Cheetos – Sour Cream and Onion Paws
Cheetos mainly does cheese flavours, and mostly cheddar based ones at that. It’s not often they veer away from that and do things like white cheddar. Even less often that they veer away from cheese altogether and go into other flavours like sour cream and onion. It’s seldom enough that I felt that I needed to try this out, despite not being a huge fan of puffs. All for science of course.
These are a nice fun shape of paws. It does a pretty good job of emulating the cartoonish shape of them, but it also reminds me a lot of brass knuckles. Just saying. It also makes me wonder how much it would have cost them to create an entirely new paw die for just this one product. Personally I like the shape and I feel like it could find it’s place as a staple shape somehow.
The smell of these is a little different from what I expected, where it usually smells very strongly of onion and dairy. These have a more savoury smell to them, which is weirdly more like french onion soup. The flavour is a little heavier on the onion than the sour cream, and while it does remind me of sour cream and onion rings, it doesn’t have as much of the dairy or creamy quality to it. It’s more like sweet onion, which is still good. If these were closer to onion rings I would absolutely go for these more often, assuming they weren’t seasonal.
The texture is very light and fluffy, and like an even lighter version of their puffs. The combination of the flavour and the texture make it so that I can probably down an entire bag in one sitting with no trouble. The problem with that is you plow through the bag only to realize you’ve consumed about 1600 calories and you still feel hungry. That being said, these are quite tasty and there’s worse ways to get your calories.
While I do believe that Cheetos is more of a cheese flavoured brand and should try to keep to it, the sour cream and onion flavour is pretty solid. It’s not as good as a traditional sour cream and onion ring chip, but it’s still solid enough I would want to do it again. Bit of a shame these are limited edition and I likely won’t see them again for a while.
