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Testing: GIANT CHEETOS
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Testing: GIANT CHEETOS
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| Photos | Drew Lazor | |
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I've carried on a long, rhapsodical and oft-tumultuous love affair with Cheetos in my 25-ish years on this earth. Remember in middle school, when I tried to make out with my female best friend, only to be rejected because I had a bunch of neon orange gunk stuck all up in my braces? Then later on she became a disaffected outsider while I became a lame wannabe thug who wears ski goggles? Never mind, that's from Can't Hardly Wait. Foreal though, I've been eating Cheetos for a minute. That's why I was excited to try GIANT CHEETOS (it seems only right to type that in all caps), a relatively new development from the Frito-Lay camp.
In terms of taste and texture, GIANT CHEETOS � they're very similar in size and shape to campfire marshmallows, but I would advise against roasting these jawns on a stick � have much more in common with cheese puffs than the crunchy snacks we've come to know/love/eat while high. (Above, I placed a few of the CHEETOS next to a quarter and a Burt's Bees chapstick for scale.) My chief complaint is that there was not enough cheesiness in each GIANT CHEETO to justify the amount of chewing required to finish one. Since classic Cheetos are such a cheeseified snack, I was expecting the GIANT CHEETO to deliver a similarly pleasurable experience, just on a larger, more 'roid-ragey scale. That ain't the case � they're mostly dry and cottonmouth-inducing.
I stand with the OG Cheetos for life.
Is it the cheetos causing the cotton mouth or is it the indo (do people even say indo anymore)?
Mostly the Cheetos, but it wouldn't be fair to say indo (damn, haven't said that in awhile) is a non-factor.
You use Burt's Bees pomegranate chapstick??? Good stuff.
phillygrrl: That's actually a buddy's of mine. I've never really been a chapstick guy! More of a Cheetos guy, really.
I agree with your taken on the Giant Cheetos. I have to point out though that Burt's Bees makes LIP BALM. Calling by the c-word is like saying the word "Pepsi" in Atlanta ;)
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