A folded taco shell packed with meat, lettuce, and toppings spilling out — that's the taco emoji. It's tied closely to 'Taco Tuesday' as a recurring meal tradition, and used more broadly for Mexican food and casual takeout plans.
What 🌮 means
A boat-shaped Mexican dish with a brown folded tortilla holding a filling of various veggies and sauces within. The filling in this emoji would vary on different platforms.
The 🌮 Taco emoji not only signifies authentic Mexican cuisine but it also has a spectrum of references such as 'Taco Tuesdays' or even an abbreviation for 'That's All Carry On'. Furthermore, this emoji can even have a vulgar interpretation attached to it in the virtual world.
How and when to use it
- If you're posting or reposting a picture, video, gif, or even a meme about 'Taco Tuesday', then 🌮 is a mandatory addition into such post/repost captions.
- Tacos are one of the universally loved Mexican dishes. So, if you're posting something generic about the cuisine of Mexico, then you may also add 🌮 in such contexts.
- Have you ever worked out so much that you have sweat stains in places you didn't know you could sweat? Or did you just run to class only to notice a yellow stain under your armpits? Well.. kinda disgusting but, those sweat stains are also called tacos in a colloquial US tongue. Keeping that in mind, you can use 🌮 in such a framework too (art, isn't it?).
- Now, the vulgar reference. Since anything deviative ought to do with human genitalia, it can be derived that 🌮 can also refer to the female sex organ 🙂.
- Use 🌮 while sharing content about exclusive taco eateries too.
Other Names for Taco
- 🌮 Tortilla With Filling
- 🌮 That's All Carry On (aww)
- 🌮 Taco Tuesday
- 🌮 Quesadilla (not exactly a taco, but usable)
- 🌮 Mexican Snack
- 🌮 Taquito (small tacos)
- 🌮 Street Taco
🌮 in real conversations
Is 🌮 flirty?
Not especially — unlike some fruit emoji, tacos haven't picked up a suggestive second meaning, so 🌮 mostly just means tacos: a craving, a dinner plan, a 'meet me there' for taco night. If flirtation is happening in a text that includes 🌮, the emoji itself isn't doing that work.
Why do people say 'Taco Tuesday' belongs to everyone now?
Because it used to be legally owned — Taco John's held the 'Taco Tuesday' trademark in most states for over 40 years until Taco Bell challenged it in 2023, arguing the phrase was too generic to protect. Taco John's gave up the fight that July, and the last holdout, a New Jersey restaurant, released its claim that October. 🌮 has been free to caption every Tuesday since.
When is National Taco Day?
It was long marked as October 4th, but National Day Calendar officially shifted the celebration to the first Tuesday of October once Taco Tuesday became trademark-free in 2023, lining the two taco holidays up on purpose. Either way, expect a flood of 🌮 deals and captions that week.
The lowdown
- Category
- Food & Drink › food-prepared
- Codepoints
U+1F32E- Emoji version
- Emoji 1.0
- Shortcodes
:taco:- Keywords
- mexican, taco
How it looks across platforms
Seeing a blank box instead of the emoji somewhere? Here's why that happens. Curious why the designs above don't match to begin with? Here's why that happens too.
Pairs well with
Tap any combo to copy the whole thing.
⚡ Quick round
Which joined the keyboard first — 🌮 Taco or 🗂️ Card Index Dividers?
Runs with a crowd
🌮 keeps company in food emojis — tap-to-copy sets for when one emoji isn't enough.