Doritos Founder To Be Buried With His Favorite Snack Chip

Archie West was the creator of the Dorito Tortilla Chip

. On September 20, 2011 he passed away of natural causes in a Dallas, Texas hospital. He was 97 years old. His daughter says that he loved this iconic chip he created by accident. Up until the very end, she always had his favorite flavor, Cool Ranch, on her shopping list.

The favorite snack chip of many was created in Southern California where Archie would sell small bags of his tortilla chips at a roadside stand. They were first introduced in 1964 when the spokesperson for Frito-Lay at the time stopped for a bite to eat. This salty snack chip immediately became a hit around the country once it was produced. The company didnt really like the idea of selling a tortilla style chip, however, with a little money from West they started producing it and it has since then been the number one selling Frito-Lay snack product for decades, with their nacho cheese flavor heading the pack.

Archie was cremated for his funeral and his family made the choice to bury his cremation urn in a burial box. The urn that the family chose has lacquered on Dorito snack bags as its decoration. Dad would have loved it, says his daughter, Jana, Ever since he retired in 1971 hes had such a humor regarding his favorite snack and he would have thought it was the greatest.

The family has asked that friends and family that plan to attend the graveside service bring their favorite Doritos because they are going to be placed on the burial box instead of flowers. His closest relatives feel that he would have loved it and it would be ironic. The cemetery caregivers are okay with this because the snack chips are biodegradable. Anything that is not has to be buried inside the burial box.

The cremation urn that was chosen for Archie is a simple pottery urn that had empty Doritos snack bags of the Cool Ranch flavor lacquered into the cremation urn. The family says that they did this because Doritos were Archies baby. He loved the chip and he loved that he created it. He never went anywhere without them, and now even in death, he can still be with his favorite snack. There were no designer urns that had Dorito designs so they felt that they needed to create their own to honor him in the best way.

by: Sachin Kumar Airan

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