Win a year's supply of Doritos for naming X-13D

by Joe DiStefano, Posted May 22nd 2007 @ 9:00AM

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.

Filed Under: Food Oddities, Ingredients
Tags: america, beef, beef tallow, cheese, chips, Doritos, Doritos X-13D, DoritosX-13d, junk food, JunkFood, oddities, pickles, powdered cheese, PowderedCheese, tortilla chips, TortillaChips, X-13D

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7-27-2007 @2:49PM Lisi said... I put in my guesses on that website just about everyday. My first guess was Cheeseburger, which turns out was correct. They said they'd announce the winners on July 20th. I never heard from them.
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7-27-2007 @7:00PM Brendan said... I believe they taste like pickles and Ive asked 4 people and they all say it tastes like pickles
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8-01-2007 @8:51PM Cook said... "Gluepot" cheese burger...AKA Glueburger. Deffinatly a Gluepot cheese burger. Instantanious pickle flavor followed by the hint of Katchup and mustard. Not a whole lot onion flavor to it though.
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