Ah, Combos. The official snack of Nascar. I'd seen giant bags of buffalo combos at 7/11, but didn't quite feel like getting those. But then, while home for Easter, we spotted this tiny bag! The perfect trial size. I actually really like Combos sometimes - their pizzeria flavor really does taste like pizzeria somehow... no pizza, but the whole dang pizzeria. Who'da thunk it?
I somehow didn't realize these were pretzel until I looked more closely at the bag - buffalo blue cheese seems like a baked combo rather than a pretzel combo, but we shall see!
But what do they taste like?
Pretzel-y, which is what I expected. I taste mostly strange blue cheese flavor and then a bit of random spicy flavor. It's not... quite... buffalo blue cheese, though. I think in part because 'pretzel' is a very strong flavor. The buffalo blue cheese flavor, such that it is, is pretty creamy too - I guess that's what happens when it's a weird little nibble shoved inside a pretzel roll?
These almost taste like buffalo and blue cheese, but then don't at the same time. There's something a bit odd about them. I think it's the added pretzel, and bit chemically taste of the blue cheese? I also feel like there's not a strong enough 'buffalo' flavor - buffalo is usually an easy flavor to taste, but I'm really not getting much of it here. It's more a bit of spicy, which I suspect is standing in for the buffalo flavor, and then the strange chemically cheese taste.
On the whole? I'm glad I didn't get a bigger bag. While these don't taste bad necessarily, I don't think they're good enough to get again. I'd rather have pizzeria flavored, thanks.
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