Cheese balls are most certainly not equivalent to cheese curds in any form.

Cheese curds are an ambiguous term, they are either fresh or fried.

Traditionally, fried cheese curds are what one does with their extra cheese curds after they are no longer fresh.

Cheese curds are no longer fresh once they have been refrigerated and lose their squeak. Only thing left to do with them then is to batter and fry them. But they still aren’t cheese balls.

Silly blue plates don’t know shit about cheese.