If you are in the Los Angeles area this weekend… you might want to make your way downtown to the Grilled Cheese International… seen on the LA Times Daily Dish

“The 1st 7th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational is the greatest combination of bravery and unnecessarily competitive cheese the world has seen since Neil Diamond’s 2008 world tour” says Tim Walker, the event’s founder and organizer.

In addition to the competition, KRAFT Singles will be on hand as the event’s title sponsor, offering up thousands of FREE grilled cheese sandwiches to the hungry masses.

Add to all this some cheese-themed poetry, comedy, cheesey  music and exhibition cheese grilling and you have one of the more unique, entertaining and delicious events ever witnessed.

Want to compete?  Good for you, registration still open!

Feel you’ve got what it takes to be a Grilled Cheese Champion?  Prove it!  The fee for competition is only $10 and you get a frying pan… FOR FREE!  Such a deal!

The categories of competition will be as follows

• The Missionary Position: Any kind of bread, any kind of butter and any kind of cheese(or combination of cheeses) but no additional ingredients.
• The Kama Sutra: Any kind of bread, any kind of butter, and any kind of cheese(or blend of cheeses) plus additional ingredients.
• The Honey Pot: Any kind of bread, any kind of butter, any kind of cheese (or blend of cheeses), and any additional ingredients, but a sandwich that is sweet in flavor, or would best be served as dessert.

For the winners, there will be a 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th place trophy awarded in each category. There will also be two Spaz awards that will be given to different sammiches that are the biggest Spazes, executive judge awards and mountains of grilled cheese for everybody!

Beer/Wine Garden

There will be beer and wine available for purchase at the event, courtesy of the great folks at Lagunitas Brewing and Trinchero Family Estates.  Proceeds of the beer and wine sales will benefit Black Rock Solar,  a 5013c that takes on climate change and speeds the adoption curve of renewable energy by building low or no cost solar power in unlikely places in California, Nevada and other places across the country.

learn more here

 How in the hell did I miss the first 6 of these?