It's pimento cheese season, FINALLY!

[susandennis]

Assuming that to every thing, there really is a season, it looks like now, at long last, pimento cheese's turn has come.

I just saw a tweet by the Grand Central Bakery (located a block and a half from here -  and to drop a name:  it's where Obama ate lunch last time he was in town) about the history of their pimento cheese sandwich...

THEY HAVE PIMENTO CHEESE????? this is huge. So huge.  Pimento cheese was a staple when I was growing up.  My best friend, Babsie Page took a pimento cheese sandwich (crusts off) to school for lunch every single day of elementary school.  And no one thought it was odd at all.  Pimento cheese was more ubiquitous than peanut butter.

And then I left the south and discovered that no one had heard of lots of stuff - black eye'd peas, sugar in iced tea (heck, they didn't even drink iced tea in the winter), and pimento cheese.


I can tell you exactly which 3 grocery stores sometimes carry pimento cheese in Seattle.  Sometimes, not regularly.

For Valentines Day one year my brother made me a giant bowl and sent it to me packed i dry ice.  He makes GREAT pimento cheese.

And now...  a block and a half from here, they serve it on sandwiches.... with an option of bacon!  (Had we had this option in my house growing up, that would have elevated this sandwich to dinner fare!)

I finally did read that article that the tweet sent me to once I finished my Dance of Joy. It says pimento cheese is having 'a national renaissance'!

So guess where I'm going to go get lunch tomorrow?!