HEY WORLD

Sorry this blog has kinda died. I've been busy with college and things that come with that. I know that's not really an excuse considering I've had plenty of time over the past seven months or so to write a review, but I honestly haven't been to many grocery stores, and I'm still suspicious of how "Pizza" Doritos would taste. Anyway, in the interest of all 5-10 people who have struck up conversations with me about it since I last posted, I'll just put a couple bullet points up:

• My friend Thom claims to have a few bags of Doritos from Guatemala and various other places he's visited that he picked up for me. If I ever end up seeing him (I'm trying, I swear!), I really will try to give them proper writeups for old times' sake.
• I have a newish blog full of stupid photos here. I will agree that it isn't nearly as good or interesting as this one, but that's about all I'm doing on the internet these days, apart from watching lots of soccer and stalking you on Facebook.
• Devoted Chip Trip follower and good friend Emilie Notsureifshewantsherfullnameontheinternet linked me to this article and I really wouldn't mind finding a bag of Fried Chicken Doritos, or a few of those Pizza-La flavors.

SPICE 2.0

8.5/10

So I went to Montreal a little less than two weeks ago and scored a few unique bags of Doritos to review back in my homeland. One of those, the second of three that I tried, was SPICE 2.0, and I must admit, these are very good. I guess the concept behind this flavor was that Doritos created a new flavor and had a contest wherein a (Canadian) person had to give the flavo(u)r a name and make a video promoting Doritos, with the person with the best video winning the contest and $100,000. You may have seen the commercial:



The bags that people "tasted" looked like this:



I wish I'd gotten my hands on that bag, but I didn't visit Canada at that time; oh well. My job here isn't to review the concept behind the name, which I think is sort of dumb anyway, so I'll just say that a guy named JEFF CHAN won. He is a professional video-maker and did a pretty good job, and hopes to start a business doing this. I guess he's going down the right path.

As for the flavor itself, it's very good. It's flavors like this that make it a decent bet that a new Dorito will be pretty solid- they tend to stick with what works. In this case, SPICE 2.0 reminds me of SPICY SWEET CHILI (a flavor not really available in Canada) to an extent, although minus most of the "sweet" and with more spice, emphasizing what was good about that flavor. The spice, however, is limited so that these don't turn into the SPICY NACHO wall of "spice"- they warm your mouth a little and that's it. My mouth feels nice eating these, and the aftertaste is somewhat mild for Doritos, which can only be described as a "good thing." They may have put a little more "BBQ" powder on these too, which I'm all for. Good good.