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As I recall, Cheez Balls had a few siblings (maybe some kind of sticks, or logs, or curls or something?) Are those still in production, or did they ditch the whole lot?
(Googles a little) Hmm--maybe Cheez Balls still exist, but under a hip new name?
Thank you, box! I'll certainly pick up some of Pirate's Cannon Balls on the next shopping trip, if only because (given my propensity for forgetting product names) I'll inevitably refer to them as Booty Balls.
I have been searching -- fruitlessly, I must add -- for Planter's Cheez Balls everywhere I've gone for a few years. I LOVE those things. But they became more and more rare, until finally I just assumed they'd been discontinued.
It sucks, because the closest thing I've seen is those awful Utz Cheese Balls, which are nasty and only come in giant containers for when you want to commit suicide by sitting for eight hours eating cheese balls.
I love cheez balls. I liked the cannon balls, but I'm a bit hesitant to buy anything from Robert's again, since they charge extra for being all ecocool and healthy organic or whatev, and it turned out the shit is made from oddball chemicals and botualism from China, just like the cheap store brands I thought I was doing well to avoid.
One time the kids spilled one of those giant containers of suicide inducing Utz Cheez Balls all over my minivan. I tell you what, those things do not decompose. Months later, we were still finding them in the upholstery, completely unchanged. Okay, with added dog hair goodness, but otherwise? They were still just as orange, just as crunchy, just as. . whatever it is that they are. I fear food that does not change its shape over several months of neglect.
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