I'm an absolute sucker for novel junk-food packaging. Doritos X-13D stopped me dead in my tracks when I was at 7-Eleven the other night. The white panel read "This is the X-13D Flavor Experiment. Objective: Taste and name Doritos flavor X-13D." I felt as if it were my civic duty to name this flavor, so I purchased two bags. I also wanted to win a years supply of the orange-colored treats. Mmm...powdered cheese.I munched on a few on the walk home. They tasted vaguely of something familiar. The front of the package has a line that reads, "All American Classic." After I thought about it for a while I figured out what X-13D tastes like, and it is indeed a classic. It also helps explain why beef tallow and pickle juice are among the ingredients.
I went to X-13D with the intention of entering my name for this experimental snack. The jet-black pages, creepy futuristic music and Flash animations including a 3-D rotating animation of the package that displays the name you've chosen led me to believe that is a Web site created by stoners for stoners. I imagine eight-year-olds kids typing "Monkey Poo" and such, laughing their heads off. Don't worry, that's not the name I chose for X-13D. Actually I never officially entered since I couldn't get the dang site to cooperate with my dinosaur of a PC. The contest ends July 14. Can't get X-13D where you live? Worry not, some genius is selling them on eBay for $9.99 a bag. I'm not sure if it's the large size or not. Either way, that's a ridiculous markup.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 4)
5-22-2007 @ 11:40AM
Hayes said...
You know, I had a bag and thought "pickles" the whole time. Glad someone else did, didn't bother reading the ingredients.
So what was it? Hot Dog? i forget what they taste like now.
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5-22-2007 @ 11:51AM
Barry said...
Hamburger bun, mustard, ketchup and relish. Although that's a long, uninteresting name.
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5-22-2007 @ 1:04PM
JadedOne said...
I'm not going to bother trying to name it. I didn't find the chips particularly tasty enough to enter and win a year's worth of it.
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5-22-2007 @ 1:08PM
JadedOne said...
My hubby and I thought these chips tasted like blue cheese at first. But later on we figured it was Cheeseburger flavored.
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5-22-2007 @ 2:50PM
kelly@dietfacts.com said...
I would really like to know the nutrition facts and ingredients for these chips. If someone has a bag and could scan it or mail to me, that would be enormously helpful. (I'm not willing to pay $9.99 on eBay -- no matter how big the bag is!)
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5-22-2007 @ 6:14PM
Epiphanyness said...
My friends and I thought it tasted like tarter sauce and horrible horrible fish.
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5-23-2007 @ 11:35PM
tacos said...
found them at 25th and Clement Produce in San Francisco.
Yeah - cheeseburgers all right
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5-24-2007 @ 2:08AM
JREW said...
They taste odd. burger/hot dog whatever, not in my mouth. I have found many links to pages where people claim to have the secret. One guy even goes into the advertising aspect, its pretty good.
http://www.jimmyco.com/display.php?codename=x13d
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5-24-2007 @ 10:57PM
Al said...
They definitely reminded me of a mcdonald's hamburger. It was an interesting taste.
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5-27-2007 @ 12:24AM
candy said...
Cheeseburger, you can taste the bread, burger, mustard, ketchup and cheese.
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5-29-2007 @ 1:58PM
pinguino said...
i thought it tasted like bugles and shrimp
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5-29-2007 @ 2:22PM
kingwheel said...
First I thought cat pee then I realized it was a mc donalds cheese burger. It gave me the winds something fierce and three days later my woman is still complaining... when will this stop.
If someone wants the rest of my bag they are welcome to it.
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5-29-2007 @ 2:23PM
kingwheel said...
Oh yea there is BEEF in there!!!
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5-29-2007 @ 11:53PM
toni said...
THIS TASTE JUST LIKE WHITE CASTLE BURGERS OR JUST PLAIN PICKLES
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5-30-2007 @ 12:20PM
Michael T.Hanna said...
YOU CAN TAST MUSTARD KESCHUP PICKLES HAMBURGER AND BUNS, I THINK YOU SHOULD NAME IT BURGER DELUXES.
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6-01-2007 @ 1:14PM
Dreadfeather said...
Yea, they taste like Tarter Sauce, no doubt! I don't really taste much fish flavor, just the tarter sauce flavor and maybe some cheese along with it. I won't be buying anymore bags of it, they're not as good as the regular Nacho Cheese kind I love so much.
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6-02-2007 @ 7:26PM
Andrew Correia said...
i think the chips taste like a hot dogs with onoins and relish a good name would be crispy cookout
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6-02-2007 @ 7:31PM
stephanie love said...
OH MY GOD IT TATES LIKE HAMBURGERS
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6-02-2007 @ 7:33PM
stephanie love said...
Oh my god!!!!!!!!!!! they are so good. I think we should name them BURGERS IN A CHIP.
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6-03-2007 @ 7:44PM
Brunk said...
Oh god I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one out there that thought 'Hmmmmm....tartar sauce' when I ate one. Good god, what are they trying to do? Kill of their market??
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