1:44 PM
You see, it was what is called a pun. The green version of new world sweet pepper (which is the unripened version of the more colorful red, yellow, or orange ones) is called a 'bell' pepper because of its presumed shape like a large bell.
If you ask me it doesn't look much like such a bell.
But you didn't ask me, so there it is.
Whereof one cannot speak one must keep silent.
This all reminds me of the first time I went to Taco Bell.
There's a story about why it is named Taco 'Bell' but I'll let others tell that. I'm here to tell my own story.
In my story, I am a preteen, because that's the age I was when this story happened.
And as stories go, it's easier to lie when you keep closer to the truth.
So being a preteen and frankly McDonald's crazy, my eyes skipped past the scads of entirely new Spanish labels, tostada, taco, enchilada, enchirito, and landed on the 'Bell' Burger.
Because who wants all that weird stuff, I want a burger.
Of course, if you've ever worked behind the scenes at Taco Bell, and I certainly haven't, you'd be very aware that absolutely everything at Taco bell is made from a subset of ingredients. ground beef, cheese, lettuce, tomato, and some special prep or edible holder. A tostada with a flat hard corn meal shell, a taco with a bent hard corn meal shell, an enchilada with no shell and the cheese is melted, an enchirito the same but with a soft tortilla wrapping it.
And the 'Bell' burger the same as the taco ingredients but a bun instead of a taco shell.
How was it, you might ask.
It was no McD's quarter pounder with cheese.
Which, at one point in my preteen life, I had everyday for lunch one summer vacation week. That's probably another story.