# Doritos' Mystery Flavor (boxed spoilers)
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [May 28, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831 "2007-05-28T22:36:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Frylock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frylock)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/1 "2007-05-28T22:36:12Z")
I had a few of these “X D-13” chips today. We’re supposed to decide on a name for the flavor, which I have interpreted for myself to mean we’re supposed to figure out what the heck flavor it _is_.
Well, it seemed clear to me from the instant I opened up the bag and smelled the chips. My guess is:
Cheeseburger.
Though to be honest
There’s not any cheese flavor I can detect, so maybe just hamburger?!
Anyway, the mustard flavor was unmistakeable Everything else seems to be there too: onion, pickle, even sort of a “toasted bun” flavor! Beef, not so much.
For the record, I do not like the taste of these chips.
-FrL-
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### Author:  [@Apos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Apos)
#### Post date: [May 28, 2007, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/2 "2007-05-28T23:26:50Z")
I thought
“rotten egg salad”
was closer to the mark.
Personally, I like the black pepper ones the best of the new flavors.
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### Author:  [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/3 "2007-05-29T00:36:14Z")
[QUOTE=Apos]
Personally, I like the black pepper ones the best of the new flavors.
[/QUOTE]
Pffft. Habanero rules! Even if I can’t feel my mouth for an hour after…
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### Author:  [@Common\_Tater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Common_Tater)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/4 "2007-05-29T00:39:48Z")
Whatever flavor, they blow chunks. Nice try, though.
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### Author:  [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/5 "2007-05-29T00:47:11Z")
[QUOTE=Apos]
I thought
“rotten egg salad”
was closer to the mark.
[/QUOTE]
Somehow I don’t think the test markets are gonna go for that name.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/6 "2007-05-29T02:32:50Z")
[Na na na na](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=112634), I can’t hear you
::fingers in ears:
There’s only one “flavor” of Doritos, the original Toasted Corn. Fried corn tortilla triangles with salt on 'em. Salt and nothing else, until you dip them into your nice hot salsa.
The impression that they started putting all kinds of powders and gunk on them is surely just a bad dream. Especially since according to that bad dream the powders and gunk all smell like a bag of dry dog food.
They wouldn’t do a silly thing like that!
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/7 "2007-05-29T02:38:39Z")
I think it’s supposed to be a facsimile of a hot flavor, for people who can’t handle hot flavors. I was hooked on the Smoky Red BBQ flavor, and of course they discontinued it. A lot of people can’t handle hot and spicy to the point where you have to rinse your mouth afterwards. The X-D13 flavor gives the impression of hot, without the lingering scald. The Ned Flanders version of Smoky Red BBQ.
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### Author:  [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 3:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/8 "2007-05-29T03:49:29Z")
First thing I thought of was “Cheeseburger”… second thing I thought of was to find the trash can.
I like doritos _with_ my cheeseburger, I do not want them to taste like it.
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### Author:  [@Captain\_C](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Captain_C)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/9 "2007-05-29T04:00:32Z")
Can you even buy normal doritos anymore? All I can find at the local grocery store is “nacho cheesier” style, or the multitude of other assorted crap flavors.
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### Author:  [@AmbushBug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AmbushBug)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/10 "2007-05-29T05:22:16Z")
Got a bag of it, and I was the only one in the house who could tolerate it. We agreed the best description was “heavily buttered, with dijon mustard”.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/11 "2007-05-29T05:27:27Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3]
There’s only one “flavor” of Doritos, the original Toasted Corn. Fried corn tortilla triangles with salt on 'em. Salt and nothing else, until you dip them into your nice hot salsa.
[/QUOTE]
_quietly_ I like the nacho cheese flavor.
_even more quietly_ Umm… I don’t like salsa.
_runs away very quickly_
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### Author:  [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/12 "2007-05-29T05:32:27Z")
Yeah, I thought the idea was to get salsa, ranch, cheese, whatever flavors without having to dip.
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### Author:  [@TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TLDRIDKJKLOLFTW)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 5:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/13 "2007-05-29T05:56:58Z")
Someone had a bag at the cookout I went to today, and I thought they were delicious. Definitely “hamburger” flavor - strong mustard, ketchup and pickle, with a bit of bun and onion in there. I saw “beef tallow” on the ingredients, but I didn’t taste much beefy in it. I thought it was more like “sauce sandwich.”
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 1:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/14 "2007-05-29T13:51:25Z")
I was thinking who can afford to waste $4 on an unidentified flavor. It could easily be something like Survivor Guano Bat Droppings, or Stuntman Worm Chow. Fritos could give out samples if they cared about naming it, instead of trying to sucker somebody into buying it.
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### Author:  [@Trunk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trunk)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/15 "2007-05-29T14:11:03Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3]
[Na na na na](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=112634), I can’t hear you
::fingers in ears:
There’s only one “flavor” of Doritos, the original Toasted Corn. Fried corn tortilla triangles with salt on 'em. Salt and nothing else, until you dip them into your nice hot salsa.
The impression that they started putting all kinds of powders and gunk on them is surely just a bad dream. Especially since according to that bad dream the powders and gunk all smell like a bag of dry dog food.
They wouldn’t do a silly thing like that!
[/QUOTE]
I don’t really get this post.
Doritos aren’t tostitos. Unless I’m wrong, the Dorito was never a plain totilla chip, but has always been a flavored corn chip.
The wiki doritos page describes it as a a brand of flavored tortilla chip introduced in 1961.
They do mention a “Toasted Corn” flavor, but indicate it is regional and “original” (their quotes, not mine). I can safely say that I’ve _never_ heard of that flavor.
> [@Captain\_C](#):
>
> Can you even buy normal doritos anymore? All I can find at the local grocery store is “nacho cheesier” style, or the multitude of other assorted crap flavors.
I think that “nacho cheesier” is basically a marketing gimmick for their “nacho cheese” flavor. . .that flavor that I consider the original. And, I have a bag of “nacho cheese” (not -ier) on my desk right now.
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### Author:  [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/16 "2007-05-29T14:25:19Z")
A friend of mine assures me that the flavour is “you know when you kind of vomit in your mouth without really vomitting” because everyone knows the taste but can’t quite identify it. Kind of like a one hit wonder heard on the radio.
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### Author:  [@Potato\_Pancakes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Potato_Pancakes)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/17 "2007-05-29T15:18:00Z")
[QUOTE=AHunter3]
There’s only one “flavor” of Doritos, the original Toasted Corn. Fried corn tortilla triangles with salt on 'em. Salt and nothing else, until you dip them into your nice hot salsa.
[/QUOTE]
There’s only one type of toasted corn, and that’s regular corn, not toasted. That’s right, corn on the cob.
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/18 "2007-05-29T15:32:15Z")
Those “Salsa Verde” ones are pretty good. From what I can tell, it’s the same flavoring used on Jalapeno potato chips, only applied to corn chips.
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### Author:  [@Capatalist\_Lion\_Tamer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Capatalist_Lion_Tamer)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/19 "2007-05-29T15:32:39Z")
[QUOTE=Trunk]
I don’t really get this post.
Doritos aren’t tostitos. Unless I’m wrong, the Dorito was never a plain totilla chip, but has always been a flavored corn chip.
The wiki doritos page describes it as a a brand of flavored tortilla chip introduced in 1961.
They do mention a “Toasted Corn” flavor, but indicate it is regional and “original” (their quotes, not mine). I can safely say that I’ve _never_ heard of that flavor.
I think that “nacho cheesier” is basically a marketing gimmick for their “nacho cheese” flavor. . .that flavor that I consider the original. And, I have a bag of “nacho cheese” (not -ier) on my desk right now.
[/QUOTE]
Thank you. I thought I was losing my mind.
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### Author:  [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)
#### Post date: [May 29, 2007, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doritos-mystery-flavor-boxed-spoilers/405831/20 "2007-05-29T17:12:52Z")
Toasted corn flavor is just the plain unseasoned ones. We used to have 4 flavors available. Toasted Corn, Taco, Nacho Cheese, and Sour Cream & Onion. I liked Sour Cream & Onion better than the Cool Ranch. I still would like it to come back.
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