Remember When Taco Bell Bought the Liberty Bell? No? Better Watch This

An ambitious marketing stunt that's undeservedly forgotten

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With social media setting the agenda nowadays, brands will go to ever greater lengths to get attention. Why else would Red Bull sponsor a guy jumping 24 miles from the edge of space to earth? Or Cheetos open a fine-dining restaurant serving… Cheetos? But head-turning stunts are not an invention of the social media era.

In fact, one of the chanciest marketing gambits took place 22 years ago—roughly a decade before the world had ever heard of Twitter or YouTube.

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