Taco Tuesday Origins
By Loretta
@noni1959 (13048)
United States
June 28, 2023 12:28am CST
Taco John's trademarked Taco Tuesday back in 1989. Taco Bell is petitioning to free the phrase so others can use it.
Taco John's was not the first to use this phrase but was the first to get it trademarked.
The first documented use of the phrase was in 1973 with South Dakota's Snow-White Drive-in would advertise for people to stop by on Taco Tuesday.
I'm curious how this will end.
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@thebos (5960)
• Kisumu, Kenya
28 Jun 23
@evilamericans wow thanks, is it delicious than pizza
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@MarieCoyle (59252)
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28 Jun 23
Others do use it in a way. People everywhere say Taco Tuesday, and I have seen it posted in many Mexican restaurants (not chain restaurants). I don't see how anyone could stop them all from using it now. It might be trademarked, but a lot of people won't pay attention.
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@MarieCoyle (59252)
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29 Jun 23
@noni1959
Kind of like the Coke/Pepsi thing. When a restaurant doesn't specify which they have and call everything ''Coke'' and what they are serving is Pepsi, or the other way around, yes, they are usually informed that they cannot do that.
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@toniganzon (77209)
• Philippines
28 Jun 23
Didn't know that the phrase taco Tuesday is trademarked. We use it here a lot.
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@toniganzon (77209)
• Philippines
29 Jun 23
@noni1959 They would be spending a lot of money suing them coz a lot of businesses, including social media influencers, all over the world are using the phrase.
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@noni1959 (13048)
• United States
29 Jun 23
@toniganzon I agree. I don't know how they were allowed to get the rights since it was out there for so long.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
29 Jun 23
No tacos here and so whatever it mean I would not know.
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