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"  Despite the fact that we exist happily at the very top of the food chain, with no natural enemies, and virtually everything on God&amp;#039;s green earth to choose from, we humans still choose snacks like Cheez Doodles to snack upon. Cheez Doodles, for those who have yet to enjoy the simple pleasure, are air-puffed tubes of cheddar-flavored corn meal, and remain highly appetizing, as well as addictive, since their inception in the 1950s. However this is a sad time for the ever-cheerful Cheez Doodle, as Morrie Yohai, the man who developed the ever-popular snack has finished his last bag, and moved on to snack heaven.  According to an MSNBC.com obituary, &amp;quot;Yohai developed the small tubular snack at his Old London Foods factory in the 1950s. The company already was selling Dipsy Doodles rippled corn chips, which were made with a machine that spit them out under pressure through a nozzle shaped like the letter W.&amp;quot; Yohai borrowed the same winning Dipsy Doodle concept, and modified the machine to extrude liquefied cornmeal into a more rounded finger-like shape, and thus the Cheez Doodle was born. While there are countless other extruded cheese puff snacks out there vying for market share, the Cheez Doodle is the beloved original. It may be difficult to believe that a little bit of extruded corn (baked, not fried) can inspire such ardor, but people still faithfully purchase them, and the Doodle&amp;#039;s pop culture legacy provides the inspiration for such innovative art pieces like artist Sandy Skoglund Doodle installation (see photo above). So if you are among the faithful, treat yourself to a bag of Cheez Doodles this week and kindly salute Mr. Yohai for six decades of snacks and orange-stained fingers. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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