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I'm leaving the Publix store, heading towards my car with a shopping car full of food. Standing next to my car is an older woman, eating from a bag of Trader Joe's Cheezy Poofs. I found it a bit odd, seeing how the closest Trader Joe's to this Public is two miles (3.2km) away, and the other closest Trader Joe's is five miles (8km) away. As I pop open the trunk, she mentions she likes my car, as it has “character.” I look at my car and see “it's in serious need of a paint job.” She then offers me a few Cheezy Poofs. I'm polite so I take a few and try them. They weren't bad, but they weren't good either. They were just … there. I would expect Cheezy Poofs to have some semblance of a cheese flavor but the Trader Joe's seemed to just wave some cheeze over the batch, not bothering to actually add the cheese. What I experienced was nothing more than textured air. I compared the taste to packing peanuts (and yes, packing peanuts are identical to Cheezy Poofs, which are extruded cellulose…

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