So now they look like corn Puffs. But we're making cheese puffs. So bring on the tea.

But it turns out that cheese curls, puffs, balls, and doodles were invented around 1939 by an animal feed manufacturer in Wisconsin, as Ernie Smith explored for Atlas Obscura. When a grinder jammed, an employee ran some wet corn through the machinery and discovered that it puffed up while exiting the grinder.

Cheese puffs are basically puffed corn covered in a cheesy powder. It's not popcorn, though. We're talking about corn meal. Manufacturers mix super finely textured cornmeal with water to form a dough, which they put through a machine called an extruder.

Cheese puffs by Food City belong to 'Other Snacks' food category.

Noun. cheese puff (plural cheese puffs) A puffed corn snack, coated with a mixture of cheese or cheese-flavored powders.

Edward Wilson, an observant Flakall employee, saw these puffs come out of the machine, and decided to take those puffs home, season them up, and turn them into an edible snack for humans - a snack he called Korn Kurls. You're noshing, in other words, on repurposed animal feed.

How do they make puffed corn snacks? Extruded maize snacks are manufactured through extruding moistened maize meals under high pressure and temperature conditions. The puffed product is then fried and usually coated with a savory flavour such as cheese, chili, barbeque sauce, sour cream, or onion.

Cheetos (formerly styled as Chee-tos until 1998) is a crunchy corn puff snack brand made by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo.

The way they swell when being deep fried and make a light “pff..” sound hence the “puff” ie. As an Onomatopoeia it sounds like what it is.

According to MSN, the origin of cheese puffs dates back to the 1930s, in an animal feed factory in Beloit, Wisconsin called the Flakall Company. The actual discovery is credited to a Flakall Company employee named Edward Wilson.

From Middle English puffen, from Old English pyffan (“to breathe out, blow with the mouth”).

Our puff is made of both organic degermed yellow corn meal and organic whole grain corn meal. We add a dash of sea salt to our products and our Honey, Strawberry PB&J and Dark Chocolate products contain added sugar (3-4 grams/serving). Are your products Organic?

Term for an uncooked cheeto. At this point the colette is a pale yellow color like the corn is made from and has the consistency of a rice cake.

Puffs, or Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic is a 2015 original play by New York–based playwright Matt Cox. The play is a parody of the Harry Potter book series by J. K. Rowling, but from the perspective of the "Puffs".

Synopsis. In this hilarious parody of a familiar story, three potential heroes are just trying to make it through a magic school that proves to be very dangerous for children. Alongside them are the Puffs, a group of well-meaning, loyal outsiders with a thing for badgers.

A puff is a wisp of air or a baked snack. A magician might disappear in a puff of smoke - the kind that happens when you blow out a candle, not the kind that's made of cheese. A puff of wind can spin a pinwheel or send a kite bobbing higher in the sky, and a tired runner's breath comes in puffs.