# Important Question About Chester Cheetah **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 20, 2024, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404 "2024-01-20T18:52:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/21 "2024-01-21T01:44:30Z")
Three words: Cheddar Jalapeno Cheeotos. ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/22 "2024-01-21T02:05:51Z")
Exactly what I was thinking of. Strangely, I just heard an item on NPR yesterday about pawpaws. They did not play the song; bit of a missed opportunity. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/23 "2024-01-21T02:32:58Z")
Um… not gonna… He’s wearing gloves. And shoes. I’ve got the bag in front of me. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/24 "2024-01-21T02:39:23Z")
> [@Yllaria](#): > > If he uses his claws, it would keep his fur clean. Silly human, that’s what rabbits are for. 😁 🤪 ---
**Author:** ![mixdenny](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mixdenny/32/2962_2.png) [@mixdenny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mixdenny)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/25 "2024-01-21T02:43:16Z")
Damn it all. I was just shopping and put the bag of Cheetos back. Not because of any dietary reasons but because it was $6.99. The bag was labeled “Party Size”. What a joke. I would call it “15 minute size”. 1 1/9 ounces of corn meal has sure gotten pricey. When I do chow down I moisten a paper towel and wring it mostly dry. I only pick up the morsels with my left hand and the moist towel keeps them fairly clean. That leaves my right hand for typing and the mouse. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 2:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/26 "2024-01-21T02:48:36Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > Damn it all. I was just shopping and put the bag of Cheetos back. Not because of any dietary reasons but because it was $6.99. No kidding! Funny thing is Kroger has a special where if you buy 4 bags, the price drops to like $2 bucks or something from the normal sky-high price. This is why I had a bag handy for inspection. My question is why would a Cheetah ride a skateboard?? ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/27 "2024-01-21T02:55:55Z")
Chester wears shoes. But those ain’t gloves, as a quick Google for images confirms. You must have had one of the bags made during Covid. I’ve got a bag in front of me too. What kind of message does donning gloves to eat Cheetos send? That the cheedle is toxic? Radioactive? Unsanitary? ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 3:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/28 "2024-01-21T03:14:41Z")
> [@Robot\_Arm](#): > > Strangely, I just heard an item on NPR yesterday about pawpaws. They did not play the song; bit of a missed opportunity. Probably because the “pawpaws” in the song are [papayas](https://www.etymonline.com/word/papaw). ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 3:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/29 "2024-01-21T03:35:12Z")
The strange history of Chester. > **[The Untold Truth Of Chester Cheetah - Mashed](https://www.mashed.com/297982/the-untold-truth-of-chester-cheetah/)** > > Chester Cheetah has been around since 1986, but how much do fans really know about him? Discover all there is to know about the untold truth of Chester Cheetah. ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/30 "2024-01-21T03:37:48Z")
[Pawpaw song](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=vsGJm10nJ6w) from Captain Kangaroo ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/31 "2024-01-21T07:31:53Z")
My Paw paw didn’t eat Cheetos. He drank wine. I don’t think he cared if his fingers were orange. 😊 ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 1:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/32 "2024-01-21T13:30:51Z")
Say you wanted to set the world record for eating many bean burritos as quickly as possible. Would you put on clean tighty white underwear before making your attempt? Because that is how I feel about Chester Cheetah wearing white gloves. A temporary state. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/33 "2024-01-21T17:09:22Z")
Quick summary of Cheetah history: - Chee-tos was mainly advertised in the 1980s by the Chee-tos Mouse. This character emulated Julius Cheeser, the movie Cheasy Rider, and an astronaut disappointed by the lack of lunar cheese. However, he was also depicted as a pompous politician wearing a three piece suit and snooty window washer; all using the motto “cheese that goes crunch”. - Chester Cheetah was more complex, playing chess, and advising a laundromat wife to get revenge on a cheating mistress by dumping neon Cheetos in her load of whites, and telling viewers to join the (now defunct) website OrangeUnderground. Although “dangerously cheesy”, his villainous midwestern accent and incitement to petty acts remains a mystery. - A 90s move to star in _Yo, It’s the Chester Cheetah Show_ was denounced by ACT and the Centre for Science in the Public Interest as being a “program length commercial”. Frito-Lay abandoned the idea in 1992. One presumes skateboards was involved somehow. - However, Cheetah starred in video games, including _Too Cool to Fool_, _Wild, Wild Quest_ and _Plants vs. Zombies_. - In addition to a line of snack foods, social media accounts, merchandise and music award appearances, Cheetah supposedly embraced the bizarre “furry community” when other commercial icons like Tony the Tiger turned away. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [January 21, 2024, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/34 "2024-01-21T17:26:45Z")
> [@mixdenny](#): > > 1 1/9 ounces of corn meal has sure gotten pricey. [Coincidence? I think not.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/odd-measurement-humor-for-tor-the-metric-folks/995726) ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 1:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/35 "2024-01-22T01:29:58Z")
His goatee should be full of cheetos dust. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/36 "2024-01-22T01:37:22Z")
Yes, I bought cheetos and ate them. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/37 "2024-01-22T01:54:48Z")
> [@Dr\_Paprika](#): > > Looking at the packet, I notice **Chester Cheetah is mainly orange but his paws (and arms) are white. This seems very unfortunate**, even inconvenient, given his specific addiction, but I also wonder if this was intentional or ironic. Given his extensive criminal history, perhaps he is on a suspended sentence with a court stipulation that he must wear white gloves to make cheeto theft more difficult for him to hide. ---
**Author:** ![SuntanLotion](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/suntanlotion/32/16165_2.png) [@SuntanLotion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuntanLotion)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/38 "2024-01-22T02:07:31Z")
When you steal the bags, your hands (paws) stay clean. ---
**Author:** ![Dr\_Paprika](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr_paprika/32/3042_2.png) [@Dr\_Paprika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr_Paprika)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/39 "2024-01-22T04:01:06Z")
The link above generally shows Cheetah with white hands. On my packet, the front of his hands are white but the volar surface is orange, with a visible transition zone; impossible to pull off with gloves. In other pictures, his arms are white. Someone made a statue of Chester out of Cheetos, and in this statue Mr. Cheetah has orange hands. In some pictures, both the palmar and volar surfaces are white but the skin seems contiguous and do not generally look like gloves, but occasionally do. All that to ask: what was the most intellectual thing ever said that followed the word “duuuuude!”. Because I can’t believe I bothered to write all that out. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [January 22, 2024, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404/40 "2024-01-22T15:54:09Z")
> [@SuntanLotion](#): > > I like Cheesy Poofs. I’m gay and re-tell Henny Youngman jokes! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/important-question-about-chester-cheetah/996404.md?page=3)