National Cheese Doodle Day

You might think you don’t know what a cheese doodle is, but you have almost certainly seen them around.

A cheese doodle is a rather colloquial way of calling those baked cheesy snacks that are sure to leave your fingers bright orange.

Sold as crisps, for a bit of cheesiness to your lunch you can’t go far wrong than picking up a packet of these tasty morsels. Just try not to eat too many!

All great foods deserve a day of observance – so of course, this classic and popular snack has March 5th to celebrate it in all its cheesy, savory goodness.

History of National Cheese Doodle Day

The inventor of cheese doodles is not entirely clear – the date when exactly they first appeared isn’t easy to find.

Usually, food historians will attribute the bite-size treat to one of two inventors: Edward Wilson and/or Clarence J. Schwebke, who worked at the Flakall Corporation in Wisconsin around the 1930s.

This company specialized in making flaky pet food but created what was called ‘Korn Kurls’ as a (for humans) snack and applied for a patent in 1939. The snack was commercialized in 1946 by another company, the Adams Corporation.

The second most commonly cited inventor is Elmer Candy, who was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1936. Today, Elmer’s Fine Foods still sells cheese doodles under the name ‘CheeWees’.

Cheese doodles are also known as cheese puffs, cheese curls, cheese balls, cheese poofs, cheesy poofs or sometimes corn cheese.

They are made by a mixture of hot corn through a shaper and then dusted with that distinctive cheese flavoring. Wihout cheese, it’s often referred to as puffcorn; different flavorings available include honey and salt, but the most popular type worldwide has to be these cheese-flavored versions.

Available in all sorts of shapes and sizes, pounds and pounds of this tasty and easy go-to snack are made every year and shipped across the world to hungry snack lovers everywhere.

How to Celebrate National Cheese Doodle Day

This one is simple enough to celebrate – just grab yourself a packet or a few of these delicious cheesy snacks and tuck in!

Or you could always share a bowl with your friends and colleagues to mark the occasion. Make sure you keep some napkins nearby to clean up that sticky orange dust from your fingers before using your keyboard again…