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@doritosuk @Coistycat Hey, Sainsbury's have got all the dips and new Fajita Doritos
@doritosuk Check out FWA (famous website awards) - we are site of the day!!! http://www.thefwa.com/ - Vote for us please you lovely people.
@doritosuk Did you know that Doritos means "little bits of gold" in Spanish?
@doritosuk We know you love Dorito's! but how do you like them? plain? with melted cheese? with dip? anyone had the new nacho cheese & red pepper dip?
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@doritosuk @Peddle2paris Sounds awesome- good luck with that boys!
@doritosuk COMP TIME! Eclipse was released on Friday, tell us the name of Bella's vampire boyf to be in with a chance of winning.RT at will! #kingofads
@doritosuk Congratulations to Louise White, Maren Padwick and Phil Darling - last weeks winners!!!!
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@doritosuk COMPETITION TIME! Which British television series did Love Actually director Richard Curtis co-write? RT your answer to enter #kingofads
@doritosuk 4 days left to vote Guys. Every vote bags the winner an extra £1. http://kingofads.doritos.co.uk/#/votePage #doritos #kingofads
@doritosuk In London today? Head down to London bridge and hang out with us on our giant sofa! http://bit.ly/czFNzM It's Potters Field Park.
@doritosuk RT @hettiewinestein: If you are in London bridge today you should pop in to the @doritosuk #kingofads lounge. (cont) http://tl.gd/1l93ud
@doritosuk Unbelievably excited about the new Thundercats series!http://io9.com/5553508/a-new-thundercats-series-is-coming-in-2011-rowr what about you?
@doritosuk Tomorrow we’re attempting to break a Guinness Record (biggest living room). Come join us from 8:30 am http://bit.ly/dt2UKy Please RT!
@doritosuk So who's voted today? Remember, every vote bags the winner an extra £1, up to a max £100k! Help make one of the finalists famous and rich!
@doritosuk At 8.30am this Thursday morning we are attempting to break a Guinness World Record featuring a 9mtr long sofa... http://tinyurl.com/2wjno9b
@doritosuk COMPETITION TIME - Can you tell us the name of the zomromcom that made director Edgar Wright famous? RT your answer to enter #kingofads
When Hernan Cortez
conquered Mexico in
1521, he not only
captured the vast
wealth of Aztec gold,
but he also introduced
the world to the
prefect snack – the
tortilla. Doritos are
tortilla corn chips –
literally translated from the
Spanish “Doritos” means “little
bits of gold”. We would love to be able to say that Cortez saw
the Aztecs eating tortillas and named them “Doritos”, but
that would be a lie. Now we can enjoy the many flavours of
Doritos: Cool Original, Tangy Cheese, Chilli Heatwave, Hint
of Lime, the classic Lightly Salted, Collisions Chicken Sizzle &
Zesty Salsa, and Collisions T-Bone Steak & Grilled Pepper.
In fact, it took until 1966 for Doritos Tortilla Chips to rise up from Mexico and take the US by storm. As with so many cool things, it took ages for Britain to catch up with their American cousins, but finally snack-starved Brits were able to dive into bags of Doritos in 1994.
Now we can enjoy the many flavours of Doritos: Cool Original, Tangy Cheese, Chilli Heatwave, Hint of Lime, the classic Lightly Salted, Collisions Chicken Sizzle & Zesty Salsa, and Collisions T-Bone Steak & Grilled Pepper.
Hang onto your brain cells, here comes the technical bit...
Unsurprisingly for a corn based snack, Doritos start life as corn on the cob. We harvest whole corn kernels before cleaning and grading them so that only the best go on to become Doritos.
The corn kernels now get a right going over. We
cook them, soak them and wash them before
grinding them into dough. This dough then
gets pounded, kneaded and rolled flat into thin
sheets, which are cut into the classic Doritos
shape - it's tough love, but worth it.
But there's more to come. The chips are toasted and then fried, before heading for the tumbling drum, where they tumble round and round while having their flavour added to them. Now that the chips are fully loaded with bold and intense flavour (if a bit dizzy), they go through a final quality control phase before being weighed out and put into packets.
The next thing they know, they're being eaten by hungry folk who want a tasty treat. But don't feel sorry for them, it's what they would have wanted.
