E541 - National Taco Day

Today is October 6 — National Taco Day — and yeah, someone actually fixed it so the holiday now falls on the first Tuesday in October, which means tacos and Taco Tuesday finally aligned. Taco Bell apparently teamed up with the National Day calendar people a few years back to make it official, because of course corporate diplomacy is a thing now. Americans chow down on more than 4.5 billion tacos a year, which sounds huge until you remember some of us eat six at a time like it’s a cardio workout. Fun fact: the word “taco” likely comes from Mexican silver miners who...