Not content to let other nationwide chains be the only ones to commit murder-by-sandwich, last week Denny's unveiled its Fried Cheese Melt. That's a grilled cheese with four deep-fried mozzarella sticks on it. Peter, Mike and I headed out to Oak Park, Ill., to give it a try.
Mike: This obviates the need for that awkward question, "Have you decided on an appetizer?"
Peter: Yeah, it's like, "Yes, I'll have the fried mozzarella sticks, and I'll have them encased in bread."
Peter versus the sandwich.
Mike: It's really got nice layers of crunch. There's the crunch of the grilled bread, then the mozzarella sticks.
Ian: Yeah. All the layers, it's Inception in sandwich form. The mozzarella sticks are really just a dream the grilled cheese sandwich is having. It's a good dream.
Mike: It looks like it should be wearing pants.
Peter: It really needs something inside the mozzarella stick. Another layer.
Ian: So what you want is not so much a sandwich, as Cheese Nesting Dolls.
Mike: Maybe like a beef skewer in there? Or pepperoni? That'd be good.
A look within.
Peter: This is the first significant advance in grilled cheese technology since the sandwich was invented.
Mike: I remember what it was like before, in the olden days.
Ian: Yes, that's the period historians refer to as B.C.: Before Cheese Sticks.
Ian: From above, it looks perfectly normal. It's just like when you look at Earth from space, you see no wars.
Mike: It's a borderline guilty pleasure. Borderline because I'm not actually feeling any guilt.
Peter: No?
Mike: It's really like the grilled cheese sandwich is smuggling the mozzarella sticks into your stomach.
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