I Want A Rope !! (Golden Vale Cheestrings)

Member Name: xjemloux

Product:	Golden Vale Cheestrings
Date:	24/08/09 (48 review reads)
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I'm in two minds about alot of things lately, one of these 'things' being cheestrings. I've ate so many, took them on daytrips, ate them in packed lunches and even as a quick snack at home - but whats the deal with them?

You can find cheestrings in their purple multi packets in the fridges of most supermarkets or they are sold singular in newsagents. The packets they come in are nothing spectacular being mostly purple with pictures of cheese strings with eyes, stringed out at the top to make it look like hair. All Natural Cheestrings it says in the middle, 8x twisted - or you can buy packs of 6. In the corner we are told that each one is made with a glass of fresh milk.

The back of the packet provides us with much more information about these strings of cheese.

'Cheestrings are simply natural cheese, just gently heated and stretched like mozzarella. That's what makes them great fun to eat.'

'100% Cheese goodness! Cheestrings are a naturally good source of calcium for healthy bones and teeth. Each one provides 26% of a child's RDA of calcium.

They are also a good source of protein and contain no artificial ingredients.

All sounds brilliant so far doesn't it?

Does the nutritional info make them sound any better, let's see!

Each 21g cheestring contains
69 calories
0g sugar
5.0g fat
3.1g saturates
0.4g salt

Each cheese string comes vacuum packed in a clear plastic packaging - to reveal the cheese you simply need to peel at the top and each side of the packaging comes apart - this makes for easy snacking.

Cheestrings come in varied styles and colour but the ones I have are half a pale creamy colour and the other a lighter orange - although different colours this doesn't change the taste in anyway.

They have a plastic, shiny look to them - smooth around the edges and rounded at the ends. They are bendy and flexible - which is a little worrying for cheese, cheese for me is crumbly, solid or spreadable - not bendy and plastic looking.

Now the whole idea of cheestrings is to pick at an end and pull resulting in strings of cheese coming off - literally thin strings of cheese. This is an extreme novelty idea which believe me wears off in an instant. Once you realise that a string of cheese isn't actually that fun nor tasty as well as being a bit of a pain you tend to just bite into the tube of cheese whole - which isn't much better to be honest.

They are tasteless, chewy, soft to bite into and are boringly bland! Despite all this I can't help but 'like' them sometimes.

Well some of the back of the packet was right these are just 'simply real cheese' but as for being 'fun' to eat .. I don't think so! These are meant to encourage children to eat cheese to provide them with their calcium and what not but why can't children just eat 'normal' cheese and I'm sure there are better cheese products out there which are alot more fun to consume! These become a tad annoying and the stringy bits can become a little out of control. They don't provide any taste that some cheeses can provide. To be honest I'd rather a mature, tasty, flavoursome cheesy rope not a bland, plasticy, tasteless string! Really thinking about it the best thing about them is they are a convenient snack, especially to pop in lunchboxes, as they are each in their individual packets they are kept fresh and edible.

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