There's a wide variety of foods in the mainstream emojis used in messaging services like Line or WhatsApp, but it's been made clear that there's no taco emoji for now; and, according to Tex-Mex fast food chain Taco Bell, that is just completely unacceptable.
In the funniest campaign the fast food world has seen in a while, Taco Bell is demanding the creation of a taco emoji so that people around the world can best express their desire and need for Mexico's most famous food without needing to bother to write the widely complicated four-letter word.
According to the Los Angeles Times, Taco Bell is so desperately looking forward to getting a taco emoji that they've actually issued a petition on a website, demanding the people in charge of creating universal emojis to step up and make one of the delicious Mexican dish.
The taco emoji petition has been placed on Change.org, a website that mostly hosts campaigns for nonprofit organizations and politics, being used by organizations like Amnesty International and the Humane Society for topics like education, the environment, justice and human rights - not usually about the creation of food emojis pushed by fast food chains.
According to The Huffington Post, the Taco Bell petition is directed at The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization that controls the different coding standards for emojis, as well as their general descriptions at the time of creating them.
A few months ago, this organization said they had accepted 37 candidates for new emojis, including one for a middle finger offense, but they're still in the process of deciding the official ones - which is right where Taco Bell created its niche, asking for the creation of one representing the taco.
"Why do pizza and hamburger lovers get an emoji but taco lovers don't?," asked Taco Bell on the petition, according to ABC30. "America wants a taco emoji. America needs a taco emoji."
