The five\u002Dmetre\u002Dtall statue was installed in an empty field on the outskirts of Cheadle, Alta., a small hamlet of roughly 80 people just east of Calgary
Cheadle was chosen due to its name being a homonym for “cheetle,” the trademarked word referring to the orange residue that accumulates on fingers during the consumption of Cheetos.Article content
But his name got attached to an Alberta town for entirely non-medical reasons. Rather, the railroaders who named the town were fans of a humourous 1865 travelogue written by Cheadle in which he detailed an overland trip through the lands that would soon become Western Canada. Small-town Alberta is awash in giant roadside attractions, many of them depicting food. An hour south of Cheadle is a statue of the starship Enterprise constructed in the centre of Vulcan, Alta. Go 250 kilometres to the southeast and the community of Bow Island has the world’s largest representation of a pinto bean.Article content
The Cheeto statue was reportedly created by F&D Scene Changes, a Calgary-based firm whose past projects have included a contract to repaint the World’s Largest Dinosaur, a larger-than-life tyrannosaurus statue in Drumheller, Alta. They’re also behind a series of giant “YAHOO” signs installed around Calgary for the 2019 Calgary Stampede.
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