It might be hard to believe, but the six-year-old girl who starred in the Old El Paso TV ads of the early 2000s is all grown up.
Mia Agraviador was the little girl who solved her family’s debate over whether to have soft or hard tacos with the now-famous line: “Why don’t we have both?”
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Now 23, Agraviador is back in the spotlight, whipping out the iconic line for a new ad, promoting Mingle Seasoning spice blends.
The former child actor lives in Sydney, works at JD Sports, and loves dancing, art and fashion, according to her social media profile.
“Yep! I’m the “Porque No Los Dos?” Taco Girl 🌮💁🏻♀️,” her Instagram profile reads, referring to the Spanish version of the famous Old El Paso line.
In the Mingle Seasoning ad, Agraviador — who has been described tongue-in-cheek as ‘the world’s biggest taco celebrity’ — gives her verdict on the seasoning as she eats a taco.
In a video posted to Instagram by the owner of Mingle Business, the entrepreneur walks down a supermarket aisle, talking directly to the camera.
“Remember the iconic Taco Girl on TV?” she says. “What if we could get her as an ambassador (for Mingle)?”
“There’s no way,” another woman says.
The video then cuts to the ad, which shows Agraviador holding up packets of the seasoning and saying: “Porque No Los Mingle?”
“I can’t believe my small business pulled this off,” a voiceover continued.
“We did it! We made the impossible possible.
“This is Mia, the original Taco Girl, and she knows good Mexican.”
“Mmm, mmm this is really good,” the adult Agraviador says, chowing down on a taco with Mingle seasoning.
Viewers went wild over the video and its nostalgic hat tip.
“YESSS 🌮🌮🌮🌮🌮,” one fan wrote.
“Slayed this one, team!” wrote another.
“Brilliant!” wrote a third.
“This is everything.”
“Hahah I love this. A celebrity of our generation 😍” added one viewer.
“She’s an icon, she’s a legend and she IS the moment,” enthused another.
Speaking to SBS Insight in 2022, Agraviador said she still remembered making the ad all those years ago.
“I remember the filming well. The whole film crew and the set and, you know, the mansion it was filmed in,” she said.
“I was just a little girl. I just went in there to have fun.”
She added that no-one expected the Old El Paso to take off the way it did, and that her family went on to solve any arguments by using the famous line.
But Agraviador added that being a child celebrity hadn’t been all that much fun.
She eventually got tired of being asked to say the line all the time.
“I would just, you know, roll with it, but deep down I always kind of felt annoyed,” she said, revealing that she had changed schools three times and “never really had a proper, long-term friend”.
She began painting as a way of dealing with the situation and continues to make art.
“Since I left high school I’ve done some big growing up. I’m slowly starting to open up,” she said.
“Now when people bring up the taco ad I’m like, ‘Yeah, that was me’.”
Now, Agraviador has been thrust into the spotlight once again courtesy of the Mingle ad.
As for her own personal preferences for whether soft or hard tacos are best?
There’s no contest, it seems.
“I’m sorry, I don’t have both,” she revealed.
“I have hard.”
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