The Story: If you love the idea of a Drive Thru Diet, but not a big burrito fan, we’ve got some other options to melt those pounds away in no time.
The Search: Drive Thru Diet
Anyone who has ever sampled the fine fast food fare at a Taco Bell is well aware that Gorditas and Chalupas are much more likely to cause bowel irritation than weight loss stimulation. There’s a reason the brand slogan is “run for the border” and not “take a leisurely jog around Lake Texcoco.” Anything less than a full out sprint to the bathroom following the inhalation of a few beef tacos will most likely result in pants being unpleasantly soiled. So when Taco Bell decided to pull a Jared and claim some dietary benefit from gorging oneself on stomach churning goodies from their drive-thru menu, it seemed like something was rotten in the state of Denmark’s underpants. Nonetheless, the speedy soft taco peddler pressed on with their Drive-Thru Diet promotion, insisting in its commercials that while the results weren’t typical, a mysterious character named Christine had lost 54 lbs by repeatedly ingesting low-grade meat, cheese, and veggies. Taco Bell has yet to back away from said claim that the newly svelte spokesperson unpacked her pounds by ordering from the comfort of her own driver’s seat, but are now admitting that the “Drive-Thru Diet” isn’t really much of a diet and that if you think that alone it is going to make you thin, well then you’re probably pretty stupid (our words not theirs). However, if you were that gullible in the first place, we have a few more “healthy” diets that you might want to undertake to turn your waistline frown upside down…or force you to buy bigger pants. (more…)
















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