My brain instantly takes in what you're saying here and replaces every instance of the word 'Doritos' with 'Disgusting'.
Despite my fast food habits, I have never once been interested in the Doritos Locos Tacos, with a shell made of Nacho Cheese Doritos. On the other hand, I have been fascinated by the postmodernism of it - at a place that sells actual nachos, you're also going to give me imitation nacho-flavoring, when your existing nachos are already a downgrade from actual cheese? It's akin to serving Big Macs as a side order at a steakhouse. As postmodern performance art, I find more of value there than as any kind of item to put inside my mouth.
Which is why I get a bizarre thrill from the way they're pushing the concept even further. Doritos is making a Taco Bell flavor chip that's designed to taste like Doritos-flavored Tacos. It's like that part of Being John Malkovich where Malkovich goes inside his own head, but with more powdered dairy product and flavor enhancers. Quoth the Taco Bell CEO:
"You know you've got a big idea when you don't have to explain it,"
I look forward to the Locos Tacos made from the Locos Tacos-flavored Doritos. But just as irony, not as food. The whole thing is getting a wee bit too close to inbreeding for taste-bud comfort.
via Dallas Observer
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Shakes head backs away slowly this is as creepy as that grilled macaroni and cheese sandwich I read about yesterday.
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This really isn't new. For a long time, Doritos came in a Taco Bell Taco Supreme flavor. It was around in the late 80s or early 90s after they got rid of the classic "Taco" flavor that they recently brought back.
Instead of new, it's just retro.
It was in 1995: http://www.thefreelibrary.com/FRITO-LAY+SERVES+UP+MASHED+POTATOES,+A+MASSEUR+AND+A+FAMILY+OF...-a017869895
@Ford_Thundercougarfalconbird So we should expect Crystal Pepsi to come back soon is what you're saying.
@EliasAlgorithm @Ford_Thundercougarfalconbird I hope so! I hate Pepsi, but Crystal bombdigity.
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To quote Eric Roberts in The Coca-Cola Kid..."When you sell a product that has charisma,you don't have to explain a DAMN Thing."
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I can't stress this enough. You don't go to Taco Bell to eat authentic Mexican food. You go to shove food like mass into your gullet and move on.
@aklaws41 You do. I go to Taco Bell, stick the Out of Order sign on the restroom door and sit close enough to watch. I should get a Kickstarter going to buy a video camera.
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@aklaws41 That is what I do at every restaurant. You go to Taco Bell to get Taco Bell food.
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Though I'm somewhat embarassed to admit it, I've tried teh Doritos Locos taco, and it's fucking delicious.
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At the Texas Staet Fair, they serve a product called a "walking taco" which is just a bag of fritos or doritos with taco meat, cheese and lettuce dumped in the bag.
Think of the savings for Taco Bell if they just dropped the whole premise and started selling the "Bag-o-Bell."
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@James.k.Polk If i have left over "make your own tacos" I basically just to do this for lunch the next day...instead of croutons, i use crumbled up taco shell.
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@James.k.Polk Try Taco Bells "bag of stuff in the back of the store that is about to expire and be illegal for us to sell"
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@Gallen_Dugall @James.k.Polk About to expire =/= expired. I buy day-old donuts all the time. why not day-old Taco Bell?
Wait. Now that I write that, it sounds like a terrible idea.
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As glorious a piece of inception as this is, I'm still waiting for the Pizza Crepe Taco Pancake Chili Bag-flavored Doritos...So we can eventually create a Pizza Crepe Taco Pancake Doritos Chili Bag afterwards.
Oh, & don't give me any BS about that not being a real product, Taco "Town". I've seen the truth.
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@SlyDante777 Holy Crap! That looked awesome! Do they take Canadian pennies, I have to get rid of some soon.
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How about the fact that they have developed tacos using the Cool Ranch flavour shell?
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@Canadian.Scott They still don't offer the Cool Ranch around here. More like Lame Ranch.
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@thorshammer@Canadian.ScottTrombone slide...
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/GTzSV.jpg[/IMG]
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wow, it's like cramming yourself into yourself through yourself.
but is there any actual food involved? cause that would be kinkier.
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@DrAbraxas I think the cheese may have descended from actual milk at one point, so it's like a cousin of food.
