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Are Tacos tax deductible? Nevertheless, the chain sells about million of them per year, all without having changed its basic recipe—seasoned meat lump, two triangles of American cheese, some shredded iceberg lettuce, and a little sauce—in around 50 years. The main difference is that today's Jack in the Box taco meat mixture now has some textured vegetable-based proteins in there, too.

In another commercial , a young woman and a puppet version of Mr. Box, chilling out in bean-bag chairs, discuss the pros and cons of having spoons for hands before Puppet Jack suggests a late-night food run. Aside from implementing a new and more stringent food-safety program, Jack in the Box responded by rebranding with a revamp of its clown mascot as a "no-nonsense, smart-talking exec. Coli incident and If the food from Jack in the Box doesn't suit your refined palate, you had best keep it to yourself.

Because if Jack finds out, he will beat you down into submission. Don't believe us? Just look to this commercial that parodied COPS. In the ad titled "The Visit," Jack visits Brad Haley, a man who has been calling the restaurant "junk in the box" and proceeds to drag Haley onto the lawn and force feed him a burger, fries, and shake.

When Haley eventually agrees that the food is good Jack reminds his critic that he could snap his "arm like a twig. Alright, so we can't talk about Jack without addressing the ping-pong ball that he has for a head, despite having a normal human body. So what's up with that? Well, according to Jack in the Box's website, the odd clown head is some sort of genetic mutation that only affects males in Jack's family tree.

That's right, women like Jack's wife Cricket and mother are completely normal human females, while Jack's father and son have clown heads just like Jack. Yeah, it's weird. While we're on the subject of Jack's family, we might as well point out that it's a little dysfunctional. Running a million-dollar fast food empire, Jack is obviously the most successful member of the family, but he also has some hick cousins in Philly who have mullets growing out of their clown heads and probably enjoy such pastimes as throwing rocks at passing trains.

Even more intriguing, is that another ad revealed Jack has a cousin serving time in prison. What Jim Box is serving time for is never made totally clear, but given Jack's penchant for violence and Jim saying he'd "kill" for a bonus jack combo, he's probably not doing hard time for insider trading. It's not easy being Jack. Despite the success he's brought Jack in the Box since his return, he was nearly killed again in when he was run over by a bus.

In the Super Bowl ad , Jack is seen talking with a colleague as he crosses an intersection at the ironically named Hope street when he's creamed by a city bus. With a cracked ping-pong head, the fate of Jack remained uncertain with viewers being encouraged to visit hangintherejack.

The commercial was part of a lengthy marketing campaign that saw Jack waking up out of his coma in order to prevent the company from changing its name to Phil in the Box. Of course, the real reason for the ad campaign was that the company was redoing its logo, which included a bigger emphasis on the word "Jack," as well as an expanded menu. Considering that 67, people signed up to receive updates on Jack's hospitalization, it's evident that sometimes it pays to run over your mascot with a bus.

Jack is a man of the people and that doesn't just mean giving the public dirt cheap combo meals, but going so far as to serve the as their commander-in-chief. Or at least attempt to do so, anyway. The fast food franchise ran a hokey ad portraying Jack as a family man and politician in-touch with the issues Americans cared about: education, the environment, and milkshakes. Jack didn't stop with just a single commercial though, and the company released pins and bumper stickers that read "Back Jack for President" and "Don't blame me I voted for Jack.

He directed the first commercial " Jack's Back " and has directed every subsequent commercial in the series. It has since become the longest running fast food commercial campaign with over commercials at an average of 22 per year. Considered the "gatekeeper" of the character, Sittig has been called "the font of Jack's continuity" and is given a lot of autonomy from Jack in the Box. Sittig went by the nickname "Dick" for decades until he switched to Rick after an encounter with Meat Loaf.

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