Singer Wins Taco Contest He Didn't Enter

Posted on Oct 15th 2007 4:15PM by David Sprague
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There's a well-worn adage that if you give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day, and if you teach him to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. Being a bit more post-modern in our mindset, we always believed that if you gave an indie-rocker five-hundred bucks worth of chalupas, he'd be able to eat for as long as his bandmates allowed him to ride in the van in the aftermath of refried-bean overload, but apparently, we thought wrong.

Jersey giant Ted Leo, it seems, was awarded five-large worth of coupons for Taco Bell merchandise as part of the chain's "Feed the Beat" promotion -- an "honor" the singer has opted to turn down because a) he never entered the contest in the first place and b) he's a staunch supporter of PETA, which strongly opposes the notion of dousing our avian brethren in guacamole and scarfing 'em down. Leo issued a statement reading, in part, "We have contacted Taco Bell and have found out that someone submitted an application from [an e-mail] address that is not ours, so we have, in fact, been pranked. Taco Bell is now removing our name from everything associated with this dumb-ass "Muy Caliente! Side Stage at the Altell Garden Party Pavillion" bullshit. Perhaps we could interest Mr.Leo in an all-you-can-eat Soyrizo contest we're thinking of sponsoring.

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