Devout Hindu Has Beef With Taco Bell

A devout Hindu is suing a Taco Bell for serving him a beef burrito, rather than the bean burrito he ordered.

The one bite of beef he chewed violated Mukesh K. Rai’s most fundamental religious principle, causing him emotional distress, as well as medical expenses and loss of wages, he claimed in his suit filed this week.

“Eating the cow, it was a really devastating experience,” said Rai, reached at his home Friday. “So much so that I had to go to a psychiatrist. I went to a doctor. I couldn’t sleep.”

Indeed, Rai said he has already had to travel to England to perform a religious purification ceremony with Hindu masters.

And in March he will travel to India for the ultimate purification: bathing in the waters of the Ganges River.

Taco Bell officials would not comment on the suit filed in Ventura County Superior Court.

According to the complaint, Rai ordered a bean burrito from the Taco Bell in Ventura last April.

“He clearly repeated the order twice so that he would be ensured of not receiving a burrito with meat,” the suit states.

“When he received his order he took a bite, and after chewing it he realized to his horror that it was a meat burrito,” the complaint continued.

Moreover, he said, after he bit into the beef burrito, Taco Bell refused to give him a refund.

Indeed, although they offered to exchange it for a bean burrito, they would not pay him the difference in price between the more expensive beef burrito, and the cheaper bean one, he said.

In India the cow is a sacred animal, considered a mother to everyone, he said.