The Fritos Burrito appears to have come out in the mid-1990s. A Taco Bell fan wiki notes that it predates wider internet adoption and that available testimonies place it back in that period.

What’s known

  • It was a limited-run variation of the Chili Cheese Burrito.
  • The exact launch date is hard to pin down because there isn’t much surviving official documentation from that time.
  • The best available public estimate is the mid-1990s.

Related note

There’s often confusion with the Beefy Fritos Burrito , which is a different Taco Bell item from a much later period.