One of those tasteless, hard-to-eat, artery clogging mothers costs $3.50.
This is the food item that should be the new emblem of belly gorging at the Wisconsin State Fair.
The humble grilled cheese sandwich at the Wisconsin State Fair is made with real Wisconsin Cheese, comes in cheddar or swiss, is a snap to eat, and is artery clogging, too (if you're in to that kind of thing). You can also get three of these beauties for five bucks.
The choice is clear in my book. I think it's time to change the fat-people-getting-fatter ways of the Wisconsin State Fair and push the Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff into a supporting role and showcase the Wisconsin Grilled Cheese Sandwich for what it really is: THE GREATEST SANDWICH ON THE PLANET.
Help me lean into the Wisconsin State Fair powers-that-be. You can write them at 640 South 84th Street
West Allis, Wis. 53214. And feel free to use the letter I'm posting below. When I discovered this eating disparity at the Wisconsin State Fair yesterday, a new obsession was born. It's time to give the Wisconsin Grilled Cheese Sandwich it's day,salute the cream puff, and then tell it to move aside.
Here's my letter. Craft it anyway you like and send it off as part of Mission: Cream Puff Ouster.
Dear Wisconsin State Fair Organizers,
I would like to bring to your attention a matter which requires serious deliberation and, in my estimation, immediate action on the part of the Wisconsin State Fair Organizers. It has to do with the issue of The Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff and it's dominance as the signature food item of the Wisconsin State Fair. I feel there is a much worthier and equally decadent food favorite that is getting short shrift in the face of some marketing initiative to always make the Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff the heartthrob of the gluttonous masses attending the Fair.
My candidate for the new signature food item of The Wisconsin State Fair? A concoction so simple and perfect in its form and execution that it defies explanation of how it tastes so darned good. I speak, of course, of The Wisconsin Grilled Cheese Sandwich.
There really is no comparison. The Wisconsin State Fair Grilled Cheese Sandwich packs intense flavor into it's four-sided frame. It is a food that makes even hardened men and women think about a sweet mom sliding some freshly grilled, melty sandwiches on paper plates for neighborhood friends to share on a simple summer day. The Wisconsin State Fair Grilled Cheese Sandwich can be eaten on the run, enjoyed as a snack or a full meal, presented with fruit or a side salad as a sit-down triumph, or just savored as an olfactory delight by huddled masses who want to smell butter, bread and cheese warmed to a perfect conflagration of tastiosity. The Wisconsin Grilled Cheese sandwich is a super star.
The Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff, on the other hand, is unwieldy, strangely lacking in an addictive sugar additives, and the responsible party in far too many Wisconsin pants splitting episodes to even mention.
I will not bash The Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff. I know it has it's fans. But, I believe that if a popular vote were held today, The Wisconsin State Fair Grilled Cheese Sandwich would carry the day by a wide margin. I urge you to promote the Wisconsin State Fair Grilled Cheese Sandwich with the vigor which it deserves before there is rioting in the streets, and a civic overthrow of good eating at the Fair.
Please, also think about adding more "Kids From Wisconsin" shows. Any youth group that does a show which includes a tribute to both Toto and Styx deserves more stage time.
Yours truly,
Jonathan West
2 smart alecky remarks:
My Artsy Friend,
While I love a fine grilled cheese sandwich as much as the next man, I have to say that I look forward to my annual cream puff at Wisconsin State Fair. The grilled cheese is a fine sandwich and I enjoy making and eating them throughout the year. Like most of us, however, I do not possess skill or time to produce my own Cream Puffs to level of diary goodness as you can get at the fair. That raises it to the status of an occasional treat.
No disrespect to the grilled cheese but its simplicity keeps it from the celebrity status to which you wish to elevate it. If I were to lobby for a replacement to the Cream Puff as food icon to the fair, I would choose something a bit more glamorous, like one of the foods "on a stick."
In the spirit of good will, I wish you good luck on your quest.
I must agree with kamagoon. The Grilled Cheese Sandwich is a delicious, hearty, working class, pedestrian staple. One can quickly learn to make it in the home kitchen, or in an emergency, while traveling with a travel iron. The Wisconsin State Fair is a once-year-special-family-event and deserves a once -a year Epicurean Superstar: The Wisconsin State Fair Cream Puff! Carry the tradition forward! Wear the aftermath powdered sugar and whipped cream badge with pride!
Post a Comment