Category Archives: Food

I like corn.  A lot.  I like the taste of corn on the cob (especially cooked on the grill), but being the neat-freak, obsessive-compulsive that I am, I hate the bits between my teeth that eating it inevitably causes.  Hence, I love this gadget that my wife brought home from her weekend trip to see her family in SC.  Her sister works for Williams-Sonoma which carries all sorts of kitchen doodads from the cheap to the crazy expensive.  ($8000 for a coffee maker?!)

She brought me home the Corn Stripper by Good Grips.  It does exactly what it’s advertised to do.  Quickly and easily strips corn off the cob.  I love this thing.  Now, I can eat grilled corn on the cob without immediately running to the bathrom to floss!  I’d gladly pay twice what Amazon wants for it.

I love Cheetos. Wikipedia defines Cheetos as “a crunchy, cheese-flavored snack made from extruded cornmeal.” I define them as crunchy, orange bliss. Some people think Cheese Puffs are the same thing, but don’t be fooled, they are not. Accept no substitutes. True Cheetos are manufactured by the Frito Lay Company.

Saddam Hussein reportedly liked Cheetos although he apparently liked the puffy variety, so I’m not sure if he counts. Britney Spears, Ellen DeGeneres and even Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson’s character in The Shining) are Cheetos fans.

Here is an article about the (alleged) world’s largest Cheeto ever found. About the size of a small lemon and weighing in at about a half an ounce, it is hypothesized that eating this Cheeto would likely cause instant death by shorting out the pleasure centers of the brain in less than a nanosecond.

So, celebrate with me all you Cheetos fans! Would life even be worth living without them?