Nonelongated creamy orb

What is it again that's as Midwestern as a fish fry, Nation's Newspaper of Record?

A cheese ball is the culinary equivalent of a Rorschach test. How you regard the creamy orb depends very much on where you were raised, how you were raised and — especially when facing one of the lesser examples — your emotional fortitude.

Getting an elongated yellow fruit into the lede takes some writering, doesn't it?