herr's cheese curls - 2/5 and 3/5

i was VERY excited to enjoy these herr's cheese curls. as you know from my last post, i am wary of puffed cheese curls, but these came in two excellent flavors so i was very excited to try them.

bacon cheddar

deep dish pizza 

you can see that both curls looked very similar, uniformly orange with "oregano" sprinkles. unfortunately, both flavors of cheese curls disappointed. they were very aftertaste heavy and we didn't want to finish eating the 3.5oz bags of these.

texture of curl: dissolved too fast, could use +1 unit of crunch
flavor - bacon: sometimes tastes really bacony, sometimes tasted not bacony at all. i am thinking they smelled more like bacon than they tasted like bacon. the first bite was very bacony, but all others were just very strongly salty fake cheddar flavor. needed to accompany these curls with >250 mLs of water.
flavor - deep dish pizza: this was a welcome relief after the weird bacon flavor, bursting with a punch of marinara, but then like the bacon, only the first bite was flavorful. this flavor could be very good on a ruffled potato chip, but it is just not cutting it on a cheese curl. ultimately, i am a big pizza fan but i was pretty disappointed.

special notes: i was pleased to learn that the bacon cheddar curls were vegetarian.

ultimate verdict - bacon: weak 2 out of 5
ultimate verdict - deep dish pizza: weak 3 out of 5.