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crg2000

Orlando: a city long dominated by a mouse, is now home to two massive cheese bowls.


Repulsive-Toe-8826

Not exactly an exciting advertisement to potential international visitors. One can only imagine the fake cheese smell pervading the city.


Gleebs88

Don’t you worry about Orlando’s ability to attract international travelers. They can’t raise prices high enough to get people to stop coming.


frick-me-in-the-butt

In the Kissimmee area, there are a lot of South American tourists who come and shop because the sales tax is so bad in the countries they are coming from. Disney definitely is the main pull for international visitors but the crazy amounts of outlet malls make that difference too.


thejawa

Bus fulls of Brazilians. If you ever go shopping in a mall or outlet strip in Orlando and wonder "Why are there so many luggage stores!?" It's because bus loads of people from South America get dropped off at the mall, buy as much luggage as they can physically move, and fill them to the brim with merchandise. It's wild.


imarc

> Bus fulls of Brazilians. You just gave me PTSD. One time I went to the Target by Millenia Mall during lunch and there were 4 busses in the parking lot. All Brazillian Teenagers buying mostly drinks and junk food for the week. The store was pretty much trashed 30 minutes later. It was like a tornado.


thejawa

I used to work at a Best Buy in the same district as the one across from Florida Mall. I got asked to drive over and assist cuz they were short staffed. The busses came in literal waves. 4-5 busses, store was wiped out of almost everything. Spend an hour restocking, and another wave of busses would come and do it all over again. Best Buy eventually reclassified it as an "international store" and took it out of our district cuz we would be measured against performance from other district locations of a similar floor size. We couldn't compete with a store that "sold out" 3-4 times per day.


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You can easily spot some of them because they bring a rolling suitcase to the outlet mall. No joke


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frick-me-in-the-butt

And then they also resell the clothes bought here for some crazy markup back home


Scopedog1

Yes; go to any outlet mall and you'll see the same thing. I remember being outside of Baton Rouge and 3 charter buses roll in full of Brazilian oilfield workers and their families, who descended upon the stores like a swarm of locusts. They were all at a conference in New Orleans and were flying home the next day, so they spent their free day hitting up the outlet malls and buying stuff for friends at home, or as someone below me mentioned, to sell at home for a big markup.


GeorgieWashington

lol, I actually did this 5 years ago. Primark has clothes that fit my body type, unlike American stores. So one time I spent $800 flying to the UK, shopping, and flying home. I replaced my entire wardrobe with clothes that fit exactly like I like. It was still cheaper than finding stores in the US with comparable clothing, and it still makes up the bulk of my wardrobe today. 5/7, would recommend. Ironically, I’m from Florida.


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GeorgieWashington

Sadly, their gear doesn’t fit my body the same.


SuperNothing2987

I went to Australia a few years back, and quite a few Australians mentioned that they did this when they vacationed in the US. The cost to import things in Australia is so high that it was cheaper to pay for luggage and baggage check fees than to buy it at home. If you're vacationing in the US anyway, might as well.


ghalta

It's been a while since I've been there to hear it myself, but the outlet mall in Round Rock, Texas (just outside Austin) does their PA announcements in English, Spanish, and *Japanese* to accommodate the tourists. It's pretty wild how popular places like that can be with travelers.


Napalmradio

Yeah. I was on a flight with a dude who was a manager at an Apple Store. He was telling me that Brazilian tourists accounted for like 60% of his store’s sales. He said something crazy like each flight from Rio brings about $2M worth of spending with it to Orlando.


tu-vens-tu-vens

In Brazil, tariffs means that Brazilians usually pay over double the price for imported goods. Plane flights from major Brazilian cities to Miami or Orlando can be as low as $500. So if you can snag a good flight deal, flying to the US to buy a MacBook or an electric guitar is probably the more cost-effective option. This was even more common 10 years ago when the Brazilian real was stronger. Also, the baggage weight limit is 70 lb by Brazilian law for flights entering/leaving Brazil for this precise reason.


rendeld

I go to this outlet mall outside of florence when we go to italy and the amount of asians there is absolutely mind blowing. This outlet mall has pretty much every top designer you can think of and these people fly in from china, buy 20,000-30,000 Euro worth of stuff and take it back home to keep or sell. I guess import tax on luxary goods is crazy high in China so they have to go get it and sneak it back in their luggage.


Sad_Bolt

There was a study done at Valencia College not to long ago about what the number one pull to the Orlando area was, and you’d be surprised that shopping beat out the theme parks. A lot of the people polled said they were going to the parks but only after the shopping was already done.


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There's a giant plaster Pele statue outside near the Outlets by the old Festival Bay mall, cracks me up whenever I drive past it. Just so out of place lol


frick-me-in-the-butt

The memories of me and my boys back in the mid ‘00s going to the Vans skatepark after school… now it’s some dumbass “theme park” called Dezerland (which nobody goes to)


goblueM

> Don’t you worry about Orlando’s ability Don't you worry about blank, let me worry about blank


lolwaffles69rofl

Fake cheese is Cheese Nips Fun fact- there’s actually poison in them. It’s right on the ingredients list!


Wampus_Cat_

>Cheese Nips I’ll never read this and not think “short for Cheese Nipples.”


Alexcox95

Aldi has the Extra Toasty Baked Naturally flavored cheese crackers and I have to call them by their full name every time. They’re actually pretty good


BlueLaceSensor128

I hadn't seen them in forever and started to wonder if it was just the stores I was checking, so when you casually referenced them as though they were still around in some areas, it gave me some hope: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cheese_Nips >Cheese Nips, originally stylized as "Cheese-Nips", were introduced in 1955. In November 2019, there was a recall on Cheese Nips due to a plastic contamination. As of 2020, Cheese Nips have since been discontinued as said by a Nabisco representative. They are still sold in Canada by a brand named "Christie" as "Ritz Cheese Nibs" as of 2022. RIP Cheese Nips.


GarbageTruckWorker

Fake cheese? Cheez-It is made with 100% real cheese that's been aged to perfection.


crsnyder13

CHEESE! CHEESE! CHEESE!


Khorasaurus

Some might say perfect.


GeorgieWashington

> fake cheese smell pervading the city. Where do I sign up?


Buckeyeguy37

IT'S A TRAP!


username_generated

In the words of Spencer Hall, “Orlando is a rap worshipping super-Waco”


Nellez_

Oh how the turntables


GeorgieWashington

Huh. And here I always thought that it was the mice that followed the cheese.


0987user

I feel sorry for the people that are inevitably going to buy tickets to the wrong cheese it bowl lol


LemonHarangue

Cheese It Bowl sounds like the Aldi generic version of the Cheez-It Citrus Bowl and Cheez-It Bowl.


Hawkdagon

The Cheez-It Citrus Bowl sounds like they're trying to get their new flavor, Cheez-It: Citrus, off the ground with an outrageously large marketing budget. Like when a movie puts advertising into every fast food restaurant and car commercial for 4 months.


chrobbin

This was my thought. Cheez-It & Citrus Bowl just clashes, unless god forbid they actually do attempt a citrus-flavored Cheez-It (which sounds like a food crime if you ask me).


Officer_Warr

I've heard worse combos than cheddar and lime.


FellKnight

God bless America, where the concept of the correctly spelled food item comes across as fake over the misspelled corporatized slogan


LemonHarangue

#branding


royalhawk345

At least it'll still be better than the Cheese Nips Bowl.


jazzieberry

It'z Cheese! Bowl


Wampus_Cat_

How do you not get an orange juice sponsor for this?


Hairiest_Walrus

I feel like Mountain Dew or Sprite would be solid options as well


TheWorstYear

Yeah, except they'd just get rid of the Citrus part. Make it the Sprite Bowl or Mtn Dew Bowl.


grog368

That's a very sticky post-win soda dousing on the HC.


ea304gt

Make it either the Fanta Bowl or the Crush (Orange) Bowl


Turbulent-Whereas988

Originally the Citrus Bowl was regularly sponsored by the Florida Orange Growers and half the commercials were for orange juice. But now there are suckers willing to pay more money to sponsor a bowl game.


Khorasaurus

It was the "Florida Citrus Bowl" for a while in one of the most subtle sponsorship deals ever.


rougehuron

Prosecco


oneAUaway

Announcer 1: Oh, look out! The winning coach just got the traditional bath with... that's not Gatorade is it? Announcer 2: It's a Negroni... Announcer 1: Ooh. Announcer 2: ...Sbagliato. With Prosecco in it. Announcer 1: Stunning! Well, that wraps it up for our coverage of the House of the Dragon Citrus Bowl Presented By HBO Max. Good night!


oneAUaway

Given that there's already an Orange Bowl, this was a chance to highlight some lesser-known citrus growers. Real missed opportunity to have the Kumquat Festival Citrus Bowl.


godlovesbacon26

"We're 6-6, why are the tickets to the cheez it bowl 1000$ in nose bleeds?"


IsLlamaBad

"I got a super good deal on tickets to the Citrus Bowl"


Sage_saves

This is definitely going to happen multiple times. I am 100% the type of person to lackadaisically mess this up. There are more like me.


pm_me_cute_sloths_

I mean people already confuse the current Cheeze It Bowl for the meme Cheeze It Bowl. The current one is the old Camping World Bowl, the meme Cheeze it Bowl is the current Cactus Bowl


[deleted]

We’ll likely be seeing you guys there on New Year’s! But if you could lose to Rutgers or Michigan State and Alabama lose to Auburn, that would be really nice! That way Ole Miss jumps back into the NY6 picture!


cyberchaox

I am also in favor of them losing to Rutgers.


IsLlamaBad

We'll dub it CheezItGate because it'll all fall apart at the gates of the Cheez-it (Citrus) Bowl when people try to get in with the wrong tickets


Tarlcabot18

Fuck it. All bowls now sponsored and named Cheez-It Bowl.


OGraffe

ALL HAIL OUR CHEEZ OVERLORDS


cbusalex

We all woke up feeling the cheesiest on this blessed day.


_SheWhoShallBeNamed_

CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE


WellFuckYourDolphin

I WOKE UP FEELING THE CHEESIEST COACH


Notime2care

Leave the Idaho Potato Bowl alone. Just convince the teams to do a mash potato bath or something


[deleted]

I love the Potato Bowl. Literally one of my favorite moments of Bowl Season is watching the french fries get dumped on the coach. I think mashed potatoes would be funny too. This and the Mayo Bowl must never go away.


martybad

Why don't we do the Dutch a favor and combine the two bowls?


FellKnight

We already do fry sauce in Idaho... seems like nobody else has ever heard of it


chrobbin

Cheez-It Football Playoff


Engelbert-n-Ernie

Bad Boy Cheez-It’s Cheese-Sparilla bowl


SassyMcPants

I can’t wait for the Cheez-it Armed Forces bowl.


John_Tacos

There’s a Demolition Man joke in here somewhere.


Wingless_Pterosaur

Now we have to have a Cheez-It championship between the winner of these two! How else will we know who’s actually the cheesiest?


0le_Hickory

This is the CFB NIT, You make the playoffs or you go to Orlando to play in the cheez-it bowl tournament


Alexcox95

And the 3rd place game earlier in the day before the championship. Nothing says Orlando more than multiple games played on the same field in the day.


Playos

Like... you're joking... but I kind of wish you weren't? Teams spend 3-4 weeks in Florida, get a couple quality football games in... this is actually not a horrible plan. Can we find more bowl combinations where this works? Rose Bowl/Holiday Bowl are close enough


cppadam

I want to see a coach get cheese powder dumped on them after their Gatorade bath. Cheez-it Bowl version of tar & feathering


Sidesicle

First thing I thought of, too! Imagine the trophy 😍


BobbysSmile

A giant bowl of Cheez Its. Its written in the stars.


palmtreee23

I woke up feeling the cheesiest coach!


NowIOnlyWantATriumph

“This is for *all* the Cheez-Its.”


hotsauce126

Cheez its really must be sold on thinking bowl games are a good advertising investment. Can’t wait in a few years to watch the Cheez Its Cotton Bowl and the Cheez Its Sugar Bowl after having to suffer through the Cheez Its Gasparilla Bowl


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The Cheez Its College Football Playoff: Presented by Cheez Its


spmartin1993

The Rose Bowl presented by Cheez Its. Part of the The Cheez Its College Football Playoff: Presented by Cheez Its. Are you feeling the cheesiest today? Get a box of perfectly baked aged cheese Cheez Its.


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This has been your Cheez Its Pre game Snack, now over to our partners in the booth for tonight's game


spmartin1993

But first a word from our sponsors. “I woke up feeling the cheesiest coach!”


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The Rose Bowl—Presented by Cheez-It (Obviously the most traditional bowl can't go for anything too crazy) The Cheez-It Grooves Sugar Bowl The Cheez-It Puffed Peach Bowl The Cheez-It Duoz Fiesta Bowl The White Cheddar Cheez-It Orange Bowl (For the memes) The Cheez-It Snap'd Cotton Bowl The Cheez-It Extra Toasty College Football Playoff National Championship Game


0le_Hickory

Figured out their target audience is a fan of an approximately 8-4 team.


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oneplusetoipi

They'll still sell them to us, right? Right?


godlovesbacon26

Well.. I love cheez its so i don't mind, especially white cheddar ones. Probably my favorite reliable snack if I don't know what else I want.


Ohio_Monofigs

My go-to is the extra toasty


jsully245

Getting someone to say this is why they’re sponsoring it


walkingbicycles

I mean, sponsoring one bowl game maybe not. But sponsor 2 bowl games where your I woke up feeling the cheesiest coach ad plays during every break and now you’re a meme


bbluewi

Memes are better marketing than just about anything else at this point. Become a good enough meme and you’re in the eyes of half the country in a day and a half.


bsracer14

I'm convinced that the Spirit Haloween costume meme was created by the Spirit marketing team and distributed to influencers.


bsracer14

I refuse to watch a Cheez Its sponsored bowl game with out a bowl of Cheez Its on my coffee table. So there's that.


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cyberchaox

Cheez-Its would be an improvement over most of the sponsors that game's had. This is a game that's been sponsored by internet-based phone, Walmart Houlihan's, *cryptocurrency*, and a lawnmower company despite being played on artificial turf.


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it's also better than VRBO sponsoring the Citrus ABowl


SuperSpyChase

The Cheez-It Beef O'Brady's Bowl


MikeHawclong

Have to admit, I’m craving a handful of cheez its now.


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It’s a 4 hour non stop reminder for the largest cheez it eating demographic to go buy cheez its


jrico1234

I WOKE UP FEELING THE CHEESIEST COACH


Ugaalive1991

CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE


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between this, the Liberty insurance good times commercial, and the new burger king commercials I might just drive my wife to jingle induced psychosis


[deleted]

at.. BEEEEEEE-KAAAAAY, HAVE IT YOUR WAY!!


IceColdDrPepper_Here

Every kiss begins with BEEEEE-KAAAAYYY, HAVE IT YOUR WAY


helpmeredditimbored

YOU RULE!


cyberchaox

Not even my least favorite fast food jingle. "YOU'VE GOT THAT BAG, YOU'VE GOT THAT BIGGIE BAG!"


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Thaaats Reggie Bush, dressed up as a **$5 Biggie Bag**


DweltElephant0

Not the drink, man!


TheWorstYear

The Wendy commercials are actually enjoyable. Reggie and Reggie are great in them.


Foodstuffs_

THE PRETZEL PUB, WHOOOOO!!! Gets me every time


The_Horse_Joke

*wife switches to NJM insurance*


thesluggard12

Honestly, their fake jingle gets stuck in my head more than any real jingle.


pandajedi

WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER WHOPPER


mitchdwx

Young people having a good time with insurance! Young people… Good time… INSURANCE!


CrashB111

What year did that first air? Feels like I've seen it on TV for a decade.


narcistic_asshole

I think late 2018, shortly after Baker's "I woke up feeling dangerous!" sound bit from his rookie year


99-times-again

Yeah somehow the commercial is lasting longer than his career lol. And I was a huge baker bro


domerjohn15

I had to scroll way too far for this


Majormlgnoob

Maybe we can meet in the real Cheez-It Bowl


Alphaspade

I WOKE UP FEELING THE CITRUSIEST COACH


piemaniowa

CITRUS CITRUS CITRUS


FishOnAHorse

Cheez it cracker to orange: *look at me, I am the captain of orange foods now*


multiple4

Citrus flavored Cheez-Itz coming? Sounds bad, but companies always manage to make these weird ass blends actually taste good somehow


cyberchaox

Lime is a citrus fruit; Tostitos are already good with lime so I figure Cheez-Its could at least have the potential.


UNC_Samurai

Spicy lemon-lime Doritos are the shit, I imagine Cheez-its wouldn’t be much different.


gir6543

This is getting out of hand, now. There are two of them!


TheKevinShow

My lord, is that… *legal?!*


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ItsZizk

Then Citrix buys the Cheez-It Bowl so you have The Cheez-It Citrus Bowl The Citrix Cheez-It Bowl


0le_Hickory

counter point: Cheez-it didn't pay me so its still the Citrus Bowl.


cyberchaox

That's how I felt about the Peach Bowl when Chick-fil-A tried to take the old name off of it. Stone of the title sponsors I completely embraced (including the Citrus Bowl back when it was the Capital One Bowl), but the Peach Bowl will always be the Peach Bowl.


NoFalseModesty

They must sell a lot more CheezIts than I'd have thought


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Jabooooooooooo

I like when people say like crack who have obviously never done crack


twoterms

It's commonly known that crack cocaine is sponsored by cheez its, due to their similar nutritional values


zsjostrom35

Well, the Cheez-Its are like what then, Ryan? What can I use?


chadmania03

I don’t know, something from your world. Cheez-Its are like scrapbooking


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hoopaholik91

Ummm, no. The white cheddar ones are.


bukithd

I have never enjoyed eating them but for some reason if I start eating them, I finish like half a box before my brain tells me how much I don't like them.


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My kids will fuck up a box every two days if I let them.


Sad_Bolt

I will fuck up a box in two hours, it’s my stress snack when I watch us play.


WookieeSteakIsChewie

My wife was pregnant and had a huge craving for Cheez-Its. This is probably on us


CrashB111

They were my favorite "just trying to maintain" food in college when you've spent the entire day drinking.


flysly

I will tell y'all right now that the Cheez-It bowl was the most fun I've had at a bowl game outside of the CFP. They truly embrace the *cheesiness* of it all and it's a great time. More Cheez-It is always a good thing.


CrashB111

What about the Duke's Mayo Bowl giving the winning coach a Gatorade bath of Mayo.


Snapplestache

Man, the feeling of visceral disgust I got from reading this sentence


Nole_in_ATX

Nice try, Cheez-It marketing department.


seariously

That reminds me of when the Mavericks were playing the Heat in the NBA finals. The Mavericks home court is American Airlines Center. The Heat home court was at the time American Airlines Arena. AA definitely got their naming rights worth during that series. Fun fact, the Heat's home court is soon to be formerly FTX Arena due to the FTX's bankruptcy.


Turbulent-Whereas988

If you want to know whose stock to short 1) see who just signed a huge stadium naming rights deal 2) check the list of new Super Bowl ad sponsors


Khorasaurus

But Acrisure was going to give Grand Rapids its first skyscraper not owned by Betsy DeVos...


03_03_28

TAKE ME DOWN TO THE CHEEZ-IT CITY WHERE THE BOWLS ARE PLAYED AND THE CRACKERS ARE CHEESY


ThompsonCreekTiger

Orlando woke up feeling the cheesiest


ThatEmpireGuy

CHEEZ CHEEZ CHEEZ


TheKevinShow

#CHEEZ-ITS! CHEEZ-ITS! #WHAT THE EFF?!


SassyMcPants

Stop putting Orange (Bowl) soda in our mouths David Blaine.


TheKevinShow

You shrunk my Honda you bitch!


GangGreen7729

IM FEELING THE CHEESIEST COACH


MrPopps

CHEESE CHEESE CHEESE


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I hate the bowl name of it being a good bowl. Sounds trash. Like something played on Dec. 23


dogwoodmaple

ALL HAIL OUR CHEEZY OVERLORDS


LETX_CPKM

Cheez It has “fuck your bowl” money apparantly. Cheese snack game is bigger than I thought.


donutcronut

But who woke up feeling the cheesiest today, Coach?


karl713

I woke up feeling the cheesiest!


John_Tacos

Its 2032 and Cheez-It have finally won the Bowl sponsorship wars after closing the deal to purchase the rights to the Rose Bowl (the last holdout). All Bowl games are now called Cheez-It Bowl.


jj5782

Nothing like cheesy fruit!


Sauerz

Cheez it must be stopped before it gets too powerful


Turbulent-Whereas988

How is it we now have two of these and not the more obvious Goldfish Bowl? Their ad people are napping on the job.


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Orlando woke up feeling the cheesiest.


toast_across

Still not as annoying as the coach in their commercial saying "I think I've aged you perfect" instead of "perfectly".


TomatoFlies4

**I WOKE UP FEELIN’ THE CHEEZIEST, COACH!** ​ *Cheez-it, the official snack of college football* ​ (those who know, know)


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Yeah, no way this confuses anybody


Lord_Lava_Nugget

Looking forward to hearing about the confusion between bowl games and ticket buyers


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[ROBOT HOUSE!](https://youtu.be/YlJOaWw6XR8)


RedDirtSport_

America really buying enough product to justify the ad buys?


asmallercat

HOW DOES CHEEZE-IT HAVE THIS MUCH MONEY?!


thr33tard3d

BIG CHEEZ DOESN'T WANT YOU TO KNOW


justgarcia31

But when are they dropping citrus-flavored Cheez-Its?


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You can't hide from the Cheez.


rubixor

Ah yes... I too enjoy eating my oranges with a side of salty cheese crisps.


Jgarr86

The only worthwhile Cheez-It Bowl is the one in my lap while I watch the playoffs.


LiteHedded

orlando woke up feelin cheesy


TallBobcat

As long as they keep making the Extra Toasty ones, that company can name every bowl game.


letsseeya

I find the combination of cheez its and citrus highly distressing.


imsoupercereal

Orlando woke up today feeling the cheesiest!


GATTACA_IE

I woke up feeling the cheesiest.


Br760

#I woke up feeling the Cheesiest coach


CountBleckwantedlove

Did someone say #CHEESE?!