{"id":355,"date":"2009-03-25T21:20:38","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T21:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2009\/03\/25\/i-am-a-winner-i-think\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T05:24:09","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T05:24:09","slug":"i-am-a-winner-i-think","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/revblogs\/zombielapdance\/2009\/03\/25\/i-am-a-winner-i-think\/","title":{"rendered":"I am a winner! I think."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second year in which I competed in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.grilledcheeseinvitational.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">Grilled Cheese Invitational<\/a>. Last year I entered in all three categories (which was a horrible mistake), and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblog_entry.php?e=997\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"postlink\">I won third place<\/a> in the &quot;honey pot&quot; category.<\/p>\n<p>This year I only entered in the &quot;honey pot&quot; dessert category, revamping my winning entry from the year before. Basically, I had so many obligations for that night (that was the night of the zombie simulation) that I could only commit for the fifteen minutes it took to process the 20 sample sandwiches of my &quot;tiramisu surprise.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>I won in the &quot;spaz&quot; category. Here&#8217;s what they have to say about the &quot;spaz.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What is a Spaz? You tell us! Essentially, the Spaz sandwich is the sandwich with the biggest Weird Factor. It could be a sandwich so lacking in style it&#8217;s a style in itself. Or it could be a sandwich high on concept, but lower than dirt on taste. Or maybe a sandwich clearly designed simply to annoy. It&#8217;s hard to define that elusive &quot;Spaz&quot; quality, but you&#8217;ll know it when you see it. Which one of the sammiches totally deserves that title? When you look at a sammich, does it scream SPAZ!? Award it here!&quot;<\/p>\n<p>So am I a winner? Hard to say. I&#8217;m pretty sure I annoyed them by stretching the &quot;grilled&quot; aspect to its full conceptual limit (and probably a bit further) by deep-frying the sandwich in butter and sugar. But people really enjoyed it. People came to tell me they thought it was the best thing they&#8217;ve eaten.<\/p>\n<p>(Although that might be because I exercised my theory that you get a big boost to your ratings by giving the judging public a big portion. The lines are so long at this event that most people only get a couple of samples. If you stand in line for twenty minutes, you&#8217;re going to want more than a quarter-cut sandwich.)<\/p>\n<p>I am a winner in the sense that someone spent a lot of time making the trophy a beautiful work of art. At one time it was a high school forensics trophy. Now it is the embodiment of spaz.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/5\/194238548549ca9b3da8f5c.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/5\/201773255749ca9b4bf38e8.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revolutionsf.com\/bb\/weblogs\/upload\/5\/839679849ca9b4473d44.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is the second year in which I competed in the Grilled Cheese Invitational. Last year I entered in all three categories (which was a horrible mistake), and I won third place in the &quot;honey pot&quot; category. 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