NACHO CHEESE

8.5/10

It's tough reviewing Nacho Cheese Doritos. They're the standard against which all other Doritos must be measured, simply because they're the standard. I feel like Doritos has so much room to experiment with new flavors because they always have faithful ol' Nacho Cheese moving major units. These things are at every birthday and graduation party in some form; indeed, they have completely permeated our culture. Because of this, when I review Nacho Cheese Doritos, I'm not just confronting a chip, but a lifestyle.

It's not just that, though. These are the Doritos that got me into Doritos, and I think they're really the gateway drug for anybody partial to flavored tortilla chips. They're Frito-Lay's "flagship" Dorito, and with good reason: every more-recent flavor seems to be tied in some way to the flavor precedent laid down by the architects of Nacho Cheese. The taste is completely inoffensive while remaining completely flavorful: not a hint of spice, and the cheese doesn't really even taste like that really fake cheese sauce that comes on nachos at bowling alleys and other places like that. It smells exactly like it tastes, and, funny enough, Jalapeno Popper smells extremely similar.

So is it good? Nacho Cheese is a very, very good Dorito. It's been improved upon, but its role as the blueprint of all that was to come cannot be denied, so I would call it a "classic." It's extremely salty, even saltier than most other Doritos, which are all very salty, so I would possibly score that against Nacho Cheese, but its reputation remains untarnished since that time it got plugged on Wayne's World. Case closed.

Shaaaaaaa-wing!