$1 grilled cheese

if you want to read the original thread, check this: https://nitter.net/tinymediaempire/status/1136992675742269440#m

If I were drunk, I'd probably get 300$ out of the ATM and laugh the entire hour or whatever it took...
Then eat like 10 and give the rest away to people.
10/10 dark af 1/10 sandwiches are rubbbery
Oh shit I thought it was a shopped picture just for the concept
- it is, the designer/illustrator Daniel Danger did a render of both sides

"Cash only. I don't have Venmo because I'm not some teenage asshole who vapes"

That part got me haha

My gf and her friends are in their late twenties and vape, how old is this post?
- Very.
- 2019
- It's definitely poking fun at the fact that people who vape are younger on average than those who smoke cigs, not supposing literally only teens vape.
  Sort of like how lots of old people also use venmo, but it's particularly popular among the young.
- I'm middle aged and vape. A lot of us old-heads switched from cigarettes a long time ago.

A grilled cheese consists of only these following items. Cheese. Bread with spread (usually butter). This entire subreddit consist of "melts". Almost every "grilled cheese" sandwich i see on here has other items added to it. The fact that this subreddit is called "grilledcheese" is nothing short of utter blasphemy. Let me start out by saying I have nothing against melts, I just hate their association with sandwiches that are not grilled cheeses. Adding cheese to your tuna sandwich? It's called a Tuna melt. Totally different. Want to add bacon and some pretentious bread crumbs with spinach? I don't know what the hell you'd call that but it's not a grilled cheese. I would be more than willing to wager I've eaten more grilled cheeses in my 21 years than any of you had in your entire lives. I have one almost everyday and sometimes more than just one sandwich. Want to personalize your grilled cheese? Use a mix of different cheeses or use sourdough or french bread. But if you want to add some pulled pork and take a picture of it, make your own subreddit entitled "melts" because that is not a fucking grilled cheese. I'm not a religious man nor am I anything close to a culinary expert. But as a bland white mid-western male I am honestly the most passionate person when it comes to grilled cheese and mac & cheese. All of you foodies stay the hell away from our grilled cheeses and stop associating your sandwich melts with them. Yet again, it is utter blasphemy and it rocks me to the core of my pale being. Shit, I stopped lurking after 3 years and made this account for the sole purpose of posting this. I've seen post after post of peoples "grilled cheeses" all over reddit and it's been driving me insane. The moment i saw this subreddit this morning I finally snapped. Hell, I may even start my own subreddit just because I know this one exists now.

You god damn heretics. Respect the grilled cheese and stop changing it into whatever you like and love it for it what it is. Or make your damn melt sandwich and call it for what it is. A melt.

As a non American, where I am from, we call them toasties. Cheese toasties, cheese and tomato toasties, etc.
I don't know of any puritans who argue about what a true toastie is, but I may have lived a sheltered life. People will argue about anything.
- Toasties are the way!
  And yeah I'd argue what makes a toastie is much more lenient than the american counterparts.
  I've seen a toastie been called a toastie just because it was essentially a sandwich with toast.
- Aussie??
- NO THEY WON'T!! STOP LYING!!
  [jk]
- Huh. As an American, I thought my mom was the only person who referred to them as cheese toasties.
Thanks for that classic.
- To this day my friends know not to call a melt a grilled cheese around me or they’re going to hear my shitty retelling of this.
I love this copy pasta
What the fuck is a subreddit?
- It's a place where subs can gossip about their doms
if italians invented the grilled cheese
Oh, Great Sage please teach us your ways
Whilst this was a very entertaining read, you dropped your pedanticness (pedantry?) when you started calling Lemmy communities 'subreddits'.
If we can't call a tomato and cheese toasty a grilled cheese with tomato we definitely can't call these communities subreddits! :D
- I regret to inform you that it is in fact a Reddit copypasta, and not original content.
- It's a copy paste from reddit and I didn't feel like editing the glory
Grilled cheese with bacon is grilled cheese
- Bacon melt

People are actually in this thread discussing how feasible this is as if it were a real plan down to calculating specific costs and supporting them with URLs.

Never change, Lemmy.

Many of us do have this fantasy.
I'm sick of seeing $6 for a bag of fries and $12 for a basic ass sandwich.
- I mean, it's a bummer when the bougie burger places do this, but when the taco trucks and teriyaki shops near me started costing more than $2 a taco or $10 for a plate of yakisoba, I knew shit was getting hard out there.
Makes me wonder what people are paying for bread, Kraft cheese (or a knockoff of the same) and butter/margarine.
Seriously, a single grilled cheese shouldn't be more than $1, it should be much less... At least in materials.... The cost of grilling it and cleaning up and whatnot should still be really cheap. Even if you wrap the sandwiches in wax/parchment paper or whatever and serve it, you should still be able to make a profit per sandwich. Whether you would be better off doing this rather than getting a job at McDonald's or whatever... That will depend on how popular the food truck is....
- There used to be a vending machine in a hosiptal near me that would heat up a premade grilled cheese sandwich for £2. Being a vending machine in a hospital, they had to be making at least enough to cover the costs plus wastage. I'd say that somewhere with high footfall, especially on a cold day, you could make at least some profit from this.
A few years back in HollandN(UTRECHT) one shop actually ONLY sold sandwiches (not grilled) for a buck or so. They had LINES. Then shit got renod
- None of this sentence makes any sense at all man
Gaslamp district in San Diego had a cafeteria like this years ago, guessing it's no longer a thing, but simple cheap menu would have steady customers, maybe profitable, it's the business development people who would oppose.
There was one in metro vancouver area, it was a store front. but it was just cheap grilled cheese nothing else. like costco hot dog pricing
- It still there? I'm in downtown but go through metro enough it'd be worth knowing about

Id love to see food trucks that were dirt cheap and just did 1 food. Please park this grilled cheese truck outside my house

I went to a food truck festival a few weeks ago, and holy shit the prices of stuff. I don't think there was a single item you could get for less than $18, and that was like the price of three french fries.
- Yes but they were artisanal french fries
- Yeah that's how it is here. Food trucks are only at events and event food costs a fortune for some reason. You'd think that having 1000s of hungry people in one place would allow the to drop the price a bit but nah gotta squeeze us for everything.
- In Colorado, that has been my experience for over a decade. Food truck food was never cheap here. In Portland, just this year, I managed a few great and cheap meals from their food carts.
Trucks that do 1 or 2 foods are not that uncommon. We have a fish and chip truck and a glazed donut truck. But none are cheap.
- But none are cheap.
  This is the real kicker. Businesses charge what people are willing to pay, not what stuff costs to produce.
In my city: there was two stoners who ran around making three types of ramen - vegan, non-vegan (their broth is a different), and regular (they crack an egg).
It was like $6-7.
I loved those guys and used to follow them around.
- Imagine paying $6 for noodles.
  They probably loved you, lol.
- A ramen groupie

I'm excited to introduce my latest business:

The $.99 Grilled Cheese Food Truck. Conveniently located next to the $1 Grilled Cheese Food Truck. Come with $1, leave with a grilled cheese and money still in your pocket (yes, we give change).

Honestly, from my experience with whole prices and no sales tax in Europe, I might just stay with the first truck.
- I would go with the first truck specifically NOT to get a penny back.
If you sorted out the methodology one person could staff a changeless truck, you start giving change thats a lot of time.

Put this outside a good number of pubs in the UK and you’ll make an absolute killing. It would have to offer a £1 toastie, of course, but the principle is the same.

- ACAB, my good chap.

Yeah, hi. I’m lactose and gluten intolerant and I was wondering if…

Yes you can fuck off with or without grilled cheese.
- Yes you can fuck off with or without your face grilled
  Fix'd
If you ever find yourself around Cleveland, OH, find a Melt: https://meltbarandgrilled.com/menu/
- Melt is crazy good. Half sandwiches, vegan, gluten free, or full on grease and meat and dairy. I go once every time I visit Ohio. I'd go twice if I hated my body.

Why would anyone ruin a grilled cheese sandwich with a slice of tomato?

Sure, tomatoes bad, but have you tried jalapenos?
- That does sound good
- Sure, but that's a melt, not a grilled cheese
- Why the fuck would I order a jalapeno melt at a grilled cheese truck?
Because tomatoes are the perfect fruit/vegetable and improve every single dish they're in, without exception.
Pickles on grilled cheese is the superior grilled cheese and everyone that says otherwise can go right to hell
- I say otherwise, & I will happily bathe in the righteous flames of the eternally damned, rather than suffer the unholy blight of pickles on my beloved grilled cheese.
- Anything other than bread and cheese is a melt.
- Pickle melt
Anything else added to a grilled cheese sandwich automatically makes it not a grilled cheese sandwich.

I wanna open a beer garden the size of a parking spot next to it that sells cans of Rainier for a dollar out of a cooler and has a boom box and some plastic kiddie furniture. Party on.

Mount Near Beer!
- Tacoma Corona

To be fair, I'd pay $5 for 5 grilled cheese sandwiches and eat them all in one setting.

There would be a line around the block. This is the grilled cheese of everyone’s childhood. Add a sprinkle of salt or use salted butter when cooking on the skillet and I would be in line with everyone else holding a fiver.

Salt? That's it, your head's going on the griddle.
- Man, I’m so embarrassed for them.
- Really? A very light sprinkle of salt when the sandwich is on the buttered griddle is the shit, especially if you’re using a cheese that is lower in salt. Get that nice crust on the bread with a savory pop. Combine that with a tomato soup and it’s the bomb.
  Don’t knock it until you try it.
  Edit: bloody purists. Gonna turn this into a melt/grilled cheese thing aren’t you.

I wonder if it have a vegan option.

Here's your plain toast
- Ah yes, the classic dish: Grilled Null Sandwich.
- Well, it's grilled cheese. You can remove the cheese yourself, see what I care.
Sure, I'd give you dry toast for $1.

I'd probably double that menu to include coffee.

No cream.

No sugar.

Take your coffee and grilled cheese sandwich and fuck off over thereabouts

What kind of combo is grilled cheese and coffee? Lemonade and grilled cheese, maybe.
- Coffee is life.

What happens if i pay $1.50?

Do I get .50 back? Or do i get half a sandwich or do I just get bread or just cheese or a bread with cheese but not grilled?

Cyndi B @spintheiryarns 7 Jun 2019 Replying to @tinymediaempire
what happens if i give you $1.37
Daniel Danger @tinymediaempire 7 Jun 2019
i round down so you get one grilled cheese and i get a 37 cent tip and also i put you on a mental list for being a troublemaker
Read section: bottom left; No change given, sort out your own shit.
If you can pay someone $1.50, then you can pay them $1. You can't even pull a "I don't have a smaller bill" or other shit.
If you try to pay $1.50 then you're just being a trouble maker.
I imagine they throw the coins back at your face along with the grilled cheese.
- I was thinking maybe they bake the coins in with the grilled cheese . Who doesn't live a chocking hazard/chipped tooth?
He'll make you two sandwiches, but he'll take three bites out of one of them.
What happens if i pay $1.50?
Like Chelsea Handler and his other exes, you lost 50 cent.

Eat what you like,but if you want a "melt", go to a restaurant. If you just want a grilled cheese(or toastie),go to the truck. Simple. And damn,why isn't this a thing? I'd kill for a simple grilled cheese rn

I would have loved this as a drunk college kid at 2 am.
- Perfect drunk food. Greasy,gooey,and warm.

I realize this is a joke but how could this be profitable? The ingredients alone are more than a dollar.

Yes, it's profitable. They lose money on each sale, but make up for it in volume.
- He did the math
Where are you where it would cost more than $1. Buying product in bulk would be very cheap.
- Because I have no life, I looked it up.
  Bread in Finland is about 0.1 usd per slice Low quality cheese is about 8 usd / kg, assuming you need about 20g/portion that's 0.16 usd. Total is about 36c per portion.
  If we assume power consumption of 5kw for the whole operation and power cost of 20c/kWh, that's 1usd/h
  Assuming sales of 60 units per hour -one per minute, thats 60 usd of revenue per hour and 22.6 usd of non labor cost, it leaves 37.4e for labor, taxes, permits, tools, fuel.
  It's at least only feasible in high volume locations.
- I live on earth. Even if you’re buying bulk, it will still be more than a dollar to make. The bread alone bought in bulk would still be around $0.25 per slice. That’s 50 percent of the cost right there.
It doesn't seem too unreasonable. Based on some quick searches, bulk cheese breaks down to about $.19 a slice, two pieces of bread is about $.10, butter is wobbly here because I don't know exactly how much they'd be using, but let's say half an ounce/1 Tbsp is about $.25? Probably not a whole lot of profit after the cart and rent for the space, but you could probably get close to breaking even if you sold enough and/or had a better bulk supplier than what I can see with 5 minutes of research.
- It's gonna margarine, not butter. Or some other kind of butter flavored spread.
  If you wanted to get a better estimate, go to McDonald's, order something and add cheese. Whatever they charge you for the slice of cheese is probably double their cost.
Umm... what? 2 slices of white bread, 1 slice of American cheese, and some butter is not more than a dollar.
You must be one of those people who complains about not having enough money when you spend it like an idiot.

Ah, a restaurant run by the head chef and the head chef alone

This capitalist is alright.

Respect, doesn't take bullshit 👍.

In Philadelphia, there's a pizza called Lorenzo's on South street.
They serve a cheese slice. You can get a whole pie with toppings. But if you want a slice, it's cheese.
Want a topping? Nope. They're pretty friendly and just tell you to go to the back until you're ready for a cheese slice, which I always found funny.
- But, I just want a tomato slice 🥺.
  Sir, please go to the back of the line or we will call the police.

I get that it's probably a joke. But I would absolutely go out of my way to get small bills to buy basic grilled sandwiches from this person complete with, what I assume, is barely hospitable service.

I feel like that's kind of a hipster thing? I don't care for the label, but I can't argue it sometimes fits.

This is post-hipster. Hipster would have cheese made from the milk of a specific goat you only find in one specific mountain in Peru, the bread would be sourdough baked right there in the truck and there's a choice of 23 different toppings.
This is the reaction to that.
- Hipster would also tell everyone his biography and emphasize how much meeting that goat and the shepards on that specific mountain in Peru has changed his entire life.
- I can't argue with that!
  I enjoyed the all too accurate description.

This cart is performance art in object form.

no pepper. no hot sauce. no dippin that in a fryer. no fresh tomato slices. the only point of this being an entire food truck is to cover it in angry words.

None of those things you mentioned are ingredients in grilled cheese. The purpose of the food truck is to make grilled cheese.

Grill cheez
Grill cheez
Grill cheez
No Pepsi Grill cheez

Seriously, making me feel reeeeal old that I get this reference. NOCOKE , pepsi!
- Cheeseburger cheeseburger cheeseburger pepsi

Sprinkle a little garlic powder in there and it's like eating a grilled cheese and garlic bread at the same time

None of that artisan bullshit, read the truck

With the cost of cheese around here, I'd gladly pay 1 dollar for that (even in my local currency, that's a great deal)

Brick sliced American cheese is kinda like the hot dog of meats.
Just a bunch of mystery.
Not knocking it - I was raised on it! But I wouldn't compare it to what people in the rest of the world would consider as cheese.
You can buy 1 pound (24 slices) of American cheese for $2.50.
https://www.walmart.com/ip/Great-Value-Singles-American-Pasteurized-Prepared-Cheese-Product-16-oz-24-Count/10452423
- I don't think the international shipping cost will compensate for that.

Can we make this a national chain? So many people just need this sometimes

This was basically Blondies Pizza back in the day. Also the nitter thread is from 2019.

Gotta give the cheeser another chance

How much is Panera charging for their grilled cheese these days?

It was like $4 last I was there, but that was years ago.

$8.40 +tax last time I went there, however forced to have a "free" side
- What the fuck.
- 🤦‍♂️
- panera grilled cheese are a bit more artisan than the above yellow food truck's

Selling hot coffee to prostitutes on the street in winter at night

SOURCE: Xitter, June 7, 2019

https://twitter.com/tinymediaempire/status/1136992675742269440

The number of replies and follow-ups to this is amazing. It's a brilliant read.

please copy and paste it or screenshot it for those of us who abhor Twitter
I think I have to register to read the thread. not sure it's worth it. ludditism intensifies.

Can you legally don't give change? I don't think you can do that in Brazil at least.

They don't say they won't give change. They say that you will get as much grilled cheese as much money you give not as much you ask for.
Uhm if you simply deny service to those who don't have exact amount... It's that legal?
- I'm thinking "people with too much money" isn't a protected class, so probably.
- There's a couple of laws I think would make that illegal on Brazil. First, you have to accept legal tender, for example you cannot have a "credit card only" policy. Second, they are laws against "married sells", where you can't sell items on "groups" without the possibility of them for being bought individually (like you cannot sell pizza+soda, without selling the pizza or the soda individually). Based on those I guess you cannot not accept a 5, neither force the client to buy 5 if they only want 1.

People do this at Phish shows out of their gross tour vans, you could charge double there at least and corner the market.

Phish shows are kinda their own universe.
I'm pretty sure they have their own currency.
- I've been to many and that's why I love it

Americans are putting tomato slices on grilled cheese sandos? Fack man, just when I thought y'all couldn't sink any lower...

It's fucking good.
No tomatoes, but I like to throw some feta and a couple basil leaves in mine
- That is not a grilled cheese that is a melt their is a very fucking distinct difference

"$1.18 with tax" for maximum inconvenience.

https://youtu.be/8E4cQHejFq0?si=8PiZpHIcYGqBkVYj

Because it's opposite day

Did someone say Opposite Day?
- thank you

Hehehehe.

Ew

Gross.