# Tostito's Touch Of Lime tortilla chips are disgusting! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 30, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387 "2012-04-30T03:38:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/1 "2012-04-30T03:38:34Z")
:eek:Well I asked someone else to do a blind taste test on these, they asked me if they were soaked in orange juice! They smell and taste a bit like Fruity Pebbles or some other kind of sweet fruity corn cereal, I was expecting a hint of lime not orange flavored sugar! A whole fucking plate of nachos ruined basically:mad: ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/2 "2012-04-30T03:40:00Z")
I haven’t had those, but a lot of these “lime-flavored” chips I get just remind me of lime Froot Loops. I just can’t eat anything with that powdered lime stuff on it without thinking breakfast cereal. ---
**Author:** ![Fear\_Itself](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_itself/32/19637_2.png) [@Fear\_Itself](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_Itself)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/3 "2012-04-30T03:40:00Z")
I love those chips. Sorry. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_the\_Immortal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/6de8d8/32.png) [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/4 "2012-04-30T03:44:05Z")
To me they taste like someone crushed up a few lime lifesavers, sprinkled them onto the chips, and gave the bag a a good shake. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/5 "2012-04-30T03:47:50Z")
Wha? Lime flavored chips taste sweet to you? Weird. ---
**Author:** ![grude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e47774/32.png) [@grude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/grude)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/6 "2012-04-30T03:51:41Z")
> [@Max\_the\_Immortal](#): > > To me they taste like someone crushed up a few lime lifesavers, sprinkled them onto the chips, and gave the bag a a good shake. YES^ I think the problem is they added sugar, I’ve been known to squirt some lime juice into my tortilla chips and tacos and fajitas, these chips don’t taste like lime juice they taste like lime candy. ---
**Author:** ![Rodgers01](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/b19c9b/32.png) [@Rodgers01](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rodgers01)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/7 "2012-04-30T03:51:52Z")
Oh man, you kidding me? Those things are delicious! And evidently popular, considering they’ve expanded their “Hint of…” line. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/8 "2012-04-30T04:14:51Z")
They can’t be any worse than the Mt Dew-flavored Doritos from a few years back. Which were made even worse by the fact that they were a “mystery flavor”, so you didn’t even know in advance what you were getting into. ---
**Author:** ![Inner\_Stickler](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inner_stickler/32/318_2.png) [@Inner\_Stickler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inner_Stickler)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/9 "2012-04-30T04:16:50Z")
Really? I don’t remember that. If there’s anything that could make Mountain Dew even more disgusting, I think chip form would be it. ---
**Author:** ![Doctor\_Who](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Doctor\_Who](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doctor_Who)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/10 "2012-04-30T04:20:06Z")
Yeah, those Hint of Lime chips are terrible! The Hint of Jalapeño are even worse! That’s why I’ve been systematically trying to eat every one…to, er, save the rest of you. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/11 "2012-04-30T04:44:31Z")
> [@grude](#): > > YES^ I think the problem is they added sugar, I’ve been known to squirt some lime juice into my tortilla chips and tacos and fajitas, these chips don’t taste like lime juice they taste like lime candy. They do, indeed, contain sugar: [http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&productId=386209](http://www.wegmans.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?langId=-1&storeId=10052&catalogId=10002&productId=386209) Now that I look at the packaging, I do think I’ve had those, and those do taste like Froot Loops to me. Yuck. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/12 "2012-04-30T05:26:09Z")
I love 'em. But you have to eat them plain–they don’t go with anything much. Now, the Limon chips I’ve tried, those are horrible. They taste like lemon cookies and chips smashed together. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/13 "2012-04-30T06:04:14Z")
I’ve tried them. They’re not bad, but not something I’d want to eat all the time. ---
**Author:** ![shiftless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9c0ed/32.png) [@shiftless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shiftless)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/14 "2012-04-30T15:41:37Z")
> [@Doctor\_Who](#): > > Yeah, those Hint of Lime chips are terrible! The Hint of Jalapeño are even worse! That’s why I’ve been systematically trying to eat every one…to, er, save the rest of you. I am right at your shoulder, helping to save others from the horror of Hint of Lime chips. Those fiends at Tostito’s just keeping making more. We have to step up our efforts. ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/15 "2012-04-30T15:54:40Z")
You can give them to me as I love the hint of lime chips. They used to have a flavor called lime and chili that was freakin’ awesome. ---
**Author:** ![Blaster\_Master](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/cab0a1/32.png) [@Blaster\_Master](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blaster_Master)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/16 "2012-04-30T16:02:36Z")
The hint of lime chips aren’t really all that good by themselves, I’d rather eat plain tortilla chips. However, with hot salsa, I like the contrast against the spiciness better than the plain ones. ---
**Author:** ![Mister\_Rik](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mister_rik/32/491_2.png) [@Mister\_Rik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mister_Rik)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/17 "2012-04-30T16:08:28Z")
> [@Blaster\_Master](#): > > The hint of lime chips aren’t really all that good by themselves, I’d rather eat plain tortilla chips. However, with hot salsa, I like the contrast against the spiciness better than the plain ones. Doritos “Flamas” flavor seems to be attempting this - screaming hot peppers with lime. Except I find _those_ completely inedible. The hot pepper flavor is awesome, but somehow the lime comes chasing _after_ the spiciness, despite being on the same chip (you’d think you’d taste both at once, but no, you taste the spicy peppers and then the lime a moment later). That lime is so overpowering that I couldn’t even make it through half a bag. ---
**Author:** ![Ferret\_Herder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47774/32.png) [@Ferret\_Herder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferret_Herder)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/18 "2012-04-30T16:16:50Z")
Last time I had them, the problems I had were the sweet taste and that it wasn’t a “hint” of lime by any means. I like lime in spicy food, but ugh, not those chips. ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/19 "2012-04-30T16:19:08Z")
We love them, and I buy nothing else. However, I normally buy Store Brand, and their “hint of lime” are not sweet at all, at least to me. I haven’t tried the Actual Tostito brand. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2012, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387/20 "2012-04-30T16:35:05Z")
Yeah, not a fan. I discovered something else that adds a touch of lime to tortilla chips: _limes_. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tostitos-touch-of-lime-tortilla-chips-are-disgusting/620387.md?page=2)