Cheetos

Okay, for our final fact of the day, I'm going to tell you about the most famous fictional cheetah of all.

I am referring, of course, to Chester Cheetah, whose grinning face appears on every bag of Cheetos.

Are you a big Cheetos fan, Mango?

I am, though I think I used to like Chester the Cheetah more.

I remember in the late 2000s, they made him a little creepier.

Do you remember this? Yeah, he took a dark turn, right? Yeah, he became almost like this devil on people's shoulder encouraging them to do mischievous random acts of Cheetos.

One was like, I think someone was snoring and he encourages them to put a Cheeto up this guy's nose.

I'm less into that iteration than the cartoon Joe Cool version that used to exist.

Yes, multiple.

Then Cheetos, Grillo's.

So anyway, Heinz, they came up with, they just turned ketchup into ice pops.

They're taking their ketchup obsession to a whole new level.

But all right.

So have you ever thought about trends and hot takes as cultural junk food, like the Cheetos of the world? So HG founder and executive director Emeritus Patty Garibay has some fascinating insight on this idea.

So let's listen to this Raising Godly Girls Minute.

Since social media burst onto the scene in the early 2000s, the hot take has been a popular currency of information.

As long as we're doing it.

But why don't you call it Blitos, like Cheetos?

Whoa.

Because I think people will think blood is involved.

And I tried to fall asleep and then woke up.

And I was just like eating Cheetos in bed in the hotel, eating sandwiches in the middle of the night in the bed.

Yeah.

So just like having something, anything to like stop that breakdown process and start the rebuilding process.

You've kept-

Jim, Jim eats Cheetos with his toes.

Stop it.

Oh my God.

[laughs]

Jesus Christ, we're-

He puts the toes, he puts the toes in Cheetos

... not, not his own toes, though.

Best Buy and Use Buy are completely arbitrary.

And what those companies who use those are doing is they're saying, hey, eat this bag of Cheetos in the next three days.

Otherwise, you'll have to throw it away and buy a new bag of Cheetos.

It's entirely scaremongering to get you to throw a thing away that's perfectly good and buy a new one.

That's all it is.

Feel what it is to eat really nourishing, wonderful, tasty food.

And then maybe those Flamin' Cheetos won't be as good as they were last week.

So I always say those kinds of things to myself.

Change your appetite and grow that appetite.

So the first plates that we get out at the table, it's these two appetizers, right? And this one was like a jalapeno popper ball thing with shrimp in it.

And the other was these budon hot Cheeto balls.

They were both amazing.

Oh, yeah.