--- title: National Taco Day: People Upset it's not on a Tuesday description: People are complaining that National Taco Day is on a Wednesday instead of Taco Tuesday with the funniest memes. canonical: https://time.com/4968729/national-taco-day-not-tuesday/ author: Mahita Gajanan article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-04T14:53:49.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:47:45.539Z og:title: The Internet Can't Stop Complaining About National Taco Day og:description: The "holiday" fell on a Wednesday this year og:url: https://time.com/4968729/national-taco-day-not-tuesday/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd55b5e47d9f73ab8/6988e0817cdbac078dd5a551/taco-bell-national-taco-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: taco-bell-national-taco-day og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Internet Can't Stop Complaining About National Taco Day twitter:description: The "holiday" fell on a Wednesday this year twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd55b5e47d9f73ab8/6988e0817cdbac078dd5a551/taco-bell-national-taco-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1080&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # The Internet Is United Against Holding National Taco Day on a Wednesday by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 4, 2017 2:53 PM UTC  Taco Bell by [Mahita Gajanan](https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/) ## Mahita Gajanan Gajanan is an editor at TIME. Oct 4, 2017 2:53 PM UTC It’s [National Taco Day](http://fortune.com/2017/10/04/national-taco-day-deals-discounts/), a “holiday” that would, under other circumstances, be cause for celebration and [heaps of free tacos](http://fortune.com/2017/10/04/national-taco-day-deals-discounts/). But this year, National Taco Day fell on a Wednesday, not #TacoTuesday, the unofficial weekly holiday dedicated to the Mexican dish. Scheduling the national day to celebrate tacos on a Wednesday has confused taco enthusiasts, who came online to ask how such a grave mistake could have happened: > [](https://twitter.com/cjroth1/status/915581560732241920) > [](https://twitter.com/theycallmechops/status/915581397821255680) > [](https://twitter.com/K3VIN%5FG%5F420/status/915579319107366912) > [](https://twitter.com/mallamallama/status/915578932895862787) > [](https://twitter.com/Brez51/status/915576491538358273) Others managed to find the silver lining in being able to honor tacos more than once: > [](https://twitter.com/NoleneDougan/status/915524634153553920) > [](https://twitter.com/dtpica/status/914975835773296640) Check out where you can get the best taco deals on Oct. 4 [here](http://fortune.com/2017/10/04/national-taco-day-deals-discounts/). ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4968729/national-taco-day-not-tuesday/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4968729/national-taco-day-not-tuesday/"},"headline":"The Internet Is United Against Holding National Taco Day on a Wednesday","datePublished":"2017-10-04T14:53:49.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:47:45.539Z","description":"National Taco Day fell on a Wednesday this year","url":"https://time.com/4968729/national-taco-day-not-tuesday/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Tacos","food and drink","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd55b5e47d9f73ab8/6988e0817cdbac078dd5a551/taco-bell-national-taco-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mahita Gajanan","jobTitle":"Gajanan is an editor at TIME.","url":"https://time.com/author/mahita-gajanan/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd55b5e47d9f73ab8/6988e0817cdbac078dd5a551/taco-bell-national-taco-day.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"taco-bell-national-taco-day","caption":"","creditText":"Taco Bell","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4968729/national-taco-day-not-tuesday/","name":"The Internet Is United Against Holding National Taco Day on a Wednesday"}}]}] ```