Taco Bell Is Taking the Naked Chicken Chalupa Off Its Menu

• Sorry, dreamers: Less than a month after breaking the internet with the launch of its Naked Chicken Chalupa (aka “the taco with the fried chicken shell”), Taco Bell has announced its sunset, as planned. The stunt menu item will disappear from menus sometime in March, the OC Register reports, dashing the hopes held by many that Taco Bell would turn the previously announced “limited time offer” into a more permanent menu item. (“That’s one of the shortest limited-time offers I’ve ever seen by Taco Bell,” notes the Register’s Nancy Luna.) If you’re one of those diners wishing for consistent access to poultry taco shells, consider going the petition route, as diners have done on behalf of the Quesalupa and the Daredevil Ghost Pepper Griller.

UPDATE: A Taco Bell representative sends a vaguely promising statement from corporate: “The Naked Chicken Chalupa was always planned as a limited-time offer and because it has proven to be popular and exceeded expectations, we’re confident it will be returning to the menu in the future.”

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