Not surprised at the Doritos-flavored Mountain Dew. I’ve seen restaurants sell Fritos Chips on pizza, Dorito-shell tacos, even hamburgers with fries on it for SALE??? These are the foods/drinks we made up as kids and it is being marketed. The next item will be a bowl of fresh snow with vanilla extract, sugar, and the canned PET Milk…smh
Ugh… I have a 15 year old and this is exactly the disgusting kind of thing he’d drink. There was a blue one that he bought not too long ago and it had like 1.5 million calories in it. I forbid him to bring it in the house again. I guess I’ll have to add this to the restricted substance list as well.
For some reason when I think of “Mountain Dew flavored Doritos”, I think “that’s bit unusual, but it might be good”, but the thought of “Doritos flavored Mountain Dew”, triggers a gag reflex.
I’m just imagining some unshaven guy in his underwear playing the new Call of Duty game, with orange stains on his shirt and a half-dozen empty 20 oz bottles of this stuff arrayed in front of him.
Is there anybody out there who thinks this will last on the shelves for more than a month, if it even makes it there at all? I would never even try such a disgusting product, for fear that I couldn’t shake the memory of the awful taste.
Have soft drink marketing departments really run out of any halfway decent ideas?
It sounds kind of odd, but the original unflavored Doritos aren’t bad tortilla chips at all. I think they’re kind of overpriced, but they’re not bad.
I don’t get the whole idea of taking something savory and making a soft drink or dessert version of it. I don’t mean taking a savory ingredient and incorporating it into something sweet- I’ve had potato chip and bacon chocolates, and both were great.
I’m talking about things like Doritos flavored mountain dew, or garlic ice cream, or other things that just seem to be wrong at first blush. I’m guessing they’re all gimmicks, like all the odd Jones soda flavors(grass, dirt, thanksgiving dinner, gravy, etc…) and the Jelly Belly Harry Potter flavors (earwax, booger, etc…).
“The lab has figured out we can make Mountain Dew for 0.6% less if we switch from flavoring XB-456/A to XB-457/B.”
“Great, what is the catch?”
“It tastes really gross. A tech joked that it sort of tasted like Doritos mixed with Mountain Dew.”
“Gross! Still, 0.6% is 0.6%. Lets put it out there and see if it sticks.”