The New Snack Craze on Mexico's Streets Starts with Doritos, and Goes from There Nick Miroff - The Washington Post
go to original October 22, 2014

"Dorilocos" are a bag of Doritos chips, deranged. Here's how they're made. (Washington Post )

MEXICO CITY — The streets of metropolitan Mexico City, population 20 million, are many things, not all of them pleasant.

They are crowded, yes. Malodorous, at times. Dirty, sure. They are also one of the world’s great incubators of snack-food experimentation, where street vendors slather mayo and cheese on grilled corncobs, and carve mangoes into flowering fruit bouquets.

Perhaps, then, it was only a matter of time before someone gazed upon a bag of Nacho Cheese Doritos, a product boasting no fewer than 27 ingredients, and thought: these need more.

That appears to be how Dorilocos — Crazy Doritos — came along.

They are not for the faint of tongue nor weak of stomach. But Dorilocos are a testament to the culinary inventiveness and intense competition on Mexico’s streets, where it’s simply not enough to sell processed snack food as its manufacturers intended.

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