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Aug 10, 2005
Natural Cheetos
Far Freakin' Out. Organic Corn Meal as first ingredient?!
And they taste good, too.*
My only complaint is that they're in the loser puffy form, instead of the awesome caveman clubs that I enjoyed role playing with as a unnatural Cheetos-eating kid.
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*and as always, I recommend eating such snack foods with chopsticks, which keep the fingers from getting sticky (not to mention slowing down the wolf-eating that comes otherwise naturally to people like me).
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They should have hippified the little cheetah thingy-cat - tie-dye fur, and some cheetah dreads. And I do have to wonder about the all-naturality of the disodium phosphate. Do they still leave glow-in-the-dark atomic cheese dust on your fingers?
Posted by: Marianne | Aug 10, 2005 7:13:39 AM
i've never tried eating snack foods with chopsticks....do you ever do that in front of other people? i might feel a little like mr. pitt (from seinfeld, eating his candy bar with fork and knife) - then again, what happened in that episode might happen here. you could start a whole new craze!
Posted by: Darcy | Aug 10, 2005 9:02:05 AM
Marianne -- I think the atomic cheese dust is mostly connected to the original orange cheetos, and these are the newer "white cheddar" dusted things. So I'm doubting the glow. But then again, I use chopsticks, so what do I know.
Darcy -- I've never done it in front of other people, but I should mention that one woman I know who *never* asks questions about me or how I'm doing or what's up with my life once asked, "do you eat popcorn with chopsticks?" when she saw my almost-empty bowl with two sticks still resting within.
Posted by: Phil | Aug 10, 2005 10:01:48 AM
Hey Phil - have you ever tried the Cheetos from Barbara's Bakery. I have bought them at Whole Foods (although it has been a while). They are super yummy and come in puffs and "normal". You should try them!
Posted by: Jennifer | Aug 10, 2005 3:45:54 PM
I think eating snack foods with chopsticks is a BRILLIANT idea and I am going to start doing it tonight.
Were you an unnatural child who ate Cheetos, or a child who ate unnatural Cheetos? Or maybe both?
Mmmmm. . . disodium phosphate.
Posted by: minty | Aug 10, 2005 4:23:10 PM
Jennifer -- no, I haven't had those but will try. Of course, now I have to do a 4-way taste test with regular and puff Cheetos and regular and puff Barbara's. Next question -- what beer to use for the test?
Minty -- thanks for the kind words! And let's hope that Pinky has read this, too. Re: your question -- both.
Posted by: Phil | Aug 10, 2005 7:49:27 PM
anything to avoid sticky fingers!
and phil...the blue tostitos that come in the papery bags (like your natural cheetos, above) are vastly superior to the regular kind.
Posted by: pinky | Aug 10, 2005 11:38:30 PM
Word on the blue Tostitos. But on the Cheetos note--have you tried the *red* Cheetos? They are "flaming hot", and have, I'm afraid, spoiled me for all other Cheetos, orange or white. I've only seen them in caveman-crunchy.
Posted by: Patryce | Sep 14, 2005 3:27:08 PM
