Object Record / FI-EPH-294
The Taco Bell Tolls for Thee
digital / PNG, 1125×2436 / screenshot / origin unverified / accessioned / catalogued curio
Primary evidence
The object before the record.
Narrative record
Evidence, relevance, and unresolved state.
Provenance
Custody record
Logged 2026-09-26 / quantity 1 digital image. 1 source asset reference registered.
Identification notes
What is known
Found image supplied for The Shadow Zone: a phone screenshot of an Instagram story reposting a three-panel deep-fried meme. A man in a car points at a drive-through and says "Hello? Taco bell?"; a smiling worker in a headset at the window replies "The Taco Bell tolls for thee"; and the driver, now reclining behind the wheel with finger guns, answers "I don't know what that means but it sounded like a vague threat." A meme-account watermark sits beneath the image. The pun on "for whom the bell tolls" is the joke. Maker, origin, and date are not recorded. The exif scrub reported no location metadata to strip.
Restoration relevance
Why it remains connected
accessioned / catalogued curio. Disposition: archive. The object remains associated with The Shadow Zone.
Uncertainty notes
What remains unresolved
digital / PNG, 1125×2436 / screenshot / origin unverified. accessioned / catalogued curio. Terms marked unknown, provisional, pending, or unverified remain part of the record until evidence resolves them.
Relationships
Keep the object connected.
Related objects
Parent system
The Shadow Zone
A holding zone for surreal found media and uncanny artifacts that surface around the archive — images with no clear origin, kept as evidence of the culture that accretes on forgotten machines.
Associated dossier / FI-PROJ-010 / open
Field logs / dossiers
Archive routes
Source Assets / 1 reference
Raw archive paths are retained for provenance and maintenance. They are not the primary object presentation.
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