6 Jul 2012 0:05
How Do You Arrange Your Cheez-Its? [#2]
Posted by Steve under Food , Health , Misc & Plus , ScienceComment on this post
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As you know from my last and first How Do You Arrange Your Cheez-Its? post, not only are Sunshine Cheez-Its the perfect food, the serving size of Cheez-Its is 27 crackers, a perfect cube. As the name suggests, Cheez-It BIG crackers are bigger¹ than Cheez-Its, and a serving contains fewer crackers — 14 instead of 27. While 14 is not a perfect cube, it is the sum of consecutive perfect squares, which is nearly as wonderful. |
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Figure 1. One serving of Cheez-Its BIG arranged as a pyramid. |
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Figure 2. One serving of Cheez-Its BIG arranged like a pyramid. |
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Figure 3. One serving of Cheez-Its BIG arranged unlike a pyramid. |
Unfortunately, Cheez-Its BIG, the Monterey Jack variety (which I purchased by mistake) is not the perfect food, and I can only recommend it for arranging, not for snacking.
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Figure 4. The author (center) ascending a Pyramid not made of Cheez-Its BIG. |
¹ “Twice the Size!*”, the front of the box declares.²
² The asterisk leads to a footnote, in smaller type: “*Than Original Cheez-It® Crackers volume.” My rough measurements confirm this. One Cheez-It BIG is about 35% larger than a Cheez-It in each of its larger dimensions, and about 10% thicker.
