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March 5th is National Cheese Doodle Day #NationalCheeseDoodleDay. I don’t know about you but I like having Cheese Doodles as snack once in a while and so does Charlie. Today is Wednesday and David is off today so we will spend the evening as a family watching #movies. I need to pick up snacks for tonight. I believe one of the snacks should be Cheese Doodles. Don’t you?
Join my family on National Cheese Doodle Day, which falls on March 5th, celebrating Cheese Doodles and all the forms they come in. This could be Cheese Doodles, Cheese Puffs, Cheese Curls, and Cheese Balls, Who would thoughts one little snack would have so many names? Not me.
Cheese Doodle snacks are sure to leave your fingers bright orange but there so good we can overlook orange fingers can’t we?. The process of making Cheese Doodles are just as exciting as the snack itself. Cheese Doodles are part of an exclusive list of foods that were made by accident, which includes Popsicles, Ice Cream, and Potato Chips. All great foods deserve a day of observance, so this popular snack has a day to bask in its Cheesy glory. We should thank who ever invented this delicious and fun snack.
Like many popular snack stories, the history of Cheese Doodles has multiple possible origins. One of the most accepted ones involves a man named Morrie Yohai. Yohai was the president of his father’s company, Old London Foods, based in the Bronx district of New York. After a series of food inventions, the company set about creating another using Cornmeal-based Animal feed. In 1948, their machines accidentally processed this Cornmeal under high pressure, resulting in a tubular shape.
Adding to this process, Old London Foods started baking different Cheese flavorings before finding just the right mixture. Cheese Doodlez then entered the market, becoming a delectable hit. Unfortunately for them, Cheetos, the other Cheese snack brand, gained national distribution and had a broader market appeal, overshadowing its competitor.
In 1965, the Borden Condensed Milk Company purchased the Cheez Doodle Company, Old London Foods. Borden acquired the snack-food company Wise, where Cheez Doodle was eventually assigned. Wise created Crunchy Cheez Doodles in the late 1960s because people just couldn’t get enough of the snack. They loved the shape, the flavor, and didn’t mind their covered Cheese dust fingers. It just meant they had more of that Cheesy taste to enjoy.
Today, Cheese Doodles are considered one of the most popular snacks and their many flavors are well-loved. Cheese Doodles are part of the usual group of snacks you’d expect to find at parties, as well as ingredients for other dishes. Much like their accidental creation, Cheese Doodles have taken on a life of their own. It’s no wonder that these finger-licking snacks are deserving of their own special day.
National Cheese Doodle Day Activities
- Cheese Doodles are already the perfect snack at parties, and Cheese Doodles earned the right to have a party centered around them. Grab as many flavors and brands of Cheese Doodles as you can and invite some friends over for a day of fun and games.
- To give dishes a different flavor and texture by adding Cheese Doodles to various dishes. Some dish examples are Cheese Doodle Chicken Meatballs, putting them in Macaroni and Cheese, or breading for Fried Fish. Think outside the box today and be extra adventurous by creating recipes using Cheese-Doodles.
- Use the hashtag #NationalCheeseDoodleDay and post a picture of your favorite Cheese Doodle. Explain why they’re better than every other version of the snack and see what others have to say about your favorites and why,
Why Cheese Doodle Are Interesting
- “Cheez Doodle fingers” is the term used when Cheese Powder stains your fingers after eating Cheese-flavored snacks.
- Did you know a whopping 15 million pounds of Cheese doodles is produced annually?
- The famous cooking teacher Julia Child was a fan of Cheez Doodles.
- A janitor named Richard Montañez invented Flaming Hot Cheetos after being inspired by a street vendor in his neighborhood who made “Eote.”
- Cheez Doodles recently became “Cheezier” and more comparable to the flavor of Cheetos.
Why People Love National Cheese Doodle Day
With some food, getting messy might not be all that fun, but it’s something to look forward to with Cheese-Doodles. Ending up with orange-stained fingers adds to the pleasurable experience of eating Cheese Doodles.
Cheese Doodles stand out among the crowd of Chips and Crackers. There’s really nothing quite like Cheese Doodles is there? Because they’re puffed and Cheesy, the lightness of the texture and the flavor creates a winning combination.
Some of us can be hard on ourselves to enjoy the little pleasures in life. With the pressure of diets, we can often ignore the call of junk food, but sometimes it’s essential to let go and live a little. National Cheese Doodle Day gives us that opportunity to set our guilt aside and indulge.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
