The next gateway drug: Flaming Hot Cheetos

[Ns1]

I'm glad someone is finally taking action.

Flamin' Hot Cheetos are a wildly popular snack that literally leaves its indulgers red-handed.

And now several schools in California, New Mexico and Illinois have banned the high-fat, high-salt and possibly addictive treat.

Some schools in Pasadena, Calif. have even said that if a parent packs the snack in their child's lunch, the spicy Cheetos will still be confiscated, KTLA reports.

The main reason cited by these schools for the ban is a lack of nutritional value. One snack-size bag contains 26 grams of fat and a quarter of the amount of sodium recommended for an entire day.

And new research suggests that "hyperpalatable foods"--salty, fatty or sweet foods--can trigger brain responses similar to those created seen in individuals addicted to drugs or alcohol, the Chicago Tribune reports.

"Eight out of 10 kids bring them to school," Lake View High School senior Abigail Hernandez told the paper. "And I used to be one of them in middle school. I ate them every day, even for breakfast, and I got really big. There were days when, if my mother didn't buy them for me, I would get so mad. … It took me three months to quit."

The craze is also evident on the web as well, where parents have uploaded videos of the first time their child tries Flamin' Hot Cheetos and kids have uploaded videos of contests of who can eat the most of the snack.

A middle school teacher in New Mexico recently sent a letter to parents asking them to leave the red-hot snack at home. In addition to the health concern, she wrote that students were leaving red fingerprints and messes for janitors, that students were replacing lunch with the spicy chips and that students were sharing more germs by sharing the Cheetos with each other.

Frito-Lay, the manufacturer of Flamin' Hot Cheetos, responded that it is "committed to responsible and ethical marketing practices, which includes not marketing our products to children ages 12 and under," CBS reports.

Regardless of marketing practices, it's clear that younger-than-12-year-olds are definitely getting the red hot fever.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...s-banned-california-new-mexico_n_1974131.html

<3 Flaming Hot Cheetos

 

[Lithium381]

yay for nanny states! i prefer the jalapeno cheetos . . .

 

[techs]

There is an interesting theory that says that humans are hard wired to eat certain types of foods like fats, sugars, meat ,etc as a survival feature back when such types of foods were relatively rare and it was advantageous to gorge ourselves on them.

The physiological effect on brain chemicals from eating these foods is similiar to that of the effect of an addicting drug.

Food manufacturers know this and design and market foods designed to stimulate this addictive affect.

Lays potato chips. Bet you can't each just one.

 

[Ns1]

yay for nanny states! i prefer the jalapeno cheetos . . .

They are both very good and addictive.

 

[corwin]

Those things suck...and for a minute there I thought it was an onion article, it's sad that it wasn't:\

 

[Insomniator]

idiots

 

[Fanatical Meat]

I see no problem with it, if the scholl wants to stock their vending machines with something else its their own choice. Even if they want to ban the offending cheetos for simply making a mess its fine.

 

[Anonemous]

/just ate a giant bag of flaming hot cheetos

 

[CPA]

My daughter eats a small bag of the Baked Hot Cheetos every day at school. she loves those things. They have 4.5 grams of fat. Whoopity fricken doo.

 

[thestrangebrew1]

I prefer Chester's Flamin Hot Fries: http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/chesters-flamin-hot-fries.html

 

[edro]

There is an interesting theory that says that humans are hard wired to eat certain types of foods like fats, sugars, meat ,etc as a survival feature back when such types of foods were relatively rare and it was advantageous to gorge ourselves on them.

Pair that with the evolutionary beneficial trait of storing fat more efficiently.
= AMERICA!

 

[Ns1]

I prefer Chester's Flamin Hot Fries: http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/chesters-flamin-hot-fries.html

not enough crunch

 

[vi edit]

My daughter eats a small bag of the Baked Hot Cheetos every day at school. she loves those things. They have 4.5 grams of fat. Whoopity fricken doo.

The ones in question aren't baked. They are the regular ones with over 26 grams.

I still say big whoop. We ate total shit as kids too. This is nothing new. Only difference is that PE wasn't banned, I didn't sit on my ass all day during summer break playing video games and I was outside playing from almost sunrise to sunset. A lot of kids today aren't.

Bad foods aren't the issue. Bad lifestyle choices and letting kids be lazy are.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Lol.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I bet these schools don't have a problem with 'hyperpalatable foods' when it comes time to convince all the kids to sell buckets of cookie dough for outrageous prices to anyone they can corner.
Or when it comes time for the bake sale.

 

[Anonemous]

http://www.fritolay.com/our-snacks/cheetos-puffs-flamin-hot.html

partial to those.

 

[SMOGZINN]

Frito-Lay, the manufacturer of Flamin' Hot Cheetos, responded that it is "committed to responsible and ethical marketing practices, which includes not marketing our products to children ages 12 and under," CBS reports.

Of course. Never mind the brightly colored cartoon on the bag. Or the animated commercial spots.

 

[zinfamous]

funny. I heard this same story several years ago about school districts getting pissed about the prevalence of flaming hot cheetos everywhere. Kids were interviewed...it was like a little cheetos cult.

 

[Platypus]

flamin hot msg

 

[Saint Nick]

I can't believe people eat these foods anyways. It's too salty, and it tastes like shit to boot.

 

[SMOGZINN]

I can't believe people eat these foods anyways. It's too salty, and it tastes like shit to boot.

Not necessarily people, it's kids. Kids have different tastes then adults.

 

[edro]

It's all about the parents...

 

[ch33zw1z]

MSG, and Hydrolyzed proteins(also MSG). Instant migraine headache for me. No thx.

 

[Aikouka]

Hmm now I feel like giving this "gateway drug" a try.

 

[SheHateMe]

"Hot" Cheetos used to be hot back in the late 90s when I was coming up.. They were also .25/bag. Im talking about the little bags.