Cheezies
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Cheezies are a brand of cheese curl snack food made and sold in Canada by W.T. Hawkins Ltd. The snack is made from aged cheddar and sold in various size bags.
in 1956 after fire destroyed the original plant in Tweed, Ontario
. The snack has been produced in the same facility ever since and continues at present to be sold across Canada. In a recent taste test conducted over the internet social networking site Facebook, Hawkin's Cheezies won the popular vote, but due to the judging process , was deemed a second place ranking to the challenger: Cheetos Puffs.
produced two similar products in the 1970s, cheese flavoured "Crunchies" and barbecue flavoured. The latter were discontinued and Old Dutch continues to produce the cheese-flavoured Crunchies in two flavours.
name in common usage in Canada for any kind of cheese snack such as Cheetos
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History
The snack was invented after the Second World War. Production moved to a factory in Belleville, OntarioBelleville, Ontario
Belleville is a city located at the mouth of the Moira River on the Bay of Quinte in Southern Ontario, Canada, in the Quebec City-Windsor Corridor. It is the seat of Hastings County, but is politically independent of it. and the centre of the Bay of Quinte Region...
in 1956 after fire destroyed the original plant in Tweed, Ontario
Tweed, Ontario
Tweed is a municipality and a village located in central-eastern Ontario, Canada, in Hastings County.The Municipality of Tweed is an amalgamated municipality comprising the former Village of Tweed and the former Townships of Hungerford and Elzevir & Grimsthorpe...
. The snack has been produced in the same facility ever since and continues at present to be sold across Canada. In a recent taste test conducted over the internet social networking site Facebook, Hawkin's Cheezies won the popular vote, but due to the judging process , was deemed a second place ranking to the challenger: Cheetos Puffs.
Competition
Old Dutch FoodsOld Dutch Foods
Old Dutch Foods is a manufacturer of potato chips and other snack foods in the Midwestern United States and Canada. Their product line includes brands such as Old Dutch Potato Chips, Dutch Crunch, Ripples, Cheese Pleesers and Restaurante Style Tortilla Chips.-History:The company began as Old Dutch...
produced two similar products in the 1970s, cheese flavoured "Crunchies" and barbecue flavoured. The latter were discontinued and Old Dutch continues to produce the cheese-flavoured Crunchies in two flavours.
Name
The name Cheezies has become a Genericized trademarkGenericized trademark
A genericized trademark is a trademark or brand name that has become the colloquial or generic description for, or synonymous with, a general class of product or service, rather than as an indicator of source or affiliation as intended by the trademark's holder...
name in common usage in Canada for any kind of cheese snack such as Cheetos
Cheetos
Cheetos is a brand of cheese-flavored cornmeal snack made by Frito-Lay, a subsidiary of PepsiCo. Fritos creator Charles Elmer Doolin invented Cheetos in 1948, and began national distribution in the U.S. The initial success of Cheetos was a contributing factor to the merger between The Frito Company...
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