{"id":30334,"date":"2023-05-14T05:49:13","date_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=30334"},"modified":"2023-05-14T05:49:13","modified_gmt":"2023-05-14T05:49:13","slug":"flamin-hot-trailer-tells-completely-fabricated-story-of-guy-who-didnt-create-flamin-hot-cheetos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shows4.com\/?p=30334","title":{"rendered":"Flamin\u2019 Hot Trailer Tells Completely Fabricated Story of Guy Who Didn\u2019t Create Flamin\u2019 Hot Cheetos"},"content":{"rendered":"
Usually when a film says \u201cinspired by a true story,\u201d you take it with a grain of salt. Hollywood loves to make things more dramatic, but that doesn\u2019t mean that the very premise of the film is a lie; it just means it probably didn\u2019t happen exactly that way. However, in the case of the movie Flamin\u2019 Hot, the entire thing is basically a lie and the filmmakers knew this and went ahead and made the movie anyway, so now we have a trailer for what looks like a somewhat entertaining piece of fiction parading around as a true story.<\/p>\n

Flamin\u2019 Hot, which is directed by Eva Longoria, tells the story of Richard Monta\u00f1ez (Jesse Garcia), the man who has for decades claimed that he invented the Flamin\u2019 Hot Cheeto for Frito-Lay when he was a janitor and turned into a marketing sensation for the company. As you can see in the Flamin\u2019 Hot trailer, it\u2019s a basic rags-to-riches story about a man with a belief in himself and the corporate bigwigs who try to keep him down. The end result, of course, is one of the most popular chips ever made. It\u2019s a truly inspirational story with a wonderful Hispanic hero\u2026 and it appears to be mostly made up.<\/p>\n

According to reporting by the LA Times, Monta\u00f1ez was indeed a janitor who worked his way up the chain at Frito-Lay, but he had little to nothing to do with the creation of Flamin\u2019 Hot chips back in the \u201990s. The creation of the chip, it turns out, was actually down to a team of dedicated and talented snack makers and was led by a woman named Lynne Greenfeld, who reportedly did the leg work and research to make the end result. Flamin\u2019 Hot chips were on the market and created at least a year before Monta\u00f1ez claimed to have invented them, and the Times has an extensive paper trail to prove it, with very little proof out there to support Monta\u00f1ez\u2019s version of the story. Not to mention Frito-Lay itself saying that the story is untrue.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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