un-meh thing of the week - a grilled cheese festival that lives up to its expectations

I'm pretty sure 95% of the meh blog's 2 million daily readers are the same type of people as the meh blog authors...meaning our readers are late 20s to late 30s in age, they have mindless, aimless, career-debilitating desk jobs, and they long for the days of college to return. It also means our readers look forward to their weekends nearly as much as we do. After all, at this point in our lives, the weekdays blow & the week nights are spent dreading the upcoming weekday. So the weekends have added importance, and it always sucks when you have these high expectations for a weekend plan & then they don't pan out. It happens all too often, right? You make this great plan of getting absolutely destroyed in the park all Saturday afternoon--just you, a few friends, 2 handles of Jack, a frisbee and 2 ski poles. But then the rain comes, and you just sit in your house all day taking bong rips feeling sorry for yourself.

Well for the un-meh thing of the week, I'd like to give a HUGE shout out to the 2nd 8th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational that took place in LA last Saturday afternoon. A group of 3 of us from San Fran got on board with this grilled cheese cook-off at the last minute, and one major reason we couldn't get a larger group was because people assumed this event would be lame. A friend even told us that he attended a similar event in SF not long ago & it was poorly-organized, poorly-attended and not enough grilled cheeses even for the few people who showed up. With a random event like this, you just never know what you're gonna get, right?

Well I'm happy to report the Grilled Cheese Invitational exceeded even our loftiest expectations. It was a beautiful California day filled with some super-inventive grilled cheese recipes, a beer garden with a bunch of different brands/micro-brews, and enough free cheese samples to feed the entire meh blog staff. The entire competition process was well-organized and pretty much stress-free. There was plenty of space for the cooks to prepare their dishes, and the judging process actually seemed somewhat legit.

I wish I had a complaint about this event, that way our loyal readers would know I'm not getting paid off by the Grilled Cheese Invitational organizers to say these un-meh things. Sometimes an event can actually be un-meh.