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Carando Abruzzese Classic Italian Meatballs (12 ct.)
3.8 out of 5 stars
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Jun 2, 2019
Purplerain
5 out of 5 stars review

Great Flavor

They are a little spicy. They have great flavor easy to cook. Just don't over cook in the oven or they do tend to end up a little tough. Family loved them.

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Oct 9, 2019
Cfnvster
4 out of 5 stars review

Quick addition to Homemade Sauce

Didn't have time to make my own meatballs, so I added these to my own sauce. Also, used them to make meatball hoagies for lunch break at work. I would purchase them again.

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Oct 25, 2020
PanamaPat
3 out of 5 stars review

Pan frying with lid on makes them much better

The first time we tried these in the oven, they were awfully chewy and tough, not very edible. I called the help line and they suggested cooking in a small frying pan with a bit of oil or butter and cook with LID ON. Pan frying with a pat of buttero at medium temperature turning every 5 minutes with lid on made all the difference. That said, they are still very salty, so keep that in mind before adding more salt.

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Aug 26, 2019
ccorrell02
1 out of 5 stars review

Not a good meatball

We bought 4 packages of these. They look and appear like a perfect meatball until they are cooked. The texture is like rubber and super chewy. My cat wouldn't even eat them as that was the last effort before throwing them away. If I could give these less than 1 star I would. Ashamed of myself for wasting $ on 4 packages just to end up in the trash.

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Aug 7, 2019
Bill
1 out of 5 stars review

NOT a good meatball

Incredibly salty and seasoned more like an Italian sausage than a meatball. The meat is tough and overworked not soft and tender like an Italian meatball should be. They've got an Italian name, but my grandmother wouldn't feed these to her dog they're so bad.

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Feb 13, 2020
MScotty
1 out of 5 stars review

Italian Style?

Yes they are meat and they are balls, but Italian style? One reviewer states they have a lot of Italian sausage in them, a lot, they're all sausage, my son got it right when he called these sausage balls. Didn't realize that they're all pork, no beef or veal, I don't consider these meatballs without those. And yes they are salty.

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May 16, 2022
MK
2 out of 5 stars review

These are sausage! Not beef. Very dense.

Looking forward to these, but they were very dense pork meatballs. They actually taste very strongly like breakfast sausage. Which is fine if that's what you want in your italian dishes, but I was hoping for a traditional meatball. Once we went back and read the ingredients, you see it is pork.

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Jul 28, 2020
Maggie
1 out of 5 stars review

yuck

I should have read the reviews. Tough, rubbery, and very much sausage (and I love sausage!) We couldn't eat them. Trust the reviews...

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Jul 24, 2020
Dadica
1 out of 5 stars review

Terrible, terrible.

I bougth them at Sam's. The worst flavor. No natural at all. Los compré en Sam's. El peor sabor. No saben natural para nada. No sabe a carne.

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Aug 25, 2021
Sue
2 out of 5 stars review

Mezza Mezza

These meatballs are extremely salty and have a strong fennel taste. As other reviewers have said, more sausage than meatballs. I won't buy them again.

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