Due to the wild, unbridled popularity of last Wednesday night’s Mr. Taco blitz during our regularly scheduled Radial service (in which a grown man dressed in a giant taco costume ran out on stage and tossed free hard-shelled tacos into the audience while yelling the phrase, “Eat my babies!”), we here inside the Radial Braintrust decided to go the extra mile and empower you with all the necessary instruction to build your own one-of-a-kind human-sized taco suit. Please, try not to seize with excitement, though…how could you not?
Materials Needed:
- Foam mattress pad
- Scissors
- Brown leotard (or the less cool brown pants & shirt)
- Green, yellow, red & black construction and/or crepe paper
- Glue
- Cotton
Assembly Instructions:
- Buy a cheap foam mattress pad. Cut the corners of the square off so it resembles a rounded taco shell.
- Paint the mattress pad yellow. Draw little dark spots all over it so it looks like a sufficiently cooked-up taco shell.
- Throw on some dark clothes–like a brown leotard or brown pants and a brown shirt (though the leotard is preferred). You want it to look like your body is the beef in the taco.
- Glue or tape various shapely pieces of green & yellow crepe or construction paper all over your dark colored clothing. This will be the lettuce & cheese.
- Make tomatoes by gluing crumpled balls of red construction paper to yourself.
- If you’re going taco supreme style, add other ingredients–like olives, onions or jalapenos–by cutting out these shapes in different-colored construction paper. Don’t worry if your olives don’t look like olives, you’re just going for the overall taco appearance (obviously).
- Buy some cotton and spread it evenly over the other ingredients of your costume so it looks like a generous dose of sour cream. You could even color some of the cotton green so it looks like guacamole (if you’re crazy-awesome).
- If you really want to take it to the next level: Wear an obnoxiously thick fake handlebar mustache and a sombrero.
- Get ready to be overwhelmed with complements directed at your ingenuity, style & general pizazz.
Tony totally tried this he even went crazy and colored the cotton green with a sharpie, yay guacamole! He was pretty proud of the awesomness of the taco suite so he made me drive him to San Tan village sombrero and all (he had to forego the mustache because he grows facial hair like a 12 year old boy). Anyways all was well until he encountered a hungry mob of teenagers who chased him down and in the mad rush for his life his hand few back within reach of one of the students and the dude bit his finger off. Realizing Tony was not a tasy giant taco the guy spit out his finger and the mob left sad and hungry No worries the great doctors down at county were able to reattach his finger although backwards. You will have to come to Radial Mesa on Wednesday and check it out. Thanks Radial for the great idea now Tony will always have a cool trick to entertain people at parties.
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