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Pasadena Schools Ban Flamin' Hot Cheetos On Campus
PSA: Flamin' Hot Cheetos are NOT health food.
For that reason, some schools in the Pasadena Unified School District announced that they have banned the fatty, salty, spicy guilty pleasure altogether. It's part of a broader move to eliminate candy and junk food from elementary school campuses, according to the Los Angeles Times. Principals get to decide what kind of snacks are okay and which are on a blacklist.
The principal of Andrew Jackson Elementary School in Pasadena said that if students are caught trying to sneak the snack on campus, it will be confiscated. Flamin' Hot Cheetoes got the boot, because one bag contains 26 grams of fat and a quarter of the sodium a growing child needs for an entire day.
We're curious what snack will inspire the next generation of rappers:
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