Orange Cheese-Flavored Snacks: A Definitive Ranking

A handy guide for when you need it, and a graphic essay

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Yi Shun Lai (say “yeeshun” for her first name; “lie” for her last) is the author of Not a Self-Help Book: The Misadventures of Marty Wu and Pin Ups, a memoir. Her column on writing and publishing, “From the Front Lines,” runs every month at The Writer magazine. She teaches inclusion workshops for creatives at CanIPlayThat.com

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[image 1] Nuclear-orange, [drawing of a wedge of Swiss cheese]*-flavored crunch snacks. (A definitive ranking and tasting notes.)
*this is a wedge of Swiss, but we are talking Cheddar. Just go with it, okay?
[A scale runs down the side of this entire image, going from “Ew” at the top to “Palatable.”. There are watercolors of round perforated crackers in pale yellow-orange; Dorito chips, and a single Goldfish cracker.]
BETTER CHEDDARS: greasy, shattery cracker…