So Leor Barack over at the New York Grilled Cheese Co. on Wilton Drive is running a special this month on his Central Park Green Goddess sandwich. For the novitiates among you, the GG gets its green from avocado, roasted green chilies, and a smear of green pesto. The goddess comes by way of cheese curd which tastes a whole lot better than it sounds. Couple that with caramelized onions and you’ve got the new definition of “yum” (in-between two slices of sourdough). Run, do not walk!
While we’re on the subject of Grilled Cheese, there’s a new study out from the good folks over at Skout, the world’s largest network for meeting new people. While there are millions of users that log on to Skout daily, only 4,600 of them took part in a study on Grilled Cheese Sandwiches and Sex.
A full 32 percent of those who like grilled cheese ended up having sex more than six times a month. That’s something that only 27 percent of those who don’t like grilled cheese managed to do. Add to the mix that 73 percent of grilled cheese lovers had sex at least once a month. Make that only 63 percent for those who didn’t.
As we read further into the study, we were amazed that grilled cheese sandwiches had even more power than we had ever thought. Love grilled cheese? You are 84 percent more likely to travel and seek adventure than the taste bud-dead haters of the stuff. But not only that: Love grilled cheese and you are far more likely to give to charities! Eighty-one percent to 66.
We began to get suspicious of the legitimacy of the Skout study when it informed us that 60 percent of the respondents liked their grilled cheese sandwiches to mix two types of cheese. American was the favorite with 41 percent, followed by Cheddar (33 percent), Mozzarella (10 percent), Swiss (8 percent), Provolone (6 percent) and Brie (2 percent).
This news definitely left us in the minority since we’re Grilled Cheese purists, preferring only a single cheese between the buttered toast. Only 40 percent of the respondents agreed with us here.
The news went further south when we discovered that white bread was favored by 51 percent of the voters, followed by wheat (29 percent), our favorite sourdough came in third with 13 percent (what!!), rye (4 percent), while a baguette ranked last with three percent.
Not to be forgotten are the toppings. While over half the respondents were said to like a plain grilled cheese (53 percent to be precise), 47 percent say they add extras to their grilled cheese sandwich (with bacon and tomato being the favorites). Those that don’t like grilled cheese tallied that if they ever order the sandwich they would remove the crusts. That’s an automatic forfeiture to us. Only 10 percent of people who love grilled cheese sandwiches would remove the crust.
After all this analysis, it suddenly dawned on us that this wasn’t really a study after all. This was more a survey. And for grilled cheese lovers like us, a rather depression one at that
Lest you forget how this all began, 73 percent of grilled cheese lovers had sex once a month. According to The Kinsey Institute, who have been asking questions about sex for over 65 years, 32 to 36 percent of partnered people aged 25 to 39 report having sex several times a month to weekly. An additional 27 to 39 percent report having sex two to three times per week.
Translation: We grilled cheese eaters have less sex than every day folk. Insert unhappy face here. That news will not keep up from going to the New York Grilled Cheese Co., however. The Green Goddess awaits….Until next week.
