Ay-ay-ay-ay, I know it may seem corny now

Today I'm celebrating National Corn Chip Day!

I am most familiar with the FRITOS Original Corn Chips brand. Recently the 75th anniversity of FRITOS Original Corn Chips was celebrated. Their home page has an interesting archive of 75 years of Fritos Brand history. They report that their corn chips are still made from 3 simple ingredients: whole corn, corn oil, and salt. How many times do you pick up a package and you can't pronounce the majority of the ingredients? I was surprised to see the variety of flavors now available, including BBQ, Chile Cheese, FLAMIN' HOT, FLAVOR TWISTS and a tangy roasted version. However, I was most surprised to see the number of other corn chip snack products available. The taquitos.net site is a snack food site on the Internet which features reviews of 3,783 snacks by their Certified Snack Food Evaluators. Now, that sounds like a job that I'd enjoy. It lists 108 brands of corn chip snacks on its site, complete with reviews.

What's for dinner tonight? How about a corn chip salad or a tamale and frito pie? Did you know that there are 66 different recipes for Frito Pie on Cooks.com? There's a quick video on YouTube on how to make a Frito Pie. If dinner is already planned, you might be interested in a good snack, like corn chip crunch.

You may be interested in some of the early Frito Corn Chip commercials, like the one with the Frito Bandito or the "Muncha buncha" version. However, you are likely to have heard the song sung by the Frito Bandito in those early commercials. Here's someone's video of the Frito Bandito's theme song:


As posted on YouTube by y33warner

Today, I think I'll run by Sonic and pick up a Frito Pie in celebration of this day!


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