Like Doritos? Like Alcohol? What about Doritos-flavored alcohol?

Are Doritos the new bacon? Let's just flavor everything with Doritos?

How about alcohol?

https://us.empirical.co/pages/empirical-x-doritos

Would you drink it?

Nope.

nope nope nope

I might try it in cool ranch, but nacho cheese Doritos are gross, I can't imagine adding alcohol helps the taste.

Ok, novelty and all that, fun is fun, it isn't hurting me by existing, etc., let's get that out of the way. 

Why do we insist on making things taste like things that they're not? I want my vodka to taste like nothing, my bourbon to taste like bourbon, and my Dorito's to taste like Dorito's. 

This atrocity is not a Dorito. It does not look like it could be used as a rotor in a Wankel. So the fact that it exists is disappointing. 

I would drink it. It would have to be in the teens of what drink it was that night. 

RevRico said:

nacho cheese Doritos are gross

I usually think you're one of the better authorities on food and near-food on the board. But you're quite wrong in this instance. 

High-resolution organic chemistry has been the death of alcohol worth drinking.

If someone had some I would try it but there is no way I would buy a bottle. 

mtn said:

RevRico said:

nacho cheese Doritos are gross

I usually think you're one of the better authorities on food and near-food on the board. But you're quite wrong in this instance. 

First of all, thank you. 

Secondly, I'm more burned out on them than anything else. Ate way too many as a kid, and despite there being a million flavors, they still seem to be the default and I just can't handle them anymore. Every lunch, field trip, party, they were inescapable in the 90s and I just haven't wanted them since. 

Would I drink it?  It's probably dependent on how much I had already had to drink. 
 

Would I remember drinking it?  Hell no. 

In reply to RevRico :

I agree with this. Nacho cheese is the "default" and there's so, so many better flavors of dorito out there. I am 100% a cool ranch stan, especially when you get a bag where the seasoning guy was asleep at the wheel and the whole bag is like TRIPLE dusted.... that's something special. 

Now if we're talking all time- the dare doritos, or whenever they bring out the violently spicy ones and call em something, those are always the best. 

J.A. Ackley said:

Would you drink it?

In reply to nderwater :

There are some images that actually look better if they're fuzzy, out of focus, and low-resolution.  I think you have found just such an image here.

So...  I was hoping for alternative fueled boosted rotary content.  

I am haz disapoint.

In reply to 1988RedT2 :

Looks like an AI generated version of that stock-photo dude.

Stunt booze.

We are literally months away from Skittlebrau.

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLZEGsXzw_6OBMNyTtRwBAdd2nqJfgCJOV&si=wjNwVh6i2H_LHwnw

So a YouTube channel I watch does some stuff like this...  Worth checking out 

I think it falls under the category of just because you can doesn't mean you should.

wvumtnbkr said:

So...  I was hoping for alternative fueled boosted rotary content.  

 

I am haz disapoint.

I was also expecting fluid that is collected in oil pans at the Pan Am Nationals. 

Let's see how good (bad) of an idea this was

In a previous life, I worked for 7-Eleven corporate. I remember when Michelob came out with a chocolate-flavored beer in a champagne-style bottle. Many people dismissed it at the time. It retailed for like $25, give or take $5. Who would want to pay for that, they said. I couldn't keep enough of them in stock. They sold like hotcakes.

Now chocolate-flavored beer still remains a sold part of the product mix for retailers with a significant sized space for beer. (It's still a niche product, though.)

I'm skeptical about the Doritos-flavored alcohol myself, but I have to hand it to Frito-Lay for being able to market Doritos as a flavor wherever they can. It's found in so many products these days.

My brother and I once tried to make Dorito dust-flavored steaks. We figured crushing up a bunch of Doritos (nacho cheese flavor) and breading them would do the trick. 
 

Fun fact: while there is flavor dust on the outside of the chip and that is what you taste FIRST, taken in toto, a Dorito is mostly a corn chip and when the outside and inside of a Dorito corn chip are thoroughly combined, "corn chip" is the dominant flavor of a Dorito. 
 

Conclusion: corn chip flavored steaks were very disappointing and even, dare I say, unpalatable. 
 

Follow me for more steak experiment stories, such as making a very expensive Filet Mignon Burger with a side of Bacon Grease Fried Tater Tots. Special guest this week is blood splattering up on the curtains! 

Mix it with some Baja Blast and I'm sure you'll have an experience.

Not sure if it'll be good or bad, but it'll be something.

Mndsm said:

In reply to RevRico :

I agree with this. Nacho cheese is the "default" and there's so, so many better flavors of dorito out there. I am 100% a cool ranch stan, especially when you get a bag where the seasoning guy was asleep at the wheel and the whole bag is like TRIPLE dusted.... that's something special. 

Now if we're talking all time- the dare doritos, or whenever they bring out the violently spicy ones and call em something, those are always the best. 

The purple Doritos (don't know the flavor name, I just call them "the purple Doritos") are where it's at.

Colin Wood said:

Mix it with some Baja Blast and I'm sure you'll have an experience.

Not sure if it'll be good or bad, but it'll be something.

This sounds like it might induce flashbacks from college.