I tried this Fritos Corn Chips and they're so FUCKING salty!!!!

Stay parched.

Fritos taste great in chili

Fritos are for poor people.

Thoughts & prayers..

Sometimes it’s that particular batch, OP. I’ve had that happen before. I’ve seen overcooked ones too. Try a store brand.

Eat a bowl of oatmeal and go to bed.

R5 I'm not buying these again for sure.

Although I haven't had them in years, bugles are better than fritos.

I buy the lightly salted Fritos all the time. They’re great!

We have Salt and Shake in the UK which come with little blue packets of salt in them so that you can shake the salt over them yourself. Always thought they were gimmicky but my mum liked to get them.

When I left the US, Fritos were something I craved because they aren’t sold in the UK outside import stores…unlike Doritos. I built them up in my mind so much, but when I had them again on a visit, it was disappointing because they were much more salty and oily than I remembered. They leaves a greasy film in the mouth. I agree Bugles are much better in comparison.

They are WAY too salty, and I've always thought so. The only way they work is if you put them in your typical, kind of sweet chili where the salt and sugar kind of balance each other out. That said, I haven't bought a bag of Fritos for probably at least a decade or more. They are way too salty on their own.

Hola putas gordas! You know you want this Frito pie!

Trader Joe’s organic corn chips are the way to go.

Haven't tasted the things for decades, but I recall them as quite salty from childhood. And Fritos smell like wet dog.

As for buying American junk snack food, I expect you're fucked. The composition is chemicals and a bit of puffed corn, maybe, flavored in 116 variations: Sriracha, Oreo, White Oreo, Tangy flavor, Zesty flavor, Pickles and Vinegar, Apple and Pumpkin Spice, Jalapeño and Dark Chocolate, Very Berry Explosion, Classic, Classic-Lite, etc., everyone of which will be way too salty or too sweet or both.

It's possible to find smaller brands of tortilla chips that have simple ingredients and good flavor, with the bonus of not leaving you with an orange ring around your mouth and glistening oily hands with a sort of flocked wallpaper effect of orange powder. Otherwise, it's tiny little bags for $7 of organic, artisanal chips made of yam and purple potato crisps that are neither crispy nor tasty nor anything you would want to put in your mouth unless you like dried moldy vegetable skins.

You could always fly to other countries and gorge on their snacks with fewer mysterious ingredients, better taste, and more realistic seasoning.

I like Gardetto's

I went to a county fair about five years ago. Among all the food vendors (bbq, burgers, etc), there was one stand that sold... I’m not sure what you’d call it, but for $5, you got an individual-sized bag of Fritos. Then the vendor would open the top of the Fritos bag, dump a ladle full of chili bens in there, diced onions, and nacho cheese in there. You ate the garbage with a plastic spork right out of the bag. Five years later and I still dry heave at the thought.

ESL, OP?

Have you spoken to the Manager?

I love Fritos but they repeat on me all day. No one needs corn chip burps.

R17, that’s called a walking taco or Frito Pie.

Fritos give me heartburn. Remember Dipsy Doodles? Those damn things were like eating a bag of salt.

R17 it's fritos pie. i'm sure there's other names for it, but yes, i probably wouldn't eat that. However, i would probably put a few fritos in my (sweeter) homemade chili. i do that sometimes with torn up bits of corn tortillas (hot).

R13 had already mentioned the pie with an image link. A link with no preview though. It looks interesting. I'd munch on it.

I always buy the lightly salted version of everything and they taste good, so why do they put all that salt on the regular version in the first place? Doesn't make any sense.

There was a zoom room near the Chicago board of trade that offered Fritos over lettuce with taco meat and French dressing.

The last time I purchased Frito's, I omitted salt from the bean chicken and avocado soup. The salt and grease balanced out. I was stoned.

the amount of salt and sugar in food in this country is fucking disgusting.

These are the answer, OP. But beware: they're highly addictive.

You're not supposed to buy Frito's anyway - the workers are on strike.

Buy generic corn chips. They cut your lips just as much as Frito's.

I don't even like bbq or sour cream and onion flavors. i'm not a flavored chip person, not really a chip person most of the time. There used to be a really good chip out in the 80's called "O'Grady's." They were thick and delicious.

I tried some when a friend who follows a gluten-free diet for glaucoma bought a bag with lunch. Yes, they were loaded with salt and grease. The scent of them reminded me of college, being broke, eating any old crap I could find.

Don't buy cheap junk food. Buy expensive junk food. Less salty, less sweet. One has to pay more for less.

I my fat whore days, there was nothing better than mixing salty chips of every kind into ice cream.

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As R9 said, there is a lightly salted version of Fritos. Please try them and stop your bitching!

Can I offer you a nice egg in this trying time?

My all-time favorite Fritos were the Texas Grill version. But they were discontinued (sometime in the early 2000s). This has happened tons of times in my life: "Oh, you like that? We're not going to make it anymore."

It happened with the Magnum Infinity ice cream bars (the best one they ever made), KIND Roasted Jalapeño Bars, Ben & Jerry's "From Russia With Buzz" ice cream, Wendy's Fresh Stuffed Pitas (I know it's a burger chain, but fuck me those things were delicious...the Greek version was my favorite), Biotta Sauerkraut Juice, dishes at certain other chains and local places...I could go on. If I believed in that sort of thing, I'd swear to the gods I'm cursed.

ANYWAY...

For a long time now, my go-to corn chips have been Tostitos Hint Of Lime. I LOVE those fucking things. But I haven't had them in a long time, because I'm cutting carbs. I probably shouldn't love them as much as I do, because the odds of them being yanked off the shelves skyrocket when that happens.

1. Salty

2. Sweet

No substitutions.

Try crispbread.

We need to bring back Melba toast - prunounced "toe-est".

Or shredded huhwheat

R39 Melba Toast is available everywhere. I love Old London brand, topped with goat cheese and fresh tomatoes, or hot pepper jelly. I also love those crunchy sesame breadsticks that were once made available at salad bars/with salads at restaurants.

Once in a great while, I like the chili version, bit otherwise they're best avoided.

They're Fritos! What did you expect?

Eat broccoli and carrot sticks if you can't handle junk food, for crying out loud.

I 2nd the Trader Joe's brand of fritos, they are less greasy and salty.

Did we have a troll going state their boundaries about something salty the other day?

R42 No, I won't. I demand appropriately salted junk food. Yes, I do.

I've had the lightly salted Fritos. They really do taste much better than the regular Fritos, not only less salty but less oily, too.

They smell like dog feet.

I like Fritos, including the BBQ (barbecue) twists.

They sell the "walking tacos" here at festivals, it's taco meat, cheese, lettuce, diced tomatos in a frito bag. I have never had one but they are popular. On the rare occasion I buy food at a fair or festival I like those Italian or Polish sausages on a bun. YUM

I agree r42 so many people here with delicate stomachs. I don't eat junk every day but when I do it doesn't bother me, maybe I have a cast iron stomach.

Fritos are too salty to eat on their own. They are delicious with simple homemade guacamole made without salt.

Don't laugh, but I make a good "Mexican" layered dip. Fritos (the big scoops) are the best combo with my dip.

I don't keep crisps or corn chips in the house except the occasional single serve Pringles for my partner, but the last time I stayed at a pub too long, I bought a small bag of Fritos and they actually BURNED MY TONGUE they were so salty.

The feeling lingered a long while, as if a layer of skin had been removed. I've never been injured by a snack food before this!

I love them with this onion dip. It's extra salty too. Reminds me of my childhood holidays in the 70's.