# Never Eat Cheetos While Doing Something Else **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 17, 2009, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215 "2009-02-17T01:36:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![MemoryDump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d07c76/32.png) [@MemoryDump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MemoryDump)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/21 "2009-02-18T04:08:02Z")
Cheetos were intimately involved with my first episode of sea sickness. On the bright side, I found that I could chum and fish at the same time. However, I fear that it in the end, it was just aversion conditioning. Decades later, I still can’t stand to be anywhere near those things. ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/22 "2009-02-18T04:29:43Z")
> [@seodoa](#): > > Along the same lines: > > My mother used to yell at me when I was a wee little thing because, not wanting to get my hands greasy and salt-covered, I would eat my bowl of popcorn using my tongue. I would hold the bowl up at chin height and touch a piece with my tongue, to which the popcorn would instantly adhere. Then I could just bring it into my mouth, like a frog catching a fly. A buttery, salty, delicious fly. 🙂 > > I was quite the strange youth. But then we all were, weren’t we. Hell, my mom does that. ---
**Author:** ![seodoa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/4af34b/32.png) [@seodoa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seodoa)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/23 "2009-02-18T04:32:03Z")
Yell at you or eat popcorn like a frog? 😉 If the latter, your mother is a strange and wonderful-sounding woman. ---
**Author:** ![wunderkammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/ed8c4c/32.png) [@wunderkammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wunderkammer)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/24 "2009-02-18T05:13:28Z")
> [@](#): > > …packing peanuts… > …crunchy-\>pasty consistency… > …spear the cheetos with a toothpick… Clearly, there is no love for the crunchy Cheetos in this thread. I guess I’ll be going, then… Enjoy your puffs… Weirdos. ---
**Author:** ![freckafree](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/freckafree/32/3050_2.png) [@freckafree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/freckafree)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/25 "2009-02-18T05:26:03Z")
> [@wunderkammer](#): > > Clearly, there is no love for the crunchy Cheetos in this thread. > > I guess I’ll be going, then… Enjoy your puffs… Weirdos. Don’t go! I call cheese puffs “cheese poopies,” to the eternal annoyance of my son. Mmmmm! Crunchy Cheetos! The first one consumed is instant time travel – I’m back at the snack bar at the swimming pool. Mom and Dad never brought Cheetos home from the grocery store, so that 10¢ bag was ambrosia. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 9:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/26 "2009-02-18T09:43:10Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > 😃 Do you often think of novel snack applications while you’re high? Alas, not often enough. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Algorithm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/algorithm/32/12204_2.png) [@Algorithm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Algorithm)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/27 "2009-02-18T10:01:53Z")
Especially not while [flying an X-Wing](http://hardtoopen.ytmnd.com/). ---
**Author:** ![Mudshark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f04885/32.png) [@Mudshark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mudshark)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 10:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/28 "2009-02-18T10:15:20Z")
> [@seodoa](#): > > Along the same lines: > > My mother used to yell at me when I was a wee little thing because, not wanting to get my hands greasy and salt-covered, I would eat my bowl of popcorn using my tongue. I would hold the bowl up at chin height and touch a piece with my tongue, to which the popcorn would instantly adhere. Then I could just bring it into my mouth, like a frog catching a fly. A buttery, salty, delicious fly. 🙂 > > I was quite the strange youth. But then we all were, weren’t we. I eat foods this way too **seodoa**. I don’t want to get my fingers greasy. I’ve become quite good with my tongue out of not wanting to touch messy foods. ---
**Author:** ![LurkMeister](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3da27b/32.png) [@LurkMeister](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LurkMeister)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/29 "2009-02-18T14:22:45Z")
> [@wunderkammer](#): > > Clearly, there is no love for the crunchy Cheetos in this thread. > > I guess I’ll be going, then… Enjoy your puffs… Weirdos. I much prefer the crunchy Cheeto’s. The Dollar store near where I used to live in Chicago used to have the blue cans every so often, and I would stock up. And one day I was shopping at Jewel and the lady in front of me had a whole shopping cart full of them… the store had them at 2/$1 closeout sale, so she just grabbed the entire display cart! The sign was still in the cart. I managed to talk her into letting me have four or five of them… ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Onimous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ea5d25/32.png) [@Ann\_Onimous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Onimous)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/30 "2009-02-18T15:43:29Z")
Wal-Mart used to have a white cheddar cheese puff that was out of this world. Sadly, they haven’t carried them for years. The schools don’t allow our kids to bring Cheetos as a snack. Gee. I wonder why. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![jujuju](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/7993a0/32.png) [@jujuju](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jujuju)\ **Post date:** [February 18, 2009, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/31 "2009-02-18T16:13:16Z")
> [@ShermanAter](#): > > A quick googling finds the following petition; > > [Petition Online - Petition Online has been retired](http://www.petitiononline.com/cheez123/) > Bring Back “Planter’s Cheez Balls” Officially signed up myself. I can’t beleive I forgot about those… they were by far the best! ---
**Author:** ![Silver\_Tyger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/fbc32d/32.png) [@Silver\_Tyger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Silver_Tyger)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/32 "2009-02-19T06:36:05Z")
> [@seodoa](#): > > Yell at you or eat popcorn like a frog? 😉 If the latter, your mother is a strange and wonderful-sounding woman. I meant the latter, although she’s been known to do the former as needed. ---
**Author:** ![kferr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/71e660/32.png) [@kferr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kferr)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 1:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/33 "2009-02-19T13:04:59Z")
Guy goes to see his doctor **Doc** What seems to be the problem? **Guy** My willy has turned orange. **Doc** Hmm, I’d better have a look. _Doc examines willy_ **Doc** That’s very strange. You say it turned that way recently, has your lifestyle changed in any way? **Guy** Well, I recently retired. I have no real hobbies so spend most of the day eating Cheetos and watching porn. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/34 "2009-02-19T13:20:43Z")
Did you know you can sing the title to this thread to [this song](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jRB_8ovX_M)? ---
**Author:** ![jali](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ecae2f/32.png) [@jali](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jali)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 1:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/35 "2009-02-19T13:33:22Z")
The Cheetos used to be my appetizer. The licking of cheesy fingers was the main course. Anyone do the tooth rake over fingers thingie to capture the last of the cheesy goodness? When I lose many more pounds, I’m going to have some Cheetos. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/36 "2009-02-19T16:46:07Z")
> [@seodoa](#): > > I had a roommate at university who insisted on eating everything, and I mean _everything_, with chopsticks. I came home one night to find him and another roommate drunk off their asses, trying (pretty unsuccessfully) to eat _my_ peanut butter out of the jar with chopsticks. Your post gave me a flashback to the scene in _The Last Dragon_ in which Leroy is at the movies eating popcorn with chopsticks. ---
**Author:** ![WolfpackJeep](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolfpackjeep/32/2921_2.png) [@WolfpackJeep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WolfpackJeep)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/37 "2009-02-19T17:38:13Z")
> [@jali](#): > > Anyone do the tooth rake over fingers thingie to capture the last of the cheesy goodness? YES!!! :o 🆒 I was also fond of the Planters Cheez Balls. My grandparents always had a big can of them in the kitchen. ---
**Author:** ![xanthous](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/53a042/32.png) [@xanthous](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xanthous)\ **Post date:** [February 19, 2009, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215/38 "2009-02-19T17:40:51Z")
Also, never put that full glass of water (or what have you) on your under-desk-slide-out keyboard tray. And then push in the tray. I’m just sayin’ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/never-eat-cheetos-while-doing-something-else/486215.md?page=1)