[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Anyone remember this guy ? (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 7/24/2005 8:21:40 PM EDT
 Aye yai yai yai, the frito bandito !! I had the pencil eraser.  I remember the cool toys you used to get in cereal and snacks way back when. Freakies, oscar myer wiener whistles etc... I think the frito bandito got banned for being....*cough* insensitive....  Anyone remember any other cool food toys and did any get banned by the PC nazis ? |
 Patty
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| Sure I remember the Frito Bandito. Nowadays he'd be hung by the Latinos as a racist symbol degrading of all Mexicans. Same thing with "Sambo" restuarant. My cousin worked at one once as a short order cook. Those were the days when white bread was the only bread (besides raisin) that you could get at a grocery store or supermarket. Gas was about 20 cents a gallon and they checked your air, water & oil, wash your windshields (front & back), give you a bar of soap, a glass, a toy and trading stamps. $5 bought you a bag of grocery and it was considered expensive. Roller skates and skateboards had metal wheels. Bicycles had banana seats. Beatniks were wierd and hippies were wierder and filfthy thieves (yep, they stole from your campsite those thieving b*******). |
Along with Mr Jaw and Catfish. |
S&H Green Stamps, save them and fill up books, and pick from the catalog I remeber the "Frito Bandito" and the tune too............I also remember the "Frito Bandito Eraser" for pencils ETA: The joys of growing up in the 60's
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| 4 OR 5 years ago when i worked at the grocery store. the Fritos vender was setting up some vending stuff, and i called him the frito bandito. he told me that it was against Fritos polocy to have anything to do with the FB because it was not politcally correct. |
WOOT! |
I remember filling those damn stamp books. |
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Ok does any one remember "Sugar" Corn Pops Cereal and why it was soo good? cause Sugar Corn Pops was "Shot from a GUN"!!! really, that was a selling piont! Wow talk about how times have changed----- I also remember some "cowboy type" that was on just before "Hop-A-Long Cassidy" giving a Single Action firearms instructions saftey aimed at the children watching the program! It must have been late 1950's |
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Remember when you actually got a REAL toy in a box of CrackerJacks? Now all you get is some crappy paper thingamajig. Other PC victims: 1) SuperBalls: Those solid black ones that you could bounce over a two story house...so what if a few doofuses got knocked unconcious and had a fist-sized pumpknot on their forehead for a week cause they were too stupid to get out of the way when they bounced it. 2) Candy Cigarettes: ....obvious 3) Water Rockets: Fill with water, pump up with air = lesson learned in fluid dynamics or lesson learned in triage bandaging from flying schards of broken fuselage. 4 Klackers: (this oughta bring back memories) Two large lucite balls on a string that you swung back and forth to make that gawdawful noise. When one of these babies shattered, well...cluster bomb comes to mind. |
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"morocco mole", the cisco kid and his sidekick pancho, the little rascals with buckwheat (the real one, not eddie murphy) and stymie, shit i remember the song "a-hab the a-arab" in that disney flick, the one cut out from all the dvd's and vhs tapes cuz it insulted the rags... i remember eating at sambo's and i could never figger out why it got such a bad rap later on. sambo was a clever little shit that lived a life of adventure and always ended up on top... |
No one under 36 will remember the Frito Bandito. 
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Anyone remember the huge lighted Frito Bandito sign in Houston near Telephone and 45? It fell victim to the early days of PC, because it supposedly offended Hispanics. When it was finally taken down, the warehouse it was taken to was broken into and parts of it were stolen over a three day period. The police were called, reports were written, photographs were taken, fingerprints examined. The next night four mexicans were arrested as they came to pick up the rest of the sign. They told the police the sign should be looked at as a shrine because it was the only time a Hispanic was seen on tv in a positive manner. |
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HOLEY SH*T! I forgot about those wacky octopi! They were so much fun. Thanks for the memory boost. You rule. 
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Yes the sickness continues in our country. What a crying shame! |
Back when the prizes in cereal were actually cool. I HAD to have one of those back in the day. |
| What was that long fuzzy toy that they used to advertise on tv in the early to mid 70's? You could make it crawl up an down your arm, across a table, fly through the air etc... On the commercial, you couldn't see the string, but my brother go one in a cereal box or something and it had a very thing monofilament line attached to it. |
Don't know about the speedboat, but my grandmother was fanatical about saving those things. Most of her kitchenware came from that. A goodly amount of the china is a collector item these days. She has a set of all cast aluminum cookware that was advertised as being the "Finest aircraft grade aluminum". Essentially, scrapped b-17's.  |
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When I was a kid, I had a little lead smelter and molds for army soldiers. There I was, 13 or so with hot liquid lead pouring it in to make toys to play with. No gloves, no goggles, in the basement with no fresh air. Ah- being a kid. (...maybe that explains a lot of things...) lol...
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Was it called a Squirmal? Yes I know I am answering my own question. Does anyone remember this? |
