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No! No! No! Stop it! The bad ideas topic!

liuzhou

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munchymom

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Seen on the shelf at Total Wine this weekend:

 

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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

 

Readers, I did not take one for the team.

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MaryIsobel

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4 minutes ago, munchymom said:

Seen on the shelf at Total Wine this weekend:

 

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Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

 

Readers, I did not take one for the team.

I don't blame you one bit - yuk!

 

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liuzhou

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I'm in no position to comment on this as I've never tasted Doritos in my life, but I remember reading this a couple of years ago.

 

Interesting back story.

 

Didn't make me want to run out and buy either the edible or potable kind, though.

 

 

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Smithy

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1 hour ago, munchymom said:

Seen on the shelf at Total Wine this weekend:

 

IMG_1710.thumb.jpg.bcc487d8adefe1019a9b1d15518da0b5.jpg

 

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

 

Readers, I did not take one for the team.

 

This definitely falls into the OMG category. I thought I must be misreading -- that is, not correctly processing what I was seeing -- until I read liuzhou's comment:

 

7 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

I'm in no position to comment on this as I've never tasted Doritos in my life, but I remember reading this a couple of years ago.

 

Interesting back story.

 

Didn't make me want to run out and buy either the edible or potable kind, though.

 

 

 

I'm no fan of Doritos. IMO you aren't missing a thing.

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liuzhou

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14 minutes ago, Smithy said:

 

I'm no fan of Doritos. IMO you aren't missing a thing.

 

I'm sure.

It isn't that they're unavailable here. Sadly, they are.

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It's just I don't eat this kind of industrial crap, especially when it is made from the evil pestilence that is cØrn.

 

 

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13 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

 

I'm sure.

It isn't that they're unavailable here. Sadly, they are.

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It's just I don't eat this kind of industrial crap, especially when it is made from the evil pestilence that is cØrn.

 

 

 

That's quite the mascot! 

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blue_dolphin

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45 minutes ago, Shelby said:

I'm disappointed in you

 

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I quite like Doritos and many crispy salty good-for-nobody snacks so I looked it up at my Total Wine -  it’s $61.99 for a 750 ml bottle!  Now, I’d spring for a little airline bottle but no way am I paying that much!

Also, the reviews were mostly bad.  The one positive review recommended adding a splash to a dirty martini or a Bloody Mary.  I can imagine that working but I’m not a fan of either cocktail and a soggy Dorito has zero appeal, even for me. 

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liuzhou

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Happily, the bottled Doritos hasn't made it to China.

 

Yet.

 

 

...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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chromedome

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There are a lot of words on this label, and I can't make any of them fit together in my head. 

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13 hours ago, munchymom said:

Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn't stop to think if they should.

 

My parents lived in Delray, and Total Wine always got a visit.  There was generally something interesting to see.

 

Wonder if there will be a batch 02? 

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rotuts

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Items like the above confirm 

 

there are plenty of people w extra disposable income , and no taste what so ever.

 

why not take their money and run ?

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DukeB

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On 6/10/2025 at 6:03 AM, chromedome said:

There are a lot of words on this label, and I can't make any of them fit together in my head. 

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The NPR podcast Marketplace did a week long series of reports from the Provo Utah area. The focus was about how young the demographic is, largely driven by the large families that are typical of the Mormon (LDS) faith.  They mentioned that even though Provo has a very large college population, there is just one bar in town - because Mormons do not imbibe.  They also visited a high school in the area where there is a canteen of sorts that sells all manner of "Dirty Sodas."  You pick a base beverage and they have literally dozens of different syrups that you can pump into the mix.

 

Looks like Coffee Mate is getting in on the trend (NB: Mormons do not drink coffee either).

 

 

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Katie Meadow

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Back in my day we had vanilla coke, chocolate coke and lemon coke at the soda fountain after school. I've read about these dirty sodas. They sound.....FAWFUL.

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Childhood recollection is a kamikaze which is mixing all the soda at the dispenser in the convenience store together.  Predates dirty soda.  Also known by other slang that the algorithm won't like.  There's dirty soda places all over the east side of the Phx Metro now, came down from Utah.   I don't drink sweetened drinks, never was a fan of soft drinks.  But these do a brisk business mostly drivethru.

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chromedome

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17 hours ago, lemniscate said:

Childhood recollection is a kamikaze which is mixing all the soda at the dispenser in the convenience store together.  

In my neck of the woods we called that "swamp water."

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weinoo

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21 hours ago, lemniscate said:

Childhood recollection is a kamikaze which is mixing all the soda at the dispenser in the convenience store together

 

4 hours ago, chromedome said:

In my neck of the woods we called that "swamp water."


In my younger days, a Kamikaze was always equal parts vodka (forgive me), triple sec and lime juice, shaken and poured into shots.  Don’t ask what else we might have been indulging in, but we could do any number of these.

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rotuts

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My childhood had no convenience stores.

 

It did have the first local ' super market '

 

which had a rotating circular conveyor that you placed your stuff on , 

 

and it rotated to the casher , after the person's stuff ahead of you did.   it was fascinating.

 

Kamikaze meant something very different for the majority of people back then.

 

I was 6 .

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KennethT

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12 minutes ago, weinoo said:

 


In my younger days, a Kamikaze was always equal parts vodka (forgive me), triple sec and lime juice, shaken and poured into shots.  Don’t ask what else we might have been indulging in, but we could do any number of these.

I remember those from my college days...  One bar made it with Blue Curacao as the triple sec....   I can't imagine how many of those I had over the years there....

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pastrygirl

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6 hours ago, chromedome said:

In my neck of the woods we called that "swamp water."

 

we called it a 'graveyard'

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