Apparently, January 29th is National Corn Chip Day in the United States, a day that celebrates the American almost addiction for corn chips. It comes with a challenge to eat corn chips for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

To mark the occasion, Scott Kleinberg of Chicago's free newspaper RedEye went looking for and found 18 of what he calls "Strangest Corn Chips from Around the World." Images of his choices were made into a slide show that is gathering a following on digg.com.

Among his chosen corn chips are 10 varieties of Doritos. 16 are manufactured by FritoLay. Two, from corn chips originator Fritos.

The 15th entry in the slide show is Doritos' Scream Cheese, whose caption reads, "I'm assuming this is spicy cream cheese flavor." It is actually a Canadian one. In fact, its name originated in a user-generated marketing contest to find a marketing "guru."

I came across the unnamed chips one work day during lunch. Curiosity got the better of my palate and I purchased a bag.

Unnamed Flavour of Doritos' Corn Chips

Ingredients

Corn Chips
Ordinarily, I avoid Doritos' corn chips since the flavouring powder contains either an artificial cheese compound or a preservative that makes me cough. Attempting to become Doritos' new marketing guru, I came up with "Fieri Cheese" and based my proposed marketing campaign on one of the Food Network's most annoying personalities, Guy Fieri. It made sense, the chips tasted rather artificial like the Doritos I have tried before. Only, this flavour had bite. I envisioned a series of commercials where Fieri goes around saying "Got Fieri", pops a chip, and breathes fire, setting various objects and national monuments ablaze. Happily, I never found time to submit the idea.

Instead, a much more deserving Montrealer named Ryan Coopersmith was chosen guru. Here was his entry:


Anyhow, I have partaken of several cream cheese-based dips, spiked with a chili puree. Each tasted far better than Scream Cheese from Doritos. Each was served with plain corn tortilla chips, two made from corn (not flour) tortillas.

If you plan to celebrate corn chip day next year, I encourage you to make your own from corn tortillas and whip up a nice salsa to accompany them. Better yet, homemade nachos (beef or chicken) with freshly grated cheese is always a crowd pleaser.



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