# Tostitos don't be cheap! **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [January 2, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644 "2005-01-02T03:37:11Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/1 "2005-01-02T03:37:11Z")
Tostitos, you should have given the full $100,000 to USO even though the woman missed the throw. This would have been a sign of the caring corperate entity you can be. It was nice to bring the woman’s husband to game, but you should have given the full amount even though she missed. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/2 "2005-01-02T03:38:41Z")
Er… link? 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@Kel\_Varnsen\_Latex\_Division](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kel_Varnsen_Latex_Division)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/3 "2005-01-02T03:40:50Z")
It just happened at the Fiesta Bowl. No Link. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/4 "2005-01-02T03:55:04Z")
Oh. Boo, Tostitos, boo. _wanders off, still puzzled_ 😕 ---
**Author:** ![Logicalkitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Logicalkitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logicalkitten)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/5 "2005-01-02T03:56:09Z")
Why was she throwing tostitos? ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/6 "2005-01-02T03:56:38Z")
Tostitos had a woman throw a football 15 yards and try to hit a hole in a giant Tostitos bag. If she threw it through the hole, Tostitos would give 100,000$ to the USO. She missed, so they only donated 25,000$ ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/7 "2005-01-02T03:58:29Z")
_That_ makes sense! Thank you, **catsix**! And yeah, that was pretty cheap of Tostitos. If you’re going to give money to a charity, give it all the way… ---
**Author:** ![Logicalkitten](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f6c823/32.png) [@Logicalkitten](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Logicalkitten)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/8 "2005-01-02T04:02:09Z")
We should all applaiud Kel for a nice, normal thread. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ea5d25/32.png) [@Happy\_Scrappy\_Hero\_Pup](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Happy_Scrappy_Hero_Pup)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/9 "2005-01-02T04:12:54Z")
The thread title made me think that **Kel** was pitting the unusually high cost of a certain brand of chip. ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 4:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/10 "2005-01-02T04:22:17Z")
So why was the woman even there tossing a football for USO charity? Was she a USO rep or something? Don’t people usually win something for themselves with these things? ---
**Author:** ![catsix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19b73/32.png) [@catsix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/catsix)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/11 "2005-01-02T04:27:23Z")
Her ‘prize’ was that Tostitos arranged for her husband to be brought back to the US to see her. She got to find out he was there after she threw the football. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 4:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/12 "2005-01-02T04:34:26Z")
Yeah, Tostitos are much more expensive than Don Pablo’s brand of tortilla chips. But I’m addicted to peach-pineapple salsa, so I buy them anyway! ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/13 "2005-01-02T04:35:05Z")
Ah, thank you **catsix** (though that raises a lot more questions in my mind that’s as much info as I need on a snack food promotion 🙂 ). For those actually worried: I’m sure the Frito-lay corporation’s charity expenditure budget will get used up, thats what it’s there for. ---
**Author:** ![iampunha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/74df32/32.png) [@iampunha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iampunha)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 5:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/14 "2005-01-02T05:21:14Z")
> [@Kythereia](#): > > _That_ makes sense! Thank you, **catsix**! > > And yeah, that was pretty cheap of Tostitos. If you’re going to give money to a charity, give it all the way… ??? They had a contract with an organization. If A happened, the organization got $25K. If B happened, the organization got $100K. A happened. How is that not honoring the committment and giving money to the charity as per previously-arranged conditions? Hell, Tostitos being cheap would have been them secretly charging the woman/family’s bank account for the cost of transporting the husband back stateside… ---
**Author:** ![LordVor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90ced4/32.png) [@LordVor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LordVor)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 6:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/15 "2005-01-02T06:21:33Z")
> [@Logicalkitten](#): > > We should all applaiud Kel for a nice, normal thread. 🙂 Isn’t that just a part of his cycle? Poke too hard, moderator bites, pretends to be normal for a while? ---
**Author:** ![caphis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e19adc/32.png) [@caphis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/caphis)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/16 "2005-01-02T07:33:41Z")
I don’t see any reason to criticize Tostitos at all. If anything, they should be applauded for the donation they _did_ make. No one forced them to offer ANY money, and $25,000 is nothing to thumb your nose at. Tostitos isn’t “being cheap.” They offered $100,000 if she completed the throw; she didn’t, so they’re following through with their $25,000. Kudos to Tostitos. ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/17 "2005-01-02T19:30:49Z")
If they were going to give $100K no matter what happened, there’d be no point in having the woman throw the ball, and then they wouldn’t have gotten any publicity out of the whole thing, which is, after all, the whole point. ---
**Author:** ![Ephemera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/8baadc/32.png) [@Ephemera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ephemera)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/18 "2005-01-02T22:26:51Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Yeah, Tostitos are much more expensive than Don Pablo’s brand of tortilla chips. But I’m addicted to peach-pineapple salsa, so I buy them anyway! I am in love with their _Hint of Jalapeño_ tortilla chips and once it’s legalized in Oregon, intend to marry them. ---
**Author:** ![ParentalAdvisory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/53a042/32.png) [@ParentalAdvisory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParentalAdvisory)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2005, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/19 "2005-01-02T22:59:37Z")
Finally, something I may be able to agree with **Kel** on. It’s almost like the pop-tabs and Campbell’s soup label charities. Quit teasing the recipients of the donations by the performance by what other people can, or cannot deliver. $75,000 less because a woman failed to hit a frickin’ bag? :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2005, 10:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644/20 "2005-01-03T10:24:27Z")
> [@iampunha](#): > > ??? > > They had a contract with an organization. If A happened, the organization got $25K. If B happened, the organization got $100K. A happened. How is that not honoring the committment and giving money to the charity as per previously-arranged conditions? > > Hell, Tostitos being cheap would have been them secretly charging the woman/family’s bank account for the cost of transporting the husband back stateside… I believe it has to do with the everybody-gets-an-award mentality in today’s so-called public schools. In a Discovery Time special on Gen-Y, the matter was discussed with a panel of young’uns. They expect meritorious recognition basically for existing. An employer was interviewed who lamented that they have to be stroked constantly, that they are unabled to formulate and achieve goals, and that they are envious of the achievements of others. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-dont-be-cheap/282644.md?page=2)