Jack in the Box got a special shout-out from an unexpected source.
On Meghan Markle’s new Netflix show, With Love, Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex admits to guest Mindy Kaling that she grew up eating “fast food and TV tray dinners, microwavable kids’ meals.”
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 took to their own social media pages to acknowledge the name-drop, sharing the With Love, Meghan clip 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 an intimate interview with PEOPLE for 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 Archie and Princess 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.”
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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.”
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