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Posted: 1/2/2006 9:18:02 AM EDT
I noticed the little $ .99 lunch pail sized Doritoes bags had a different logo (kind of a lightning bolt thing). Sure enough they went from 3 oz to 2 3/4 oz.
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Pre-ban Doritos?
First it's our guns...next it's our snack chips When will it ever end?! |
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I used to be in the vending business. Every year, Frito Lay would raise the price on their chips and shrink the size of the bag at the same time, We always used to joke that " now you would only be getting 3 chips instead of 4.
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this right after jack daniels reduced the alchohol content of black label.
and some folks don't beleive in conspiracies! |
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Maybe they have to pay for the extra ink for spelling Doritos with an "e". I wonder if Dan Quayle is on their board of directors. |
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I'm prepared to see $2,500 bags of Doritos on Ebay later on today. LOL |
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Frito Lay has been doing this for years. They have two options, raise the price or reduce the contents of the bag. Since the price is what most people pay attention to, the reduce the contents. A bag of Doritos around here has cost $3.29 for years, but the size of the bag has been 15 oz, 14 oz, 12.5 oz and now I think something like 11 3/4 oz.
Same deal with the 99¢ grab bag. To keep the 99¢ retail, they compensate for inflation of the material cost by reducing the contents. Pretty soon, you'll get one chip for your 99¢..... |
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First they came for assault rifles. I didn't have an assault rifle so I remained quiet. Then they came for 3oz Doritoes. I didn't eat doritoes so I remained quiet. I don't know where I'm going with this. |
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Actually I noticed a while back that they changed the recipe.
It used to have more of a soft cheese flavor that was nice. But now the new recipe (With the elictrical artwork on the package) has a harsh aftertaste that is mildly spicey... but unfortunately makes the overall product less appealling. You can notice now that there are little red flecks on the chips to so I do think they added pepper. |
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I loved the cheese ones. I never did like the cool ranch ones...they were a tad spicy. |
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Well, they probably had to shrink their logo so they could conform to the new regulation requiring them to list on the back the ammount of trans-fats per serving. Something about Doritoes or Cheetos instantly makes me think of a Michael Moore type of fat slob dropping orange powder all over his gargantuan pit-stained T-shirt, while licking his fingers after finishing the entire bag by himself.
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It's part of the plan to make America less fat. Calm down chunky. |
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You still believe he misspelled "Potato"? (He didn't) |
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Don't make me belly buck you! |
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what? what did they reduce it to? |
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dont worry, it's ok. They did it for the kids |
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Oh well. We don't know whats good for us and what is not. I guess we will leave it to the companies to tell us?
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big +1 the new ones stink. won't be eating them any more. |
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Frito-Lays pretty much dominates the snack food industry. At one time there were many brands of salty snack food, today we are reduced to a handful if that many. Remember Laura Scudders and Bell?
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The adults have to snack too you know! |
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Yeah, had some Laura Scudder's chips last week ... did they go out of business since or was I eating old chips? |
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The bastards still won't sell chili-cheese fritos here in the Northeast.
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I, for one, am THRILLED that they have finally seen the light and down sized those little bags of Dorritos! You people who are sniveing about it should be ashamed!
Just how many of those little bags can you fit into that little assmonkey blind? Now you can fit 1/3 more! Just immagine...now you have more assmonkey thrust per squeeze! |
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You husky guys are hilarious. |
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You can have my Doritos when you pry them from my cold, dead, orange and spicy fingers.
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Sheee-it! I sure hope you ain't "makin' a list"! |
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Love that joke whose punchline ends "Jus' watchin' porn and eatin' Cheetos!" |
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I love cool ranch Doritos. This annoys me. Now instead of six chips for a dollar I only get four?
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They've already banned High-Capacity Assault Toilets in CA. More thrusts per flush. |
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They can have my Doritoes when they pry them from my chubby, orange fingers.
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I'll be burning and pillaging if they try taking my M&M's... |
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Jeff Gordon is bad how? |
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I don't think there's a technical forum in the world that can help you, if'n you even have to ask that question. <mama_boucher> Jeff Gordon ees de debbil. </mama_boucher> <bad_english_accent> If ye liketh he, ye be in leagueth with Satan. </bad_english_accent> |
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Laura Scudders is not as widely distributed as it was years ago and you must look for it. But I was actually thinking of Granny Gooose Potatoe chips. Remember the old commericlal line? "Are you man enough for Granny Goose?" Actually the various companies is reducing the size of their packages to the extent that it is giving some vending machines fits because it is sometimes too small. |
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You've been spying on me again! |
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For an extreme extreme lack of a better description you're saying Jeff Gordon is teh ghey? |
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Leader of the "rainbow brigade", and you ask that? |
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I don't know (and personally don't care) about his sexual orientation, though many (here on arfcom and elsewhere) are 110% certain that he is. I don't like him because he's a shitstain, plain and simple. deej, please don't tell me that you have a Jeff Gordon poster on your bedroom wall............. Jake. P.S. Though I'm not particularly fond of *any* grandstanders, I'm willing to cut "tough guy" grandstanders (e.g. Earnhardt, even though I didn't particularly like him, either) some slack. Sissy boy grandstanders (gay or straight, black, white, red, blue or purple) are cut no slack whatsoever. |
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The new flavor of doritos sucks. The old stuff, I could eat till I was sick. It's probably for the best that they changed it. |
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Dude! When Quik Chocolate powder switched from metal to plastic containers they took out two ounces. Corporate America knows how to screw you quietly. |
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