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Both. They're made of corn starch, which is what puffy Cheetos are made of, and manufactured literally the same way, except without the cheese flavor powder mix
by jadell 7y ago
Both. They're made of corn starch, which is what puffy Cheetos are made of, and manufactured literally the same way, except without the cheese flavor powder mixed in. They taste like "nothing" (well, they probably taste like pure corn starch but I've never eaten that so I don't have a reference.)
Source: a member of my immediate family worked at a company that manufactured them and brought home many samples. We'd freak people out by eating them. The joke was always "What do you pack packing material in for shipping?"
- asdkhadsj 7y agoOut of curiosity, do you risk rodent infestations using those? I would imagine rodents/bugs happily eat most human food, cheese puffs included, so if this is literally the same won't it suffer rodent risk?
- jadell 7y agoI don't work in an industry where I encounter bulk packing materials day-to-day. I would assume the answer is "yes"? Any large warehouse for any type of product using any type of packing material probably suffers rodent risk. At least, any warehouse I've ever been in.
- soperj 7y agoThe warehouse I worked in had a rodent infestation, they didn't eat the edible packing peanuts as far as I could tell though. -- never saw any with bites out of them and they didn't noticeably disappear. As an aside, don't drink from beer/pop cans without washing the tops.
- omnimus 7y agoOh that last sentence brought too many imaginative images of me drinking from cans. I will forget i ever read that.
- pureliquidhw 7y agoplease elaborate on why not? I would think they'd have to be relatively sterile. Boxes are stacked flat, can tops must be in a pringles style stack until they're assembled into a can. Where are they contaminated?
- excursionist 7y agoI remember a story going around about people dying from rat urine on soda cans [1], but the veracity of the claim is questionable. [1] https://www.hoax-slayer.net/leptospirosis-death-warning-rat-urine-soda-can-top/ https://www.hoax-slayer.net/leptospirosis-death-warning-rat-...
- magashna 7y agoFor soda/beer cans, wipe a damp cloth on them and try to get into that little moat around the top. It's almost always filthy.
- benj111 7y agoI'm sure theres a joke about Carling/Budweiser/whatever here. Edit, got it: Don't do that, you'll wipe away all the flavour! Esprit de l'escalier
- jccooper 7y agoI use these. While theoretically they can attract pests, I've never noticed any biological activity associated with them.
- soperj 7y agoI used to work in shipping/receiving. Everyone there ate them at least once on a lark. They don't taste like nothing, but they really don't taste like much. Not as crunchy as cheetos, but i'd honestly rather eat them than cheetos.
- Trav5 7y agoI wonder if they would be like stale cheetos, that would make sense, ha. I agree with your statements.