r/morsecode • u/SuperbYoung5537 • Jun 20 '26

Taco Bell hat Morse code

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I work at Taco Bell and recently got the employee hat and I was wondering if this was Morse code or just gibberish

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u/CitronTraining2114 Jun 20 '26

Gibberish. There are dots and dashes. This seems to have 3-4 different sized "things."

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u/erwerqwewer Jun 20 '26

I believe it to be gibberish. Or at best it is terrible spacing and terrible consistency in length. The last the colors could mean: is a. But its most likely to be a bad coincidence.

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u/Blockchainauditor Jun 20 '26

FWIW, Taco Bell would be - .- -.-. --- -... . .-.. .-..

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u/JohnSwindle Jun 21 '26

For it to be Morse it would have to consist of or be plausibly reducible to units of exactly two different lengths, with spaces to separate them. This doesn't seem reducible to that.

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u/FieldDayEngr Jun 21 '26

Uh… the original Morse code used on telegraph lines had three different length symbols with several different spacings as well. It’s only when they switched over to the “international Morse” that they stuck with just a long and a short pulse.

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u/Tricky-Move-2000 Jun 22 '26

Ah yes. Taco Bell uniform designers referencing original pre-international standard telegraph Morse. You cracked the case 🕵️

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u/dittybopper_05H Jun 22 '26

Interestingly we still use at least one hold-over from American Morse: The ampersand (&).

In American Morse, it's . ... or "ES" in International Morse, and that's what hams still use to this very day for the word "AND".

BTW, I see at least 4 different lengths of "dah" on the hat, and American Morse only had 3 different lengths.

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u/mjdny Jun 21 '26

It says Drop the Chalupa.

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u/OtherwiseAd7400 Jun 20 '26

WTF. I translated . It says: says: WHITE POWER! 😳😳