Marketing can be a difficult thing, especially when it comes to big brands trying to diversify and experiment.

Sometimes they produce a hit like cherry-flavored Pepsi.

Other times you get Pokemon sea salt and cheese-flavored water?

Cheese water, really?

Some of these products have to be bought to be believed, which is exactly what I did.

So join me as I purchase, review, and regret some of the strangest products ever released by famous brands.

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If you're American at some point, you've probably found your fingers covered in the familiar cheesy, salty, orange detritus that is Cheeto dust. Sorry, that's Cheeto, according to the Cheetos marketing team.

Whatever you call it, Cheetos once tried to make people wear it on their face. Allow me to introduce Cheetos lip balm.

Launched all the way back in 2005, it was initially met with overwhelmingly negative reviews.

Man, who could have guessed, people don't want to look like a messy toddler all day.

The ill-conceived product was discontinued shortly thereafter, but was revived under the

Read My Lips name a few years ago, albeit with a different lineup of flavors.

So let's dive in, lips first. Here's my first ever snack flavored lip balm purchase for all of $5.

Now, according to the packaging, which labels this as Cheeto Puffs Lip balm, this is actually

orange flavor? I thought orange was the Cheeto Puffs lip balm. This is actually orange flavor?

I thought orange was the Cheeto color, not the flavor.

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