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How Cheese Curls Were Invented
- gerfficiency 10y agoI've read some interesting facts I didn't know, but how about how unhealthy they are?
- linksnapzz 10y agoYou need to be told that deep-fried (or even baked) carbohydrates covered in trans-fats && heavily salted artificially-flavored mock-cheese powder are unhealthy? As a general rule, avoid eating anything that is Trump-colored.
- shortformblog 10y agoAuthor here. It goes without saying, doesn't it? It's literally called "junk food." You can get information about why it's bad for you from a million sources (the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which I briefly mention in the piece, is a good starting point), but information about how it came to be? Now that requires a little digging.
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- gumby 10y agoIt's interesting how it evolved from relatively low tech beginnings. For the opposite approach, I once spent some time with the lead engineer on Pringles (we were considering hiring the firm he worked for for some non-food work). He was justifiably proud of the technical challenges they had overcome and how much work they'd done based on the initial spec. No agilenprocess, but definitely spiral rather than waterfall development. I was fascinated but haven't eaten pringles since. I also once worked with a guy whose first job out of high school was at a/the Velveeta plant. I'd never tried the product and after his stories the idea makes me sick.
- gfosco 10y agoPlease tell us more about these 2.
- digi_owl 10y agoMakes me think of the book that made the US public demand food quality laws. It contained graphic descriptions of working conditions and accidents in a meat processing plant. Thing is that the author intended it as a rallying cry for workers rights, but the public instead focused on what they were buying and eating.
- gumby 10y agoYou're referring to "The Jungle" by Upton Sinclair
- takingflac 10y agoJust going to leave the reference to the book here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Jungle Edit: Didn't see gumby's post since I was reading over the article before posting.
- alva 10y agoI heard from a P&G employee that Pringles came about due to technological advances in how they made nappies. Someone realised their unique process could be used for cooking and shaping food products and Pringles was the result!
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- phkahler 10y agoLong ago when I was a teenager I suggested to my father that one might be able to take the husks off popcorn kernels, grind the core into powder and mix with something (water or oil), heat it and spray it out a nozzle under high pressure. The idea was that it would explosively decompress and produce popcorn with no husks. He looked at me and said "what do you think Cheetoes is?"
- mast 10y agoIt's funny, but I have to say that I've never heard the term cheese curls before. People in my area most always use "Cheezies". I guess this is a bit of a genericized trademark thing. The Cheezies brand is quite popular around here, and in some ways their history is similar to the one described in the article. http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/jim-marker-moulded-cheezies-into-a-canadian-icon/article4104357/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/incoming/jim-marker-moulded-c...
- shortformblog 10y ago(Author here.) Wow, that's fascinating. I've always heard them referred to as cheese curls—that strikes me as an interesting example of how regionalisms tend to change the names of common things. Like, the Chee Wees I mention? They're incredibly common in a specific region of the U.S., but outside of it they don't even register. I wrote a piece about ranch dressing a year and a half ago, and it was a similar situation—outside of the U.S., nobody knew what ranch dressing was, so Doritos had to use, uh, creative naming strategies to get around the unfamiliarity.