Delicious!
As much as I love miniature versions of regular food, I love giant versions better. Like those giant Cheetos puffs and curls they released a while back. Or the giant M&Ms spring to memory. I'm also still hunting down the legendary 5lb Reese's Peanut Butter Cup. I once gave my friend a giant Rice Krispy Brand Treat for her birthday, and she was as tickled by it as I was.
So as soon as I saw the first ad for the Doritos Jacked line, I made a mental note to keep an eye out for them in the store. I live in a rural area that usually doesn't get special promotional items until months (sometimes years) after the rest of the country. But I tell you what, I found Doritos Jacked just one week after the first time I saw the commercial. I suppose that speaks to the insane marketing effort behind this particular Dorito product.
When I tried Doritos Dinamita chips recently, one of the things I liked about it was that it was a denser chip. Over the years, Doritos chips have remained the same thickness, while losing density. The Doritos people will probably try to claim it's supposed to provide a better crunch for the consumer, but we all know it's so that they can charge the same amount of money for half as much product.
As a result, your everyday Doritos chip has become more of a baked foam than anything else. More likely to melt on the tongue than crunch between the teeth.
Doritos Jacked corrects this problem. The chips are not thicker than a regular Dorito, but they are much more dense. And slightly larger, too, although not HUGE like the ads led me to believe.
Basically, this is a standard tortilla chip - large, crunchy, triangular - with Doritos flavor on it. In other words, it's what Doritos were supposed to be all along.
The Smoky Chipotle BBQ looked like the flavor least likely to set my mouth on fire. (After my Dinamitas experience, I was feeling cautious.) The smoke flavor is very strong, and the chipotle chili is actually allowed to have some heat. I didn't taste much in the way of BBQ flavor, but chipotle and smoke is really all you need.
These gave a sort of rolling heat that let me keep eating the chips, even though my nose was running and my lips were burning. Just enough heat to give it real kick, but not so much that I had to put them down. Devastatingly perfect, in other words!