PIZZA SUPREME

7.5/10

Being a hungry guy, I decided to review the second bag of chips my friend Thom gave me a little ahead of schedule (?) despite having a sort of natural aversion to pizza-flavored Doritos. I chose these second for a reason, but much to my surprise, they ended up being more to my taste than Original Taco.

Unfortunately, my first meeting with Pizza Supreme wasn't too great. I opened up the bag and took a whiff, and I have to say, these smell pretty atrocious. Not quite as bad as cheeseburger, but definitely not a good smell. As such, I had to gather the courage to take the first bite, but when I did, I was pleased to note that they taste much better than they smell. The bad news there is that the taste is nothing special, even if it's pretty good. Like Original Taco, these have a rather mild taste to them, although I wouldn't expect my pizza to be spicy as I would my tacos. They have a nice hint of cheesiness to them, always the best thing in a good Dorito, but the non-taste of the corn chip seems to dominate proceedings here. Strangely, while I would feel somewhat comfortable bringing a big sack of Original Taco to a Doritos if the store had run out of Nacho Cheese, I'm not sure I could say the same about Pizza Supreme. There's a flavor in them that's difficult to place (tomato flakes?) that I could easily see rubbing someone the wrong way, and unfortunately, it's a pretty bland flavor apart from having something funny about it.

So that concludes this round of Dorito reviews; unfortunately, neither of the new flavors stand up to the classics because, honestly, they're just not flavorful enough. While I didn't always love their "degree" flavors, they were at least over-the-top enough to forgive if they weren't good. With both Original Taco and Pizza Supreme, I feel underwhelmed by Doritos for the first (and hopefully last) time.