they did in a few test markets and they sort of were banned because the grade school/jr high kids were taking finding the really hot ones as a challenge and a few ended up in the er …
Takis were popular here a while back with the kids because of how cheap they were… but I didn’t like them because they always tasted to me like burnt tortilla chips with flavoring on then to hide the fact …
I had never heard if Takis until Orange is the New Black, and I certainly had never seen them. I came across them in a Dollar Store type of place and was excited to try them. Don’t know if they were maybe past their expiration date but damn, were they nasty. For one thing they were really hard. I assume they’re supposed to be more like Cheetos, texture wise? The flavor was kind of funky but I think I had the chili lime and it was just . . .weird. I’d try them again in a non-lime flavor and maybe assured freshness.
No, the texture is supposed to be harder, which is exactly why I like them. I’m the same way with regular tortilla chips. The stuff you get in the restaurants around here and the Mexican/Mexican-American brands are much sturdier than Tostitos and Doritos. It’s a bit like the difference between a kettle potato chip and a regular potato chip. So if you don’t like that texture, you’re not going to like them.
You might want to try the Doritos version of the rolled chips, which are lighter in texture.
I’ve tried the Doritos Roulette. The spicy ones are reasonably hot. Not something I particularly enjoyed but my son loved them. We also bought a non-Doritos brand that was ghost pepper flavored. Can’t remember which brand. Those were stupid hot and my son took them to dare his friends to eat them. Teenagers…
I suspect those are the Paquis I mentioned upthread. Those are the only legit hot commercial chips I’ve had. They are fiery!
Yeah, I don’t doubt that there are flavors of Takis that I would like. But the one time I had them was when they showed up at Aldi, and when name brands show up at Aldi, it’s usually because they’re not selling well at the more expensive supermarkets. It might be that a lot of other Americans agreed with me about the flavor.
The absolute worst chips I’ve ever had, though, were one of the Doritos mystery flavors. The first mystery flavor was cheeseburger, and that was OK, so I figured I’d take a chance on another one. They turned out to be Mt Dew flavored: A mixture of overwhelmingly sickeningly sweet and overwhelmingly sickeningly sour.
Yeah, around here, the Takis are in the major stores, but I live in a very Mexican neighborhood, where tastes skew towards these sorts of snacks. They are ubiquitous and sell like crazy, along with similar snacks like Churritos and the hot Cheetos and hot Cheetos with lime. It’s sometimes a pain in the ass just to find the regular cheetos for the kids. And they only carry two flavors of Doritos: regular and cool ranch.
Oh yeah. I really liked them.
My favorite Doritos are the Sweet Chili ones. I will have to try the Blaze.
The Habanero chips are fairly hot, but they discontinued this Dorito here. They do sell the roulette packages in Canada.
Most others are milder, but it is not hard to make salsa as hot as you wish. The BBQ Doritos are delicious. Why not? The originals are engineered to meet fifty components of delicious food — from saltiness to mouthfeel.
Not health food, but salsa is healthy and an occasional small bag is okay.
Has anyone ever tried a chip called Red Hot Blues? They’re still not really what I would call “hot”, but they’re hotter than American Doritos flavors, and they’re quite tasty.
Oh, yea, it took me a second to understand.
What I meant to say is we sell them for $1 a bag. The same bag size are 50 cents in Walmart, and maybe 69 cents in a convienance store. The kids are fond of telling me how overpriced they are, but they just keep buying them. It’s all for charity, so I can do it with a clear conscience.
Man, you guys are killing me slowly here with this junk food talk. I mean, literally, as in my body hates you for making me want to eat these things. Today at the store I happened to see that the Cheetos come in both hot and extra hot varieties. (“Cheetos XXtra Flaming Hot”, they’re called on the bag.) I had never noticed an extra hot variety before, so I picked these up. Man, these things are good (if you like these sort of things. 
) These are probably close to the heat level of the Blaze Doritos chip (perhaps even hotter; it’s really hard to tell), but I like the cheesy tang on this one. Also checked out the price of Takis, and it turns out at my grocery, they’re actually slightly more expensive than the Doritos. A 9 oz package is $2.69, while the Doritos 9 oz is $2.50.
Well, apparently the XXtra hot is not spicy enough for the 2-year-old. She saw me eating the bag and begged me for one. I told her she wouldn’t like it because it was spicy. So I gave her the tiniest of pieces I could break off along with her sippy cup of milk and off she went. She scrunched up her face a bit, but didn’t seem to be bothered so much as confused. I went to pick up some stuff around the house and came back to her propped up on the chair digging into the bag and having an entire Cheeto or two.
I wonder if little kids just don’t notice the heat as much or something. My other daughter (now 3 1/2) was similar when she was 1 1/2 - 2 years old. We’d go to a Mexican place where the green salsa packs a decent punch even for me, and she’d be all over that with a tortilla chip, scrunching up her face, but continuing to eat. Now the mere suggestion of spice, and she won’t touch it. Same thing with veggies and herbs. Used to pound back any vegetable or green. Now the only pizza she’ll eat is plain or with sausage only. Don’t you dare put a mushroom or green pepper on it. She went from an omnivore to eating like four things: carbs, salami, sausage, and cheese. Oh, occasionally she’ll have a bit of hamburger or chicken nugget, but I’m going way far afield here…
Ooooh, I think I could get on board with extra hot Cheetos. Somehow the texture and shape seem like they work better with the flavor powder. Doritos are too smooth to hold that much seasoning and it ends up overwhelming the chip and you’re left with a mouth full of spice but no . . .substance to compliment it.