The pitch-winning strategic move was to stop talking about superiority as a brand claim and make it feel like a human truth. Doritos was not just better. It was the chip people recognised, craved, brought to gatherings, ate in their own rituals and somehow agreed on.
From this came the core idea: completely different people can meet around the same Doritos pleasure. The product truth — intense flavour, crunch, shape, smell and eating rituals — became a social truth: everyone has their own Doritos, but everyone gets Doritos.