Reviews Filed Under 'Frito Lay'
Price: 99¢
Serving: 1oz.
Servings Per Container: 3
Calories: 140 per serving
Fat: 11%, 7g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 7%, 170mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 6%, 18g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: <1g
Weight Watchers Points: 9 per bag
Frito Lay says: The loudest tasting snacks on Earth.
We say: There are two types of people in this world: folks who enjoy corn chips covered in buttermilk powder and spices and folks who don’t. We suspect that Cool Ranch Doritos are simply plain corn chips covered in Hidden Valley Ranch powder. That’s okay because they are still delicious.
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Posted on January 9, 2008
Categories: Ranch, Nine Points, Doritos, Frito Lay, Tortilla Chips, Five Stars, Corn Chips
Price: $0.25
Serving: 1 Package, 7/8oz.
Calories: 120 per serving
Fat: 10%, 6g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 8%, 190mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 5%, 16g
Fiber: <1g
Sugar: 1g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Per Serving
Frito Lay says: Turn up the volume of your snacking with the amped-up spices, high-decibel cheese, and the awesome crunch of Doritos brand tortilla chips. The bold flavors like Doritos Nacho Cheese and Cool Ranch are the loudest tasting snacks on earth.
Abi says: After trying the Doritos Zesty Taco Chipotle Ranch Collisions, I was reluctant to open this adorable little bag of Spicy Nacho Doritos.
Sure, it was just 25¢ and I could toss it if it was bad, but that wasn’t the point. The point was that I didn’t want to live in fear of potentially repulsive Doritos. I wanted to rejoice in the intrinsic Americanness of this snack. I wanted to sit back with my Doritos and enjoy a bit of television and maybe a beer.
But I didn’t want to ruin a good beer with bad Doritos.
Fortunately for me, these chips are just like the original Nacho Doritos, with a bit of added oomph in the form of spice. Not any particularly nameable spice, just some added flavor that takes them beyond the norm. Though, ‘norm’ is the wrong word because these taste nothing like any nachos I’ve ever had. You have to admit that it is pretty impressive how chip manufacturers can put any sort of flavoring on a chip, call it a name somewhat related name (nachos and this chip both have some form of cheese, right?) and we’ll eat it right up. I supposed that’s what happens when you’ve got a heavy hand with the MSG.
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Posted on October 10, 2007
Categories: Nacho, Gluten Free, Doritos, Frito Lay, Tortilla Chips, Corn Chips
Price: €1.50 for 1 small bag
Serving: 2/3 bag, 25 grams
Calories: 130 per serving
Fat: 13%, 8gg
Sodium: 13%, 300mg
Protein: 1.8g
Carbohydrates: 4%, 12.8g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 0g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 per serving
Nabisco says: Su crujiente textura y su exceptional sabor son fruto de la perfecta union entre el aceite de oliva y la sabiduria de nuestros expertos.
Abi says: If you don’t speak Spanish, here is my crude translation of the product blurb:
These crispy, flavorful chips are the product of the perfect union between olive oil and our expert chip-makers.
I purchased these Olive Oil chips in Spain, so everything on the package is in Spanish. I enjoy that because it gives me a chance to practice my language skills. Also, it is fun to imagine how the text could be translated literally by a non-English speaker.
But this review isn’t about learning a second language. No, this review is about Olive Oil potato chips. That’s right, brilliantly yellow, thick, crunchy, salty chips that pretty much leap from the bag and into your mouth. Okay, so they aren’t that fantastic. They are an olive oil version of a kettle chip: a bit more heft than your average Lay’s chip. And while the Olive Oil taste is interesting, it certainly isn’t the essential, nutty, grassyness of truly fantastic olive oil. One can’t eat a lot of these chips (a selling point perhaps?) and they definitely lack the light airiness of a standard, sunflower-oil friend potato chip.
I think that America will continue to operate just fine without the Olive Oil chip. Or this olive oil chip, but foodies may be up in arms. How else will they be able to produce Ferran Adria’s Egg and Potato Chip Tortilla?
Yeah, the answer would be ‘go to Spain and get some chips’ but once you’re in Spain, fantastic tortillas de patata abound and the reason for these crisps becomes null. What a conundrum!
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Posted on October 2, 2007
Categories: Vegan, Vegetarian, High Fructose Corn Syrup Free, Frito Lay, Three Stars, Potato Chips
Price: $0.99
Serving: 1oz.
Servings Per Container: 2.5
Calories: 150 per serving
Fat: 12%, 8g
Cholesterol: 0%, 0mg
Sodium: 11%, 270mg
Protein: 2g
Carbohydrates: 6%, 17g
Fiber: 4%, 1g
Sugar: 1g
Weight Watchers Points: 3 Per Serving
Frito Lay says: With 2 BOLD flavors in 1 bag, you control the ultimate DORITOS flavor combination. What COLLISIONS combo will you unleash? Also try HOT WINGS & BLUE CHEESE flavors.
We say: We’re supposed to get these because they offer a choice? A choice between the two types of Doritos that come in one bag? Somehow, that doesn’t feel like a choice so much as a damning declaration that we will be stuck with half a bag of unsatisfactory chips.
Snack Lounge has a not-so-secret love of Doritos. Knowing this, we don’t buy them. For one, we enjoy self-denial. And two? We like fitting into our pants. This means that all Dorito enjoyment takes place at barbecues. But with Labor Day approaching, DC’s barbecue season will end and we’ll have to resist the corn chip siren call emanating from every convenience store.
Fortunately, this bag of Doritos Collisions has cured us of liking at least one flavor in the Doritos clan. Our suspicions were originally placed on the Chipotle Ranch. Regular ranch is terrific (mmmm, powdered buttermilk), so do we really want spicy ranch? No. We hate change. Also, we love tacos, so Spicy Taco was a perfect match for our vaguely Hispanic heritage.
Oh how wrong we were. The Chipotle Ranch offered just slightly more zip than regular Ranch flavored (our favorite) Doritos. However, the Spicy Taco chips featured such astrigency that during the time elapse of chewing the second chip we were consumed with the pain one feels from a million canker sores.
Okay, not a million. Maybe four or five canker sores. But really, do you want to feel like you have mouth sores because these Doritos are both strongly flavored and a bit scrapey? No, you don’t and neither do we. In an act of utter out-of-characterness, we picked out the non-Chipotley Chipotle Ranch version and tossed the Spicy Taco Doritos in the trash.
What a depressing way to begin the holiday weekend.
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Posted on August 31, 2007
Categories: Chipotle, Ranch, Taco, Doritos, Frito Lay, Tortilla Chips, Two Stars, Three Points, Corn Chips
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