Grilled Cheese Invitational
by Andrea Leigh
on April 21, 2009
You heard right--the 7th annual Grilled Cheese Invitational is this Saturday, April 25 at Los Angeles State Historic Park. The competition will be fierce (you'll need to register to compete no later than this Thursday, so get on the ball!), and there will be free grilled cheese sandwiches from sponsor KRAFT Singles, as well as cheese-themed poetry, comedy, cheesey music, and exhibition cheese grilling.
Event founder and organizer Tim Walker says, "The 1st 7th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational is the greatest combination of bravery and unnecessarily competitive cheese the world has seen since Neil Diamond’s 2008 world tour." Check it out if you're in L.A., and let us know how it was!
--AndreaLeigh
CakeSpy on April 22, 2009 at 08:20 AM
OMG I wish I could be there!
GM Roper on April 25, 2009 at 07:11 AM
Grilled Cheese and a bowl of Cream of Tomato Soup. Perfection!!!
Tim on April 25, 2009 at 08:08 AM
"The 1st 7th Annual" .... really?
Burnsville Buzz on April 25, 2009 at 08:32 PM
Velveeta on Wonder Bread! The great sandwich!
Riley Ray on April 27, 2009 at 01:31 PM
This was one of the most poorly organized, disappointing events I've been to in some time.
1) The only food you could get was a cold corner of a grilled cheese sandwich from Kraft
2) There was ONE vendor outside SELLING grilled cheese sandwiches. OUTSIDE the event. With a 30 minute line.
3) There were NO signs explaining any of this.
And if you wanted to WATCH the cooking, the line was six deep to even see. Did NOBODY think to put it the action on platforms like in other public cooking events?
When I talked to some staff in t-shirts on the way out, what I got was "yeah we sold all our tickets earlier" and then not much else. So, to recap: you have NO food vendors IN the event. There were not enough tickets to give a TENTH of everyone who showed up more than a 1/4 kraft sandwich. And the communication was so bad that there was no way to figure any of this out until you'd been majorly disappointed by the whole thing.
Seriously, great idea but with the execution of the mentally disabled. Way to screw it up guys.