Talk:Cheetos

UK Cheetos
For uk cheetos it says wotsits.Since when are wotsits the official UK counterpart of Cheetos?I know they are almost the same thing but they aren't by the same people.We don't even have cheetos in UK. —Preceding unsigned comment added by A kun96 (talk • contribs) 16:38, 2 September 2009 (UTC)


 * Frito-Lay have owned Walkers since 1989, and retained Walkers' UK brands rather than trying to launch American brands. Cheetos are unknown in Britain, and Brits tend to look blankly when reference is made to them in American popular culture. Walkers make several popular products which are more or less the same as Cheetos, one of which is Wotsits. --Ef80 (talk) 15:19, 23 June 2023 (UTC)

Two Chester Cheetah Video Games
There is a mention of the two Chester Cheetah Video games, but no link. The two games are Chester Cheetah: Too Cool to Fool and Chester Cheetah: Wild Wild Quest for the Genesis. They are both stubs, however, and I don't know if it's worth adding them. Should there be an atempt to add them to the article? Dolace Triade 13:15, 14 November 2007 (UTC)
 * I did add them Dolace Triade 23:16, 14 November 2007 (UTC)

"Get some cheetos"
The "Get some cheetos" edit by 140.247.175.126 (talk) seems to be a paraphrase of. The citation for the entry says, "by Mrob harvard Jan 29, 2006". That entry and a duplicate appear to be the only thing "Mrob" added to the Urban Dictionary. Seems like somebody is trying to coin a phrase; a violation of WP:NEO. &mdash;Pradeep Arya (Talk | Contrib) 09:23, 13 February 2006 (UTC)
 * Agreed. In addition, Cheetos does not return any matches at http://www.thecrimson.com/ which is apparently the claimed source of the saying. - SCEhard T 23:26, 13 February 2006 (UTC)

Genetically modified
I've removed this statement because it is not cited. A recent study has shown that Cheetos contain the DNA of a genetically modified organism. (very likely corn) - SCEhard T 00:53, 16 February 2006 (UTC)


 * There is something from a little over five years ago, but we'll probably need more than an ancient link from CNN to justify that statement. &mdash;Pradeep Arya (Talk | Contrib) 05:20, 16 February 2006 (UTC)

Chester Cheetah
Isn't Chester Cheetah modelled off of the Pink Panther? 71.250.17.62 18:08, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Origins?
I heard that original cheetos recipe was intended as a dog treat but instead made a tasty snack for people when they added cheese. I don't have anything to back this up. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.226.72.188 (talk • contribs)

I'm curious to know if Cheetos or Cheezies came first. The Cheezies web site only says "late 40s" but I have found some sources that say 1948 -- which is the same year as Cheetos. Unfortunately there is no wiki page for Cheezies. -- abfackeln 23:16, 3 November 2006 (UTC)

I have personal knowledge that an extruded corn snack was manufactured in Arcanum, Ohio prior to the summer of 1948 (when I moved from there) and probably as early as 1947 in a building next door to my home at 201 W. North Street. The man making the extruded corn snack referred to them as "corn curls" and he packed them in cubical cardboard boxes about 18 inches on a side, then shipped them by rail to an undisclosed location in Indiana, where cheese flavoring was added. I often helped load these boxes into the boxcar on a siding of the Dayton & Union Railroad. This man considered his extruder to be a trade secret, and on one occasion, apprehended a man trying to enter his business at night to do some industrial espionage. He must have thought it was OK to allow a neighbor child to see (and assist) running this sensitive equipment. I recall that if the rotating extrusion die was not hot enough, or if the cornmeal ingedients were too moist, that a hollow cylinder would exit the die rather than the familiar Cheeto-shaped bits. When the machine was running properly, the curls literally flew out of the die into the air, and were caught in a net enclosure. Rather than throw this cylindrical solid away as scrap, it was ground up and recycled by mixing it back into the input ingredients. This actually improved the texture. The curls fresh out of the extruder were just bland, corn-tasting stuff, and a little chewy. It was the secondary operation in Indiana that gave it the cheesey, salty flavor and crunchy texture -- probably with a secondary baking step. Much later in life, I saw a TV program about Cheetos and they made a big deal about the fact that the actual manufacturing process was considered secret and showing it was denied. The factory was in Indiana. 66.57.196.73 (talk) 02:14, 17 March 2008 (UTC)

Types of Cheetos
Do "Flamin' Hot Cheetos con Lucas" and "Hot Dog Flavored Cheetos" really exist? I would love to try the hot dog variety but I can't find them referenced anywhere else.

Mascots
Omission of the Cheetos Mouse seems a glaring oversight.

Neverwinter Nights Game Reference Verification
I am not a player of the game so can't personally verify this, but given that the game producer is based in Canada it seems likely that the game would refer to Cheezies http://www.cheezies.com/ and not Cheetos. While Cheetos are available in Canada their place in popular culture is generally taken by Cheezies. Could someone familiar with the game provide a reference to clarify this?

"Minimal nutritional value"
Seems kinda POV to me in that location - if not OR. Besides, it only makes me want them more. Ribonucleic 21:36, 30 October 2006 (UTC)

Chester Snorting Cheetos
Is the picture of Chester Cheeto sniffing cheeto powder (although really funny) innapropriate for the article's tempo? and also, what is the chili-like crap they use to make thier hot cheetos spicy? Stevo D 01:22, 13 February 2007 (UTC)

Whats this?
"Cheetos, including Hot Cheetos, makes their cheese from a pork enzyme. Don't beleive it, please call Frito-Lay at 1-800-352-4477, Monday - Friday, 9:00am-4:30pm." This sounds very un-encyclopedia-like to me. 71.81.46.119 00:10, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
 * I removed it. I doubt pork is right, but pretty much all cheese contains meat-derived enzymes so there isn't really anything of interest here.  See rennet. - SCEhard T 00:21, 2 April 2007 (UTC)

Cheetos X and O
Cheetos Xs and Os are not discontinued!!! I saw them In Publics and in windixie a couple of days ago.Pendo 4 11:59, 6 April 2007 (UTC)

Size of the actual puffs
Havent they blown up over the years? Back in the early 90's when cheetos puffs were packaged in a blue and white bag, they were much thinner puffs and softer in crunch as compared to wise cheez doodles. Now the puffs are actually bigger than wise cheez doodles and much crispier. I was a cheetos puff fanatic back then, and even though I still love them, I dont like these changes. Does anyone know why they changed? PeAchBaCon 08:15, 27 May 2007 (UTC)

Banned in UK?
According to a UK-based company that imports US snacks for sale in the UK, Cheetos cannot be imported to the country because of "Food Standards Agency issues". Does anyone know what could this be? Ghostface1701 13:34, 4 July 2007 (UTC)

New sections
Could do with more on the history and the production process, rather than just launching into that big long list of variants. FlagSteward 16:43, 1 October 2007 (UTC)

Phosphorescence
I just ate a bag of cheetos and was disturbed to find they are fairly phosphorescent. It's OR, so I can't add it, but an interesting note. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.116.162.162 (talk) 21:27, 9 November 2007 (UTC)

New Commercials
What about the new commercials? They have a completely different Chester who is malicious and old looking. I put up the website but here are the commercials: Plane Laundromat Mr. Clean -Babylon pride (talk) 03:26, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Nationalised cheese puffs?
It says "Canada sells a similar product called Cheezies.[5] " I wonder if there are any other countries that sell snacks. I'm going to change it to "A similar product called Cheezies.[5] is sold in Canada." --Haruo (talk) 23:19, 6 August 2008 (UTC)

New Product. anybody care to add?
Theres a new strange cheetos product. A Cheetos lip balm and I'm wondering if anybody cares to add some of that info. Its really weird for cheetos. Just thought I'd add it —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.253.249.55 (talk) 02:59, 13 October 2008 (UTC)

Cleanup
This is a really terrible article right now. The first sentence is totally disjointed and there is very little information. Most of the article is a trivia section, which is discouraged [] by Wikipedia. This thing needs a lot of work. Jermor (talk) 04:07, 10 February 2009 (UTC)


 * Well, please don't let anyone stand in the way of you fixing it. Cheers! Esrever (klaT) 05:15, 10 February 2009 (UTC)

Remove or fix Reference 32. It leads to an advertisement. "Stupid Investment of the Week". MarketWatch.com. 3 July 2009. Retrieved 2 December 2010. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 165.235.104.102 (talk) 00:30, 16 November 2017 (UTC)

Article Needs Moderator Attention
I doubt that this opening sentence, paragraph two, is accurate:

Cheetos are manufactured by blending corn, the Tears of Small Children, and the Souls of the Damned. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Hogwaump (talk • contribs) 20:45, 3 May 2010 (UTC)
 * Fixed. VMS Mosaic (talk) 01:52, 4 May 2010 (UTC)

Cheetos Flavour Not Mentioned Here
I'd like to point out that for the Australia panel there should be posted a our super hot cheetos flavour called "Cheetos of Ill Repute" — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jivebungy (talk • contribs) 22:57, 24 April 2011 (UTC)

Seeking Consensus on suggested revision
This article is off to a fair start; however in its current form it does not meet Wikipedia's Good Article criteria. Three main issues with the article are:


 * Lack of Reliable Sources: Several sources currently cited in the article (e.g. source #1) are no longer accessible, or contain broken links. Several others are unreliable for Wikipedia's purposes (e.g. source #3, which links to a trivia website).


 * Missing History section: The current version of the article does not explain the history of how Cheetos were invented, nor how/when (and where, geographically) the product evolved as it became available in different countries.


 * Does not adequately establish notability: When read from start to finish, this article currently covers more trivial aspects of Cheetos, but does not adequately establish why Cheetos are notable. It provides a basic dictionary-esquedefinition of what Cheetos are and how they are made, but lacks sufficient context as to the impact, which is important in encyclopedic writing.

In the interest of brevity, I've put together a draft in my sandbox which addresses all of the outstanding content issues mentioned above. I have a potential conflict of interest as it relates to the subject of this article, as Cheetos is owned/produced by PepsiCo, a client of my employer. For this reason, I'd like to get input on this suggested revision: User:Jeff_Bedford/Sandbox4 before any direct changes to the Cheetos article are made. Cheers, Jeff Bedford (talk) 20:48, 31 October 2011 (UTC)

Protect page from moving
The current article's title is perfect, so protect it from moving indefinitely before someone changes it! Web+TV+3&#61;WebTV3! (talk) 21:14, 4 April 2012 (UTC)

Former Hyphenation
I'm surprised that the article doesn't mention that the name was formerly hyphenated as "Chee-tos." I came to this article to see when the change was made, but couldn't find it. --98.203.241.55 (talk) 15:35, 12 June 2012 (UTC)

Not enough pictures
It needs images of cheetos to explain the story and to make the article more appealing to the food crowds. The Uncyclopedian (talk) 00:41, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

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Market
In the early 1900 cheecos were one of the best and most popular type of chips. they were eaten by fat americans in the usa to the stubby germans in europe.But no doubt the cheetos was one of the best things ever made — Preceding unsigned comment added by 157.185.65.130 (talk) 18:47, 5 October 2016 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 30 January 2017
Add and. 219.78.191.75 (talk) 08:31, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
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Semi-protected edit request on 12 March 2017
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Cheeto Jesus (Trump)
Hi, I am trying to add this to the section "popular culture" and it's been undone twice without any relevant explanation. Is there some reason this is less relevant than other information in "Cheetos in Popular Culture"?

In 2016-7, "Cheeto Jesus" and variations thereon became a common nickname for Donald Trump.

- Keizers (talk) 03:33, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * "And a good, old-fashioned meme was born." That sounds like a good reason not to add it to any WP-article to me, except possibly Memes about Donald Trump. And I don´t think the source supports your sentence, it seems to speculate/hope it may become a common nickname. Is it one today? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 15:18, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * It's not only a meme, it's a nickname/epithet, perhaps that's not in the source, not sure what you asking me if the nickname is common, you can easily see here and here. Keizers (talk) 16:33, 22 August 2017 (UTC)


 * Ok, the second one is a twitter-something with 11 followers. . The first is a google-search, not usable for anything on WP, but I looked at the 2 first pages. I see half a dozen newssources I recognise mentioning this, all in june-aug 2016. So? Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 17:54, 22 August 2017 (UTC)
 * The second should be all instances of the phrase "Cheeto Jesus" on Twitter, which is thousands... anyway, I have no answer to your "so", the only reason people are more critical about this is because it involves a living person. I would be curious if you also find the following relevant: "Cheetos have been found in shapes which resembled the appearance of popular or historical figures. A single Cheeto described as being in the shape of Michael Jackson doing the Moonwalk Dance sold for $35.18 on eBay in the summer of 2009 at the time of Jackson's death, attracting national media coverage in the U.S.[32] A couple who found a Cheetos snack in a shape they described as resembling Jesus Christ nicknamed it "Cheesus" and garnered media attention as a result of their consideration of selling on eBay." Anyway it's a mute conversation. I've been told that I can't mention the use of products in popular culture, in conjunction with a living person because they are considered "insulting" or derogatory. So there is no discussion anymore anyway.Keizers (talk) 19:12, 22 August 2017 (UTC)

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Semi-protected edit request on 27 June 2018
Change "Fritos creator" to "Fritos' creator". 73.88.143.210 (talk) 13:27, 27 June 2018 (UTC)
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Origin of flaming hot cheetos
How a janitor at Frito-Lay invented Flamin’ Hot Cheetos -- Subtitle: Richard Montañez went from cleaning toilets to being one of the most respected execs in the food industry.

Your basic luck-and-pluck story but there's a bunch more sourcing for it, they are making a movie about the guy, and there's a bunch of vid of him on youtube. He wrote an autobiographical book some years back that goot crappy reviews on Goodreads. Parts of it is on Google Books and looked ok to me. Hacker News thread where I saw this:. 173.228.123.207 (talk) 02:35, 20 June 2019 (UTC)

Some more reading makes me think parts of the above story might be self-made myth. It will probably get a lot more attention when the movie comes out, so it seems worth paying attention to for sourcing etc. 173.228.123.207 (talk) 02:39, 21 June 2019 (UTC)


 * It looks likely that it was a too good to be true story The man who didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos: "There’s just one problem: Montañez didn’t invent Flamin’ Hot Cheetos, according to interviews with more than a dozen former Frito-Lay employees, the archival record and Frito-Lay itself." So should probably be updated. I hope to update it or have a draft, but I'm also sharing the link here for other's reference. Skynxnex (talk) 16:08, 16 May 2021 (UTC)

Macaroni and cheese product
They rolled out a line of boxed and microwavable Cheetos mac n cheese in August of 2020 (three flavors: Bold & Cheesy, Flamin' Hot, and Cheesy Jalapeno), probably worth a line under the products section. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:3027:701:E700:B989:C3F5:68AF:42DD (talk) 19:50, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Harambe Cheeto
Shouldn't the Harambe-shaped Cheeto that allegedly sold for $100k be listed here?

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Semi-protected edit request on 27 September 2022
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"Products" history inaccurate
The article now cliams that "baked Cheetos" were introduced in 2004. But this is erroneous, as I know that going all the way back at least to the 1970s there was a baked variety. TV commercials back in the 70s used to tout two kinds of Cheetos with the mouse-mascot they had at the time, as they said: "Quick-fried to a crackly crunch [robust crunching sound], and baked, to a delicate crunch [lighter crunching sound]" (or vice-versa depending on the particular commercial). Two examples are given in these YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nexngh7TjrI and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gj3cCLyAX2s The article should present the correct facts here. 2601:545:8201:6290:0:0:0:8DD5 (talk) 21:54, 27 January 2023 (UTC)os

Cheetos Mac n' Cheese
In the "products and distruibution" segment, I feel like a bit about Cheetos Mac n' Cheese should be added, as it's a recent product. I see them all the time at the grocery store, and there are 3 flavors. The flavors are Flamin' Hot, Cheesy Jalapeno, and Bold and Cheesy.

- The Master of Hedgehogs is back again! 11:25, 7 October 2023 (UTC)

White Cheddar Cheeto Puffs
White cheddar cheeto puffs are still on the market (in america) but I cannot find information about when they were made or distributed and if they're a rerelease or completely new. 199.15.222.12 (talk) 16:25, 21 October 2023 (UTC)

Roger Enrico joins Frito-Lay Inc. in early 1991 not 1990
Please edit this page to reflect this change in year at this point in the text -

scroll down from

- Products and distribution - Flamin’ Hot Cheetos - 3 Paragraph - 15th Line

Thank you!!

source 1 - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Montañez

source 2 - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/09/movies/flamin-hot-true-story.html

source 3 - https://screenrant.com/flamin-hot-true-story-changes-missing-details/ 67.11.2.113 (talk) 06:18, 24 March 2024 (UTC)


 * Source 4 - Roger Enrico 67.11.2.113 (talk) 06:20, 24 March 2024 (UTC)