2 cups light brown sugar
1 cup margarine - yes, for this one you must use margarine
1/2 cup light corn syrup
1/2 tsp. baking soda
1 - 21 oz. pkg. Cheetos® - crunchy kind

Mix sugar, margarine and corn syrup in pan. Bring to a boil. Boil 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and add soda. Stir until light in color and foamy. Spray a roasting pan (deep 10 x 14) with Pam. Put Cheetos® in pan. Pour the mixture over Cheetos® and stir, coating each piece. Place in oven at 250 degrees. Bake for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes. Immediately, pour onto wax paper, or cookie sheets, sprayed with Pam. (This is the hard part.) VERY QUICKLY spread out as thin as possible. If not quick and spread out as thin as possible, you will get a big hard glob. After about 5 minutes, pull/break these apart even more and loosen them from the wax paper. If you don't, you'll have wax paper stuck to them when you go to eat them.

You will regret it if you don't double the batch as guests are going to demand MORE! You can bake batches together and add an extra 20 minutes to bake time. I do them separately because of having to work so quickly to keep them apart at the end. The one batch can almost get too hard while working with the other batch.

Another would be cheese in a spray can and crackers, or how about a carton of sour cream mixed with a package of onion soup mix?
Another might be a package of little smokies in a sauce of catsup, grape jelly and Frenche's yellow mustard.
Bean dip served out of the can with a bag of corn chips on the side is pretty tacky too.
Sounds like a fun party!
Linda C

1 can (8 0z)crushed pineapple
2 packages of Knox unfalvored gelatin
1/2 C sugar
1 C water
8 oz cream cheese
1/2 C chopped pecans
16 oz cool whip

Mix pineapple, gelatin, sagar and water in a saucepan. Boil for 5 minutes. and add cream cheese. Blend with a mixer. Allow to cool. (I mix in my stand mixer and let stir long enough to cool it quickly). Fold in Cool Whip and nuts. Chill and serve.

You can serve in any container but a jello mold makes it more 50's ish - tacky. Wipe mold with mayo to grease before pouring mixture.

Ingredients
• 1 lb cooked ham, cubed
• 1 lb frozen tater tots, partially thawed
• 16 ounces frozen chopped broccoli, partially thawed
• 2 1/2 cups cheddar cheese, shredded
• 1 (8 ounce) can condensed cream celery soup
• ½ cup chopped onion or ½ tsp. onion powder
Directions
Preheat oven to 350.
Mix ingredients and pour into casserole dish.
Bake at 350 for 20 minutes until tots are crispy and casserole is a bubblin!
Top with a bit of cheese and pop back into the oven for about 3 minutes until melted.

(You may substitute ham with spam, and chedder with Velveeta for true white trash flavor.).

I apologize to you, buckeyeinwi -- I know you didn't name the casserole yourself! By the way, I am the reverse of you: a "cheeseheadinoh."