Doritos Cheeseburger

Welcome to a slightly delayed edition of I ♥ hamburgers. We were in New York and busy seeing the sights and doing the do-s. Much to my surprise I only had one hamburger in New York and it was from the Metropolitan Museum of Art cafeteria and was nothing to write home about, nor blog about either. Just a run-of-the-mill cafeteria burger, though it had fancy museum-type cheese.
The first thing that comes to mind for me when I see Doritos Cheeseburger is adding some (most likely nacho cheese) Doritos to a cheeseburger and having a flavour and crunch explosion, much like putting onion rings into a hamburger. While, that would be great and I have probably done something like that in my lifetime, the Doritos Cheeseburger I'm talking about now is completely different.
Doritos has a line of tortilla chips called Late Night. These are chips that do their best to accurately mimic the taste of what the bag says they taste like. One of the newer flavours is All Nighter Cheeseburger. We were stopped in the last town in Maine before the New Brunswick border getting gas and a little snack. I had already picked out a small bag of Salt 'n' Vinegar, but we walked by a Doritos display on the way to the checkout. They stood out like my eyebrows when I don't wear glasses. Some of the bags of chips said Cheeseburger! I couldn't help myself. I immediately set down my puny S'n'V bag and grabbed the cheeseburger chips.

I was barely back to the interstate before I asked Kristin if she could pass me a cheeseburger. (I'm funny like that.) I was kind of leary before first trying it. I've had pizza chips before and they just don't quite cut it, but I took a deep breath, kept watching the road and chomped down.
I was shocked. Aside from the crunchiness the experience was exactly like eating a cheeseburger. Kristin and I were both amazed. The beef taste was there along with all the condiments. It was realistic in a way that no chip I'd ever tried before was. If I wasn't driving and could have closed my eyes, I may not have believed that I was eating a chip. They are that good. Kristin figured they tasted most like McDonald's hamburgers and I thought for a while, while eating quite a few crunchy, triangular cheeseburgers, and decided that they taste most like Dairy Queen cheeseburgers to me.
 Doritos may put a little bit more mustard on their cheeseburgers than I usually do, but I'm not so picky anymore and love these chips. I really wish they were available in Canada. Another product to add to the please-bring-these-here list, especially since they are now my favourite Doritos flavour.

photo borrowed from http://www.everyview.com/2010/01/16/doritos-late-night-all-nighter-cheeseburger/