Kraft Cheese Nips

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Kraft Cheese Nips are small cheese-flavored crackers manufactured by Kraft Foods, and marketed as an alternative to Cheez-It. They are similar to Sunshine's Cheez-It, and each product is often held in disfavor by fans of the other.

Kraft uses cheese of its own production to make these crackers.

Cheese Nips are also made in a Jalapeño Cheddar flavor.

Portion-controlled packages of Cheese Nips are also sold under the name Cheese Nips Thin Crisps 10 Calorie Packs, to appeal to the health-opposing market. These Nips are slightly smaller and thinner than regular Nips, and are hexagonal in shape.

Nips also appear along with other varieties of snacks in mix called Nabisco Cheddars.

Kraft uses cross-promotions with other products and events to sell Cheese Nips. In 2003, it sponsored a NASCAR Chevy driven by Steve Park. In return for financial sponsorship, Kraft was allowed to place its logo for Cheese Nips (as well as Fig Newtons) prominently on the back of the car, where it was likely to be seen by spectators of races.

The car was then sold as a toy, in miniature form, as a collector's item.