Saddam: Doritos lover

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Apparently he also likes his Raisin Bran Crunch.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:46 (twenty years ago)

This article reminds me a lot of the way that the media found fascination with various Nazis both before and after the Nuremberg trials. "Speer is continuing his architectural drawings, and looks healthy. Enjoys tending to the garden." "Hesse is depressed, barely comes out of his cell, and has cut off communication with the others!" etc. Where's the *actual* interest in the fact that his tastebuds enjoy sugar, salt n fat, just like ours?

― paulhw (paulhw), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:52 (twenty years ago)

SUPERSIZE SADDAM!

― donut e-goo (donut), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:53 (twenty years ago)

So much like us. And yet, so different

― Jimmy Mod Is Great At Getting Us Into Trouble (ModJ), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:54 (twenty years ago)

The interest is that I've never heard of Raisin Bran Crunch, yet Saddam is already eating it! It's making me reconsider my life of not being a brutal despot.

― wetmink (wetmink), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Funnily enough, Paul, I've been reading up a bit on the Nuremberg trials recently, and the comparison is apt. It's also interesting to reflect that the trials and subsequent executions occurred far more swiftly in comparison to Saddam's situation here -- not immediately to be sure, but the time between capture and execution was around a year and a half, which is where Saddam is right now and the trial has yet to begin.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 20 June 2005 23:57 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, Ned, I agree (I finished Speer's diary recently, also). Then there's the Milosovich situation, which isn't exactly swift - and there has only just been an agreement (from Hun Sen's government) to finally host a trial of ex-Khmer Rouge leaders.

But anyway, this Doritos thing reminds me of the y-fronts thing a few weeks back - do you think the political repercussions of these kinds of stories are 1. negligible. 2. risk possibly inciting anger from those (Iragi men...and others) who see this as emasculating / Americanizing 3. are an effective tactic to show those same people that he's mortal / not to be feared 4. self-congratulatory media shallowness that allows US / Westerners to feel superior. 5. something else?

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:07 (twenty years ago)

Well, the fact that this all appeared in GQ first sorta says it all. I'd vote 1 + 4 in terms of over here. I *highly* doubt it's 2, anywhere.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:18 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, agreed.

― paulhw (paulhw), Tuesday, 21 June 2005 00:19 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

Recently there was some sort of promotional contest where Doritos pitted two flavours against each other and you had to vote for one to "live" and one to "die." And then they discontinued the least popular one.

Got home just now and looked at my bag of Onion Rings N'Ketchup (yes, N-apostrophe-ketchup) and it says YOU DESTROYED BUFFALO WINGS N'RANCH SO THIS FLAVOUR COULD LIVE.

As an occasional (quarterly) consumer of Doritos I suppose I share in some blame, but I can't take full responsibility for the death of Buffalo Wings N'Ranch.

― fields of salmon, Monday, 23 May 2011 02:54 (fifteen years ago)

every doritos flavor dies...not every doritos flavor...REALLY LIVES!

― Z S, Monday, 23 May 2011 03:00 (fifteen years ago)

Come on, Doritos, you sons of bitches, do you want to live forever?

― 美国有很多丰富的傻瓜 (Sanpaku), Monday, 23 May 2011 03:26 (fifteen years ago)

four months pass...

As this is a apparently now a general Doritos thread:

http://kotaku.com/5843832/doritos-creator-arch-west-takes-his-cheesy-legacy-to-the-grave

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 26 September 2011 17:01 (fourteen years ago)

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