Alas, Apple has finally unveiled an updated emoji keyboard in its iOS 8.3 update. But before you start to celebrate, we need to inform you that there is NO. TACO. EMOJI.
Of course, with such an important update to modern society, some things would inevitably be neglected. There is no possible way to capture every aspect of life and turn it into an emoticon capable of expressing countless feelings, breaking all rules of modern language.
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Sadly, when you click on Apple's new "Food & Drink" category, the page of emoticons has plenty of fruits, our favorite pizza emoji, ice cream, cake, a deep-fried shrimp. But no taco emoji, despite Taco Bell's Change.org petition, which collected more than 30,000 signatures.
In November, the Unicode Consortium, a nonprofit that controls our beloved emoji, accepted 37 new emoji characters, one of which was a taco, as candidates for the update. What a tease.
Taco Bell, along with other taco lovers, shared their rage on social media.
Really? Still no #TacoEmoji? http://t.co/s9isodkEvo pic.twitter.com/AvhUHlfvzq— Taco Bell (@tacobell) April 8, 2015
STILL no taco emoji???! What gives? pic.twitter.com/wdk1tIFV8k— Niki Kazakos (@darlingnikik) April 8, 2015
still no taco emoji pic.twitter.com/Q24CdZfdx3— matt (@mathu666) April 8, 2015
but theres no taco emoji pic.twitter.com/FFrCDc33zy— jazmine gonzalez (@trainerjazmine) April 8, 2015
Note: The author consumed three crunchy tacos for lunch on Wednesday, but that in no way affected the writing of this article.
Update April 8, 2015, 6:28 p.m. ET: Taco Bell responded to Mashable's request for comment, saying it is "devastated" with the lack of taco emoji via Twitter.
@bkurbs Devastated, tbh.— Taco Bell (@tacobell) April 8, 2015
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