Doritos creator Arch West to be buried with chips

According to Los Angeles Times newspaper, Arch West, the man who invented Doritos will be buried on October 1st surrounded of dozens of the chips behind him.

West died last week of natural causes aged 97 at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas.

His daughter, Jana Hacker of Allen, Texas, told the Dallas Morning News that the family plans on "tossing Doritos chips in before they put the dirt over the urn."

Ms Hacker said her father was inspired to create Doritos after a family vacation in 1961 in Mexico and came upon a snack shack selling fried tortilla chips.

"We were near San Diego and he stumbled on some little shack where they were making some interesting kind of chip," his daughter said.

He called the snack "Dorito" as it sounded like "doradito", or "little golden" in Spanish.

There have been more than three dozen flavors of Doritos since the product's national launch. Also, the company eliminated trans fats from the chips several years ago.