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Taco Bell's Fast Food Origin Story
An unassuming Mexican restaurant in San Bernardino, Mitla Café, planted the seeds for two tortilla-based chain restaurants: Taco Bell and Del Taco. In this clip, Lost LA host Nathan Masters joins Los Angeles Times columnist Gustavo Arellano for tacos at this lesser-known landmark of fast food history in California's Inland Empire, an area where Mexicans were once segregated from whites.
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