Like most golf fans, I wonât be heading down to Augusta National this year for the Masters. Sad, I know, mostly because that means I wonât be able to eat one of those sweet, delicious pimento cheese sandwiches.
Or does it?
Ted Godfrey is a local food vendor and the original mastermind behind the famed pimento cheese sandwich. He was one of the last local food vendors to be let go by the Masters, according to ESPNâs Wright Thompson, who reported that Godfrey refused to share the secret ingredient to his pimento cheese recipe:
Eating the sandwiches has become as much a part of a trip to the Masters as seeing the blooming azaleas. Then, three or four years ago, the Wife Saver did the chicken sandwich for the last time, and as part of the same tournament initiative to handle concessions in-house, the restaurant stopped making the pimento cheese. Godfrey says he was the last local food vendor to be let go by the Masters. Now the sandwiches are different, because he wonât give them the missing ingredient. Augusta National declined to comment on cheese.
âI cannot tell you what the secret is,â he says. âBut thereâs a secret there.â
For a time, going to Tedâs restaurant in Augusta was the only way to get his delicious pimento cheese, but no more! Thatâs because the cheese mastermind recently hatched a deal with GoldBelly, a company that ships delicious local cuisines nationwide, to share his pimento with golf fans all over the country who canât make it to Augusta this year. Bread isnât included, and the cheese ships with ice packs every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday.
Warning: itâs not the most inexpensive cheese youâll ever buy. Prices range form $49 to $89 depending on the amount of cheese youâre after, according to the website. (But shipping is free!) The order âalso includes green plastic sandwich bags to truly recreate the Augusta experience,â which is a nice touch.
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