Cheezies

Cheezies are a brand of cheese puff snack food made and sold in Canada by W. T. Hawkins Ltd.

The snack is made from extruded cornmeal covered in powdered cheddar cheese, and sold in distinctive red-and-white bags.

[2] The pair were living in Chicago when they discovered a method, by trial and error, of extruding cornmeal, casting it into fingerling shapes, then deep frying it in vegetable shortening and sprinkling it with cheddar cheese.

[3] Production was moved to a factory in Belleville, Ontario, in 1956 after fire destroyed the original plant in Tweed.

[citation needed] The latter were discontinued and Old Dutch continues to produce the Crunchys in two cheese flavours.