Flamin' Hot Cheetos: An Oral History Gone Wrong and an Uncomfortable Corporate PR Moment

Robert Montanez, the self proclaimed, but Frito-Lay-refuted inventor of Flamin' Hot Cheetos. As we all ate our Bengals-orange snacks for the Super Bowl yesterday, a story about one of the most iconic of them came up again to the forefront.   The dayglo orange Flamin’ Hot Cheetos made news in the New York Times Magazine on…

The flamin' hot controversy around the Cheetos origin story

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