1984 bag of Doritos... UPDATED

[Googer]

Originally posted by: giantpinkbunnyhead
HAHA I remember when the bags looked like that! They also had, around the same time or a bit after, that Salsa Rio flavor which I'm STILL PISSED that they discontinued! Check out the old-school nutrition labels on that thing.

The flavor is still around, Salsa Rio was just renamed as something else. (I forgot the new name) But I think it's called "Salsa". They axed the RIO part.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Amused
Just a question:

You show the copyright date, but not the fresheness date that is on the front of the bag in black. Can we have a zoomed in pic of that?

I believe Frito Lay only printed the month and day. It appears to say "May 9" and that bag design was around until circa 1992-1993. So those chips are probably 16-22 years old.


And would you please post that picture on Wikipedia and license it by GPL.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doritos

http://www.doritos.com/home.php

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: lytalbayre

Originally posted by: ElFenix

Originally posted by: lytalbayre
I work at a University. We were cleaning out a grad student area and lodged behind an old TV was a bag of Doritos, with chips still in them, FROM 1984!!!!! Whoa!!! Talk about a flashback... it was like looking back in time. For that reason, it was a pretty cool discovery, but it's also kind of disgusting considering this group of grads hadn't cleaned this area for over 22 years!!!

http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~marked/General/7.jpg

what does the freshness date say? the copyright is only applicable to the bag's design, and doesn't indicate when the bag was made.

The freshness date just says May 23, then has the price and then under that some serial number which is hard to read

Call Frito-Lay and demand they live up to their "Freshness Guarantee"!

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: thecrecarc

Originally posted by: SparkyJJO

Originally posted by: lytalbayre
Ebay Auction:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=170073636782

LOL way to go! :beer:

$6 shipping! OMG, you scam artist!

I second that. $1.50-2 is more reasonable and you can still walk away with a small profit.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: MikeyIs4Dcats
OP, get us a better picture of the expiration date tag. I have a friend that works at Frito Lay, he can probably find out when they were produced.

The lot number should include the week and year it was produced.

 

[The Pentium Guy]

so they've moved from "MORE NACHO CHEESE FLAVOR' to "DANGEROUSLY CHEESY"

 

[lytalbayre]

Updated. Check the original post. I updated the pic with a close up of the freshness date section.

 

[HomeBrewerDude]

Originally posted by: AMDMaddness
Ebay it!

 

[Amused]

Wow, so it really is from 1984 is the expiration date is May '85.

Hell, a bag of chips from my 12th grade year.

 

[AdamK47]

Originally posted by: Amused
Wow, so it really is from 1984 is the expiration date is May '85.

Hell, a bag of chips from my 12th grade year.

It looks like the month and date since it clearly shows the number 23 after the month of May. Perhaps your electronic image viewing device requires some calibration. I'm sure if you squint really hard you can trick yourself into seeing an 85.

 

[purbeast0]

Originally posted by: AdamK47

Originally posted by: Amused
Wow, so it really is from 1984 is the expiration date is May '85.

Hell, a bag of chips from my 12th grade year.

It looks like the month and date since it clearly shows the number 23 after the month of May. Perhaps your electronic image viewing device requires some calibration. I'm sure if you squint really hard you can trick yourself into seeing an 85.

agreed. it looks like May 23.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Originally posted by: AdamK47

Originally posted by: Amused
Wow, so it really is from 1984 is the expiration date is May '85.

Hell, a bag of chips from my 12th grade year.

It looks like the month and date since it clearly shows the number 23 after the month of May. Perhaps your electronic image viewing device requires some calibration. I'm sure if you squint really hard you can trick yourself into seeing an 85.

Agreed,

That being said, Current packaging looks nothing like that, and since the early 90s, the nacho cheese flavor was called "Nacho Cheesier."

Based upon the name and the packaging, the newest it could possibly be is 1992.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: AdamK47

Originally posted by: Amused
Wow, so it really is from 1984 is the expiration date is May '85.

Hell, a bag of chips from my 12th grade year.

It looks like the month and date since it clearly shows the number 23 after the month of May. Perhaps your electronic image viewing device requires some calibration. I'm sure if you squint really hard you can trick yourself into seeing an 85.

No, my eyes need calibrating.

You're right.

 

[Epic Fail]

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: AdamK47

Originally posted by: Amused
Wow, so it really is from 1984 is the expiration date is May '85.

Hell, a bag of chips from my 12th grade year.

It looks like the month and date since it clearly shows the number 23 after the month of May. Perhaps your electronic image viewing device requires some calibration. I'm sure if you squint really hard you can trick yourself into seeing an 85.

No, my eyes need calibrating.

You're right.

You are not alone, I saw May 85 the first time too.

 

[OutHouse]

humm 1984. i was in the 10th grade and dating my future wife. that packaging brings back memories i forgot they used to look like that.

 

[Amused]

Originally posted by: yamadakun

Originally posted by: Amused

Originally posted by: AdamK47

Originally posted by: Amused
Wow, so it really is from 1984 is the expiration date is May '85.

Hell, a bag of chips from my 12th grade year.

It looks like the month and date since it clearly shows the number 23 after the month of May. Perhaps your electronic image viewing device requires some calibration. I'm sure if you squint really hard you can trick yourself into seeing an 85.

No, my eyes need calibrating.

You're right.

You are not alone, I saw May 85 the first time too.

Well, I'm glad I'm not the only idiot here.

BTW, squint real hard? Hell, with the way my vision has been slipping in my 30s everything looks like I'm squinting real hard.

On the upside, it makes dating easier.

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
so they've moved from "MORE NACHO CHEESE FLAVOR' to "DANGEROUSLY CHEESY"

I think the later of the two names is ridiculuosly cheesy.

 

[Ika]

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
so they've moved from "MORE NACHO CHEESE FLAVOR' to "DANGEROUSLY CHEESY"

I think the later of the two names is ridiculuosly cheesy.

Umm... dangerously cheesy is Cheetos.

 

[kinev]

Originally posted by: AbAbber2k
After more than 20 years of adding "MORE NACHO CHEESE FLAVOR" I'm surprised they haven't reached a point where they simply sell bags of powdered nacho cheese.

made me laugh

 

[Googer]

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: Googer

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
so they've moved from "MORE NACHO CHEESE FLAVOR' to "DANGEROUSLY CHEESY"

I think the later of the two names is ridiculuosly cheesy.

Umm... dangerously cheesy is Cheetos.

What I meant was product names back then were for the most part sensible. Today, they choose very outrageous and ridiculuos names for products.

 

[zbalat]

The date on the package is the copyright date not the date Frito Lay deep fried the corn. Go to the cupboard and look at the copyright date on the bags in your house.

I don't eat chips so I don't have any in my house but I do have a bag of Quaker Oats rice cakes (purchased last weekend) and the date on the bag is 2004. Chances are that bag of Doritos wasn't produced in 1984.

 

[exdeath]

Originally posted by: The Pentium Guy
so they've moved from "MORE NACHO CHEESE FLAVOR' to "DANGEROUSLY CHEESY"

Even though with every bag redesign they always say 'now with even MORE nacho cheese flavor. But I bet the taste hasn't changed from that bag to a current bag.

Marketing FTL.

I consider myself impervious to advertising and marketing; the kind of person that PR guys know not to waste time on. Don't call me. If I want something, I have pretty specific requirements, and if you have it, I'll call YOU.

 

[ShotgunSteven]

Originally posted by: AdamK47

Originally posted by: Aflac

Originally posted by: ShotgunSteven
Do they still make Doritos 3D? I loved the Jalapeno and Cheddar variety.

A post earlier in the thread noted that the 3D Doritos were discontinued. That saddens me, because the 3Ds were really very good.

Aren't they the same Doritos in a different shape? It seemed like they made it that shape to reduce the number they could fit in a bag.

Not the same as regular Doritos, plus they had flavors that you couldn't get with regular Doritos.