Exactly the same here.
Peeled. If I’m in a hurry, it might be peeled into pretty coarse “strings” (maybe 6 strings off a stick), but just biting into a whole stick of string cheese is weirdly unappealing to me.
A little of both, actually.
I bite the end off, which creates a rough end that makes it easier to pull strings from.
I do agree with those saying that the flavor is improved by pulling it. More surface area, I think.
I peel it into smaller sticks, but I don’t have the patience to turn it into anything particularly stringy.
I generally peel. If I have it in the house, it’s the smoked mozzarella from the farmer’s market. So I savor it. Unless I’m really hungry and in a hurry, then it disappears in about three bites.
Care for a slice of Bollymunster?
I see string cheese as a convenient single server packaging mechanism. Afternoon snacks for me tend to be an apple with string cheese.
I just bite into them. Separately. No peeling.
I voted on behalf of my two-year-old son who bites.
This.
I’m a biter, but I dip it in hot sauce before biting. Not bland at all. If I try that with the strings, it gets all drippy.
That settles it, Pastis is a Doper.
I just take a bite of the stick. Watching somebody sit and pick strings off a stick makes me want to grab a baseball bat and start swinging.
Bite. What am I, five? As an adult, the only appeal of string cheese is mess-free one-handed eating. If I have time to pick apart my string cheese, I have time to cut and serve better cheese.
LOL yeah, basically, but I might have chosen a slightly less … ah, lurid phrasing.
*settles self down into **dracoi’*s camp
I’ve inspired worse.
Never seen the stuff. Does it taste like … cheese?
I always bit the stick once to get a good handle to pull on. It loses its novelty if you don’t string it.