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Late Night All Nighter Cheeseburger Doritos

If you're wondering why there's no picture, it's because the Doritos official site is the ugliest fucking nightmare of a site I've ever seen, and the only picture Google can find comes from a "review" on a "website" that is so glowing with unearned praise that someone clearly either got paid, blown, or both to publish it. And it wasn't even a good picture.

So Liz was kind enough to bring a bag of these to the Sunday shindig, and most of us tried them. 

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Look, it's complicated. There are some foodstuffs so goddamned peculiar that your reaction to them can't be summed up in "like" or "dislike". I mean, it was bad enough a couple of years ago when Doritos released their mystery flavor, X-13D, which proved to be an uncanny match for McDonald's burger condiments. That was fucked up, but it was clearly a surprise gimmick.

Here, you know you're gonna bite into a cheeseburger-flavored Dorito, or at least an attempt at same. And it does taste... cheeseburgery. Like X-13D, it's mainly the condiments - ketchup, mustard, pickle. The whole thing's a bit more muted by the cheese powder and the "natural beef flavoring" than it was in the previous attempt, but the whole thing is still offputting. If you don't immediately reject it after eating one of them, you'll eat five to ten more, but odds are, you'll stop there. It's just off-putting and unnecessary, even in the snack world.

That said, the entertainment value of these chips in a crowd cannot be underestimated. Like Jones holiday sodas, the flavor itself isn't the draw - the dawning realization in your friends' faces of what they've just put into their mouths is the real joy.

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I think Doritos peaked last

I think Doritos peaked last summer with the Flavor Shots line (google it), which had do-it-yourself nuclear cheese dust packets included in the bag.  I only found them once in the middle of nowhere, and each dusty triangle gave me a coughing fit, but I really wish I could inflict them on people now.

I just wish they would bring

I just wish they would bring back the Salsa Rio flavor from the late 90s.  Those were crack in a bag.

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