Not as widely available

JagaRico Cheese flavor

Brand: Calbee

Price: 108 yen

Place of purchase: Don Quijote

Rating:

I like the red packaging of this version of Calbee's popular JagaRico (Jagariko) potato snack that is shaped like a stick. Like all flavors of the JagaRico range, the cheese flavor has a good crunch on it. You can add hot water and mush it for a different texture, much like mashed potato. It became a thing after a video of such went viral! I personally prefer it with its crunch. If you want to try it, they recommend you add boiled hot water to the one third mark, leaving it sitting for a bit, then mash it.

For some reason, the weight of the different flavors of JagaRico are different. Only the original version is 57 grams. The cheese flavor is 55 grams. Like I wrote in both the Salad version and Butter version reviews, the cheese flavors taste is a bit too similar to those two flavors (salad and butter) to tell them apart in a blind taste test. It would great if they could make them a bit more distinguishable. Similarly, apart from the background color, there isn't much different in the packaging for this and those two other similar flavors. I am not sure that this flavor is as widely available as either the Salad (original) or butter flavors. I personally don't see it in stores in my area as much.