Posted on 04/12/2021 7:03:02 AM PDT by mylife
Sporting events are not generally known as places where you can find a good deal on food. For the most part, going to a a major league sporting event involves paying far more for a sandwich or slice of pizza than you would nearly everywhere else. One exception to this is The Masters, where you can purchase a pimento cheese sandwich for $1.50. A recent article in The New York Times dubbed the Amen Corner concession stand at Augusta National Golf Club “one of the great bargains in sports.” But even something as delicious as a pimento cheese sandwich isn’t without its related controversies. A new article by Luke Fater at Atlas Obscura explores an unexpected scandal involving the cheese sandwiches in question. Reading this, you might wonder if pimento cheese can spark a scandal; rest assured, it can. At the heart of the matter is the pimento cheese recipe developed by Nick Rangos. The cheese available in Rangos’s South Carolina establishment Woodruff Drug was so highly regarded that The Masters came calling, hiring Rangos in the 1960s. That working relationship lasted for 45 years, before the tournament opted to work with another vendor. Rangos, frustrated by this decision, kept his recipe to himself. History then repeated itself: Ted Godfrey, who followed Rangos, figured out Rangos’s recipe (or something that tasted virtually identical to it) — only to also withhold that recipe when The Masters again opted to work with a different source of cheese (in this case, handling concessions in-house) in 2013. Tournament attendees hadn’t noticed the changeover from Rangos to Godfrey, but they did notice this one — and it’s been hotly debated among golf fans and cheese devotees ever since.
(Excerpt) Read more at chron.com ...
DID SOMEBODY SAY 'CHEESE'?....................
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What, there’s nothing else? Well that’s annoying. The whole article has nothing other than what’s posted. Where is the rest of the story?
I dont get the allure, I bought a large tub made in SC for dirt cheap and spread some in a toasted English muffin... meh...
fr/chron rules
Gettin Crazy with the Cheez Whiz!
seriously does anyone get worked up over pimento cheese? especially CHEAP pimento cheese?
They ran out of Venezuelan Beaver Cheese?
That doesn’t look anything like my homemade pimento cheese.
it is rather runny...
My wife’s from North Carolina and likes pimento cheese. I’ve tried it, and it’s OK, but there are lots of cheeses I like better.
Now livermush is another story. I’ll eat that anytime. Wish I had some now.
Maybe it’s just because you buy one on the grounds of Augusta National, but those things are F*CKING DELICIOUS.....emphasis mine and mine alone.
White bread is gross, but somehow two slices and some cheese are addicting.
well rango cant make cheese... so.
I don’t care how excrementally runny it is, hand it over with all speed.
Keep the sandwiches away from Hunter or they’ll go up his nose.
I’m surprised, I thought for sure this would be a racist story.
hey! I’m with you! little mustard little onion..
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