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— DEEP INSIDE TACO BELL’S DORITOS LOCOS TACOSeasoning was [a] major issue, which was as much of a challenge of taste as it was for manufacturing. “A Doritos chip is a flat triangle, and it gets seasoned by being tumbled around in a huge seasoner barrel that rotates. But we couldn’t do that with a taco shell because they would break. We could get the seasoning to stick to the top but we couldn’t get it to stick to the bottom—we just couldn’t get it evenly coated,” Creed recalls. “You don’t want to take one big bite at one end, and it has flavor and the other end has nothing. We had to make sure it was evenly distributed.” “That was the really tricky part,” Gomez says. “Just like anything in manufacturing, it’s all about speed and efficiency. So our seasoner had to season shells fast and it had to season them right every single time. We had teams of engineers working day and night to get the seasoner working.”
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“We tried bacon-wrapped whale in Iceland, it was probably the weirdest thing I’ve ever had,” says Brooks Reynolds, founder of the festival. “Who doesn’t love bacon? It takes me back to eating a BLT on my parents’ back deck as a kid. I think it’s always been a popular food, but it’s not just for breakfast anymore.”
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But avoiding dairy also comes with a warning. “There are compounds in plants that bind to calcium and prevent you from absorbing it,” Anding says. “Although they’re good sources of calcium on paper, physiologically, the amount of calcium is not so great. Dairy calcium is biologically available, meaning you absorb what’s in the product.” The way around this, she adds, is to “make sure you’re varying your sources.” While nothing can undo the effects of these compounds, in general, vitamin D helps your body absorb calcium—so make sure you get enough of this, too. (The government recommends 15 micrograms of vitamin D per day.)
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