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It’s been a year since we first got wind of the Taco Bell “Quesalupa” — or as Conan O’Brien put it, the “case of lupus” — and 11 months since the company began testing the vaguely taco-like object (complete with a soft, cheese-stuffed shell) in Dayton, Ohio. Now it looks like the Bell is set to unleash this menu item nationwide.

BrandEating.com reports that the Quesalupa will launch during the Super Bowl on Feb. 7. Presumably, this is what the company was trying to tease in that heavily redacted not-really-a-press-release last week.

Even though the secret appears to have been spilled by this news, TB is going to try to drag out the news through more teasers and “ambiguous activities” in the run up to the big game. Then we’ll all see the commercial and continue gorging on whatever food is already in front of us.

Early reviews of the Quesalupa were fine but nothing to brag about — one reader told us that it tastes like a Chalupa, “but a lot more cheesy” — which makes us wonder why Taco Bell thinks this product is worth the advertising blitz. The company did manage to strike orange-colored gold with its Dorito-shelled tacos, but that was something that many Bell fans had been pipe-dreaming about for years.

When it comes to trying to sneak drugs into the country, ne’er-do-wells keep coming up with creative ways to disguise their illicit goods, keeping law enforcement on their toes. Someone must’ve hired Bugs Bunny to do some sleuthing in Texas, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents discovered a shipment of carrots that included a few thousand orange things that weren’t of the vegetable variety.

Officials say they found a ton of marijuana packed into 2,800 long, orange packages that were hidden inside a commercial shipment of fresh carrots, reports CBS DFW, with a street value of about $500,000.

The subterfuge was uncovered when agents stopped a tractor-trailer at the Pharr International Bridge along the Texas-Mexico border near the Gulf of Mexico.

“Once again, drug smuggling organizations have demonstrated their creativity in attempting to smuggle large quantities of narcotics across the U.S./Mexico border,” said Port Director Efrain Solis Jr., Hidalgo/Pharr/Anzalduas Port of Entry. “Our officers are always ready to meet those challenges and remain vigilant towards any type of illicit activities.”

It’s unclear who came up with the carrot idea, but it’s not the first time we’ve seen drugs disguised as consumer products coming into the country: customs officials in Miami had a problem with cocaine and heroin hidden in flower shipments, and law enforcement agents once found $250,000 worth of meth inside Snickers bar wrappers.

After months of being repeatedly kicked in the butt by humiliating outbreaks of E. coli and norovirus outbreaks, Chipotle has decided it’s time to take a short breather to sit down with its employees to talk through this recent crisis.

Last week, we heard chatter on the Chipotle grapevine that stores were being closed for the day on Feb. 8 for some sort of meeting, but that staffers were being given no indication of what might be said. Store closings? Staffing changes? Updates to the menu?

We reached out to Chipotle for comment at the time and received no response. But today the Wall Street Journal confirms that stores will indeed be temporarily shuttered on Feb. 8, if only for a few hours.

According to the Journal, the all-staff meetings will be a chance for company executives to be transparent about the status of the E. coli outbreak, and what Chipotle is doing to prevent it from happening again.

While we don’t know the source of the latest outbreak, raw vegetables can be the culprit. To that end, Chipotle has already discussed some changes to its food prep and cooking procedures. These include dipping onions in boiling water to kill germs, adding the cilantro to the rice when the rice is still hot, using lemon and lime juice to kill pathogens in onions and other fresh ingredients.

Additionally, Chipotle will begin pre-shredding/chopping many non-meat ingredients — cheese, onions, tomatoes, cilantro — at centralized locations, rather than at the stores. That would allow Chipotle to test samples of these ingredients before they are shipped out to restaurants.

Chipotle’s stock price sits is currently down around 40% off its 52-week high, as the outbreak news hurt sales more than had been expected. The company has advised investors that it could be a few rocky quarters before Chipotle sees a definitive, positive improvement.

In an effort to bring back some of the customers it’s lost, Chipotle co-CEO Monty Moran said Wednesday it will be doubling the amount of free food restaurants can give away to its customers, reports CNBC.com.

It’s been handing out freebies since “the old days,” but the practice had diminished recently, CFO Jack Hartung said in an interview.

“We’ve always had it, but it just kind of drifted to such a low-grade level that it was kind of non-existent.”

He says the company sent out an email detailing just how much restaurants could increase their giveaways and reward customers, but executives declined to share the specific allowance.

Any fan knowledgeable of the history of Bo Jackson and the Nike cross-training line should be able to identify the inspiration behind this new colorway of the Air Trainer 3. Of course, it’s Bo’s Los Angeles Raiders team, which is featured on the casual-minded suede version of the Trainer 3—minus the original mid-foot strap for a cleaner look—in a clean half black, half grey color block with a speckled midsole. The Air Trainer 3 LE “Raiders” is available now for purchase at select Nike Sportswear retailers like Oneness.

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The site of newspapers in the window of Mexico Restaurant, 694 Lee St., left some residents scratching their heads.

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