Taco Bell Campaigns For Taco Emoji

  • 9 years ago
Fast-food chain Taco Bell began a social media campaign and a petition to attempt to convince the Unicode Consortium that a taco emoji must be included in their update.

There are plenty of food emojis available to be added to text messages, including steak and pizza. Now a taco emoji is in the running to be added.

Fast food chain Taco Bell is fully supporting it, starting both a social media campaign and a petition on Change.org to add a taco to the current emojis available.

So far, almost 27,000 people have signed the petition. To further their cause, the company has also unveiled "Taco Emoji" t-shirts, retailing for $22.99.

This is all because the non-profit organization in charge of computer text, Unicode Consortium, announced in November 2014 that 37 new emoticons had been submitted for consideration when they update their system.

A taco is amongst those 37, which also include prayer beads, racially diverse faces and a cricket bat.

Taco fans will have to wait to see if th

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