience the worst gastrointestinal event of his life.
Order up! pic.twitter.com/pPmyBGLQH0
— Scott Martin (@ScottyMarkets) October 12, 2022
For the record, inflation IS hitting hard everywhere, including your favorite fast food joints.
We found a menu from April, 2020 from a Menifee, California Taco Bell and compared the prices of the most basic item of Taco Bell cuisine – the Crunchy Taco – to today’s prices.
A Crunchy Taco in April, 2020 set you back $1.39. The same taco costs you $1.79 at the same store today. That’s a whopping %28 price increase, which is about double the national inflation rate increase over the time period from 2020 to 2022.
So, yeah, inflation is bad. We’re all feeling it.
If Scott Martin ate $28 of Taco Bell, he’s DEFINITELY feeling some manner of inflation.
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As you might have guessed, the response by Twitter was hilarious.
(Yes, there are a lot of lefties expressing outrage because it’s Fox. We’re only going to show you the people with a sense of humor.)
$28 of Taco Bell will kill the average adult male. Fact.
— Ludog (@Ludog9) October 12, 2022
LOL!
If this dude honestly ate $28 of Taco Bell they should send folks in with hazmat suits to place him in a CL4 lab for at least a week, maybe 10 days to be certain…
— Cliff Schecter (@cliffschecter) October 12, 2022
Ha!
If this dude is really housing $28 of Taco Bell and going on live TV shortly after, more power to him
— Fo Fo (@Fo__________Fo) October 12, 2022
‘Excuse me, King. You dropped your crown.’
$8 for food and $20 for new underwear?
— Rainy Season Fox (@rich_fox) October 12, 2022
Bwahahahaha!
14 x $2 Burritos = $28. What's your $28 order? https://t.co/q3zJWDSKHP
— Taco Bell (@tacobell) October 13, 2022
Taco Bell wasn’t going to miss out on the free advertising.
Dude! If you eat $28 of Taco Bell you’re tweeting from toilet!
— 🌊Cali🌻Gal🌊 (@oh_nanette) October 12, 2022
Dude! If you’re on Twitter, you’re tweeting from the toilet. Everyone knows.
I do not want to experience the consequences of eating $28 worth of Taco Bell https://t.co/AbfwsbxtmX
— Kathryn Watson (@kathrynw5) October 12, 2022
It can’t be good, right? LOL.
brb, gonna order $28 worth of @tacobell to see if this is physically possible https://t.co/SZ4vNeI0CW
— Inga Lam (@ingatylam) October 12, 2022
Solid plan.
$28 at Taco Bell would put you in the hospital lmao https://t.co/Pngy7VeJOu
— Obey Sid (@Sidorros) October 12, 2022
You would definitely FEEL like you needed to go to the hospital.
Y'all are focusing on the $28 bit, but I can't get past "nice lunch." https://t.co/f95CgkGTbQ
— Daniel Summers, MD (@WFKARS) October 12, 2022
Taco Bell is one of those ‘We shouldn’t do this but we’re going to anyway because sometimes we like to pretend we’re still in high school’ kind of meals, so yeah, ‘nice lunch’ is probably a bit of stretch.
No one in the history of man has ever spent $28 on lunch from Taco Bell.
If you were to force $28 worth of lunch from Taco Bell down your gullet, parts of your human anatomy would physically rupture and YOU WOULD DIE.
The only border you'd be running for would be THE HEREAFTER. https://t.co/pNr50cA9PV
— Dan Slott (@DanSlott) October 12, 2022
Never say never. Also, LOL.
What's everybody's go-to $28 taco bell order? Here's mine: https://t.co/dgkXWSLoAk pic.twitter.com/AZsKk9O4ug
— Pat (@pat7286) October 12, 2022
15 cups of water. Ha!
me eating 28 dollars worth of Taco Bell https://t.co/pcC7IX01oK pic.twitter.com/Hh0DBTxNZT
— ℳatt (@matttomic) October 12, 2022
LOLOLOL!
absolute respect to this complete legend. here is approximately what you can buy for $28 at taco bell right now: 12 tacos, four sodas, upwards of 4,000 calories. https://t.co/vRJlqjmbzw pic.twitter.com/wpiBp6IEP4
— maxwell (@maxwellstrachan) October 12, 2022
This is the correct response.
Maybe he's factoring in the price for a box of Immodium.
— Geoff Walker (@gewa76) October 12, 2022
LOL.
lot of rookies in the chat don’t know a thing about a proper TB order
— ACCjim (@jimmybuxbux) October 12, 2022
We’re gonna take the 5th on this one.
OK, you know it's going to happen. New TikTok trend of people trying to eat $28 of Taco Bell, coming very soon.
— Account Suspended (Parody) 🎄 (@Stylen8339) October 12, 2022
We can only hope!
Omg, why must I have the sense of humor of a 13 year old boy. I am laughing to hard a the “$28 of Taco Bell” I’m wheezing. I legit may have to use my rescue inhaler if I keep going.
— Daphne ColemanPerine (@dmcsings) October 12, 2022
Same, girl. Same.
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