Taste: These looked like your typical cheese balls, with a pale yellow color, the typical cheese ball consistency and just a light coating of cheese powder on the surface. They tasted a bit odd, with sort of two competing tastes, one being a regular cheese snack sort of flavor, and the other being a bad taste similar to how these smelled. The overall taste wasn't nearly as bad as the smell. Some of our tasters actually liked them, but others thought the taste was kind of unpleasant, especially after eating a two or three of the cheese balls.