Best Old TV Commercials » frito bandito http://www.bestoldcommercials.com Watch all the best classic television commercials for free! Mon, 29 Aug 2011 18:48:32 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Fritos Corn Chips – The Frito Bandito http://www.bestoldcommercials.com/fritos-corn-chips-the-frito-bandito/ http://www.bestoldcommercials.com/fritos-corn-chips-the-frito-bandito/#comments Thu, 29 Oct 2009 15:20:14 +0000 Best Old TV Commercials http://www.bestoldcommercials.com/?p=204 Another advertisement from the 1960′s created by naive Madison Avenue execs who haven’t yet had to sit through a course on Cultural Sensitivity, this classic advertising campaign was eventually ended in part due to pressure from the Latino community and the portrayal of a sombrero-wearing Mexican charactature who steals Frito corn chips.

]]> http://www.bestoldcommercials.com/fritos-corn-chips-the-frito-bandito/feed/ 0 Fritos Corn Chips – Frito Bandito Returns http://www.bestoldcommercials.com/fritos-corn-chips-frito-bandito-returns/ http://www.bestoldcommercials.com/fritos-corn-chips-frito-bandito-returns/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:23:44 +0000 Best Old TV Commercials http://www.bestoldcommercials.com/?p=206 The Frito Bandito is back – with a kindler, softer approach to his earlier portrayals of stealing Frito Corn Chips, this time he’s got  free gift for kids – an eraser, of himself, that will erase anything you draw.  Wow!  Neat-o!

The Frito Bandito didn’t last much longer than this – the National Mexican-American Anti-Defamation Committee pressured Fritos to change the image of the Frito Bandito and Fritos eventually dropped the character in 1971.

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