"Doritos" news and stories

So who had the best Super Bowl commercial? It's easy to say that the Volkswagen's "The Force" commercial certainly struck a cord with a lot of people. However, in the realm of food and TV, we just weren't that impressed. One thing is for sure, there was a lot of hitting going on -- between the violent stunts of the Pepsi Max spots and Wendy's "slap in the face" new Asiago Chicken Club campaign, we were left with only one favorite: Doritos "Healing Chips" ad.

After the jump, vote for your favorite food commercial from the Super Bowl.

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Aren't you tired of seeing advertisements everywhere? I know I am. Well, now Doritos is officially the first company to advertise in space.

Yep, in conjunction with the University of Leicester in England the Doritos Broadcast Project is beaming the ad toward a solar system in the Ursa Major constellation. They're transmitting from the EISCAT European space station.

The Doritos Broadcasting Project you ask? Um, yeah, I'm guessing it was created just for this. The DBP asked for 30 second entries from people in the UK and they were then able to vote on the winning ad. According to the article in Science Daily, about 61% of Brits think that this is just a first step in communicating with extra terrestrial life. My question is, why would aliens want to communicate with a species that hits them with an ad the first chance they get?

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Many moons ago, a PR person sent me a couple bags of the Doritos mystery flavor chips (labeled 'The Quest'). On the day they arrived, my boyfriend and I riped into the first one and tasted, hoping that our sharp taste buds (his being a bit sharper than mine) would be able to discern the undisclosed flavor. At first we guessed lime and then started leaning towards the more nuanced determination of mojito. They've got both tart and sweet flavor tones going on that make them really tasty and sort of addictive.

Has anyone else seen and/or tasted these? Any guesses on what the mystery flavor might be?

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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.

Every once in a while, a much-loved product introduces a couple of new flavors and asks the public to vote on which one they like better. Now it's Doritos' turn, with their "Fight For The Flavor."

Of course, Doritos has introduced new flavors before. They came out with ranch, and then they started making their chips "cheesier" and "nachoier" (is that a word?), and even redesigned their bags. Now they've come out with Smokin' Cheddar BBQ flavor and Wild White Nacho flavor. One is OK, but the other one...ahem.

I'm not sure what the difference Wild White Nacho is from other Doritos flavors that already exist. It's a pretty unexciting chip. It falls somewhere between a regular corn chip and something along the lines of ranch flavor. It's not bad, it's just that there's nothing "wild" about it.

On the other hand, we have the Smokin' Cheddar BBQ chips. Wow, I couldn't eat more than two. They are so barbecue-y (I'm inventing words today) that they're almost inedible. The cheddar flavor? It's lost in the BBQ taste, but still remains somehow and leaves a bad taste in your mouth.

You can vote at doritos.com for your favorite. Cool web site.