THE BORE
General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: xnikki118x on December 02, 2006, 04:21:09 AM
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http://content.hamptonroads.com/story.cfm?story=115304&ran=44455
FRISCO — A tractor-trailer-size container filled with thousands of bags of Doritos washed up here early Thursday, prompting Hatteras Islanders to summon their inner scavengers.
After drifting south for several days in the Atlantic, the container veered landward at Diamond Shoals off Cape Point and came to rest in the wash south of the Cape Hatteras Fishing Pier in Frisco as the tide came in.
Steve Hissey, who runs the tackle shop at Teach’s Lair marina in Hatteras, received a call from a charter boat captain.
“How’s the fishing?” Hissey asked.
“I got two stripers and 35 bags of Doritos,” the captain answered.
Hissey said charter captains were angling for striped bass off the shoals when they spotted the container, broke it open and helped themselves.
Long before National Park Service ranger Brad Griest learned that the cargo container had beached, Hatteras Islanders were busy with their time-honored tradition of wreck salvage. A stream of folks stuffed large garbage bags with Cool Ranch, Nacho Cheese and Spicy Nacho Doritos.
Strewn across the beach, the red and blue bags were each marked “export.”
One person filled a truck with them. Others carted off armloads of the bags, which were mostly undamaged.
“Just helping with cleanup,” Frisco resident Parc Greene, clutching a garbage bag, told Griest, who waved him ahead.
David Dixon, an Avon attorney and amateur videographer, wasted no time in taking video footage to make a 30-second commercial. Doritos is running a promotion that invites fans to post their own homemade commercials. The best one will be broadcast during the Super Bowl on Feb. 4, said spokeswoman Aurora Gonzalez of Texas-based Frito-Lay, the maker of Doritos.
Gonzalez had no information on the beached Doritos.
When the park service managed by mid afternoon Thursday to get the shipping container locked and removed, it still held an undetermined number of boxed chips.
The Coast Guard has not yet tracked down the ship that lost the container, likely during last week’s nor’easter, said Petty Officer Kevin Schneider of the Marine Safety Team in Elizabeth City.
Schneider said the team is responsible for cleaning up a hazardous material, such as an oil spill. There may be some argument to be made about the health hazard of chips, he said, but the risk didn’t quite qualify.
“When I found out it’s Doritos, it’s pretty much out of our jurisdiction,” he said. “It’s definitely litter, but it’s not a contaminant.”
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There's a poll next to the article asking whether you'd eat the chips or not. It's like 45% yes, 50% no, 5% undecided right now. That's pretty crazy.
Would you eat them? I think not.
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Doesn't sound like there was actually anything wrong with 'em.
Sure, I'd eat 'em.
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Airtight bag, sure.
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While were talking about Doritos. I got two new flavors. Sweet Spicy Chili and Cheddar Pepper they both kick ass. Thank you walmart for 2 for $3 bucks.
And no i wouldnt eat those chips.
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DORRITO PIRATES
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I would eat them even if those bags were open.
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I would sell them on eBay, to Iraq
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While were talking about Doritos. I got two new flavors. Sweet Spicy Chili and Cheddar Pepper they both kick ass. Thank you walmart for 2 for $3 bucks.
Frito needs to stop with these weird new flavors and just release Taco Doritos nationwide. I always stock up on them when I visit my in-laws in Nebraska...
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WAIT TACO DORITOS? does it taste beefy and cheesy? If so I need a bag.
The Chili ones takes like kidney bean chili but its too sweet like Mexican candy after a while cause of what they use to get the taste. The Cheddar Pepper ones taste smooth creamy and spicy.
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WAIT TACO DORITOS? does it taste beefy and cheesy? If so I need a bag.
The Chili ones takes like kidney bean chili but its too sweet like Mexican candy after a while cause of what they use to get the taste. The Cheddar Pepper ones taste smooth creamy and spicy.
Do you remember the now-discontinued Taco Bell Doritos from the mid to late 90s? They taste just like those, but they're only available in the mid-west.
I saw Spicy Buffalo Doritos the other day... looked terrible.
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Ranch Buffalo ones taste great actually. Its cool ranch then a sneaky spicy taste.
And no I never saw those Taco Bell Doritos. I'm on the west coast. You know I hate how companies do this. They got flavors in different areas of the country. Same with fucking soda. I want some damn Dr. Slice and Its been out of california since 99.
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Ranch Buffalo ones taste great actually. Its cool ranch then a sneaky spicy taste.
And no I never saw those Taco Bell Doritos. I'm on the west coast. You know I hate how companies do this. They got flavors in different areas of the country. Same with fucking soda. I want some damn Dr. Slice and Its been out of california since 99.
I'm up in Seattle. We had Taco Bell and Pizza Hut flavored Doritos until 1999 or so, I think they were a nationwide thing.
As for pop, I just want Pepsi and Coke with real sugar, none of this corn syrup crap.... good thing I'm not far from Canada!
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Damnit i must lived in a small town that Frito Lay didnt care about or something. I want these Taco doritos now damnit. And i've never had a real sugar coca cola. Maybe when i was down in TJ maybe but i dont remember.