Episode 49: The History of Cheetos and the Criminal Caught with Cheese Dust
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What is the history of Cheetos—and were Cheetos actually the first cheese curls?
The story starts in 1930s Wisconsin, where a machine designed to process corn for animal feed accidentally produced strange, airy corn puffs. Those puffs eventually became Korn Kurls, one of America’s earliest cheese curls, years before Cheetos arrived.
In this episode of True Crime Culinary, we follow the surprisingly weird history of…
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