Before I spoke with Parton back in January, I did a deep dive into her old interviews and discovered one from 2016 in which she revealed she loved going to Taco Bell for date nights with her husband Carl Dean.
"Carl and I have a little camper, a little RV, and we're always driving through fast-food restaurants to get our stuff," she told Andy Cohen during a SiriusXM show. "I'm always in the front seat. Sometimes they know me, sometimes they don't."
As a fellow Taco Bell superfan, I knew I had to bring up the chain when Parton and I sat down together on Zoom. And the country-music legend was happy to share her usual Taco Bell order.
"I like soft-shell tacos," Parton told me. "I like the others, but they fall apart so bad, especially if you're riding around. So I always get a Taco Supreme, with the sour cream and all that, in the soft shell. I love that."
"I get an order of rice and beans," she added. "And I get mild sauce. I don't like to get it too hot and ruin everything."