I was feeling oddly nostalgic for the totally bizarre regional sub-diet of the Cincinnati Germans, so I made a deviled ham salad sandwich the same way my grandmother used to make them for us when we were little — with 2 generous layers of cool ranch Doritos (“the new flavor”) 
My grandmother, of course, would never deign eat a flavored corn chip. But she was stuck with us for a few weeks. She asked the deli guy where she was buying the ham salad salad if kids liked it.
Not really, he said. Maybe bribe them with chips.
He recommended “the new flavor”
Not really, he said. Maybe bribe them with chips.
He recommended “the new flavor”
The “new flavor” was cool ranch — the first non-original flavored Doritos.
I would not say I like this flavor. It’s so weird.
But it was a big gesture from my grandmother to get them. They weren’t good alone. Neither was the deviled ham salad. But mashed together — genius.
I would not say I like this flavor. It’s so weird.
But it was a big gesture from my grandmother to get them. They weren’t good alone. Neither was the deviled ham salad. But mashed together — genius.
To this day neither thing tastes right alone to me.
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