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SNACTIV, The Multitasking Snacking Tool of the Future

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SNACTIV is a gadget consisting of a small pair of chopsticks that sit above your index and middle fingers, allowing you to grab chips or Cheetos, or any other small snack without getting your fingers dirty. It’s billed as “the multi-tasking snacking tool of the future.” Is it a future I want to be part of? I’m not so sure.

Similar in concept to Chip Fingers but unnecessary to remove between snacks, SNACTIV is currently an already-funded Kickstarter project (and surprisingly not an SNL parody product), and $19 will get you a SNACTIV in either black or white. Obviously, I plan on wearing one on each hand for double-fisted snacking.

The idea is that by not touching your snacks directly, you’re preventing the migration of Cheetos or chip dust from your fingertips to your keyboard or another device. Now, I’m not sure if you can tell from looking at my keyboard, but that is not a problem I’ve ever cared about. The disgustingness has just always been another layer of computer security as far as I’m concerned.

Keep Cheetos Dust off Your Fingertips with Chip Fingers

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If there’s one thing you can count on when you eat Cheetos, it’s that you’ll have orange cheese dust all over your fingers and anything they touch. So what’s a neat freak to do when it’s snack time? Chip Fingers to the rescue!

You know those silly fingerless gloves that were all the rage thanks to Madonna back in the 1980s? Well, Chip Fingers are basically what they did with all of the fingertips they cut off those gloves. Except these are made out of food-grade silicone instead of non-food-grade black lace. They come in a set of three, so you can grip your Cheetos without worry about your fingers turning orange. They work equally well with Doritos and other messy snack foods. You can grab a set for about 15 bucks on Amazon (affiliate link).

Also, did you know that Cheetos aren’t even orange because of the cheese? Nope. They get their trademark orange hue thanks to a petroleum-derived artificial color called FD&C Yellow 6, aka Sunset Yellow FCF. I learned that from a college research paper, I kid you not.

[via Mental Floss]

Welcome to The Cheetosphere

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Ever since I was a little kid, I’ve had a tendency to play with my food. I remember cobbling together all kinds of gross concoctions at the table whenever we went out to eat, and occasionally stacking food items like Lincoln Logs to create edible towers. Yet, despite all of my efforts, I never achieved the greatness of The Cheetosphere.

Artist Sam Keller figured out that if you have the properly curved Cheetos, you can assemble them into a nearly perfect orb. It looks like each orange snack covers a 120-degree arc, so gluing three of them together forms a circle. Then by arranging and attaching the Cheeto circles together with other individual Cheetos, you can make a sphere. I’m guessing that a balloon might have been involved here in order to provide an inner form for the structure.

However Sam made it, the Cheetosphere is a true work of art, and belongs in a modern art museum alongside the works of Jeff Koons and other contemporary masters. Heck, he could turn it into a performance art piece, where someone walks into the room and nibbles on the sphere until it’s all gone, while Sam cranks out another masterpiece for the next show.

Sam also made a smaller and simpler Cheetosphere, which I came across thanks to Pee-Wee Herman:

This isn’t the only time Sam created a snack food sculpture. At the same time, he made the Doritosphere…

[via Pee-Wee Herman]

Cheesy Puff Plushes Won’t Stain Your Fingers

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I’ve long held the belief that the same people who make thise exploding ink packs that stain bank robbers also make the orange dye used in cheesy puffs. Those orange balls of salty deliciousness will leave you stained for days afterwards. On the other hand, it’s the ideal food to help you tell if your roommate or significant other is eating your snacks.

These giant stuffed cheesy puffs are guaranteed not to leave any orange evidence behind. They are also not salty nor are they tasty.

This oversized plush bag comes with nine smiling little cheese puffs to play with, and will look great sitting on your couch. Just don’t let the dog eat them.

The complete set is $49.99(USD) and available at ThinkGeek.

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Taco Bell Cheetos Quesadillas Proves it is Easy Being Cheesy

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I figure at some point we have all known that one person who likes to put their chips directly on their sandwich. My wife does that, and the upside is it keeps her hands out of the bag during lunch.Philippines locations of Taco Bell have a new food that puts a cheap Mexican food twist on the ole chips-on-a-sandwich meal.

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The new snack is called the Cheetos Quesadilla and it is exclusive to the country. It’s a tortilla packed with melted cheese with the messy and cheesy snack crisps thrown inside to boot. As you can tell in the tweet below, the real thing isn’t quite as appetizing as the styled photos for the ads, but it still looks good to me.

All we get here in the States is a burrito with Fritos tossed inside. Supposedly if you ask for this specifically at Taco Bells in the Philippines, they will give you one for free.

[via Kotaku]

Burger King Cheetos Chicken Fries Will Turn Fingers Orange

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The fast food industry hasn’t been afraid to make some really weird snacks. Typically, these strange foods are offered in Japan, like those pumpkin and chocolate fries that McDonald’s offers. Now Burger King has rolled out Cheetos Chicken Fries, and they’re available right here in the good old U.S. of A.

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I happen to think the chicken fries are the only thing worth eating at BK other than that epic Hershey’s Chocolate pie. These fries are exactly what you think they are, which is to say standard chicken fries rolled in orange Cheetos dust. They have 280 calories for an order, but exactly how many you get isn’t specified. I’m guessing it’s six or so, which is more fingers than an actual chicken has.

I can only assume they will turn your fingers super orange just like eating a bag of Cheetos.

Burger King Mac n’ Cheetos: Deep Fry All the Things

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Growing up, I use to love fast food burger joints like McDonalds and Burger King. These days, I avoid them like the plague because the food is terrible. I’m all Whataburger all the time, bros. Burger King has tied up with Frito-Lay to create a new deep fried snack that sounds dubious. It’s called Mac n’ Cheetos.

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At first glance, they look like some nice puffy Cheetos to snack on whilst staining your fingers orange for hours afterwards. Rather than being puffy corn inside, the Burger King bastardization has macaroni and cheese inside. It sounds really weird. It’s like fried mac and cheese rolled in Cheetos dust.

Burger King plans to sell the new snack for about eight weeks or until supplies run out. An order of the odd snacks will set you back $2.49(UDS). The pack of five bites has 310 calories and unlike many strange fast food creations, it seems these ones are bound for the U.S.

[via Bloomberg]

Mountain Dew Flavored Cheetos: The Ultimate Gamer Food

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Mountain Dew and Cheetos. You know them. You love them. You have both all over your mouse and keyboard. Well, now you can get these two gamer foods together at last. These Mountain Dew flavored Cheetos are from Japan. Naturally.

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You can get them for $3.50 a cup here. Don’t worry, they’re “Made in cooperation with Pepsi, to ensure an authentic taste experience.” Of course it doesn’t hurt that Frito-Lay is owned by PepsiCo. See, when you have to say that, it makes me wonder just what you are really putting in it. Probably some gamer steroids for longer play.

If you love these two foods, go try this perfect gamer food union and see if it ups your game any. If nothing else, at least you can get both of these important food groups from a single source.

[via Geekologie]

Pepsi-Flavored Cheetos Are From Japan

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Mashups are very common in music industry. But this trend is now moving towards food industry. Latest junk food mashup introduced in Japan by Frito-Lay is a combo of Pepsi cola and Cheetos. We have...

Pepsi-Flavored Cheetos are a Thing

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Japan is home to a number of unusual foods, but one thing I never imagined there’d be a market for was Cheetos that taste like Pepsi. Then again, I once accidentally dipped my movie popcorn into my Diet Coke, and it was delicious. That whole salty/sweet combo thing, I suppose.

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I’m assuming some management consultant decided this would be a good idea as a way to bring Frito Lay and Pepsi closer together, since they’re both owned by PepsiCo. This unconventional puffed corn snack food not only has Pepsi flavoring, but have been given a fizzy and crackling sensation which sounds a bit like toned-down Pop Rocks. According to Steve over at The Impulsive Buy, they actually smelled a bit like powdered cinnamon donuts, with a hint of a flat cola aroma.

Apparently, there’s no cheese flavor at all on these Cheetos (so much for the salty/sweet theory), and instead kist a strange Pepsi-ish flavor that’s a bit too lemony to be accurate.

If you happen to live in Japan, you can find a 12-pack over at Kenko for ¥1575 (~$16 USD), but for the rest of the world, we have been spared of this delicacy for now.

[via The Impulsive Buy via Foodbeast]