Take your stinking cheese off me, you damned dirty ape!

August 26, 2009 10:20 PM

Gorilla Sandwich. (Probably not what you think - SFW) You can make your own (with cheesy 70s porn music).

Serendipitously, someone at Gourmet Gorilla turned me on to these.

posted by Smedleyman (27 comments total)

Gorilla Blue? Pepsi Sandwich?
Either way, this looks pretty tasty.

Now, make me a pickle stuffed with hots dogs, potato chips and cheese, and chili and I'll show you a winner.

Gorilla Biscuits are tasty, too, but not as easy to digest.
posted by Cat Pie Hurts at 10:39 PM on August 26, 2009

The bonobo po' boy is much tastier.
posted by peeedro at 10:44 PM on August 26, 2009

Cat Pie Hurts, you're on to something there. A pickle stuffed with corned beef, Swiss cheese, and sauerkraut perhaps.
posted by StickyCarpet at 10:45 PM on August 26, 2009

...if you're going to be stuffing it with meat, sauerkraut and cheese, mightn't you just as well throw some pickle in it, and just use the end of a baguette? That'd be much nicer (unless of course you're a coeliac or doing Atkinson's, on second thought).

But yes, somewhat interesting as this is as a concept, I think sandwiches made with bread will remain unbeaten...
posted by Dysk at 10:51 PM on August 26, 2009

When I put it between the chicken patties, it just rolls right back out.
posted by billyfleetwood at 10:53 PM on August 26, 2009 [1 favorite]

...if you're going to be stuffing it with meat, sauerkraut and cheese, mightn't you just as well throw some pickle in it, and just use the end of a baguette?

We'll stick a bread stick inside the pickle, too.
posted by StickyCarpet at 11:05 PM on August 26, 2009 [1 favorite]

StickyCarpet, somehow I don't see what your inside-out sandwich offers that a standard sandwich doesn't, and I see a lot of convenience being sacrificed.

Clearly, you should go make one and blog about!
posted by Dysk at 11:07 PM on August 26, 2009

Mario's in Westport hit upon this "design" for its famous "grinder" sandwich more than 30 years ago. And probably 100 other, earlier Italian sandwich shops before them, too. Except the "wrapper" was made from a hollowed out Italian roll, and the "filling" was generally meatballs, or sausage, cheese and, later, chicken. Nothing raw about 'em, but the "design" was identical - cut off one end, hollow out the middle, stuff with good stuff, cap with the reversed cut off end. I suspect any design patent claims for the "Gorilla Sandwich" will fail on prior art objections, but IANAPatentL, and IANYPatentL.
posted by paulsc at 12:29 AM on August 27, 2009

I bet these would taste great if you deep-fried them first.
posted by rokusan at 1:15 AM on August 27, 2009

You can make your own (with cheesy 70s porn music).

The design is patented, though, so be careful what you do with your unlicensed fake product: US Patent D527,165 S: Cucumber Sandwich.

(drawings depict cucumber insertion, so may not be SFW for all values of W).
posted by effbot at 1:36 AM on August 27, 2009

You can patent a hollowed out cucumber? What the fuck?
posted by Dysk at 1:56 AM on August 27, 2009

Wait wait wait wait wait ... has a gorilla actually bench-pressed 4000 pounds?
posted by creasy boy at 3:35 AM on August 27, 2009

I've been working on something similar with hollowed out hams.
posted by betaray at 4:35 AM on August 27, 2009

I've been working on something similar with hollowed out hams.
posted by betaray at 4:35 AM on August 27 [+] [!]

Keep. me. posted.

If I can add a suggestion to the hollowed out ham... add bacon.
posted by Mastercheddaar at 6:04 AM on August 27, 2009

Incidentally, "The Hollowed-Out Hams" is the name of my new band.
posted by Greg_Ace at 6:36 AM on August 27, 2009

What the fuck?

As a design, yeah - the hollowed out part not so much. It's his cork probably that makes it patentable.
posted by bigmusic at 6:57 AM on August 27, 2009

Well, it's no Fool's Gold Loaf, that's for sure, uh-huh.
posted by Halloween Jack at 7:50 AM on August 27, 2009

25g of fat in a single sandwich??? Yikes. That's the same as a quarter-pounder with cheese... vegan, raw, organic or not, this is not something you want to be eating regularly.
posted by modernnomad at 8:01 AM on August 27, 2009

Where's the beef bush meat?
posted by Pollomacho at 8:08 AM on August 27, 2009

25g of fat in a single sandwich??? Yikes.

Irrelevant. The whole damn thing has only 328 calories. That's like... an hors d'oeuvre.
posted by rxrfrx at 8:08 AM on August 27, 2009

I can't even get my wife to make me grilled cheese, I doubt this will fly...
posted by BrotherCaine at 8:24 AM on August 27, 2009

Presumably the fat is mostly from the avocado, which I have a standing policy of regarding as "good healthy green fat" and nothing anyone says is going to convince me any different.
posted by rusty at 9:19 AM on August 27, 2009

I'm losing track of what the sandwich euphemisms mean. Frankly, I'm still a bit lost on what grilled cheese sandwiches are...
posted by mccarty.tim at 9:36 AM on August 27, 2009

Am I misunderstanding this thing, or doesn't this mean I have to eat the cucumber peel? Blech.
posted by rokusan at 1:02 PM on August 27, 2009

Refresher course on "grilled cheese" from the wife, for mccarty.tim.
posted by rokusan at 1:03 PM on August 27, 2009

And for mccarty.tim, a "grinder" is just a hot Italian sandwich, from a little joint in Kansas City.
posted by paulsc at 4:28 PM on August 27, 2009

A "grinder" is just a hot Italian sandwich, from a little joint in Kansas City.

You should see her on weekends.
posted by rokusan at 5:23 AM on August 29, 2009