Old Taco Bell Commercials from the 1980's | Retro Fast-Food Commercials

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Do you have a favorite Taco Bell memory? Leave a comment below and let us know!

[@jessicac5934]

Yea when the prices where low and Menu was big but i love the old style colors I rem getting Taco Bell all the time still do :)

[@nicoleberry2750]

@RememberTheseAds? Yes. I remember having Nachos Bell Grande when I was younger. They were so good.

[@nicoleberry2750]

@RememberTheseAds? I would like to know if I could please have your email address.

[@robwebnoid5763]

I have 2 good Taco Bell memories ... 1. For lunch, we would buy those 10-20 crunchy taco box packs for cheap, probably around 10-20 years ago. It's probably more expensive now. 2. I remember the chihuahua mascot television commercials, even for the Godzilla 1998 movie, as it reminds me of those times in the late 1990's.

[@goku180000]

Lol nothing better than eating some taco bell & watching these old school taco bell commercials! I highly recommend it haha

[@michaelolin2219]

Agreed, if only the prices and quality are what they were back then

[@FlyDog79]

@@michaelolin2219💯

[@Lordylbc]

I literally just did this 🌮 🌯

[@goku180000]

Lol this most recent I repeat I am doing it again 😂 cant go wrong with taco bell! 👍🏼

[@GULFUFOs]

Amen, doing this right now!

[@etxkevin7452]

I wish we could go back to the quality it was in the 80s.

[@MrGraeme1997]

Same, cause that was also the same quality it was in the 60s & 70s as well.

[@campbellmarty36]

70’s,80’s… the best!!. 90’s started the demise thanks to the WONDERFUL Bill Clinton!!. It’s gone to 💩 since then and has NOT slowed up!… BUT I guess it has to get shittier before the end I guess!!. Hell,at least I had a few good years!!!. 🙄

[@wadessirenvideos6750]

Yes, I agree. I plan to replicate the 1980's style Taco Bell seasoned Taco meat, refried beans, Taco Lites, Mexican Pizza, right in my own kitchen. If I am successful I might make videos to share with you all. If I can find the right accessories, I would like to fry a Taco Salad shell in a Dutch oven since it is deep enough.

[@tanneredge9774]

It will never happen. It will only continue to get worse.

[@davidsalvador8989]

@@tanneredge9774 Atleast until the currency collapses.

[@toddprater14]

Worked there in high school 86-88… a regular taco was .39 and it cost them .19 to make…a bean burrito was .59…used to get 2 tacos and a bean burrito for 1.37 plus tax…

[@roachtoasties]

I still laugh at 2:20. The actors have faces like they're totally enjoying the taste of their Beefy Tostadas, but they're not even eating them. They're just touching the food with their lips and saying "yum, yum." I noticed in these 80's commercials the customers are dressed casually. In looking at late 70's commercials, there are Taco Bell commercials where male customers are dressed in suit and ties and the women are equally as dressed up. I guess Taco Bell management was under the illusion that going to their Taco Bells was the same as going to a wedding.

[@erinmefford8041]

That's actress vernee Watson she has been acting since the 1970's on shows like welcome back kotter she played will smith's mom in fresh prince of Bel-Air

[@KSmithwick1989]

😂 It reminds me of AI models trying to eat like regular people.

[@alleyj826]

I’m dying at the “taka taka taka Taco Bell”

[@jimmurray9204]

Eating taco bell and watching these is surprisingly satisfying

[@tenshi890]

I was born in '87 so it's kind of hard for me to imagine any kind of fast food being as dirt cheap as it was back then by today's 'dollar value' standard.

[@sofiadzina2049]

I was also born in 1987

[@moneyman4740]

Idk y , being born in 87 means u experienced some of the late 90’s and early 2000’s when fast food was still some what cheap as a young teen

[@hankhill3417]

The breakfast ‘country’ burrito was amazing in 1990’s . $.59 and I could eat 10

[@palletwizard]

The third commercial was from 1979. And I’m a 4 year veteran of working at Taco Bell. Even seen the original location when it was parked outside of their headquarters in Irvine.

[@babydollsparkle1236]

A few of these look like 70's commercials!

[@zaammy3584]

5:58 There’s no way in hell that little girl didn’t spit out that entire bite, considering it was all just lettuce and cold cheese.

[@scotttrammell3913]

When I was in High School, I practically lived on Taco Bell's Mexi-Melts and their soft tacos. Nowadays, I really like the Crunchwrap Supreme.

[@tango-bravo]

5:25 William h. Macy?!?!

[@firemiracle]

I miss the times taco bell used to sell toys. I remember that when i was little, my parents would take me to taco bell in the weekends and always made sure that i would get a toy. My most favorites were the goosebumps and Nintendo 64 themed toys 😊

[@JamesRDavenport]

LMAO "Make a RUUUUN...for the borrrddder!" Reminds me of when I was a kid and my Dad when he'd hear that jingle "Yeah, run for the border, then run to the toilet to take a shiiiiiit!"

[@JazznRealHipHop]

5:16 for a second there thought I saw Mark Hamill 😆

[@jesseroggio7260]

That's a very young William H. Macy.

[@JazznRealHipHop]

@@jesseroggio7260 nice! Knew he looked familiar!

[@gmgssilverplate]

The tacos were 39 cents at the beginning of the video then they raised them to 59 cents in the middle of the video. Thats still 40% inflation!

[@vincentbethea2288]

I remember working for a taco bell thst was in the st children's hospital in orange, CA in the early 90s.

[@mrsmcintyre69]

Seafood salad? 🤮🤮 there will never be a petition to bring that back.

[@ChrisW-n4y]

Thank you! Finally I can once again hear: “eat?” “The Bowl?”

[@brandonbarker6009]

Bring back the steak fajita!!

[@yuriMartyr]

i love how old ads are ripped so bad i genuiunely struggle identifying this guy as a human

[@melissarohner3049]

Why’s this actually kind of cute and entertaining 😂

[@zaammy3584]

6:31 That kid looks like he’s fearing for his life, the way that guy tells him “I’m gonna break it too” he’s threatening his ass lmfao

[@FlyDog79]

Anyone else remember the 10 taco pack? I think it was only 10$ too.

[@crystalh450]

They still have that.

[@rjoyhelvie]

Oh gosh. John Dye in that first one. Seeing his face and hearing his voice again hurts; I've been kinda avoiding watching any of his stuff since his untimely death... (yeah, yeah, I know, it's been over a decade now, but sometimes it hits me out of the blue)

[@mst3kanita]

Those ladies are eating the tostadas so daintily

[@sofiadzina2049]

Getting Taco Bell for dinner tonight!

[@tm100pct7]

Back when an hour of minimum wage bought you a full meal and a deck of smokes😊

[@dabbajay]

39¢ tacos?!?, $2 meal?!?! Man I miss those days!!

[@schmeltingaccident]

I had a manager who told me how in her teens in the 80’s she worked for one, and it was pretty great. Not only did she stand by the food quality, saying that they actually chopped the lettuce, tomatoes and onions and shredded their own cheese but the beef quality was legit. And cooked in store, not just everything in sealed bags that needed only to be either dumped out or re heated. So it was better food quality for such less prices. I was born in ‘84 and Taco Bell in the 90’s was still the cheaper fast food alternative compared to the other chains, and still tasted good and never left you feeling ripped off. Now for like a couple tacos, one or two specialty items and a drink it’s like $40 :/ it’s like a Simpsons joke from the 90’s only it’s reality now.

[@skywolfx76]

Seemed taco bell didnt know WHAT to make their jingle for awhile lol seems they sticked with "taka-taka-taka taco bell" since... They obviously couldn't keep using the other one XD

[@JungGravy]

in high school after a Sat soccer game, my friends and I would each get TEN tacos and a "Paul Bunyan" Pepsi (essentially a gallon bucket). I think that cost $4

[@rmk2336]

Some of these commercials were shown more than once.

[@norseross8084]

I don’t think Americans will ever really appreciate how odd their country is

[@TantePree]

😂

[@davervmirxz4878]

2:15 that's a #Lie i used to work for Taco Bell and it was frozen meat bags that they place in a hot water box meat heater and they do that to the bag of nacho cheese sauce.

[@BLOODYTHECLOWN666]

5:55 makes jack in the box monster tacos look like minis

[@paulaward2075]

A seafood salad at Taco Bell! I don't think so!

[@BLOODYTHECLOWN666]

8:11 she thought this was really gonna kick off her acting career lol she didn’t even bite it and is chewing on air

[@KSmithwick1989]

😂 It so depressing.

[@tango-bravo]

I don’t wear rubber watches?

[@sallyphillips9175]

So many of these are repeats.

[@lisakeelan507]

I loved there cinnamon cripas

[@jesseroggio7260]

At 2:16 she says "fresh ground beef". Not anymore.

[@joeyjo-joshabadu9636]

I want a taco and 16oz drink for 99 cents 😭

[@feoyjodido1372]

6:28 the ambient microphone was seen

[@jimmurray9204]

Wait is that Frank Gallagher in the commercial at 5:14?

[@tmp197]

So where is the audio?

[@mattz5770]

8:55 that has to be Patrick Swayze.

[@davervmirxz4878]

7:47 this is what I came here for **Eats **#MexicanPizza**** :3

[@jaysunten]

Why were those ladies pretending to eat a tostada? 😅

[@TheWalkMinistry]

What happen to the kids meal

[@insiderjokevids]

I used to go to Taco Bell all the time as a kid growing up in the 80s. One time while eating a tostada with with grandma, I took a bite of it after eating about half of it, and there was actual boogers in it. I swallowed it whole. I knew that because the employees at Taco Bell were making it just for me, everything would work itself out. Just after finishing my tostada, I went for the Beef encharitos, and noticed a larger man walking by and sitting at the booth behind us. He wouldn't stop arguing with his wife Meredith, who was large as well. Both of them had some taco salads, but both couldn't figure out who's had olives and who's didn't. Well, they ate the wrong ones and ended up throwing up all over the table. Some of it splashed on to my meal, but I still ate it. Because it was made just for me. Thank you Taco Bell. I will always be back. Oh, and grandma died later that day. They made her food just for her, and she died just for them.

[@leonardmccormick376]

Wtf did I just read lmao

[@insiderjokevids]

@@leonardmccormick376 They have you in mind as well.Taco Bell cares about your health. Do good.

[@joememphis1571]

For $20 you could feed a family of four or five maybe six. Nowadays, it’s that per person. I know a Crunchwrap Supreme, five regular crunchy tacos and a medium happy hour drink was almost $17 and that was for lunch this afternoon.

[@russellgrimes3491]

You probably weigh as much as a family eating that much.

[@l0sts0ul89]

​​@@russellgrimes3491 I mean it's seems a bit much but let's not pretend the tacos are filling

[@russellgrimes3491]

@@l0sts0ul89 I know what you mean. It is outrageous to think that is a meal for a family of four. I feel bad for the kids with a dad that cheap. Lol the wife too.

[@russellgrimes3491]

@@l0sts0ul89 Plus that tiny pintos and cheese. I guess everybody gets half a teaspoon.

[@XANDERSTUFFBOT2]

i think the 1st ad was copying a old Startrek episode

[@gabbycapers4335]

make a run for the border???... pause

[@tommartin4089]

KLAS-TV Channel 8 Aired The Taco Bowl Salad At Taco Bell 1984 Commercial Taken From The $100,000 Name That Tune Jim Lange And The Price Is Right Bob Barker

[@norseross8084]

America puts the “art” in artificial

[@GoldenEmperor5Manifest]

Undeniably better times than today and yet, we can't go back. If we try to be radically conservative and bring back the old days it won't solve our problems. We won't have the economy we did, just look at that dollar. I remember .39 and even .10 cent tacos at taco restaurants. Heck, in 1987-88 Taco Mayo in Oklahoma did those 10 cent deals where you could eat until you were dizzy for nothing. Now even the cheapest developing places in the world like Thailand are charging roughly 1/3rd of what we charge for things. The global economy is just inflated, it's not even America. Bizarrely, 20 years ago Japan was unaffordable and now you can live on about 1/3rd of what you need in the US. That's bonkers when you think about it and if you eat taco bell there you'll probably have 3x the menu with some cool teriyaki tacos or something that you can't get state side.

[@hankhill3417]

All white folks in commercial

[@ryankiesel4610]

And?

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

Western world was very unequal and genocide was normalised that time. No wander why minorities were not there.

[@joepajestka8213]

Now there wouldn't be any.............

[@russellgrimes3491]

The good old days.

[@angelbaila6204]

2:05 Vernee Watson

[@daliamedina7426]

Seafood salad from Taco Bell? Yuck!

[@ivorysmith239]

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[@Allison-ti5vv]

Oh shut up with that

[@GoldenEmperor5Manifest]

Are we going to Taco Hell? 🔥🔥🌮🔥🔥

[@alliechampagne1404]

These are killing me with cringe.

[@nicoleberry2750]

@RememberTheseAds I would like to know if you take requests because I may have one. Can you please send me a notification via KZbin?

[@mamatemari6061]

I was born in 1993 and that’s the Taco Bell I remember