Let’s taco ‘bout it.
Ed “Big Ed” Brown tells Page Six’s “Virtual Reali-Tea” podcast that he hasn’t eaten taco pasta since an explosive confrontation with ex-fiancée Elizabeth “Liz” Woods over the unique dish led to their split.
“I have not [eaten it],” the “90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?” star, 59, admits when asked about his consumption of the infamous meal.
“But I’ve had over 25 requests of people [saying], ‘We’re coming over for taco pasta!’”
During an April episode of his TLC reality series, Brown ended his relationship with Woods, 30, for the 15th and final time after a blowout argument over taco pasta came amid fights over their move to Arkansas.
“I think Liz actually is waiting for me to call her up and say ‘I’m sorry’ like it’s always been. I call, I apologize, OK, and we move on. And that’s how the last 14 breakups have been,” he said in a confessional.
Rather than make up, Brown called it quits — a decision that Woods felt stemmed directly from their taco pasta problems.
“A few nights ago, Ed and I got in an argument in front of his family. His sister was at the house. Ed made dinner — taco pasta — but then Riley’s dish was just way too spicy for her,” she said in a confessional, describing her young daughter’s aversion to Brown’s use of seasonings.
“And Ed pretty much just told her, ’Stop being a baby.’”
Woods was unnerved by Brown’s interaction with Riley, so she “called him out on it,” but never anticipated it would result in a relationship-ruining exchange.
“He attacked me back,” she said of his alleged verbal jabs. “[He said,] ‘Look at you, you’re crazy,’ and everything.”
Woods eventually went to bed and woke up to find Brown missing from their bed. Soon after, he alerted her via text that he was breaking up with her — and canceled their wedding without telling her first.
Today, Brown acknowledges that he knows how to make taco pasta “without the spice” if he were to ever prepare it again for Riley.
And while he regrets how things ended with Woods — and perhaps his culinary choices from that fateful night — he still cherishes their time together.
“After every single breakup I would go through, and anything that I had of Liz, photographs, I would erase because I didn’t want anything to remind me of her. And I probably have over 3,000 pictures of her and I,” he tells “Virtual Reali-Tea.”
“And from being in Cabo or Palm Springs or wherever we were traveling, even with Riley, those are our memories and they’re really good memories.”
Brown is also holding on to a tattoo he got in honor of Woods — a symbol that resembles their respective astrological signs, Taurus and Gemini.
“That’s part of Ed and Liz’s history,” he says of his body art, further noting that Woods has made him a “better” person. “And that’s what I’m going to miss most about [our relationship].”
These days, Brown is seeing a new woman, though he is reluctant to reveal her identity since she is not interested in the limelight.
“She’s a really good friend and we have very intimate conversations. She’ll tear up and I’ll tear up. And she wants nothing to do with my fame or whatever. She’s not any of that,” he says.
“I have a lot of people that pursue me that want that and that honestly is the hardest part for me to be able to meet somebody.”
Brown says that the lady in question is 38, an age that aligns with a newly adopted dating rule.
“The new rule is … I can’t date anyone without a 3 in front of it,” he says. “So this one, she’s 38 and she’s a four-alarm fire! Maybe I’ll meet not Mrs. Right Now, but Mrs. Right. That’s my dream.”
As for Woods, she is dating a new man named Jayson, whom Brown has met and approves of.
“We did the fluffing of the chests when we met. He’s super good-looking. He’s young and I want them to be happy. Of course, it stung because that kind of happened right away,” he shares.
“And Liz is young. That’s part of being young, this generation, where they kind of have to go from one relationship to the other.”
“90 Day Fiancé: Happily Ever After?” airs Sundays at 8 p.m. ET on TLC.
