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Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I live in a town with a cereal factory. Every few days, you get a strong whiff of whatever they are making that week (a toasty cocoa smell for chocolate cereal, a sweet, corny smell for puffed corn). I've lived here long enough that I don't really notice the smell anymore, but it's very noticeable on rainy days.
In Love with Hershey's Candy Cane Kisses
Are you kidding? These are disgusting. And I'm a connoisseur of disgusting candy. One look at the ingredients list is enough to make my stomach do a backflip.
Gourmet Shares Best Cookie Recipes from 1941 to 2008
I've made the pistachio cranberry icebox cookies several times and they are delicious. They're really simple, but look and taste like you spent hours on them. Easier to make as rounds than squared off like the recipe says, though.
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Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Not a bad size, but they ought to be softball-sized and about 3 in a bag. Reminds me of my disappointment in the "Mega" M&Ms. I was hoping for an M&M that was so big you needed to hold it with both hands, like a hamburger. They're only just slightly bigger then regular M&Ms.
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
I live in a town with a cereal factory. Every few days, you get a strong whiff of whatever they are making that week (a toasty cocoa smell for chocolate cereal, a sweet, corny smell for puffed corn). I've lived here long enough that I don't really notice the smell anymore, but it's very noticeable on rainy days.
In Love with Hershey's Candy Cane Kisses
Are you kidding? These are disgusting. And I'm a connoisseur of disgusting candy. One look at the ingredients list is enough to make my stomach do a backflip.
Gourmet Shares Best Cookie Recipes from 1941 to 2008
I've made the pistachio cranberry icebox cookies several times and they are delicious. They're really simple, but look and taste like you spent hours on them. Easier to make as rounds than squared off like the recipe says, though.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Try Tastees - they are like Cheetos. People in the UK are loving them!!
Large-Scale Enticing Food Smells
Hi I realize this is pretty late in the game to post but esmesbell mentioned the Cheerios smell in Buffalo, NY. It's from the General Mills Plant on the canal. They alternate between Cheerios and Coco Puffs.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
So i purchased a bag of disappointment for $2.50. The bag was labeled
"Giant Cheetos".
After seeing the awesome and over the top television advertisements for giant cheetos, I was super excited to get my hands on a bag!
I went to my local market and was glad to see bags of them available after seeing the new commercial a day prior.
Since the bag of giant cheetos is opaque, I decided to squeeze the bag a little, to feel how big these "Giant" Cheetos actually were.
They didn't feel giant at all!
After i felt up the bag, proceeded to crush one of the giant cheetos between my thumb and forefinger.
It took quite a bit of effort to bust one of the cheetos, through the bag.
So I thought ," Damn! this stuff is hard as hell.", and then I left the store with out the bag of the Giant cheetos.
Curiosity got the best of me, and i was back in the snack isle the very next day to make the purchase.
So I open the bag of giant cheetos, and it smells nice.
I take a bite of one, and I was immediately put off buy the harsh texture, and lack of flavor.
I tried another one, this time i popped it in my mouth.
BAD IDEA!
Giant Cheetos are worst than Captain Crunch with out milk!
So i tried to pawn the giant cheetos to my dad aka: The human garbage disposer.
After he took a bite, he asked me when the expiration date was, because he flet they tasted and felt stale.
I just had purchased and opened them that day, and the bag said "NEW" !
So yeah..... the idea of a Giant Cheeto was nice, but i wish they were bigger and softer.
I feel Cheeted by the Cheeto Cheetah.
I'm going to write frito-lay explaining my disappointment with Giant Cheetos.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
I guess this is the appropriate place (if anywhere) to put this link:
http://gizmodo.com/5224528/i-ate-the-worlds-largest-cheeto-while-using-the-worlds-most-expensive-keyboard
(urk)
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
1st thought: those tv ads for giant m&ms and the disasters when people tried to eat them.
2nd thought: can you slice them in half and make pulled pork/cheeto sliders?
[sorry, sliders on the brain: going to the store after I finish my 'net-ing to buy King's Hawaiian rolls and make sliders with pork tenderloin and slaw with honey mustard]
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
@Cassaendra: They DO make Flamin' Hot Puffs -- I've seen them around!
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Ridiculous!! Give me crunchy Cheetos any day!
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Thanks for the warning. I had no idea that the Planters Cheez Balls were long gone. I swear I have seen them relatively recently in my mother's kitchen but then a couple of months ago she found a Kraft cheese brick in her basement refrigerator that had expired in the late 70s. (This is the truth, I swear). My brother has taught my niece and nephew (7 and 5) to ask Gamby how old something is if they have any concerns. Constant vigilence is the only defense.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
For those of you lamenting the old, beloved Planters Cheez Balls (I could down one of those cans in no time when I was a kid), Utz makes an EXCELLENT Cheez Ball. Not sure how much of the country they cover, but they are in both my local grocery stores and BJ's club.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Cheetos Swirls are still being made? I live in Riverside, Ca. (I know, I know not the culinary capital of ....umm, anywhere), and loved those. It's nice to know they're still out there. Jeez, I gotta get out more. I'm reminiscing about Cheetos Swirls...
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Cheetos swirls rock -- the leave the roof of your mouth totally raw!
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Cheetos are an inferior cheese snack. The Cheezel is the finest yellow, stainy and mouth-tearing fromage flavoured cruncher on the planet. These rings of snacky wonder have been gracing the fingers of Australian children and party-goers for decades. And they come in a box. Visitors to our shores, once eating a Cheezel never look back.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Wise Cheez Doodles > all Cheetos products.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Tempting as that is, if by some miracle of the culinary gods, I did become rich and famous because of a blog started with such a dish. I could never look my future fellow Food Network associates in the eye knowing I got my start with a culinary joke.
Then again, empires have been started on less.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
i created an account just to mention that I once impulsively purchased a bag of flaming hot cheeto puffs at a BIG LOTS! and they were the most addictive chip product I have ever had. They were dark burgandy colored and HOT.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
@chef colin...I read your post 5 minutes ago and I'm still laughing. Hurry up and create a blog with a Ruhlman kinda photo on the top of the page devoted to your giant Cheeto bouche to stake your claim to the idea before Paula Deen or Martha Stewart beat you to it...LOL!
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
funny you would mention you have Cheetos hangover. I have always found that Cheetos (particularly the small crunchy kind) are a kind of miracle hangover cure. orange fingers don't last forever and luckily, hangovers don't either...Cheetos rule!
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
@violetcrumble: I'm not the only one who likes them a bit stale!
I have an unnatural love of all cheeto products. I also liked the planters balls, but have not seen them in years.
Mmmmm, now I need some cheetos!
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
My favorite are Little Bear Lite Cheddar Puffs (probably because that's what my mom used to buy so that's what I got used to), so I tend to gravitate towards puffs. I like the airy disintegration factor. I might have to look around for Barbara's puffs now though...
And I also miss Planter's Cheez Balls! Screw these Giant Cheetos...shrink 'em down!
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
I'm a Puffs girl. They're like "cheese"-flavoured cotton candy.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Barbara's are the best ever! I loves me some them jalapeno chesse puffs. And they're getting harder to find! I used to be able to get them in the "natural" sections of my local grocers but now I have to make a special trip to the co-op to get them....lame.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
I noticed the giant cheetos at the market the other day. I'd never seen them before and didn't know how long they had been out, but I was curious about them. They sort of remind me of the (unfortunately no longer made) Planters cheese balls I loved as a kid. (Man, I miss those :P)
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
@optic: There are a lot of Cheetos snacks; we weren't aiming to review all of them, just the ones most comparable to the Giant version. Which entailed the fluorescent ones.
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
so where's the review of the natural cheeto?
Giant Cheetos vs. Regular Cheetos
Man I suck. The link is right above, the text is not...
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Not a bad size, but they ought to be softball-sized and about 3 in a bag. Reminds me of my disappointment in the "Mega" M&Ms. I was hoping for an M&M that was so big you needed to hold it with both hands, like a hamburger. They're only just slightly bigger then regular M&Ms.