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When I opened up my bag of Flamin' Hot Limon Crunchy Cheetos and took a whiff, well there wasn't much there..fragrance wise they smell like a bag of corn snacks. I find it amusing that the same bag that boasts "Made with Real Cheese!" also has the description of "Cheese flavored snacks" (yes, these are an American bag. Now, I'm not trying to be a dick here and I understand that the bags have a typical layout and standard statements that all bags of Cheetos have of them, irregardless of the flavo(u)r, but these "cheese flavored snacks" taste like chili pepper (slightly hotter than standard jalapeno) with a hint of lime flavo(u)red snacks. The seasoning is present with, at least to me, no room left for cheese flavour and just a hint of corn flavour (most of the corn flavour is wiped out in the manufacturing process) lingering in the background. They have a good crunch followed by melt in your mouth cornmeal softness as Cheetos, or whatever your regional dense formed corn sticks, do. Outside of the packaging pretending that anyone's consuming these for the cheese flavour, you get what's advertised with a decent somewhat natural heat.


So the punk rock supergroup Beach Rats put out an ep this past summer on Bridge Nine. It's a banger. You get vocals from Ari Katz reminiscent of his Lifetime output. The music sounds like a fantastic combination of the contributing members other/previous bands thrown into a centrifuge with all of the (for lack of better word) fluff (not saying that the fluff doesn't work with their other projects) getting tossed to the outside and just a core of (hardcore) punk remaining. There's still tons of melody to the songs, but at an average of about 1m40s there's not a lot of room for wankery. Giver a listen if you're into, you know, good music.

Stay hydrated,
marc

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