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Taco Bell’s Naked Egg Council Taco shells made solely listening in Lenox to outside CITY COUNCIL

voices to help solve peddler’s permit issue Food vendors to have say on committee proposing changes to ordinance

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Pictured is Taco Bell’s Naked Egg Taco, which features a taco shell made out of egg. The Naked Egg Taco shells are made in Lenox’s Michael Foods plant, where between 110,000 and 130,000 egg taco shells are made each day for Taco Bell’s promotion. The Lenox Michael Foods plant is the only location the taco shells are made.

By CARTER ECKL CNA staff reporter ceckl@crestonnews.com

LENOX – Taco Bell’s Naked Egg Taco is the most recent breakfast taco campaign put on by the billion dollar fast food company. The selling point is the Naked Egg Taco shell that holds together all the ingredients inside, creating a fried breakfast taco. A Michael Foods plant in Lenox is the sole creator of the shell the campaign is based around. The plant produces between 110,000 and 130,000 naked egg shells per production day, a 17-hour affair.

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“WE HAVE a product that is shipped pretty quickly, everything has to go through a micro-test before it leaves the facility.”

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“We have a product that is shipped pretty quickly, everything has to go through a micro-test before it leaves the facility,” Kinker said. “Then it goes to our distribution centers before it is sent to our Taco Bell distribution centers and then out to the stores from there.”

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A committee was formed to continue the discussion on changes about the peddler’s permit ordinance at Creston City Council’s regularly scheduled meeting Tuesday. The council ended the discussion by attempting to form a committee with three members on the council and owners and operators of mobile trucks in town. “I respectfully submit that some of the council and the vendors should form a committee and come up with wording that works for both because we don’t seem to Madison be able to hash it out up here,” said Ward 2 Representative Rich Madison. The three members of the council who agreed to be on

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into Iowa. The law allows for 1 liter of liquor purchased in the U.S. or 4 liters from outside the country to be personally imported. Officials say the reminder was prompted by an increase in inquiries about the law. Police say enforcing the law would require too many resources. Ackerson says the division tried to reverse the law last year, but the Legislature didn’t act on it.

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The Naked Egg Taco shell is sold in Taco Bell stores nationwide. Conceptualizing the Naked Egg Taco shells was done by Taco Bell and Michael Foods research and development teams at a smaller-scaled plant in Gaylord, Minnesota Once the idea had been hatched and mock-ups had been constructed, the production plan was brought to Lenox. The Lenox plant has a big enough production facility that it can create enough product in its single plant. However, Michael Foods operates two more plants that have the ability to work with pre-cooked egg products with one of those facilities (and Lenox) able to work with and create fried egg. The Lenox plant has worked on other projects of a similar nature and scale previously. They’ve

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DUBUQUE (AP) — Iowa lawmakers are keeping a law that makes it illegal to transport most alcohol into the state despite police saying regulation is rarely enforced. The Telegraph Herald reports that the Iowa Alcoholic Beverages Division issued a bulletin this month to remind residents about the rules. Department spokesman Tyler Ackerson says residents can’t purchase beer or wine in another state and transport it

freezer trip to preserve the quality before it’s packaged and shipped off to the distribution plants.

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The Lenox Michael Foods plant produces the shell holding the campaign together. ■

Creating a fried egg is the first step in making the shell because it allows the egg to be molded and keep its shape. The process of getting to the fried egg is pretty straightforward, according to Todd Kinker and Tyler Garrett, production managers at the Michael Foods plant in Lenox. Raw egg is brought into the plant, pasteurized to give the egg shelf life and then mixed with ingredients such as oils, butter flavoring, gums and starches. After that, the egg shell is pre-heated and put into a mold for the shell to give it that fried egg design Taco Bell has marketed so heavily. “We deposit a certain amount of white and a certain amount of yolk egg to give it that round yolk look,” said Kinker. The egg is then baked in a large 30-foot convection oven before being sentenced to a 30-minute

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the committee are Ward 4 Representative Marsha Wilson, Councilman Atlarge Steve Wintermute and Ward 1 Representative Ron Higgins. The entire council will vote on any changes the committee proposes, but business owners affected by the eventual outcome are getting a say in how the prospective ordinance changes are written. It is unclear how much say business owners will have in the decision or if this committee is open to business owners not in the mobile food vending enterprise. “We can have some kind of suggestions,” said Wintermute. “It needs to be settled,” Wilson said. “It needs to be over with.” Before deciding on the committee, council remained undecided for a majority of the discussion. Members were still torn on how to handle mobile food vendors and continued to rehash discussions from previous meetings regarding fees, exemptions and other procedures. Before suggesting the committee, Madison asked for the decision on the ordinance to be tabled entirely.

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