Growing up as an American teenager meant Doritos in your diet. The flavored and fried tortilla chips went with everything: video games, sandlot baseball, road trips and going to the beach. (Fruit wasn't invented for another decade or so.)

Here we are, 50 years later, and we've seen dozens of incarnations of the tasty triangle, with the original still just as popular as ever. As a matter of fact, it’s the second-biggest selling chip behind just plain old Lay’s Potato Chips.

But just exactly what do we know about said salted snack treat? Did you know that the triangular shape is loosely based on the shape of Mexico? Or that the literal translation of Doritos means "three corners of flavor-town"? OK, while those two facts are basically just lies, here are five things that are absolutely true: