Tacos, unicorns and a middle finger: New emoji to be released

Tacos! Unicorns! The middle finger!

As Apple news dominates the tech world Wednesday, exciting innovations are coming from the Unicode Consortium: new emojis. The release of iOS 9.1, which just became available for developers in beta mode, features an influx of several cool new icons.

The taco emoji has had a specifically impassioned group of advocates for months. Taco Bell even started a petition through Change.org in January, which got more than 33,000 online signatures. Other highly-anticipated food emojis include a hot dog, cheese wedge, burrito, champagne bottle and popcorn.

The Next Web has screenshots of more, but here's a look at one panel:

Some more:

Obviously, the social Internet world reacted.

The 9.1 wide release date has yet to be announced.

This story originally appeared on the Paste BN College blog, a news source produced for college students by student journalists. The blog closed in September of 2017.