First it was Vlasic Pickle Balls (which will soon be joined by Spicy Pickle Balls), now Frito-Lay has dropped Flamin’ Hot Dill Pickle Cheetos. From what they’ve said on Instagram, they will not be around for very long, but I was able to secure a bag at Walmart after a few weeks of hunting! As both a Flamin’ Hot enjoyer and a pickle enjoyer, I feel it is my duty to crack these open and let you know if they are worth hunting down for yourself.
Pros: This new Cheetos flavor is certainly Flamin’ Hot. It does not hold back on the signature spice that you expect from the Flamin’ Hot brand. I’ve never met a Flamin’ Hot product I don’t like and I have also never met Crunchy Cheetos I don’t like. And the Cheetos definitely smell like dill pickle when you first open the bag. But…
Cons: The dill pickle flavor is nowhere close to where I want it to be. It is very muted and very subtle. If you eat a bunch of them in rapid succession or shove a handful in your mouth, then you get the pickle flavor a little bit more. But I’d be lying if I said I wasn’t disappointed. I was expecting the Cheetos to be flavor blasted with dill pickle flavor and they just aren’t. On the completely subjective pickle flavor scale, these come in somewhere around a three and I wish it was closer to a seven or an eight. I won’t go as far to say that these new Cheetos are bad, because I do enjoy them, but I can’t help but wonder how top tier they’d be if there was more pickle flavor.
Born and raised in the city that produces DUM DUMS, Tyler Bowers is a writer, a content creator, and a social media influencer. In addition to running the @TeamSupernovaFB social pages, he streams on Twitch (most notably completing Demon's Souls without dying), and is an avid lover of traveling and trying new foods. Tyler is an advocate and enjoyer of Faygo--especially Faygo Grape, Cream Soda, and Firework. He dreams of one day doing a Mountain Dew-themed Good Mythical Morning episode with Rhett & Link, and he will stop at nothing to get Pepsi to #BringBackSupernova.
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