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Topic: Doritos Cool Ranch Zero Gravity chips
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Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 53378
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-19-2024 09:02 AM
   
collectSPACE Doritos new safe-for-outer-space chips set for blast off: Here's how to get your ownDoritos is launching a new limited-edition flavor with an out-of-this-world mission to make space history while supporting an important cause. Cool Ranch Zero Gravity Doritos swaps out the chips' classic powdered topping for an oil-based coating that keeps the flavor from floating away. Further, they are "Minis," a bite-size version of the full-size chips, which reduces the chance of any bits and pieces escaping. Packaged in tins that were also approved for flight, Cool Ranch Zero Gravity Doritos are ready for lift off on Polaris Dawn, a commercial mission on a SpaceX Dragon spacecraft that will see four private astronauts become the first people to eat Doritos in space. Doritos fans on the ground can donate to St. Jude's to get their own Cool Ranch Zero Gravity chips in a glow-in-the-dark canister.  |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 53378
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-19-2024 03:04 PM
A big thanks to Doritos for sending this great kit to collectSPACE today, including a mission patch, pins and a limited edition canister of the made-for-space chips! Of course, the question now is: Open and try them or save them as a space artifact? (Neatest part of the kit? It included a black light to show how the canister and mission swag glows in the dark!) And a quick update from St. Jude: the flown-in-space tins are all claimed. There are only 85 canisters of the Cool Ranch Zero Gravity chips remaining (as well as 83 mission kits and nine signed tins).  
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SpaceCadet1983
Member Posts: 524
From: Pacific NW, United States
Registered: May 2012
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posted 08-19-2024 09:08 PM
Robert scores again! Nice one. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 53378
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-20-2024 04:46 PM
Thanks! It was a nice surprise.An update on availability, as of 4:45 p.m. (Central) today, there are 48 canisters of the Cool Ranch Zero Gravity chips remaining, 63 mission kits and eight signed tins). |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 53378
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-20-2024 10:07 PM
They are going quickly! Five hours later and there are now only 20 canisters of the Cool Ranch Zero Gravity chips remaining (with 54 mission kits and seven signed tins). |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 53378
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 08-21-2024 10:02 AM
All of the canisters are now sold out (as of 10 a.m. today [Aug. 21]). There are 48 mission kits and five signed tins remaining. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 53378
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-09-2024 08:29 PM
For anyone who missed out and would still like one, it appears that 10 canisters of the zero-g chips are available for the next three days or until they sell out (again), as of 8:30 p.m. CDT on Monday (Sept. 9).There are also 10 mission kits (patches, pins) still available. |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 53378
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 09-17-2024 11:57 AM
With just a day remaining in the promotion, there is only one canister of zero-g chips and three mission kits available. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 3116
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 09-19-2024 04:56 PM
Our Doritos arrived today. First picture is without the light, second picture is with the light. 
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Ted Peterson
Member Posts: 10
From:
Registered: Jun 2024
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posted 09-19-2024 05:29 PM
Cool Ranch? I feel compelled, for my part, to lodge a formal protest, in the strongest possible terms, on behalf of the Dorito enthusiast community, that Nacho Cheese Doritos have been unfairly and improperly shut out from the procurement process, in what clearly has every appearance of being conducted in an arbitrary and capricious manner. It is well known amongst the Dorito enthusiast fraternity that those with long memories have viewed Cool Ranch as a sort of johnny-come-lately. Do better NASA! |
Robert Pearlman
Editor Posts: 53378
From: Houston, TX
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 10-21-2024 08:00 AM
collectSPACE Exclusive video: Doritos first ad filmed in space features special 'zero-g' chipsIt is not a sound often heard in Earth orbit, but in the newly-released footage of snack and space history being made, it is clearly there. *Crunch.* Doritos on Monday (Oct. 21) is releasing its first ad filmed in space and it is filled with the sound of astronauts "crunching" down on the brand's first-ever chips to leave the planet.  |
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