• Re: frito bandito lyrics wanted

    From Kunal Shah@21:1/5 to mj...@intex.net on Wed Sep 7 06:24:20 2022
    Here's the ad
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbYj7ZyqjYY

    Here's one of the commercials where the tune plays in the background https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s9P-JjbDD6U

    Here's the original song!!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWABwgjMRlI


    On Sunday, March 9, 1997 at 12:00:00 PM UTC+4, mj...@intex.net wrote:
    r...@aol.com (RWU) wrote:
    Does anyone remember the lyrics to the frito bandito commercial? I have no >deep scholarly reason for asking, the subject came up the other day and >it's driving me buggy.
    Ok, here goes:
    Eye Yia Yia Yia
    I am the Frito Bandito
    <Repeat>
    I love Fritos corn chips
    I love them I do
    I'd take them, I'd steal them
    to get them from you.
    Eye Yia Yia
    I am The Frito Bandito.
    It was one of the most remembered ad campaings for Frito Lay. But the
    Mexican American Community felt that a stealing bandito was a bad
    stereotype and a sleeping mexican was too so gone was the Frito
    Bandito and the "sleeping mexican" from the Taco Bell signs (Both
    owned by PepsiCo I might add.
    "So endeth the Lesson"
    Mick

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