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Giant Cheeto Becomes Iowa Tourism Magnet (To heck with the UN-this is REAL news!)
AP via The Carolina Channel ^
| 3/6/03
| AP
Posted on 03/07/2003 5:29:10 PM PST by wimpycat
DES MOINES, Iowa -- It's one big piece of snack food.
What is being unofficially called the world's biggest Cheeto is on its way from Hawaii to a rural northwest Iowa town.
An Iowa disc jockey says the super-sized Cheeto is about as big as a small lemon -- not big by most standards, but big for a Cheeto.
Bryce Wilson says it's about 5 inches long and 6 inches in diameter.
The Cheeto was found in a bag bought by a Navy seaman at Pearl Harbor. He was trying to sell to the highest bidder on e-Bay, when Wilson gave him a call.
The sailor put the Cheeto in the mail and shipped it off to the town of Algona, where it will become a tourist attraction.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Iowa
KEYWORDS: cheeto; thatsabiggun
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After all the dithering at the UN, the speculation, the backbiting, the posturing, the ignorant criticism, the uncertainty, the vile anti-Americanism in the news...this is a welcome break.
A giant Cheeto to become a tourist attraction?
Ahhhh...only in America, God bless her!
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:29:10 PM PST
by
wimpycat
To: Poohbah; Howlin; Amelia; mhking
Mmmmmmmmm....Cheetos!
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:30:28 PM PST
by
wimpycat
(Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!)
To: a_Turk; MadIvan; wardaddy
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:32:58 PM PST
by
wimpycat
(Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!)
To: wimpycat
This is why Algona is known as the "Paris of Kossuth County".
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:33:44 PM PST
by
IowaHawk
To: wimpycat
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:34:43 PM PST
by
Brett66
To: wimpycat
Doctor Egon Spengler: Let's say this Twinkie represents the normal amount of psychokinetic energy in the New York area. According to this mornings sample it would be a Twinkie 35 feet long weighing about 600 pounds.
Winston Zeddmore: That's a big Twinkie.
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:36:30 PM PST
by
avg_freeper
(run silent run deep)
To: Brett66
Is that THE Cheeto?
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:36:35 PM PST
by
wimpycat
(Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!)
To: wimpycat
Not much goes on there in Iowa, you know.
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:36:53 PM PST
by
Lady Jag
(Googolplex Star Thinker of the Seventh Galaxy of Light and Ingenuity)
To: wimpycat
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:40:11 PM PST
by
Brett66
To: wimpycat
Surely there is a Cheeto Casserole recipe floating around Iowa right about now...
To: Brett66
You're right! That is THE Cheeto. I'm impressed.
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:45:12 PM PST
by
wimpycat
(Mr. President, we must not allow a mine-shaft gap!)
To: wimpycat
I'm booking a flight to Iowa right away.
Do they have airports?
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:47:37 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: sciencediet
Other famous Iowa tourist attractions:
Tomb of the Unknown Shriner (Oskaloosa)
Mystery Soup Can (Anamosa)
Birthplace of Norm Gunderson (Onawa)
National Lawn Darts Hall of Fame (Makoqueta)
Sans-A-Beltland Theme Park (Marengo)
Eternal Tire Fire Monument (Muscatine)
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:49:44 PM PST
by
IowaHawk
To: Dog Gone
>>Do they have airports?
Closest commercial airports to Algona would be Ft.Dodge, Mason City, or Sioux City.
To: Dog Gone
Do they have airports?
Unknown but they do have Sen. Harkin who is a big enough ass to drive a carrier through
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:51:32 PM PST
by
SERE_DOC
(Murphy's rules for combat #14 The equipment you are using was made by the lowest bidder!)
To: IowaHawk
Place where Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper & Ritchie Valens played their last concert - Surf Ballroom, Clear Lake
To: wimpycat
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:54:24 PM PST
by
lizma
To: wimpycat
The sailor put the Cheeto in the mail and shipped it off to the town of Algona, where it will become a tourist attraction.I've been to Algona. It's about time they came up with a tourist attraction.
To: Keith in Iowa
Dang. And on Mapquest, it keeps giving my driving directions to Timbuktu.
I may never get to see this Cheeto.
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posted on
03/07/2003 5:57:56 PM PST
by
Dog Gone
To: Brett66
It's a fraud...it's really several co-joined cheetoes. They don't share organs, so they are individuals who share a crust.
:D
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posted on
03/07/2003 6:00:50 PM PST
by
bannie
(Carrying the burdon of being a bad speller)
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