Blog #4  The journey from the shop to my bowl

The doritos are thrown on the shelf after coming from all over the world but the majority of them are still made in America. I then either drive to the shop or get some form of public transport. If I went in the car this would link in to my non renewable energy source chapter in my old geography book. If I got the luas for example it can link in to urban renewal as the city has been refurbished in the last decade with the new shopping centre Dundrum and the luas line! I then take them home and put them in a bowl, that bowl could have been made anywhere in the world. My bowl at home happened to have been made in Indonesia. I then sprinkle the cheese i bought from Lidl which is not an Irish company therefore bringing in foreign business'. My microwave contains pieces of raw materials which of course links to geography! There is a lot more to my snack of nachos than it seems! I have also a quick five minute video of how doritos are made and how they get from the factory to the shops! All credits are to the original owner of the video.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc-FDIx1JFA

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xoxo Molly

Blog #5  Conclusion

I really enjoyed making this blog. I didn't really believe I could make everything geography related but I think I did it in this blog. I liked doing this because I didn't have to write a boring blog on something I didn't care about. I thought I made this blog quite interesting and keep it about geography. I wanted to put in some personal opinions in here that aren't too geography related.

My reason for doing it on doritos is because I think everyone loves some type of Dorito and would be interested to see where they came from. Doritos can be very versatile and can be used as a late night guilty snack, a nacho with salsa, a crunchy snack to annoy your friend or simply covered in melted mozzarella with chilli. Mozzarella originated from Campania which is a region in Italy so I would like to take this opportunity to give them a huge thank you from me ! According to www.chili.in, chili was invented in Mexico thousands of years ago. Christopher Columbus thought America was India and then got the name of the of the chili wrong because he thought it was a black pepper aka the chile pepper was born. He was the one who made it famous so thank you Columbus!

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xoxo Molly

Blog #1

An introduction to my blog on doritos.

Hey, my name is Molly Brady and I have decided to start a blog on Doritos.

It may seem like an odd thing to analyse but it is also something I think would be interesting topic to research as I have no idea about the geography of a Dorito.

I have an obsession with the cool original doritos, so I decided to find out where they come from. My teacher says everything has something to do with geography so I want to find out if I can write a good blog on doritos.

I hope this blog is entertaining and I'm going to try and do lots of different aspects to doritos. I'm going to look at where they originated from, why they are so popular all over the world, are different flavours are made differently or in different places why the doritos taste different.

Molly

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blog #2  Where did Doritos come from?




I am about to inform you all on where your favourite crunchy snacks come from. Doritos actually originated from Disneyland! However they were not the first nacho/crisp to ever be invented so they were not originally called "Doritos". Elmer Doolin convinced Walt Disney to let him open up a Tex-Mex stand in 1955. The company was very successful anyway and had lots of restaurants all over California. One day the head chef was told to make use of some tortillas that were going to be discarded so he made tortilla chips aka nachos thus creating the best nachos ever made: Doritos.


Lots of people think they originated from South America or more specifically Mexico because we all associate nachos with Mexican food. Yes, nachos originated from Mexico but the brand Doritos didn't. I think it's quite interesting that without that chef deciding to make use of the discarded tortillas that day, my life wouldn't be the same as I wouldn't have doritos!


They may not have been made in Mexico but the creators did manage to keep a bit of Mexican heritage in the snack with the name.  According to Wikipedia "the word Doradito is a Mexican Spanish word meaning golden brown." I think they changed it to Dorito because I think when an American person says that word I feel like the word Dorito just popped out and the name was born!







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xoxo Molly

Blog #3   Why Doritos are so popular world wide and why do they taste different

Doritos can be found all over the world from Spain to America back to Australia all the way to South Korea. Supposedly they aren't actually that popular in South America and are only sold in one country, I couldn't find which one. The Kiwis only recently hopped on the Dorito train in 2010! So many years wasted!

I know first hand that Doritos taste different in different countries. I was in Florida eight years ago and I basically ate my way around Disneyland. My snack of choice? Not so shockingly, was Doritos. First of all the bags were much bigger but also filled with more air. Second of all the nacho itself was a lot bigger and had much more powder on it. I have to admit I did prefer the ones in America but I am not really surprised as it is the home of the Dorito! They also had a few more flavours like pickled onion and buffalo wing and ranch.
So I have made a recent discovery of a new flavour of doritos. LIME. They are also sold in Dublin and I had never even seen them before! My friend went to buy them and of course I always look at the only flavour I love, Cool Original but when I lifted my head and the saw the lime flavour I nearly had a heart attack.

If I thought those flavours were weird I just found out that in South Korea they do flavours like: yoghurt, clam chowder, Italian seafood and crispy salmon! I didn't even know Italian seafood was different to normal seafood !

Interestingly the corn that goes into making Doritos can actually grow anywhere in the world apart from Antarctica. I don't know why more countries don't make them because surely they would be a cheap alternative to other crops! My solution to world hunger is Doritos! The issue is all the other ingredients that go into them....

Xoxo Molly

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