Jack in the Box Unexpectedly Responds to Being Name-Checked in Meghan Markle’s New Show

Mar. 15, 2025

Jack in the Box mascot Jack Box (L) and Meghan Markle (R).Photo:Christian Petersen/Getty; Charles McQuillan/Getty

The Jack in the Box mascot; Meghan Markle

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Jack in the Box got a special shout-out from an unexpected source.

As a latchkey California kid with a working mom, Meghan explains, life included “a lot of fast food — Taco Bell, Jack in the Box.”

“People wouldn’t believe that Meghan Markle ate at Jack in the Box,” Kaling, 45, replied.

But Meghan, 43, was insistent, recalling that her mom,Doria Ragland, loved the West Coast fast food chain’s signature tacos.

Jack in the Box has over 2,000 locations in the U.S., primarily on the West Coast.David McNew/Getty

Jack In The Box and Carls Jr. fast-food restaurant signs glow July 24, 2008 on the Figueroa Street Corridor of South Los Angeles area of Los Angeles, California. The Los Angeles City Council committee has unanimously approved year-long moratorium on new fast-food restaurants in a 32-square-mile area, mostly in South Los Angeles, pending approval by the full council and the signature of Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to make it the law. South LA has the highest concentration of fast-food restaurants of the city, about 400, and only a few grocery stores. L.A. Councilwoman Jan Perry proposed the measure to try to reduce health problems associated with a diet high in fast-food, like obesity and diabetes, which plague many of the half-million people living there.

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Jack in the Box took to their own social media pages to acknowledge the name-drop, sharing theWith Love, Meghanclip with mascot “Jack Box” popping up to celebrate.

“Eat like royalty with my 2 tacos. With love, Jack Box,” the brand captioned the post.

In anintimate interview with PEOPLEfor this week’s exclusive cover story, Meghan opened up her love of food and her family’s eating habits.

While she’s not opposed to occasionally ordering Chinese food instead of cooking for her husband,Prince Harry, and their children,Prince ArchieandPrincess Lilibet, Meghan admitted, “Even when I get takeout, I will try to plate it beautifully."

Her love of food – and her use of food as a love language – is something that’s evolved over time.

“Even before I was a mom, I loved being able to nurture in that way,” she noted. “Some of my favorite childhood moments are the meals that my mom would make. She’d make a lot of soul food. I remember she’d taken a Thai cooking class, so every week we had Thai BBQ chicken and spring rolls. I remember those flavors so well.”

Meghan, Duchess of Sussex helps to prepare food at an event to mark the launch of a cookbook with recipes from a group of women affected by the Grenfell Tower fire at Kensington Palace on September 20, 2018 in London, England.

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“I want my kids to have those same formative memories of things that I cook,” she added.  “We call them Mama Meals, and those are the ones that I hope they come back to when they’re older, when they’re married, and they have their own kids, and they go, ‘Oh, let’s have a Mama Meal.’ And it’s the same roast chicken I’ve been making since they were little.”

source: people.com

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