Thursday, April 23, 2015

Two Words: Taco Cannon

Who knew that #TacoCannon would be such a big thing?

I'm just minding my business yesterday and all of a sudden my Twitter feed explodes with news of the Voodoo Taco #TacoCannon.



It all started with this Tweet from @TacoVoodoo:
And it exploded (literally) from there.

At one point, #TacoCannon was the #1 trending topic on Twitter in Omaha:


It got coverage from @SBNation:
and @SInow (Sports Illustrated):


USA Today covered it:
http://ftw.usatoday.com/2015/04/taco-cannon-university-of-nebraska-omaha-taco-cannon-hello-yes

The Omaha World-Herald food writer even weighed in:
http://www.omaha.com/go/omaha-now-has-a-cannon-that-shoots-tacos/article_3d9c56be-e93c-11e4-95bc-5b33ea5626dc.html

And this:
... and even "And Then There's Omaha" guy from @INCH weighed in:

And this (which made me laugh):

It also spawned at least one meme:
And KETV's Thor Tripp did a story on it:


We're six months (exactly!) from the opening of the new UNO arena. And it just keeps getting better and better!


Update (10:26 a.m. 4/23/15):
CNN is also covering this #breakingnews story, and even quoted us:
http://www.cnn.com/2015/04/23/living/feat-taco-cannon/index.html

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