Arturito y Chuy know what’s up.
If you're Latinx, you've probably seen your fair share of ads attempting to use Spanglish to appeal to us...
Miller / Via seriouseats.com
...And, more often than not, the results are ~not great.~
There's even a Facebook group dedicated to how awful many of these are.
Facebook: i.hate.spanglish.ads
This ad for Campbell's Star Wars-themed soup cans, however, actually features a clever (and super cute) use of Spanglish. Check it out:
Give that child all the soup he wants.
Campbell's Soup / Via youtube.com
It's been a long-running joke that many Spanish-speakers refer to R2-D2 as "Arturito."
Because it sounds similar and, let's be real, it's a pretty snazzy name for a little droid.
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