# Things you Didn't Know about Doritos.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [June 15, 2015, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609 "2015-06-15T20:39:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
**Page:** 2
### Author:  [@garygnu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/garygnu)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/21 "2015-06-16T05:12:33Z")
> [@Chefguy](#):
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> It’s disturbing that you know this. Then I would have to go with the oil they’re using, combined with whatever sort of corn it is. Frito-Lay tends to heavily salt their products, as well.
Call it a guilty pleasure of you like, but I quite like Fritos. The simplicity of the ingredients is one of the appeals, and easy to remember.
Other than good tortilla chips\*, Fritos ate pretty much the only snack chip I buy, though the occasional single bag of Cheetos is nice when eaten with copsticks.
\*: look at the back of the bag and look for things written in Spanish first. Calidad is my current fav.
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### Author:  [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 7:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/22 "2015-06-16T07:38:03Z")
> [@garygnu](#):
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> The regular flavor ones are not. The ingredients list only corn, corn oil, and salt.
The listed ingredients of toasted corn Doritos are corn, vegetable oil and salt. The same thing is true of Tostitos Original (another Frito Lay product). They don’t list masa or lime, just corn, which surprised me a bit. Perhaps the amount of lime is so low that the law doesn’t require them to list it. At least one brand of tortilla chip (Mission) lists masa instead of just corn.
That being said, Fritos don’t taste to me like nixtamalized corn, while most tortilla chips do.
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### Author:  [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/23 "2015-06-16T14:55:57Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#):
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> The listed ingredients of toasted corn Doritos are corn, vegetable oil and salt. The same thing is true of Tostitos Original (another Frito Lay product). They don’t list masa or lime, just corn, which surprised me a bit. Perhaps the amount of lime is so low that the law doesn’t require them to list it. At least one brand of tortilla chip (Mission) lists masa instead of just corn.
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> That being said, Fritos don’t taste to me like nixtamalized corn, while most tortilla chips do.
All I can think of is that somehow the process of creating an actual tortilla from masa (mixing, pressing, cooking), and then subsequently deep-frying it, make them taste different from Fritos, which I believe are directly extruded into the hot oil and cooked (fried) the one time.
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### Author:  [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/24 "2015-06-16T16:36:01Z")
I like Fritos because they’re so salty. Low-salt chips are an abomination. Like decaf coffee or no-alcohol beer. What’s the point?
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/25 "2015-06-16T18:59:04Z")
Early 1980’s? Didn’t Leno advertise Doritos in the _late_ 1980’s?
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### Author:  [@UncleRojelio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleRojelio)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/26 "2015-06-16T19:08:47Z")
I don’t know whether I should share this or not. Y’all might think I’m weird but here goes anyway. My favorite way to eat Fritos is using them to scoop up a big dollup of peanut butter. Chunky peanut butter. Delish.
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### Author:  [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/27 "2015-06-16T20:58:24Z")
**UncleRojelio** : You’re weird…but that’s a good thing in this crowd!
(On my way to the supermarket… Two guesses what’s on my shopping list!)
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [June 16, 2015, 11:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/28 "2015-06-16T23:35:48Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#):
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> Early 1980’s? Didn’t Leno advertise Doritos in the _late_ 1980’s?
He looks really young in the commercial I linked. The longer hair, very skinny. Classic young Leno that I remember from the HBO comedy specials.
It may have been a little later.
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### Author:  [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2015, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/29 "2015-06-17T01:19:23Z")
> [@aceplace57](#):
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> He looks really young in the commercial I linked. The longer hair, very skinny. Classic young Leno that I remember from the HBO comedy specials.
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> It may have been a little later.
He does look young. Cool Ranch came out in 1986, but I’m not sure if he was the one to introduce them in ads.
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### Author:  [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2015, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/30 "2015-06-17T01:42:15Z")
> [@Honey](#):
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> I like Fritos because they’re so salty. Low-salt chips are an abomination. Like decaf coffee or no-alcohol beer. What’s the point?
Totally agree!
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### Author:  [@dropzone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dropzone)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2015, 2:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/31 "2015-06-17T02:28:34Z")
> [@Jeff\_Lichtman](#):
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> That being said, Fritos don’t taste to me like nixtamalized corn, while most tortilla chips do.
Yeah, Fritos taste like corn, not cardboard.
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### Author:  [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)
#### Post date: [June 17, 2015, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/32 "2015-06-17T12:00:56Z")
> [@Joey\_P](#):
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> BTW, your favorite restaurant, while probably clean, sanitary and safe to eat at, probably has a filthy (looking) kitchen, trust me, I’ve seen it, you don’t want to watch your food being made or see how it’s stored.
Heh. In the WB cartoon [_Slick Hare_](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slick_Hare), the one where Elmer has to deliver up fried rabbit to Humphrey Bogart in the “Mocrumbo” night club, writer Mike Maltese patterned the look of the kitchen after the one in the real-life Mocambo – and got in trouble for it.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [June 18, 2015, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-didnt-know-about-doritos/722609/33 "2015-06-18T03:34:17Z")
Frito-Lay has come out with a recent corn chip under the name Josefina. It doesn’t say that it’s a Lay product anywhere on the package, and that they’re made in Vancouver, WA, but the parent company address is the same as Frito-Lay. Anyway, they’re great.
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