Taco John's on Kennedy Drive in Bradley, IL
There aren’t many chain restaurants that I miss, but Taco John’s is one of them. Everyone always thought I was crazy for preferring Taco John’s over Taco Bell, but I loved Taco John’s.
When I was growing up, they used to give free tacos for A’s on your report card. You’d bring in the report card, they’d give you a taco then mark the report card so you couldn’t try to use it again. As stupid as it sounds, it was always an incentive to get A’s. We knew if we did, we get a trip for tacos.
Once we got too old for that, we would always hit up the store on Tuesday for “Taco Tuesday” All tacos were half price and my mom could feed two growing boys for half price. Not a bad deal.
Taco John’s kind of fell out of my life until I moved to Peoria. I worked in one of Peoria’s suburbs and right down the street was a Taco John. I know this is going to surprise most people, but folks working in small town television news make about the same as fast food employees who don’t have thousands of dollars in student loans to pay off, so anytime I could pick up a cheap meal, I did. Every Tuesday, you could find me at the Taco John’s where I could get six hardshell tacos for under $4. Read the rest of this entry »
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