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A Grilled Cheese So Good, It's Criminal?

August 2, 2010 9:30 pm · Posted by nancyeinhart

I hear you can get just about anything delivered in New York, including, apparently, a hot grilled cheese in a paper sack. According to a story in today's New York Post entitled "He's making a gouda living," an underground chef in the East Village is taking orders via text message for freshly griddled grilled cheese sandwiches, delivered on street corners.

Identified only as "Ronnie" out of fear of the health department, the shady sandwich maker says,  "I feel like a drug dealer because I'm handing people a paper bag and they're handing me cash." Ronnie charges $5 to $7 a sandwich. You'll have some cash leftover if you want to visit the underground lobster roll dealer.

Given, grilled cheese sandwiches are addictively good, but they're also ridiculously easy to make at home. Had I known they had such street value, I could have turned a serious profit after our great grilled cheese off. So what's your take on Ronnie: great idea or ridiculous gimmick?

posted by
8/03/10

If cupcakes became sexy beyond any reasonable expectation, why not grilled cheese sandwiches? Next he will have a storefront where people stand in line for hours.


posted by Aesop(ko)
8/03/10

Few would call me argumentative, Nancy, but in this instance, so must I be...

On behalf of many simple sandwiches world wide, I take issue with your suggestion that a grilled cheese is "ridiculously easy." And while I lack the time to beat back your affront to those subtle flavors brought about by a sensitive touch, a coddling of buttered bread on a warm skillet, and the just-so timing that provides balance at taste's edge...I will ask: would you show the same disdain for PB&J!?

Oh, wait...you would, wouldn't you! Peanut-hater.

Free the cheese! Viva Velveeta! Long live the cheese!


posted by
8/06/10

Aesop(ko), I do believe you ARE the cheese!


posted by
8/18/10

Yummy


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