On the Slow Food USA blog, a student named Rameen revealed that his so-far-unidentified California high school is selling bags of Cheetos covered with melted cheese in the lunch room.
Rameen characterized the dish (pictured) as "gross," and his revelation of its existence touched off a good deal of Internet hand-wringing about the low quality of allegedly USDA-approved school lunches.
A quick read of some of these comments suggests variations of this Cheetos-plus-melted-cheese surprise have been served in school cafeterias since the early '80s, which, perhaps not coincidentally, is when America started to get really fat.
A nation of diabetics aside, we do have to disagree with Rameen's assertion that this dish is "gross." Granted, you wouldn't want such a low-quality cheese combination anywhere near your skin, but it probably tastes pretty fantastic when it hits your mouth.
In fact, our sudden craving for layers upon layers of cheese products in completely unnatural forms has led us to an even more potentially delicious discovery: hot Cheetos dipped in cream cheese! A combination which boasts a Facebook fan page with more than 1,800 members and has us contemplating a trip to the 7-Eleven.


























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Friday 02 July
By Steven S
People have been doing this for at least the last 10 years. I remember in high school people eating cheetos with cream cheese. It looks gross but people seem to enjoy it.
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Monday 05 July
By Al Schrader
Fritos are corn tortillas cut into bite size strips & fried.
Putting chili over them is a natural. You can also melt cheese over them & top with salsa. Cheetos are made from corn meal & can be used as a sub. Anything made from corn is good. My fav is to fry cornbread batter in a Belgium Waffle maker, then spread them with unsalted butter. The waffle dimples hold the butter.
Eat them with "hot" chili & melted cheddar. Somebody stop me!!!!Alfred-
Monday 05 July
By John
Where is Michele Obama when you need her????
Monday 05 July
By yuk
Fritos and Cheetos are GMO corn products...
Brings new meaning to mystery food... who knows what it'll do to you in the long run...
If a food is unrecognizable when cooked, don't eat it unless you grind, puree, mince or process it yourself... the rest is a crap shoot... Whole Foods people! (and not the store)...
Tuesday 06 July
By Les
I run a student store in a major high school. And we sell a lot of baked hot cheetos it a very high quality cheese. Not what you would get at 7-11 or a movie. The USDA requires us to watch the quality of the food we sell. Get your facts right. It is the lack of quality parents that is killing our youth.
Tuesday 10 August
By trancEvolutions
1) corn isn't necessarily goood. everything we eat has corn in it, from beef production to sweetener to cheetoes. get real thinking mmm but its made of corn.
2) cream cheese is a lot more healthy than the orange liquid salt they pour all over these cheetos.
Saturday 03 July
By KrazyCalvin
In the 90s my school lunch was usually a hamburger and a pizza, I would throw out the bottom bun and use the pizza as that. I called it a pizzaburger. My friends thought that looked disguisting.
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Tuesday 06 July
By Steven S
That's funny and im sure it looked gross but had a good taste.
Sunday 04 July
By Nonnie
Ummmm ... I remember when we used to get "Frito pies" at football games. Chili over corn chips is a delight, but the magic comes when it's served in the Frito package with only the flimseiest of forks! I can recall that taste and the sounds and smells of small town football games rush over me every time.
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Monday 05 July
By WILL
IN THE MILITARY WE USED TO POUR ONE OF THOSE LITTLE CANS OF CHILI INTO THE FRITO'S
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Monday 05 July
By Keith
Chili and Fritos is pretty good.
Monday 05 July
By xxrosexofxsharyn
That DOES look like it would be gross.
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Friday 09 July
By Carrie
No way!! It's super good...The ice cream man around our neighborhood sells it!
Monday 05 July
By Blevins
Ummmm...I thought we were supposed to be trying to make school lunches healthier and offer many more healthy choices...
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Monday 05 July
By joy
I remember long ago.. when eating in the school cafeteria was a "treat" rather than something that is subsidized because parents are not making "healthy" lunches that students take to school with then. If I didn't like what was served in the cafeteria, I brought a peanut butter and jelly sandwich from home. As a student, I really don't have a say in what is being served at school, any more than I would have a say at what was being served at Cheesecake Factory.
Monday 05 July
By micen57
Go ask that gross Arnold in Sacramento, Ask him where the money went for school lunches
Tuesday 06 July
By marie
So, Jeremy Taylor your point to this story is? That it is okay to serve junk food to school kids of any age.
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Monday 05 July
By KEN
FRITO PIE A TEXAS TRADITION. FRITOS COVERED WITH WOLF BRAND CHILI LAYERED WITH CHEDDAR CHEESE AND JALAPENO PEPPERS. BAKE IN OVEN.I DON'T KNOW THE EXACT RECIPE I GUESS SOME OF Y'ALL CAN LOOK IT UP FOR YOURSELVES.
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Monday 05 July
By Steven
Yes Ken you are correct ... jappalenos can be added if wanted
Monday 05 July
By Richard
Big deal - fritos and cheese!?! This is much the same manner of eating that the kids do when left to their own devices at home or at the mall (some do like fruit, raw veggies and water, too!) . Schools and school lunches programs did not invent this concoction - You better start complaining about concession stand food at state fairs, county fairs, college football games, Diners Drive-ins and Dives, and Man vs Food... I can't help buy wonder what that California HS is serving in the plate lunch line that comes for kids on free and reduced lunch - maybe Rameen needs go get his serving of 1% milk, rice, green beans, peach quarter in syrup and the pressed steak fingers.
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