Cheese puffs before as we know it, were actually food for animals! Although there are several versions of the story created, Edward Wilson in the 1930s, from a company in Wisconsin producing partially cooked animal feed, decided to taste the puffed mashed corn kernel himself and by adding some seasoning realised that it’s actually not that bad and can totally make a decent snack. Then later the founders of Flakall Corporation that he worked for patented the product that is now produced under different names in over a 100 companies.