Cheetos

Cheetos are a crunchy, cheese-flavored snack made from cornmeal introduced by Frito-Lay in 1948. They are popular enough that the word "Cheetos" is often used as a generic term for any similar cheese puffs snack food, but it is, in fact, trademarked by the Frito-Lay company.

Related Topics:
Cheese - Cornmeal - Frito-Lay - 1948 - Cheese puffs - Snack food - Trademark

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Cheetos are made in many different styles. There are "Crunchy Cheetos", which are fried. Some Cheetos are baked in ovens; for instance, Cheetos Puffs, Cheetos Twists, Cheetos Paws, and Cheetos Whirls are all "finished dryed" in very large throughput ovens.

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One of the most popular varitities of Cheetos are "Flamin' Hot Cheetos", which are covered in a spicy powder. They also come in "Flamin' Hot Cheetos con Limon", which are also flavored with lime.

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A distinguishing feature of snacks in this genre is their tendency to turn the eater's fingers orange. This is due to the powdered dyes used to color the corn tubes.

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Orange - Dye

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The manufacturing process does not create uniform pieces. At times, exceptionally large Cheetos have been sold on eBay.

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Cheetos' current slogan is "Dangerously cheesy!" Its product's mascot is Chester Cheetah. He has even starred in two video games.

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Mascot - Two video games

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On South Park, the character of Cartman is excessively fond of a snack called Cheesy Poofs, which are very similar to Cheetos or cheese puffs.

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South Park - Cartman - Cheesy Poofs

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According to an article in GQ magazine, Saddam Hussein is very fond of Cheetos.

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''GQ'' magazine - Saddam Hussein

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