- What's Jack in the Box hiding in their tacos?
- Let's talk about that.
(quirky upbeat music)
(fire roaring)
- Good mythical morning.
- Hello, and hello, Rhett.
Good to see you again. - Hey, Link.
- Via split screen.
- How you doing?
You look just as isolated as ever.
- Yeah, you look very lonely in your own living room.
- Yeah, I, honestly I am.
- Way to start it on a happy note.
- No, hey listen.
No, it's gonna be really happy today
because I've been doing a lot of thinking
and I'm about to share something with you and with you.
I am going to reveal the mystery of all fast food mysteries.
I am going to pull the truth top
off the Jack in the Box Taco Box.
- Okay, now I knew this was happening,
but I can't say that I am prepared for this to happen.
- Well, it doesn't matter because you're getting
another installment of Hard Truth.
All right, Link, I know the secret
behind Jack in the Box tacos
and it is going to ruin your life.
- I don't know if anything you can tell me
about Jack in the Box could ruin my life.
I'm just gonna be honest.
- Why don't you rephrase that to, you don't know anything,
because listen, did you get the Jack in the Box taco
that I mailed to you?
- Yes I did, Rhett.
I've taken it out of the packaging.
I also got the egg roll you sent me.
- Put the egg roll away.
Put the egg roll away. - Why, why do they even sell
egg rolls and tacos at a burger?
Okay, whatever.
- Hey listen.
If you behave during this, you get to eat the egg roll.
- It does smell good.
- Now, do you also have the pointer,
because I have a pointer.
It's not my typical pointer, it's a lot longer
than my typical pointer, well maybe not.
It's just a piece of bamboo that Shepherd found.
- Yes, I have the piece of stick that you sent me
that apparently Shepherd found two of.
- Now, when I point at you, like this,
I would like you to point at yourself.
Can we do that?
Point at you.
Now when I move forward, I want you
to touch yourself in the face with it
aggressively, there you go.
(groaning)
That's right, yep, okay.
So just respond to my gesturing
with your own gesturing.
- I gotta do this the whole time?
- Well, I'll probably forget
about doing it as well, but it's fine.
- Give me another shot.
- Stop, stop!
- That's good.
- Stop, stop.
All right, I can do that.
- All right, Link, get ready to dance with the devil.
Let's begin, sheeple.
Jack in the Box tacos are the most divisive item
in the fast food universe.
Countless articles have been written
about their mysterious allure,
but as always the big corporate media
is asking the wrong questions because Link,
the question has never been why, but rather what.
- What?
- Okay, so close your eyes and open your ears.
You can hear it on the wind, can you hear that?
- I actually, I can't hear anything.
I can't hear you when I take these out of my ears
and also can't hear anything on the wind.
- Well, what you're too blind to hear
is the sound of millions of people asking,
nay begging, nay weeping into the void,
what is the meat in the Jack in the Box tacos?
Why, God, why don't I know?
- The meat?
- The meat.
The meat.
Yes, Link, the meat.
- Okay.
- Okay, Link, let me ask you, and this is a simple question.
What's the meat in the Jack in the Box taco made out of?
- Well, I haven't read up on this, Rhett,
I'm sorry, but I'm gonna guess.
- Wrong!
The menu itself provides no specific
categorization such as beef tacos.
Tellingly, they are just called tacos.
These are deep fried lightning rods.
Look at this thing,
with a single slice of American cheese, purposely sealed,
you see how you can't even see into it,
purposely sealed to keep us from seeing
what's really going inside.
Jack in the Box taco, more like Pandora's Box, jocko.
- Uh, gee you're kinda right.
- Sure, the official corporate website
says they contain a mix of beef, chicken,
and textured vegetable protein,
but should we just believe what they say?
- Well, that's weird.
- Yeah, it's weird.
Does it seem like a cover-up to you?
- It seems odd.
- Okay, do you think that we should believe
what they say on the website?
- Yeah. - Wrong!
Let me give you a little bit of history, okay.
Jack in the Box has proven they cannot be trusted.
In 2007, they were sued for implying that Carl's Jr.
used cow anus to make their burgers.
In 1993, they had an outbreak of E. Coli,
and in 1981, horse meat labeled as beef was discovered
at a plant that supplied meat to Jack in the Box.
- Oh, really?
- How is that?
I see that you've taken it upon yourself
to begin eating one of the tacos.
- It's pretty tempting.
It doesn't taste horsey, if that's what you're asking.
- Link, when you assume you know what's in their meat,
you make a cow anus out of you and me.
- It doesn't taste like cow anus either,
and I've had that, I'm pretty sure.
- So if we can't trust corporations,
we should be able to reach out
and trust our fellow man, right?
Right, Link?
(crunching)
Wrong!
On the popular site Quora, Vishnu Tej,
who has a Master's in electrical engineering,
felt compelled to ask,
what are Jack in the Box tacos made from?
Was this simple question met with a simple response?
Heh heh, well does Carl's Jr. actually sell
a famous anus burger?
- Maybe.
- Stephanie Nixon, self-described employee
of Jack in the Box, responded,
"I work at Jack, but I don't know, I'll ask."
(scoffing)
Hey Link, what's that sound?
You hear that?
- Me slowly losing interest, sorry.
- That's the sound of silence coming from Stephanie
because she never responded.
- Ooh.
- Maybe she's dead, I don't know.
Maybe she just forgot, but more likely she was threatened
to remain silent because she unwittingly poked her head
into a massive, big money taco cover-up
about Jack in the Box's wicked little puzzle pockets!
Hey, Link, ask me again what they're made of.
- Hey, what are they made of?
- Can I get a drumroll please?
- All right, let me try.
(tapping on table)
- Jack in the Box tacos are made from
tuna fish.
- Tuna fish?
- Tuna fish.
- It tastes nothing like tuna fish.
I'm sitting here eating it.
- Okay, well hold on to your mother flubbin' hat, Link.
- Not wearing a hat.
- Because this fishy fact has been hiding
in plain sight the whole time.
Let me direct your attention to Exhibit A.
This is Robert O. Peterson, founder and CEO
of Jack in the Box, who just so happens
to have been obsessed and intermingled
with tuna his entire life.
- This guy with his fist on his hand?
I mean, his hand on his face.
- Yeah, his fist is on his hand as well,
(laughing)
because he's just a normal person.
His fist is usually on his hand.
Link, that's Robert O. Peterson,
the founder of Jack in the Box, and he has been
obsessed and intermingled with tuna his entire life.
In 1933, Peterson graduated from Herbert Hoover
High School in San Diego, and speaking of President Hoover,
he just so happened to be a member
of the prestigious Catalina Tuna Club of Avalon.
Hmm hmm hmm, makes you think?
Did a pubescent Peterson's passion for plenty of tuna
begin in his most formative years?
- Perhaps.
- Cut to San Diego, 1951, where tuna fishing
was the third most lucrative industry in the entire city.
You see, Link, tuna was running through the streets
of San Diego like honey,
sticky, stinky honey, honey.
- Don't.
- But what else happened in San Diego
during this historic tuna-ssaince?
Well, Robert O. Peterson opened the first ever
Jack in the Box location.
- Dun dun duh!
- What was that?
- That was dramatic emphasis from my boy.
Okay, 16 years later Peterson sold
his entire corporate fortune,
including Jack in the Box, to Ralston-Purina.
Of course, cats had to be involved
in this somehow, those tuna-loving monsters,
and just a few years after that,
a Purina warehouse in San Diego shipped 150 cans of tuna
to grocery stores across the country,
cans of tuna that accidentally contained cat food.
- Cat poo?
- Cat food.
- Oh.
- Not cat poo, that would have been bad.
Now, why was Purina shortchanging its customers
on their tuna fish?
Well, maybe they were using all of their tuna supply
somewhere else, like in their tacos.
- Dun dun duh!
(chuckling)
- I want one of those.
- [Rhett] Hey, Link, are you keeping up with me?
- I'm waiting for Shepherd to show up again.
Yeah, I'm tuning in.
- Okay, 'cause I'm not slowing down for the stragglers.
At this point, you may say, hey Rhett,
these tacos have cheese on them.
Wouldn't it be weird to put cheese on top of hot tuna?
Could you say that?
- Wouldn't it be weird to put cheese on top of hot tuna?
- No, you daft cardboard brained buffoon.
That's just a tuna melt!
- Oh.
- And you know who loves a good tuna melt?
Chrissy Teigen.
- Christy Teigen.
- No, Chrissy Teigen.
- Oh. (chuckling)
- You don't have to normalize
every woman to your own wife's name.
- Okay.
- Chrissy even has a famous tuna melt recipe,
and you know what else Chrissy Teigen loves?
Jack in the Box tacos, as she indicated
on her Twitter in 2017.
"I think my Postmate just ate my 99 cent
"Jack in the Box tacos.
"It says delivered at 11:52 but here I am,
"alone and taco free."
- Oh, Chrissy.
- Not even a sweet ballad from John Love Song Legend
can fix that taco-tastrophe.
Are you convinced yet?
- I can't say that I am.
- Okay, well I have the smoking tuna right here.
Jack in the Box tacos are famously known for being
two for 99 cents.
- Okay.
- Speaking of cents, this deal makes no sense at all,
economically, philosophically, emotionally, spiritually.
Two for nine nine?
Two four nine nine, tuna.
Two four nine nine tuna.
If you enter 2499 Tuna Canyon Rd into Google Maps,
you will see this, an otherwise undisclosed location
conveniently positioned two miles, as the crow flies,
from the Pacific Ocean and also surrounded
by over 20 Jack in the Box restaurants
within a 15 miles radius, as the crow flies.
That crow is doing a lot of flying, Link.
- Okay.
- There may be no better place on Earth
to so easily acquire tuna from the sea
and then distribute it to location after location
after location and that place just so happens to be.
- [Link] Oh gosh.
(metal banging)
- 2499 Tuna Canyon Road.
- We've been there by the way.
When we filmed the Rub Some Bacon on It music video,
we went and did the beach scene, we stopped
at that Jack in the Box beforehand and we ate there.
- So you believe.
- No, I believe that that location exists.
- Okay, well I'm not done yet, Link,
because do you know what?
Tuna actually stands for, this completely seals the deal,
do you know what tuna stands for, T-U-N-A?
- I'll say no, if an acronym is coming.
- An acronym is coming, you're right.
Tuna means Tacos Unmistakably Not Beef And Instead Tuna.
- Dun dun duh!
- There it is!
- And that's that on Jack, Jack.
(crunching)
Whoo!
- You seem relieved.
Is that it?
Have you proven your point?
- I believe so.
- Okay, you're also eating the taco.
You like a tuna taco?
It's pretty good, right.
- Yeah, it is.
Love it.
(crunching)
I didn't say it was bad.
- I can't say that it tastes any different at this point,
now that your presentation is over.
- Well, but now you know the truth and that's what matters,
and now you know the truth.
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