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n. (cheese puff English)
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Cheese puffs, cheese curls, cheese balls, cheesy puffs, corn curls, corn cheese are a puffed corn snack / crisp, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders. Common brands include Pirate's Booty (U.S.), Cheetos (U.S.), Cheez Doodles (Northeastern U.S., Scandinavia), CheeWees (New Orleans, South Central U.S.), Chizitos (Perú), Boliquesos (Perú), Cheezies (Canada), NikNaks (South Africa), Twisties (Australia), Kurkure (India), Utz (U.S.) Wotsits (U.K.), Curl (Japan), Pofæk and Chee.Toz (Iran).
They are manufactured by extruding heated corn dough through a die that forms the particular shape. They may be ball-shaped, curly ("cheese curls"), straight, or irregularly shaped. Some are even shaped as animals or other objects. Some cheese puffs are puffy while others are crunchy. A similar snack, puffcorn is made likewise, but without the cheese flavoring.
Usage examples of "cheese puffs".
She looked around at the clumps of Trekkies and Middle Earthlings nibbling Kroger-Deli carrot cake and cheese puffs, and decided that it was all unutterably sad.
Anyway, Sukie would like to simplify things and offer caviar with toast points, onion toasts, and English cheese puffs for hors d'oeuvres.
He gently placed one of the cheese puffs on his tongue and chewed slowly.
But now she put potato chips, cheese puffs, and Fritos in the cart.
There's barely enough for our own birds, and as you can see by what's in some of the cages and on the floor, the patients tend to be fond of feeding their pets cheese puffs and potato chips.
A bag of cheese puffs had been knocked off the table, and some of the bright orange contents had scattered across the bile-green carpet.
But just as she opened her mouth to try to convince him, Michael came out of the kitchen with a bag of neon-colored cheese puffs.
I keep thinking about the Friday nights when she'd stay over at my house or I would at hers, and we'd put on our pajamas and sit on the bed eating cookies and cheese puffs and all sorts of junk while we watched TV and rolled each other's hair.
It was small things, like chocolate chips, candy bars, and cheese puffs, that people missed most.
How could he exist in this clean, dry, monotonous, ordinary room, gobbling caramel soycorn and zucchini cheese puffs and addling his brain on spirituous liquors and brooding on the total fiasco that was his personal life, while the entire human race was kakking out?