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Cops Detain Teen at Gunpoint After AI Doritos Mix-Up

Artificial intelligence system at Baltimore 16-year-old's school thought bag of chips was a gun

(Newser) - A Baltimore teenager was detained at gunpoint by police after an artificial intelligence system used at his school mistook a bag of chips for a firearm, reports the BBC . Taki Allen, 16, described to WMAR a chaotic scene at Kenwood High School in which eight police cars arrived and officers...

Food Dye Used in Doritos Offers a 'Jaw-Dropping' Perk
Food Dye Used in Doritos
Offers a 'Jaw-Dropping' Perk
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Sep 8, 2024 11:30 AM CDT

Food Dye Used in Doritos Offers a 'Jaw-Dropping' Perk

Tartrazine, aka 'Yellow No. 5,' creates see-through skin on mice to help scientists peer inside their bodies

(Newser) - To many consumers, "Yellow No. 5" is best known as the food dye that adds an orange-yellow tinge to snacks and drinks like Doritos, Gatorade, and M&Ms. To a team from Stanford, however, tartrazine, the chemical found in that dye, recently served as a window into living creatures'...

Doritos Now Has Its Own Bud Light-Style Drama

Brand has since cut ties with trans influencer Samantha Hudson

(Newser) - Doritos has ended a collaboration with a trans influencer after the snack brand faced a boycott related to her hiring. Doritos Spain ran an ad featuring Samantha Hudson, a 24-year-old Spanish singer, sparking fierce backlash. As TMZ reports, some right-wingers were simply upset Doritos was partnering with any trans person,...

You've Got Your Nachos and Booze. What If They Were One?

Doritos combines with spirits maker for a most unusual spirit

(Newser) - If you ever went home after a night on the town, and in one of your moments of finer judgment, plowed through a bag of chips like a wild animal in a Dumpster, well, Doritos can save you some time with Doritos x Empirical. As CNN cheekily notes, the iconic...

Doritos Caters to Gamers With Crunch-Silencing App

Geared toward people talking over mics, the brand has an app that silences chewers

(Newser) - Doritos is helping out some of the brand's biggest fans: gamers who like to snack. Crunching on chips sounds pretty irritating over microphones, which gamers use to chat while playing—and anyone who's been on a Zoom or phone call with a loud chewer can relate. Using noise-canceling...

PepsiCo Sets 'Not Easy' Packaging Goal for Doritos

Company wants all packaging for its snack brands to be compostable or otherwise green by 2030

(Newser) - Most people like their chips crunchy, but one of the nation's largest food and beverage conglomerates wants the bags they come in to dissolve softly and safely into the earth and ether. On Wednesday, the head of PepsiCo Foods North America, Steven Williams, popped up during the virtual CNBC...

A Doritos Ad Goes Viral
A Doritos Ad
Is Going Viral
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Jan 16, 2021 7:00 AM CST

A Doritos Ad Is Going Viral

Tells the story of a Mexican father accepting his gay son

(Newser) - Doritos has an advertising hit on its hands, along with widespread praise for a spot that aired in Mexico over the holidays. The original ad , in Spanish, now has more than 14 million views on YouTube. This version has English subtitles. As NBC News explains, it tells the story of...

Target Troll Returns to Stick Up for Rainbow Doritos

Haters are 'slowing down collective progress for all humanity': Mike Melgaard

(Newser) - Mike Melgaard is at it again. The guy who famously trolled folks outraged that Target was taking down gender-specific signage is back, this time lending his "customer service" skills to the Doritos brand, Time reports. After Doritos' rainbow-colored chips debuted last week as a sign of support for LGBT...

Doritos Get Colorful for a Cause
 Doritos Get Colorful for a Cause 
Sep 17, 2015 11:18 AM CDT

Doritos Get Colorful for a Cause

You have to donate to It Gets Better to get your hands on a bag

(Newser) - No, Doritos and Skittles haven't made a baby. Doritos is declaring its support for the LGBT community with its new bag of chips, Doritos Rainbow. The chips are actually Cool Ranch-flavored but in the colors of the Pride flag: green, blue, purple, red, and orange, reports Yahoo . Don't...

Today's Horror: Doritos-Flavored Mountain Dew

But it's so far just being tested on college students

(Newser) - It might not be long before you're hearkening back to those halcyon days when you were crunching your Doritos and reaching your red-stained fingers for a bottle of Mountain Dew with which to wash down the whole mass of red-and-green-dye-filled pre-type 2 diabetes. No, soon you could be swigging...

Ex-Interns: We Invented the Doritos Taco ... in 1995

And they offer up some proof

(Newser) - While interning for Taco Bell's ad agency in the summer of 1995, four college students took part in a competition. Their idea—which didn't win, yet might seem familiar: a taco shell made out of ... Doritos. Of course, Taco Bell ultimately came out with just that roughly 17...

JC Penney Drunk Tweets During Super Bowl?!
JCPenney Drunk Tweets During Super Bowl?!
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Feb 2, 2014 6:20 PM CST

JCPenney Drunk Tweets During Super Bowl?!

Nope, it turns out the retailer was just kidding around

(Newser) - JCPenney, drunk tweeter? Nah, it turns out the company's retail Twitter account was just pulling our collective leg—and attracting a little attention—by tweeting silly things, AdWeek reports. But it's kinda funny to see how the tweets drew the Doritos and Kia social media teams into taking...

How Taco Bell Built the Doritos Locos Taco

It started by buying a paint-spray gun from Home Depot

(Newser) - The Doritos Locos Taco has been insanely successful for Taco Bell, with over 450 million sold since it launched early last year. Fast Company goes behind the scenes of the phenomenon, tracking the taco from an outlandish idea sketched on a piece of paper to the chain's biggest selling...

What We Can Learn From Taco Bell


 What We 
 Can Learn 
 From Taco Bell 
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Mar 12, 2013 12:24 PM CDT

What We Can Learn From Taco Bell

High-brow, low-brow innovation combine for success: Daniel Gross

(Newser) - Despite growing health consciousness and increasingly sophisticated palates, Americans flocked to Taco Bell last year, fueling the staggering success of the Doritos Locos Tacos . Indeed, the Doritos-shell taco is getting credit as the main factor behind Taco Bell's 8% boost in same-stores sales in 2012, a year that saw...

This Year's Best Super Bowl Ads

Anheuser-Busch, Audi, AXE Apollo make the top 10

(Newser) - Don't give a hoot who wins the Super Bowl, but still like the ads? Can't blame you, considering they cost $3.8 million per 30 seconds. SPOILER ALERT: The Daily News rounds up 10 of its favorites, including:
  1. Anheuser-Busch: "Brotherhood." A man raises a horse, loves
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Doritos Taco Is Taco Bell's Biggest Hit Ever

And two more flavors may be coming

(Newser) - You may have scoffed when Taco Bell unveiled its Doritos Locos Taco —a taco wrapped in a Nacho Cheese Doritos-flavored shell—but the masses apparently love it, because it's become Taco Bell's most successful launch ever. More than 200 million have been sold since March, leading to...

Mexican Cartel Torches PepsiCo Warehouses

Arsonists target Sabritas potato chip operations

(Newser) - In a first major attack on an American firm, members of a Mexican drug cartel have torched five warehouses owned by a PepsiCo subsidiary. Masked men were witnessed hurling firebombs that incinerated the Sabritas potato chip warehouses and dozens of delivery trucks parked outside in the states of Michoacan and...

'Neon Orange Monstrosity'? Taco Bell Meets Doritos

Chain unveils new shell nationwide

(Newser) - Americans everywhere can now buy a Taco Bell taco whose shell is made out of Doritos , notes the AP , and a $75 million advertising campaign means the pitch will be hard to avoid. Judging by early reaction, this is either everything that's right or wrong with the nation:
  • Chris
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And This Year's Top Super Bowl Ads Were...
 And This Year's Top 
 Super Bowl Ads Were... 
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Feb 6, 2012 7:57 AM CST

And This Year's Top Super Bowl Ads Were...

Doritos' bungee baby, Clint Eastwood for Chrysler lead the way

(Newser) - Sure, the New York Giants won the game itself, but Doritos was the big winner of the Super Bowl contest that really mattered—the ad race. Doritos' baby bungee scored the most Twitter mentions, a big 48,498 tweets, reports the Wall Street Journal; it also took the top spot...

Taco Bell Introducing Doritos Taco

Weird menu addition already made its debut in California

(Newser) - If you just can't decide what's better—a Taco Bell taco or a bag of Doritos—now you don't have to. The fast food chain is rolling out its Doritos Locos Tacos in stores around the country, the Huffington Post reports. The tacos, which have a Nacho...

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