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Cheetos mob only started making baked ones in 2004, 54 years
after Twisties when Frito-Lay acquired the secret formulae when they bought the original in 1998.
Twisties
Was launched in 1950 by the General Foods Corporation. The brand name is owned by
The Smith's Snackfood Company. While originally an Australian-owned company, Smith's was acquired in August 1998 by
Frito-Lay, the second largest producer of snack foods in Australia.
Twisties are produced by feeding a mix of milled corn, rice, wheat and water into a machine known as a rotary head or random extruder. This machine cooks the mix at high temperature and pressure whilst forming the pieces. This process results in the characteristic Twisties shape with the knobbly surface and squiggly shape. After forming,
the pieces are oven baked before being flavoured with a coating of seasoning and vegetable oil.
Cheetos
The first Cheetos product was
Crunchy Cheetos, invented in 1948 in
San Antonio, Texas. Crunchy Cheetos remained the brand's sole product for 23 years until the introduction of
Cheetos Puffsin 1971.
The baked varieties, otherwise known as Baked Cheetos, became available beginning in 2004. As of 2010, there are 21 different variants of Cheetos snacks distributed in the United States.
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