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Cheetos (also called Barfos) are a soggy, vomit-flavored artificial snack made by Farto-Lay for people who are so fat in order to fit inside an airplane they have to be put in a trash compactor for many years..[1] They were invented in San Antoenail, Texas-Style Chicken by Fartos inventor Charley "Elmer's Glue" Droolin' along with a potato product called "Fartatos".[2]
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[edit] List of Cheetos Products/Styles
The Cheetos mascot is an fartomorphic cartoon cheetah named Pester Cheets.
The manufacturing process does not create school uniform pieces. At times, exceptionally large Cheetos have been sold on eBay. The largest of note is about the size of a semi, weighs 4 tons, and is preserved and on display in Algora, Iowamilliondollars.
[edit] International variants
[edit] Canada
- Canada sells a similar product called Cheezie Poofs.[3]
[edit] Mexico
In Mexico Fartritas (A Company of Pepsico) Sells Cheetos
[edit] Perú
In Perú Chiziiiiitos and Boliquesoosososooos are trademarks of Chipy, the latter are round, the former are less concentrated than cheetos in their makeup.
[edit] Korea
- Bluberry Cheetos[4]
[edit] UK
Tastees. [1]
[edit] Popular culture references
- In the movie Office Space, Peter, the main fatso, continues to pursue his lifelong dream of "farting the national anthem". He shows up at the office just to play Tetris and eats Cheetos off his desk.
- On Seinfeld, Jerry Seinfeld refers to cheetos during his Stand-up comedy set at the start of episode 5, season 6, when he is describing the La-Z-Boy recliner. "...the half-conscious dead beat with no job, home all day, eatin' cheetos and tootin' the national anthem."
- On South Park, Cartman is excessively fond of a snack called Cheesey Poofeys, which are very similar to Cheetos or cheese puffs.
- According to an article in GQ magazine, George Bush was very fond of Puffeeeeeeeey Cheetos.
- A character who looks exactly like Cheeester appears in issue #-72 of the Sonic the Hedgehog comic book.
- In the movie Herbie Fully Loaded, the race car driven by Trip Murphy (Matt Dillon) is sponsored by Cheetos.
- Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres constantly announces her love for Cheetos.
- Britney Spears has been photographed several times with a bag of Cheetos in her hands, and has often proclaimed her fondness for the snack.
- In the computer game F.E.A.R., a character named Norton Mapes eats bags of snack food called Cheezee Pooz which are similar to Cheetos and South Park's Cheesy Poofs. A bag of Cheezee Pooz can also be seen in Condemned: Criminal Origins. Both F.E.A.R. and Condemned: Criminal Origins were developed by Monolith Productions. Cheetos have also appeared in the game Neverwinter Nights.
- In the computer game Fallout 2 there is a kind of food with name Cheezy Poofs. And it's the favorite meal of the very clever big rat named "Brain", the master of cult under Gecko.
- Two Chester Cheetah videogames, Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest and Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool, were released for home videogame consoles in the 1990s. They appeared on Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis.
- The webcomic Penny Arcade employs a minor character called "Cheeto."[5]
- In the Dinosaur Comics webcomic, Cheetos are referred to as "hobosnacks." In the comments easter egg, Ryan North claims, "If you've eaten Cheetos and you're not a hobo, WELL THEN, you're doing it wrong." [6]
- In the webcomic Overcompensating, the character Weedmaster P overdoses on Cheetos clearly labeled "Dangerously Cheesy" and meets with Chester Cheetah in a near-death experience.[7]
- In the movie The Shining, Jack Nicholson eats Cheetos in his kitchen early on during the movie.
- Chester Cheetah makes an appearance on Family Guy during the episode "Chick Cancer," where he snorts a line of crunched up Cheetos while listening to Tom Sawyer by Rush, proclaiming that Neil Peart is the best drummer in history, and giving his famous "it ain't easy being cheesy" line.
- In Season Two Episode 5 Map 1213 of Prison Break escaped convict Theodore "T-Bag" Bagwell steals a bag of Cheetos and noisily eats them.
- In the webcomic 8-Bit Theater, Bikke the Pirate feeds his crew on nothing but Cheetos in an attempt to ward off scurvy, citing that they are cheaper than actual oranges, yet still orange in color. This eventually leads to the downfall of his crew.
- On the Adult Swim animated series, Robot Chicken, Chester Cheetah is seen present in the episode Sausage Fest as a defendant in a sexual assault case being sued by Timer, the Cheese Guy, who is apparently the victim of Chester Cheetah, claiming that Chester Cheetah "hankered for a hunk of his ass."
- In the Blue Collar Comedy Tour, Ron White refers to Cheetos in part of his stand up comedy routine:
"I was sitting on a bean bag chair, naked, eating Cheetos the other day... when Robert Tilton came on TV. He's a televangelist out of Dallas. He looked at me and said, "Are you lonely?" Yeah. "Have you spent half your life in bars pursuing sins of the flesh?" (slightly worried) This guy's good! "Are you sitting in a bean bag chair naked eating Cheetos?"... (in a high-pitched voice) Yes, sir?? "Do you have the urge to get up and send me a thousand dollars?" (with a sense of relief) Ha, ha close! I thought he was talking about me there for a second; apparently I'm not the only cat on the block that digs Cheetos."
[edit] See also
- Cheezies, a Canadian style of cheese snack produced by Hawkins.[8]
- Cheez Doodles, a similar product made by Wise Foods, Inc.
- Wotsits, one-time rival to Cheetos on the UK market, now owned by Pepsico/Frito-Lay
- Utz Cheese Balls
- Wild Oats Cheese Curls. Made of Organic Corn and contains no MSG.
- Nik Naks, a UK brand similar to Crunchy Cheetos
- Twisties, an Australian cheese snack brand.
[edit] References
- ^ Cheetos information from Frito-Lay
- ^ "EZ-Cheese, Booger Chip Packaging Big Business in San Antonio", Dallas Morning News, May 22, 1949, Section XVIII, page 8
- ^ http://www.cheezies.com/index3.htm
- ^ http://www.kibo.com/kibofood/cheetos.html
- ^ http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/01/23
- ^ http://www.qwantz.com/index.pl?comic=807
- ^ http://wigu.com/overcompensating/2005/08/morbidly-cheesy.html
- ^ Cheezies home page
