Doritos is releasing an all-new Lemon Pepper flavor in 2027. Lemon pepper. As in Atlanta’s beloved lemon pepper chicken wings, now apparently preparing to take up residence on a triangular piece of corn.
I love trying new chip flavors. Pepperoncini? Yes. Jalapeño? Absolutely. Salt and vinegar? Bring on the puckering. I am a woman of adventure. Some people skydive. I buy chips with suspiciously unfamiliar flavor profiles.
Psychologically speaking, willingness to try new foods is associated with openness to experience, one of the Big Five personality traits. It’s about curiosity, novelty, and a willingness to venture beyond the familiar.
Or, in my case, a willingness to spend $5.49 discovering that a chip tastes like something a committee dreamed up during a particularly ambitious marketing meeting.
But now we have lemon pepper Doritos.
And I have questions.
Will they taste like lemon pepper chicken wings? Will they somehow conjure the experience of licking the seasoning off your fingers without the inconvenience of actual chicken? Will I find myself craving ranch dressing? And why am I suddenly imagining a Dorito wearing a tiny Atlanta Hawks jersey?
I’m intrigued. I’m open. I’m psychologically prepared to embrace novelty.
But let’s be clear. I am not emotionally prepared for a chip that tastes like a chicken wing and looks like a Dorito.
Come 2027, I’ll be first in line.
My personality assessment may be inconclusive, but my snack commitment is rock solid.
Stay curious. Try the weird flavor. Life is short, and sometimes personal growth comes in a crinkly orange bag.
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My willingness to try new foods hasn’t existed in years. Too many scary experiences lead me to wish for predictability in my food.
This retirement community dining department drives me crazy. When we came in 2018, the food was great. Now it’s terrible, and they insist on putting onions in everything, and too much salt, and, when you have only two real choices for dinner, why would you want both to be fake (and overseasoned) Indian (or anything) food?
I mourn for what was promised, and has eroded every year.
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A Palate to Adventure Indeed the Journey forging New Pathways
to Lemon Pepper Flavored Doritos Per the overall Trademark of course
Exploration of the Open Minded and Bodied Human Being Yes Open to New
Experiences Dear Miriam
Hehe Not
Likely You
Could Do CEO of
Health Care Organizations
Without the Ability to Have
that so-called O.C.E.A.N. Aspect
of Modern Personality Assessments
Along with Being Conscientious As Lord
Knows We Already Know what Happens to
‘Crinkly Orange Bags’ This way True Extroversion
A Must among successful CEO’s as well as Not only
The Ability to Cooperate Collaborate and Agree yet the
Necessity of Not
Being Blown
Over by the
Winds of Other
Human Personalities
Sort of Like when they Hear
Your High Heels clicking in the
Hallway You Mean Business Perhaps
Still
With
SMiLes
And ah Yes the N
Factor for overall
Anxieties in Life
True Neuroticism
May come to
stifle breath
a bit if
all the
Emails
Can’t Be
Caught Up
With by Most
Efficient Means
It’s a Zoo Out There and
It’s A Jungle too Keep the
Domesticated mixed with
The Wild to Survive and Thrive
With Your Tasty Lemon Peppered
Doritos with the ability to say No
if they
don’t
taste
right to You
i suppose it all boils down to
and freezes Up depending on
the Mix of Neurochemicals and
Neurohormones that Make the Color
Wheels of
Humanity
Free Or
Afraid
to Be Free
And the Inbetween
With
SMiLes…
Change Remains
i Used to Hate it
Now it Thrills me
As Long as i keep
A Hybrid Balance of
Sails for Exploring Fair
Winds and Following Seas
And Anchors to Survive the
Storms
of Life
Inevitable
in Change Remains..:)
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