Retro fridays and the taco bell chihuahua

If your not familar with the taco bell chihuahua, he(she actually) was a tiny chihuahua that taco bell used as a mascot in 1997 and 1998 and I think a few years after that. He could talk and he would always mention what new product he wanted

He was made famous with the 1st commercial where he walks up to a man eating taco bell and says "yo quiero taco bell" from then his popularity exploded. I got a chihuahua because of that commercial.

Taco bell made stuffed talking dogs as toys that you might still see at flea markets and thrift stores and yard sales or (rarely) in the back window of a car. I have 2 of them that I got at the heyday of the craze

Like all good things, it had to end and taco bell slowly phased out the chihuahua