It’s held on the tips of three fingers, it’s orange, it’s fully erect, and it leaves a messy powder. But is it art? Is it edible? Is it, omigod, about to shoot? A swirl of questions envelope the phallic cheese puff resting in the Cheetle Hand of Cheadle, Alberta, shown here accompanied by a bag of the cheese snack Cheetos, for scale:
Something I stumbled on earlier today while searching through hand statues for my posting “Manual monuments”
From the KTLA-TV site, “17-foot-tall Cheetos statue finds a home in Canada” by Iman Palm on 10/6/22:
A small Canadian town just got a massive neighbor – a 17-foot statue of fingers holding a Cheeto puff, complete with the iconic yet messy orange residue.
The Cheetos brand unveiled the Cheetle Hand statue in Cheadle, Alberta on Oct. 4.
The statue is named after [Cheetle™, the brand name] for the “powdery residue that gets on your fingertips while eating the savory cheese snack, Cheetos,” PepsiCo Foods Canada announced.
As other unique statues [(like the Bronze Burbank Batman)] have been popping up worldwide for years, the Cheetos brand was looking for the perfect place to leave its orange mark when it came across the rural area, a company statement said.
“Cheadle is proud to be home to the Cheetle Hand Statue. Where else could the Cheetos brand honor the iconic Cheetle, if not here,” James Gosteli, president of the Cheadle Community Club, said in a statement.
Stars fell on Alabama. But Cheetle fell on Cheadle.
Wash your hands, hoser.
March 12, 2024 at 4:41 pm |
Do you want to comment on the homophony — or not — of Cheedle and Cheetle? For what it’s worth, my intuition is that they can contrast for me, or they can be pronounced identically, not that I have ever actually pronounced either one.
March 12, 2024 at 4:45 pm |
The Sleet in Slit falls mainly on the Slut.
March 12, 2024 at 5:03 pm |
Giggle.
March 12, 2024 at 5:00 pm |
[to EMK] I debated for some time about whether I wanted to get tangled up in the complexities of Canadian Raising — decided not to go there (since I was already 6 hours behind on what I intended to do today). But my intuition is exactly the same as yours.
Also decided not to sidetrack onto the diminutive sound-symbolic resonances of the le in Cheedle. But it’s a thing.
(The problem with being in the business we’re in is that we’re always neck-deep in stuff to write about. The delight of being in the business we’re in is … )