Showing posts with label doritos. Show all posts
Showing posts with label doritos. Show all posts

Monday, November 10, 2014

Not even in Stores yet! But weird enough to post about! Breaking News!

From the "We thought this was a hoax, but it turns out it's real, but we still think it's not real until it hits shelves. Then We'll be like "Damn! It is real"" department.

Ladies and Gentlemen, friends and neighbors, strangers, strange friends and neighbors, I give you:
                            DEWITOS!

Image by reddit user joe_nipples (Steve Barnes)
Yes, I heard the audible gasp too. So it turns out that we are going to be (possibly) getting a new Dew flavor soon that tastes like Doritos. Let me say that a little slower, you you can read and understand every word I just typed.

Doritos.

Flavored.

Mt. Dew.

They're testing it out now, and if it actually hits the store shelves, it may be the strangest combination of products to hit store shelves yet.

Which got me thinking.....what other crazy products could we create by combining 2 products that do not go together in any way shape or form (I know, I know......Dew and Doritoes share that "Video Game" and "Weed" bond....but besides that...)

Cool Whip Barbasol? (that's Cool Whip that tastes like Shaving Cream, not Whipped Topping you shave with)

Spaghetti-O's Sorbet?

If you have some ideas, post them below!
It's Fun! All the kids are doing it!

Sorry to break format on this one, but I'm certain that in a few months I'll be revisiting this one here at Gone but Not Forgotten Groceries.

Wednesday, April 23, 2014

From the Snack Aisle: Chester's Cheese Doritos

Product: Chester's Cheese Doritos
Company: Frito Lay (Pepsico)
Years: 1995

At some point in our lives we all need to make hard decisions. Go to college or travel the world. Buy a SUV or buy a minivan. Eat that meatball you found under the couch or not eat that meatball you found under the couch. We make them every day. But the good people at Frito Lay (and I am not saying that to get free samples, Frito Lay......though you do have beautiful eyes. You know that, right? (That is for the free samples)) took it upon themselves back in 1995 to say "Why Choose, bitches? You want Doritos, but at the same time, you also want some delicious cheesy Cheetos. You are high as a goddamn kite, and we're not one to judge you, so lets take the choice out of the equation....and make......CHEETO FLAVORED DORITOS! BOOM!"

Well, as great of an idea as it was, I have to say I certainly don't remember them. And I was in college at that time, so I was, well, lets just say I was their target demographic. (There's a time and a place for everything kids, and that time and place is called College). After scouring the interwebs trying to find a picture of the package, all I could find is this article about them testing this product. Most everyone who tried them loved them, though some said they were too cheesy. And then there is Bill (the single guy). His objection to this product? "Just who is this Chester Cheese guy? Is he really that famous? Why couldn't they just call these cheese flavored Doritos? And what does a cheetah have to do with cheese or tortilla chips?

Well Bill, the reason you are still single is because you ask too many questions.
And Chester Cheese Doritos, the reason you are still not available in stores is because people like to make hard decisions. You either want a Coke or you want a 7up, you don't want a Coke flavored 7up.
And the same goes with your chips.

Oh, and because they are (according to the taste test) way too cheesy, but in a good way?


I kind of wish these were still around, if for no other reason to see what other kinds of mutated Island of Doctor Moreau style chip inventions they would come up with. 
Funyun flavored Fritos?
Dorito flavored Pretzels?
The world will never know.

Thursday, April 3, 2014

From the Snack Aisle: Buenos Tortilla Chips

Product: Buenos Tortilla Chips
Company: Nabisco
Years: 1981-1983



Wow, I actually remember these. Which is weird, because they didn't last very long. I don't remember the taste, I just remember the package.
Made from real stoneground corn, these chips came in 2 shapes, round and triangle. Seriously, it was the same freaking chips, just in 2 different shapes. So all the equipment that was used to make and package these chips had to be doubled, one set for the rounds, and one set for the triangles. Which is probably why they were discontinued. It was expensive to produce the same basic product in 2 shapes.
I'm guessing old people bought the round chips because they were safer....no sharp edges, very friendly looking. Almost like a smiley face, minus the face. The triangles were what the kids ate....3 sharp points, almost like a knife, not so safe for those kids who loved to live on the wild side and roll the dice while eating their chips. Will I stab my mouth or not? Who cares, I'm young! *Crunch*

If you hurry you can rush out and get yourself a bag with the attached coupon, assuming you have a time machine. Expires 9-30-83.


They came in traditional and Nacho cheese flavors only. Back in simpler times, when 2 or 3 flavors were perfectly ok. Not like now when to be a successful chip company you need to have at least 87 flavors.

Ah, the 80's. Simpler times.