Serious Eats  Taste Test: The Best Tortilla Chips
[Photographs: Robyn Lee]  The Winners!    • #1: Tostitos Simply
Natural   • #2: Tostitos Original   • #3: Santitas  It was a few
days before the Super Bowl when I suddenly realized, "Holy crap,
we haven't done a tortilla chip taste test?!" Shocking, given
their popularity and my personal love of them. Nearly every
major manufacturer of snack products has their own line of
tortilla chips that range in shape from traingles to circles to
strips to custom shapes designed to enhance the scooping and
dipping experience. It's amazing what new innovations they come
up with each year.  But when it comes down to it, aren't we all
just after a little bit of corniness? I say, let's forget the
strange synthetic lime-dust powders or the neon-orange glow of
Doritos. Give me a good, crunchy, sturdy, salty chip that tastes
of corn, and let your choice of dip do the flavoring for you.
The Contenders  We picked 12 nationally available brands of
tortilla chips for our taste te