When Taco Bell execs learned that residents of Bethel had been fooled by a hoax into believing that the fast-food chain was opening up shop in their remote Alaskan town, they quickly arranged to have 10,000 Doritos Locos Tacos airlifted in from Anchorage, some 350 miles away.

Last month, the 6,200 residents of Bethel, Alaska, got their collective hopes up after news spread that a Taco Bell restaurant was opening in town.

O, little town of Bethel, Alaska. Things were finally looking up for you.

Hey guys, diners, everybody gather 'round please: change of plans for lunch today, and every day. Chipotle is OUT. Taco Bell's new "Cantina" menu is in. Because Taco Bell now has high quality upscale foohahahaha sorry, wait, hahahaha, wait. Sorry. I really tried to keep a straight face there.

Taco Bell announced last Friday that its Doritos Locos Tacos — that's a taco with a nacho cheese-flavored Doritos shell — has been sold over 100 million times in the last 10 weeks, becoming the company's most successful product launch ever.

A messed-up order allegedly led a Huber Heights man to drive his pick-up truck through the front door of a local Taco Bell early this morning.

Today is the national launch of Taco Bell's newest bit of God-defying food sodomy, the "Doritos Locos Taco." The inside is your standard Taco Bell Taco; the outside, a hard taco-shaped Dorito. I had some today — to assist Gizmodo's Sam Biddle for his review — and now I'm going to give you the lowdown.

David Novak is the CEO of Yum! Brands, the company that owns KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. He is the man most directly responsible for populating the world with fast food restaurants. He is also a horrible date:

Taco Bell is not going to be serving breakfast. That would be gross. Taco Bell is serving First Meal. It's the meal that comes after Fourth Meal. It's a meal that you eat at about the same time that you would eat breakfast, but which bears no resemblance to the "food" that normal humans would consume, for…

After drinking enough to allegedly register a .227 on a blood alcohol content test, Florida person Matthew Falkner went to a Jensen Beach Taco Bell, ordered some tacos, then passed out in his pick-up truck while waiting in the drive-thru—just like you sometimes do! Taco Bell drive-thrus are comforting.

Getting home with your big bag of Taco Bell only to find that the guy behind the counter forgot your "Border Sauce"—we've all been there, right? The thing is, most of us probably didn't go back to the Bell with a shotgun.

Is there anything more gratifying than quitting a crappy job in dramatic, bridge-incinerating fashion? I don't think there is! But maybe we could ask Adam, former Taco Bell shift manager, since he seems to have some experience in that department. Adam submitted his sign-based resignation ("I QUIT - ADAM/FUCK YOU :)")…

Although the lawsuit that claimed Taco Bell only used 36% beef has now been dropped, the fast food chain isn't about to let the damage to their public image slide so easily. They use 88% beef, and how dare someone suggest otherwise!

The Taco Bell lawsuit that caused a nation to stare down at the half-eaten Gorditas in their hands and question the true nature of the oily, meat-like substance that filled them has been withdrawn.

If you enjoyed Taco Party, then you'll love the idea of Michael Ian Black being the next Taco Bell spokesman. In this video, he turns to politics—specifically, our Commander in Chief—for a chance to fulfill his dream.

Here, a man tries to use a legal US gold coin (valued at over $1,400) to purchase a Taco Bell taco. Luckily for him, the drive thru cashier didn't accept it - that would've been one pretty pricy taco!

Taco Bell is facing a class action suit over claims that the company's taco meat is only 36% actual beef, along with "extenders" and other crap. The company has now taken out a "snarky" ad to defend its Secret Recipe.

Bummed out about the recent discovery that Taco Bell's meat is really only 35% meat? Stephen Colbert investigates with a Beefy Crunch Burrito.

Wrigley's gum just pulled its ads from MTV's teen drama Skins because the show is too sexxy. Taco Bell and GM have done the same. From now on, all teens must have sex in Fords while chewing Trident.