Taco Shell
Taco Shell is a cosmetic.
Taco Shell
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“Fresh from McDoodel's!”
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| Emoji | 
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| Fallback emoji | 🌮 |
| Special effect | Stupid food |
Obtaining
Taco Shell is obtained when eating a food item after reaching a total of 100 hours of cooldown reduction from "regular" food items. The terminal file /users/Colon/Documents/Snacks/taco.txt hints at this.
Obtaining Taco Shell unlocks the Hot Dog Stand profile theme.
Effects
No matter how many times you eat this taco, the shell grows back. Obtained by consuming 100 hours worth of regular food items.
— In-game description
When equipped, eating a food item will show the Taco Shell emoji beside the food's, and prompts special text:
- You put the [Item] in your Taco Shell and took a bite!
History
| Zoo Bot (pre-release) | |
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| November 13, 2022 | Colon shares a checklist of features to be implemented in Zoo Bot.[1] It contains a secret cosmetic labeled "T███ █████" (Tail Fluff[2]). |
| December 26, 2022 | Community member EmJay jokingly labels the secret cosmetic as "taco shell".[3] |
| Beta Testing Day 1 (February 3, 2023) | Many unequippable “stupid”[4] cosmetics are added[2], among them Taco Shell. Its description reads “emjay was right all along”.[5] |
| Beta Testing Day 3 (February 5, 2023) | Taco Shell is now obtainable.[6][7] |
| Zoo Bot | |
| v1.0 | Added Taco Shell. |
| February 23, 2023 | Following a poll[8], Taco Shell's emoji is changed to include just the shell.[9] |
| v1.4.2 | "Stupid food" effect added to Taco Shell.[10] |
References
- ↑ 13 November 2022. Message by Colon [@colon] in the
#zoo-dev-discussionchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server:“
@🔔🦊 Zoo UpdatesMade a checklist for keeping track of zoo progress
https://gdcolon.notion.site/Zoo-Bot-Progress-e66bdb0c630c45ec84f97d66b99d5ee8” - ↑ 2.0 2.1 13 December 2023. Message by Colon [@colon] in the
#zoo-talkchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server:“t___ _____ was always meant to be tail fluff, funny enough it was planned and added to the cosmetic list super early in development but not implemented until way way later
loved the memes and speculations so i added a bunch of troll ones in beta testing
taco shell and time saver come from this joke, and actually helped me a lot since i usually come up with cosmetic unlocks before their names” - ↑ 26 December 2022. Message by EmJay [@emjaycrowe] in the
#zoo-dev-discussionchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.Me when taco shell [Screenshot of the secret cosmetic, labeled to indicate that the words in its name contain 4 and 5 letters respectively]
- ↑ 13 February 2023. Message by Colon [@colon] in the
#bugschannel in the Zoo Testing server:“
stupidjust means it cant be equipped” - ↑ 3 February 2023. Message by Zoo in the
#testing-1channel in the Zoo Testing server:“🌮 Taco Shell
emjay was right all along” - ↑ 5 February 2023. Message by Colon [@colon] in the
#announcementschannel in the Zoo Testing server:“taco shell cosmetic is now obtainable by using 100 hours worth of cooldown items”
- ↑ 6 February 2023. Message by Colon [@colon] in the
#zoo-talkchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server:“icymi: taco shell real now [Screenshot of Taco Shell]”
- ↑ 22 February 2023. Poll by Colon [@colon] in the
#zoo-dev-discussionchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.r!poll edit taco shell emoji to only be the shell Option Votes Yes 8 No 3 - ↑ Message by Colon [@colon] in the
#zoo-tradingchannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server:“oh yeah emjay
taco shell is a taco shell now
[Taco Shell emoji]” - ↑ 10 July 2023. Message by Colon [@colon] in the
#zoo-updateschannel in the 9th Tail Bot Hub server.Added some fun interactions to a few more cosmetics