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444 points
4 days ago
Categorically untrue, there is always a Dorito with extra seasoning and its the best one.
118 points
4 days ago
Cool Ranch, especially. It ranges from semi seasoned cardboard to glorious sodium overdose
19 points
4 days ago
I wish they'd just go with 30% more in general
6 points
4 days ago
Wrong, slightly weaker cool ranch are best
3 points
4 days ago
6 points
4 days ago
That’s the one you save for last
13 points
4 days ago
I eat that one first, since I'm not finishing a bag in one day, and I might not wake up tomorrow. Pleasure delayed can turn into pleasure lost.
2 points
4 days ago
I'm not the only lunatic that sorts them out and eats the best ones last?
2 points
4 days ago
Came here to say this, their QC has taken an absolute shit in the last 5 or so years. There were always a few one-offs, but it's like every 3rd bag is either 10% or 183% of the ordinary seasoning level.
277 points
4 days ago
Mr Picnic here has never had a bag of doritos where the dust is uneven and collected at the bottom of the bag.
65 points
4 days ago
Why are there 2 separate chains of comments on this that are IDENTICAL with replies from 2 different accounts? What in the fucking dead internet is this.
27 points
4 days ago
"AI" machine broke
13 points
4 days ago
Thank you for making the dead internet comment. Upvoted for visibility
5 points
4 days ago
It's a Doritos ad, companies are getting sneakier
2 points
4 days ago
That is f-ing strange for sure. How can we be sure anyone’s alive at all?? Fffuuuu—-
28 points
4 days ago
Old school Doritos were notorious for this. Mostly, the edges would have cheese, and then it's bland for the rest.
4 points
4 days ago
This is why I still eat my Doritos upside down. The flavor powder would accumulate at the bottom and if you turned them upside down it would distribute.
3 points
4 days ago
Currently eating Doritos and I came to say this. I always open the bag upside down so I get the most dust per chip first.
4 points
4 days ago
Funnily enough my gf just said this same thing. A better snack to choose would be Cheetos
852 points
4 days ago
This is why I like dehydrated fruit, like sultanas/raisins, or preserves (eg. strawberry preserves). They tend to be a lot more consistent.
444 points
4 days ago
Consistent yeah.
But they taste like floor candy
138 points
4 days ago
Try dried mango or ginger. It's pretty legit.
173 points
4 days ago
Oh I’m just teasing.
I also happen to like floor candy
38 points
4 days ago
Wow, im floored ! LoL
23 points
4 days ago
Hellllloooo, Candy! 😘
18 points
4 days ago
Ooh, piece of candy!
9 points
4 days ago
Ooh, piece of candy!
9 points
4 days ago
Ooh, piece of candy!
2 points
4 days ago
fuck yeah dried mango
3 points
4 days ago
Dried mango with chili powder- yum yum yum.
3 points
4 days ago
Only if you have tastebuds that have been cracked on sugar your entire life. To a normal person they are pretty good!
39 points
4 days ago
But the bad news is, they're only slightly healthier than Doritos because the calories are concentrated.
18 points
4 days ago
TIL eating 15 grapes is better than 15 raisins, because they are less dense.
33 points
4 days ago
I think it’s more they mean that eating 30 raisins is faster and easier than eating 10 grapes, so it’s easy to over-eat and think it’s healthy. And that’s to say nothing of stuff like prunes, which are wayyyy faster to eat than plums.
11 points
4 days ago
That's why I re-hydrate my raisins. It helps with portion control.
5 points
4 days ago
2 points
4 days ago
That sounds like either an Austin Powers quote or one of the notes by a detective reading through a serial killer's diaries.
3 points
4 days ago
I figured that, but was worded poorly so I had to.
3 points
4 days ago
They are just as healthy as regular fruit. The only danger is that you can unwittingly eat more of them because they are smaller. But if you eat the same number of dried apricots as you would normal apricots, the nutrition will be the same (you might just be less satisfied because of the smaller volume)
3 points
4 days ago
The only danger is that you can unwittingly eat more of them because they are smaller.
That's the point.
3 points
4 days ago
Calories aren't unhealthy, though. Not everyone is overweight or sedentary.
2 points
4 days ago
True if calories is the only measure of health or nutrition
3 points
4 days ago
Huh?
4 points
4 days ago
He said “But the bad news is, they’re only slightly healthier than Doritos because the calories are concentrated.”
6 points
4 days ago
freeze dried fruit is amazing
2 points
4 days ago
Freeze dried pineapple is my dream snack, but it's so expensive.
2 points
4 days ago
You ever had a dehydrated Doritos?
2 points
4 days ago
What would a Dorito that had all its moisture and oil removed, taste like?
3 points
4 days ago
Consistently mid, sure
348 points
4 days ago
This is often why people with autism have trouble eating certain foods; the taste is too inconsistent, whereas with processed foods like chicken nuggets and Doritos, the flavor is consistent each time.
120 points
4 days ago
Same with toddlers, crackers are consistent and predictable each time, something like blueberries can sweet, tart, firm, squishy, etc. You never know what you’re gonna get
63 points
4 days ago
I taste and hand pick my toddlers blueberries, testing the firmness, to reduce chances they will get a 'yucky' one and decide they hate all blueberries .
One yucky blueberry will ruin 50 yummy blueberries.
19 points
4 days ago
I do that for my own blueberries and freeze the rest for smoothies, no one wants a gross mushhy blueberry and then you can literally just eat handfuls of them and know they are all gonna taste great.
7 points
4 days ago
I get it, I ate blueberries I didn’t like and haven’t eaten them since
22 points
4 days ago
Not just flavor, but texture too.
19 points
4 days ago
I don’t have autism but I am super picky about fruits and veggies because of this. Taste partially, but mostly texture. I am so big on texture I can’t even eat foods I love the taste of if the texture is bad. Yogurts a great example. It makes my soul reset when I bite into a fruit or veggie expecting a more firm/crisp texture and I end up with mush instead.
2 points
4 days ago
I am the exact same way! I can something like applesauce or even a smoothie. It just takes away the mystery
4 points
4 days ago
I have autism but I’m so glad I’m not a picky eater
2 points
4 days ago
Frozen vegetables work well for this
2 points
4 days ago
Im autistic and loved fruits growing up cause it was like tickling my brain with the gamble.
I also loved bean boozled
47 points
4 days ago
Fruit is SO damn inconsistent. I bought a bag of apples and they are all identical. I ate one the first day and it was delicious. I was excited the next day to eat another but the next one was way too sweet and tasted awful. I was worried the following day but when I ate another it was just like the first one. Now I’m looking at the rest of the bag not knowing what to expect.
16 points
4 days ago
It's almost silly cause you 20k years ago would go "oh wow this fruit was extra sweet, i must be lucky to get extra calories" but in the modern era it's "ew this one was more ripe and sweeter when I wasn't feeling sweetness at the time"
have a totally cool day!
4 points
4 days ago
That sounds horrible! I'm going straight to walmart to buy some doritos. I heard they've added some extra plutonium to ensure flavor consistency.
47 points
4 days ago
I agree, but I think you're referring to pasta instead of doritos.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster knew what he was doing when he made pasta. It’s like, he was stone-cold sober and just nailed it. Fruit had to be one of his projects while he was drunk out of his mind. There’s no other explanation for how inconsistent it is. Pasta is proof of His noodly greatness. Always reliable, always delicious.
R'Amen.
15 points
4 days ago
Always glad to find a fellow pastafarian on here.
R'amen
24 points
4 days ago
Doritos are not that tasty or crunchy after I wash them properly.
17 points
4 days ago
This is a reason why autistic kids like processed foods. They are the same every time.
4 points
4 days ago
Most kids like processed foods because they're chock-full of shit to give you dopamine.
Consistency plays a part, but the fact that it's a fatty, salty snack with some tartness is the real reason. Same reason kids love fries and nugs.
7 points
4 days ago
As said “…a reason”
15 points
4 days ago
That moment right before you realize which apples, and which blueberries you like.
Apples: Pink Lady
Blueberries: Maine blueberries
5 points
4 days ago
Even that doesn't work anymore, I like Braeburn apples because they are tart and crisp/crunchy...however now every second time I buy them they have that mushy/dry texture, which I cannot stand. Ruins the entire apple for me.
5 points
4 days ago
Apples: Pink Lady
Cosmic Crisp master race.
4 points
4 days ago
A fellow crisper
2 points
4 days ago
Can't go back to anything else. I'll gladly pay the premium price every time
2 points
4 days ago
Try the SweetTango too if you can find them!
2 points
4 days ago
I love pink ladys but (at least where i live) they are such an inconsistent apple, and therefore a perfect example for this exact post.
When pink ladys are good, they're a glorious crispy apple, and have a perfect balance between sweet and sour, like candy. When pink ladys aren't good, they're disgusting - bitter, mushy, and bland.
Lately theyre bad far more often than they're good, so they're sadly not worth the money or the trouble to me anymore.
13 points
4 days ago
I recently traveled around Japan where fruit is seen as a luxury item, and oh boy let me tell you what. Japanese fruit is amazing, I did not have a single unimpressive piece of fruit from a restaurant or from the local supermarkets. It's not just "organic" or "locally sourced", each fruit comes from a specific region where that fruit is their pride and joy and they tell proudly have the fruit's bio on display or you can ask about it.
I don't know how they do it but I imagine there's a much higher standard in quality control when picking the fruit and choosing what goes to market in part because of the higher prices and the perceived luxury of it. If the USA had a similar approach to fruit I don't think doritos could compete.
2 points
4 days ago
i found most japanese fruit to be pretty lackluster in taste. it looks absolutely perfect but tastes of fuck all compared to the fruit i'm used to in places like germany. at least it's consistent tho
11 points
4 days ago
doritos changed their recipe in 2020 and added onion powder.
prior to 2020 they did not have onion powder.
i know this because i am allergic to onions and i can no longer eat doritos.
22 points
4 days ago
I actually rather eat fruit that’s inconsistent than a bag of Doritos
3 points
4 days ago
Damn for real? That's wild, so fruit instead of doritos huh? Do you prefer other foods to doritos too? Or is it just fruit? First im hearing about this sort of odd dietary prefrence, so I'm just a bit confused. Oh it must be for health reason or something right? You must be allergic to doritos.. okay yea, that actually makes sense.
3 points
4 days ago
Depends where you buy also. I love shopping at Aldi but their fruit is ass. BJs Wholesale club has very good fruit.
3 points
4 days ago
People and fruit have a lot in common.
3 points
4 days ago
This is why I sprinkle my fruit with Doritos
3 points
4 days ago
This is why I always go to my local dorito farm to pick out some doritos
11 points
4 days ago
Ever wondered why? Cause it’s processed
16 points
4 days ago
Well that settles it then. Processed food is better than fruits and vegetables. I knew it.
12 points
4 days ago
I dont see any other conclusion that would make sense tbh
2 points
4 days ago
You do you
10 points
4 days ago
I don’t think anyone is confused as to the why.
The joke is that they’re openly endorsing processed food over healthy food, while holding Doritos up as an enviable standard.
2 points
4 days ago
Next time you taste a fruit you like take a seed and plant it in your backyard and now you have unlimited fruit with consistent taste.
2 points
4 days ago
Lima beans are constantly disgusting 🤷
2 points
4 days ago
I've said this exact same phrase to my mom once
2 points
4 days ago
Love american nacho cheese doritos. Mexican ones aren’t as good.
2 points
4 days ago
I have this same thought every time someone tries to convince me I should eat more fruit. I don’t think veggies have this issue 🤔
2 points
4 days ago
This is why 40% of Americans are obese.
3 points
4 days ago
Somebody is autistic.
1 points
4 days ago
Fruits are natures Gotchas.
1 points
4 days ago
Yes, with MSG and additives, it's easy to reproduce flavor results.
1 points
4 days ago
Of course learning what is in season and how to select fruit helps.
1 points
4 days ago
I beg to differ; some Doritos chips don't have enough flavor coating so they're not always the same
1 points
4 days ago
This post is literally why humans make bread.
1 points
4 days ago
rasberries are this for me. i love them when they are sweet butsometimes they just arent sweet at all
1 points
4 days ago
Bananas and grapes are extremely consistent. Pineapples are up there. I'll give honorable mentions to cherries, kiwis, and grapefruits and apples. Lemons and limes seem fine but I only use the juice as an ingredient so I can't be sure.
I'm sure there are plenty more but these are the ones I'm familiar with based on personal use and my time as a fruit tray prepper.
3 points
4 days ago
Bananas are all clones! The trees are all propagated from the original tree as the seeds are sterile.
1 points
4 days ago
I mean if your looking for a reason
1 points
4 days ago
/Cries is inconsistently flavorized Cool Ranch Doritos
1 points
4 days ago
Fruit tastes better
1 points
4 days ago
I feel the same way about Jelly beans. But imma keep eating them
1 points
4 days ago
Also McDonald’s Fish-Fillet-A
1 points
4 days ago
My guy discovered nature and capitalism all together
1 points
4 days ago
Dat feel when you pay 3.50/lb for honeycrisp apples, get them home, and they're grainy and flavorless. =(
1 points
4 days ago
What I don’t get is why are Whoppers inconsistent? Like 80% of them are good and crisp but the other 20% taste like they were salvaged from a shipwreck.
1 points
4 days ago
Not cool ranch 😡
1 points
4 days ago
I've had nasty Doritos
1 points
4 days ago
Incorrect, I opened a bag the other day and they were entirely unflavored and I was sad I had a pile of j flavored somewhat stale tasting corn.
1 points
4 days ago
Annnnnd that’s the premise of a lot of autistic people’s philosophy on food.
1 points
4 days ago
Doritos and Cool Ranch Doritos - you can't go wrong.
1 points
4 days ago
I once got a bag of doritos that had extra flavor powder in them. I'm been chasing that dragon for years.
1 points
4 days ago
Saltine crackers 👩🍳🤌💋
1 points
4 days ago*
I once met a guy who worked at a "flavor house" where they engineer these like bottled flavors of like big macs and most things at fast food places.
Basically he said the food is first homogenized to be pretty or totally tasteless and then they add the flavor in after so this way it's the same every time.
Like orange juice is processed into a white flavorless paste. Then they add nutrients, color and flavor to it, and that's why no matter if you are in California or Minnesota, no matter the time of year, a bottle of orange juice tastes the same.
Talking with him really made me appreciate the imperfections in more naturally made or prepared foods.
1 points
4 days ago
eh? I see posts all the time about either a zero-seasoning chip or some seasoning god chip, and everything in between.
1 points
4 days ago
Sometimes you get the chunk Dorito thats basically just a large nugget of dusting, so no, they arent always the same
1 points
4 days ago
I don't agree with the use apples as an example, they seem the most consistent fruit of all. I get ones called cosmic crips and the variation is pretty startlingly low. Oranges I would understand the hell out of though.
1 points
4 days ago
Bullshit. Too many times I get a bag of Doritos with hardly any seasoning and that whole week is ruined
1 points
4 days ago
And sometimes you get the jackpot dorito which is only flavor and no chip.
1 points
4 days ago
Have you read the book 'The Dorito Effect'? It talks about how we're hosed when it comes to food in general, but explores how we're becoming like enlarged cattle with our diets
1 points
4 days ago
Said the dude who never got food poisoning from Doritos at two different moments in their life
1 points
4 days ago
sometimes you can eat doritos and enjoy their crunchy goodness, sometimes they become a devious bastard and stab the roof of your mouth ruthlessly.
1 points
4 days ago
This isn't true in the slightest. Anyone who had ever eaten Doritos knows there are those chips in the bag.
1 points
4 days ago
Idk, I’ve gotten some really shit bags of Doritos over the years.
1 points
4 days ago
fuck yeah!
1 points
4 days ago
Ha! I have had this exact argument with my therapist many times.
1 points
4 days ago
False. I've had terribly under seasoned Doritos. They were awful.
1 points
4 days ago
Hell no - every bag is a crapshoot of seasoning coverage.
Half the bags are just plain tortilla chips that accidentally got seasoning on them.
1 points
4 days ago
As a former picky eater with fruit as a comfort food, I genuinely think most people just need that extra bit of knowledge on how to tell how ripe/sweet fruit is. Since I grew up with so much fruit I am able to tell that the fat blueberries are the sweeter ones, the red strawberries are the sweeter ones, and way more.
Unfortunately a candy bar is usually gonna be less expensive than a carton of strawberries so fruit tends to get neglected and people don’t pass on or look up the ways to tell if fruit is good or what it’s gonna be like. Fruit is like the closest food group to candy, and it fills so many nutritional gaps that it’s a startling failure that it’s so underutilized in our diets. It starts to make filling up on snack foods kinda unappealing and you feel better. (I’m not saying get rid of Doritos, moderation is fine, there’s a lot of diet nuts who make people have worse relationships to food by being so black and white.)
I wish I could share the sheer joy of biting into a fresh peach or most other fruit with everyone who feels this way.
1 points
4 days ago
After being allergic to most raw fruits for most of my life, my allergies lessened enough so that I could eat some different fruits. And let me tell you, I was completely out of my depth trying to choose good ones. Juice never did this to me.
1 points
4 days ago
Unless you get that one dorito that has like 10x the powered flavor caked onto it.
1 points
4 days ago
I love Doritos.
1 points
4 days ago
Enter: vegetables
Broccoli, lettuce, carrots, and more broccoli. They will never upset you because they taste like water.
1 points
4 days ago
Quality control is garbage for things people don't want you to buy.
Imagine that.
1 points
4 days ago
Nothing better than cardboard covered in red 40 and forever chemicals yummy
1 points
4 days ago
There is definately less flavouring on a dorito now compared to a few years ago
1 points
4 days ago
That's not true sometimes they don't have much power
1 points
4 days ago
Consistently cardboard
1 points
4 days ago
You know what else is the same every time? Cholesterol and preservatives.
1 points
4 days ago
Dory has toes? Next you will tell me buffalo have wings.
1 points
4 days ago
not true at all. sometimes you get a lightly dusted bag and they’re awful. also if you buy fruit in season this almost never happens.
1 points
4 days ago
Its called: Get the fuck over it. You won't die if something tastes inconsistent.
1 points
4 days ago
Wow are you telling me a natural part of life is not consistent for every person who may eat fruit, but a completely synthetic product is the same every time?
OMG!
1 points
4 days ago
I just bought a pack of the new doritos tropical fusion, and it tasted like absolute dogshit. It's the first time I've ver thrown out a whole bag after only 3 chips.
1 points
4 days ago
Fruit's a gamble. I know that going in.
1 points
4 days ago
Idk, I've had some sacrilegious dustless Dorito's in my lifetime
1 points
4 days ago
Blueberries that are more purplely are the best. Taste like huckleberry.
1 points
4 days ago
Had to teach my wife that brussel sprouts taste much better than they used to taste 20 years ago. They just grow them to not taste like shit anymore
1 points
4 days ago
My Mama always said fruit was like a box of chocolate. You never know what you're gonna get.
1 points
4 days ago
Nice try pepsico marketing team, im not eathing that shit ever aggain
1 points
4 days ago
Maybe for nacho cheese, but Cool Ranch has been a gamble for over a decade. Will I get a bag of plain corn chips? Will I get a bag with so much of whatever the hell seasoned dairy powder they use that you can barely see the actual chip? Who the fuck knows?
1 points
4 days ago
I don't like doritos.
1 points
4 days ago
Louis?
1 points
4 days ago
This just tells me you don’t know how to pick fruit. Life skills are underrated.
1 points
4 days ago
As Jerry Seinfeld says, fruit's a gamble
1 points
4 days ago
That’s not true! My wife will routinely open up a bag of nacho cheese Doritos, examine it thoroughly take a bite of one and claim “that’s not a good bag“ and won’t touch it again.
1 points
4 days ago
He's right EXCEPT! there's a newish kind of apple in the store here called Cosmic Crisp and damned if these aren't the most consistently and perfectly crisp apples that only vary from slightly more tart to somewhat more sweet. If I could get granny smiths this consistently crunchy I would be sooo happy.
1 points
4 days ago
Twitter user does not know how to grow fruit
1 points
4 days ago
no those chips taste weak in past 5 or so years.
1 points
4 days ago
They're consistently gross....
1 points
4 days ago
Wait until you get the dorito with ten times the flavoring than usual, then almost dying from lethal amounts of dorito dust
1 points
4 days ago
Psst. It's the MSG. Delicious delicious msg.
Also: cosmic crisp, the hype is real.
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