"The culinary monstrosity, created in 1999 by "Dilbert" cartoonist and Trump acolyte Scott Adams, is exactly what it sounds like. It's a burrito, except it's directly tied to his famous cartoon character that once accompanied thousands of newspapers circulating across the world. With its garish color scheme and debossed packaging, the vegetarian burritos - which contained blasphemous ingredients like corn, broccoli and dry vitamins - promised to provide cheap, nutritious meals to broke college students and weary office drones."
"He lived through the cyber paranoia of Y2K. He saw the violent, fiery destruction of the World Trade Center broadcast on television. He heard the American government loudly declare war on Iraq not once, but twice. None of these dark, confusing experiences of the early 2000s, however, could prepare him for one of the strangest - and maybe most maligned - pop culture artifacts in recent memory: the Dilberito."
John Takis experienced Y2K paranoia, the World Trade Center's fiery destruction, and two declarations of war on Iraq over two decades. Those events did not prepare him for the Dilberito. Scott Adams created the Dilberito in 1999 as a vegetarian frozen burrito tied to the Dilbert cartoon brand. The product featured garish packaging and crushed dry vitamins, and contained ingredients like corn and broccoli. The burrito targeted broke college students and office workers but failed commercially and became a notorious footnote. A small group of former eaters still recall the product and debate its legacy. Adams later attracted controversy and died in January.
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