What is the ILE consensus on guacamole-flavored chips? (that's 'crisps' for you british peeps)

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this is an urgent and key topic that must be discussed immediately

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

a peek at the ingredients list reveals 'artificial avocado flavor'!

mommy i'm scared

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

That sounds as vile as it sounds scary.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

the radioactive-green color of the doritos frightens me mightily

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:04 (twenty-one years ago)

are those those green ones? w/ salsa they can match your x-mas sweater.
(x-post)

― scissors (Honda), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

haha i will not rest until they make doritos so synthetic that they have blinking christmas lights built in

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Sometimes the 'nuclear' aspects of Doritos are what makes them so NECESSARY.

― suzy (suzy), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

they're actually good!! if you have some picante around. or to put another way: i did _not_ upchuck at eating them 2 months ago

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Suzy is right. Scarily right.

That said, it is not fresh true guac = BEGONE DEMONS.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Flavored chips suck.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Salt and Vinegar, the flavour.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Good. So very, very good.

― Jodi (Celerina), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

They're all right. But they will NEVER EVER usurp Cool Ranch in the nacho pantheon.

Real guacamole is hard to find in stores and a pain to make yourself. :(

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Real guacamole is made yourself.

― Ed (dali), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

nate is extremely OTM re: Doritos.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

it's not a pain. How hard is mashing up avocadoes and dicing some tomatoes and stuff?

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

real guacamole is pretty easy to make! if the avocado is ripe you can just mash it with a fork, and add some chopped onion and stuff

i bet 'artificial avocado flavor' was pretty hard to make...i can imagine a small army of lab-coat-clad flavor scientists with serious expressions on their faces pouring various bubbling concoctions from test tube to test tube until finally exclaiming 'eureka! we've finally made it!' then a clap of thunder, a puff of smoke and a pulsating, bright green plasma-spheroid hovers in mid-air: the anti-avocado!!

what's the chemical composition of it anyway, d'you think? some kind of ester?

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Well... OK, yeah. Maybe it is easy to make, I dunno. If it involves mashing/pasting, I can't believe I haven't actually tried it yet. Food preparation as catharsis!

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm actually not that fond of real guacamole (long story.. let's just say I liked it at one point). But guacamole flavored tortilla chips ARE A GOD SEND.

― Mandee, Friday, 14 November 2003 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

this thread is inspiring me to go to the kitchen and eat tostitos

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

surprisingly good, those chips, but they'll never get near the real thing

― M Matos (M Matos), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

now i am eating tostitos

― Vic (Vic), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I must get lunch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I say dud. And not just because real guacamole is heavenly. On the other hand, lime-flavored tortilla chips = classic.

― jaymc (jaymc), Friday, 14 November 2003 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

I've never eaten guacamole.

Crisps other than Ready Salted, Salt & Vinegar, Bacon = GRODY.

I am a man of simple tastes.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 November 2003 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Because of this thread, I had to see what the horror was about, so I went and had some of these guac Doritos with lunch. They were unremarkable.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 14 November 2003 20:33 (twenty-one years ago)

They were unremarkable

but you commented anyway! ;)

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 November 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, I'm in a silly mood.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 November 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

The Doritos ones are good. Not great, just good. Course, I haven't met a Dorito I didn't like, but the original nacho flavor is the worst.

― oops (Oops), Friday, 14 November 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Delish. Lime Doritios are pretty awesome as well.

― calstars (calstars), Friday, 14 November 2003 21:00 (twenty-one years ago)

geeta you grew up right near the lab-of-scent corridor where that flavor was no doubt cooked up!!

me, i can't stop eating glenny's salt and pepper soy crisps. yumm

― maura (maura), Friday, 14 November 2003 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

fact: i got to meet the inventor of vanillin once as a prize!! (it was some flavor-chemistry scholarship i won way back -- don't ask)

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 14 November 2003 21:55 (twenty-one years ago)

But I am curious now!

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Friday, 14 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

vanillin? what that? Sounds like a bad guy who eats ice cream.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 14 November 2003 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

As Mayor of Drugachusettes, i proclaim these doritos to be...AWESOME.

― Jay Dee Sah Mon (Kingfish), Friday, 14 November 2003 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I have not sampled, but on a related note, I find the Taste of Lime Tostitos (or whatever they're called) strangely compelling, although the little specks on "lime powder" sometimes freak me out with their resemblence to teeny mold spores.

POO: Route 11 Potato Chips, Dill Pickle variety. They're sort of like salt and vinegar, but better.

― Lee G (Lee G), Saturday, 15 November 2003 02:15 (twenty-one years ago)

specks on = specks of

― Lee G (Lee G), Saturday, 15 November 2003 06:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Do they make you poo green??

― brg30 (brg30), Saturday, 15 November 2003 17:12 (twenty-one years ago)

You've just reminded me that Tep owes me a transatlantic favour...

― Markelby (Mark C), Saturday, 15 November 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

the idea of combining the chip with the dip it goes with is inspired!

next: custard-flavoured rhubarb, stuffing-flavoured turkey, marmite-flavoure nutella!

― mark s (mark s), Sunday, 16 November 2003 00:35 (twenty-one years ago)

lime tostitos are sublime! especially if accompanied by tequila!

i also recently tasted lay's applewood smoked cheddar bbq potato chips, and they are delicious!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Sunday, 16 November 2003 00:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Lime-flavored chips to me taste only saltier...OMG could this be the fruit of an unholy alliance with beer manufacturers?

― j.lu (j.lu), Sunday, 16 November 2003 01:34 (twenty-one years ago)

that alliance is HOLY!

― Emilymv (Emilymv), Sunday, 16 November 2003 01:39 (twenty-one years ago)

lime-flavored tostitos kinda taste like limeade/lemonade! it's freaky

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 17 November 2003 03:35 (twenty-one years ago)

They're good!

― jaymc (jaymc), Monday, 17 November 2003 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

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