And there is no better way to
celebrate national cheese lovers day
than with an epic eating competition.
And we even have some of these grilled
cheese sandwiches here with us.
That's why greater grilled cheese manager,
Angel Mora and competitive eater Raina
Huang are joining us this morning.
We appreciate both you guys being with us.
Good morning to you.
Good morning Evan Angel I wanna
start off with you tell us.
I mean of course this is a big day for
people who are a big fan of the cheese.
Tell us about where you are at
your location and how people
can get involved in in this day.
So right now I'm at our Mission
Valley location where our
competition is going to be held at.
You can get involved by coming
in Mission Valley from 2:00 to
2:30 on January 20th and stop on
by and cheer on the contestants.
And you guys have some pretty
popular sandwiches there. Water.
Are there some that are the most popular?
Yeah, so our most popular.
We actually sent you guys some over.
It's our lobster grilled cheese.
Our basic 5 is what the
contestants will be eating and
our Nashville hot grilled cheese.
That's right. I'm looking at the
hot grilled cheese right now.
It looks so good and then we
got the basic one right here.
And I mean you got several
different types of cheese in
there and that basic one right?
Five different types of cheese.
Yeah, so it comes with five slices
of unprocessed natural cheese,
Colby Swiss, Monterey Jack,
cheddar and provolone served with
lots of butter on our sourdough bread.
I can't wait to try this thing and Rayna.
I mean you got your work cut out for you.
I saw earlier that you have already done a
50 by 50 in and out eating challenge, right?
So how are you preparing for this one?
For 8:00 o'clock doesn't probably just
not going to be eating anything the
day beforehand and just kind of like
making sure I'm going to eat as much.
So that's it. I mean,
a pretty good way to prepare.
Obviously just to stay hungry
the the majority of the time.
I mean, how did you get into this?
You've got a huge following on
social media with the stuff that
you eat and all that kind of stuff.
So I mean, how did you get
that kind of following?
Well on all my.
What?
We're covering this like 6 minutes
without any like previous or anything,
and I recorded myself during
that and that video did really
well and then ever since then.
I'm not asking making eating
videos about and it's only been
going around for like 3 years,
so I'm making videos since then and here I am
for this competition.
You're going to be going
head-to-head with a bunch of locals
here in San Diego to try to eat.
Basically as many grilled
cheese sandwiches as you can.
15 basic 5 grilled cheese
sandwiches Angel tell us how
do you select those locals who
are going to be participating?
So we actually were doing something
on our social media where we gonna
select four local contestants that
come on by and then it's kind of like
a raffle and we're gonna pick up 4
contestants to compete against Serena.
Took a bite of this hot
chicken one and it is so good.
I mean right, you got the Pickles too.
With it to complement it.
What goes into making these?
A lot of people of course
are fans of grilled cheese.
What's the secret to making
a good grilled cheese?
He's got to put a lot of love
into while you're making it all
the customers when they come in,
they take that first bite.
They fall in love with their grilled cheese,
makes sense, and tell us you got
several different locations.
Are you just going to be doing
this at one of your locations?
And also of course,
where are those other locations?
Yeah, so for this we're going
to start off just doing that
mission value this year and then
hopefully later on we can start
doing that at our locations.
We have one in old Thai,
Irvine and Huntington Beach.
Locations there,
and I mean this is awesome food.
Raina are you a big fan of grilled cheese?
Where does it stack up?
I mean you got a lot of
options on your YouTube page.
I saw of different things you're eating.
Where does grilled cheese stand on that? I.
Now.
Right, especially if greater
greater cheese has like some sort
of tomato soup to pair with it?
Yeah, that'd be so.
I love how
I can get behind that.
That nice tomato soup to dunk the
the basic grilled cheese in Angel.
I think you gotta consider
that as a possibility.
Yeah, I definitely will have our
soup ready for our contestants so you
can dip their sandwiches in there.
Make a little easier for them to process.
All the goat cheeses that they'll be eating.
That's right and Angel remind
viewers out where they can go
to find out more information.
I know you guys are on
social media on Facebook.
What's your website?
If you look up greater grilled
cheese on Instagram, will pop up
right there as well as Facebook.
And then I also got a
fresh sandwich right here.
That yeah, we go in here too. I mean,
Rena, you got your work cut out for you.
These are some good sandwiches looks like.
Yeah. Alright. But I.
Well, I want to thank you guys both
for being with us this morning.
We appreciate it and thank you of
course as well Angel for sending
in some of these sandwiches.
Eric neta. Gonna need you guys to
sample these sandwiches as well.
I did take a bite of the
Nashville hot chicken.
Amazing which ones do you
guys have your the basic ones
basic over here?
I don't know if you're going to
come to us chowing down here,
but I like to pull my like crust apart
and just like let the cheese melt,
I just die right in.
Especially when it says crab on it.
Oh, did you get the crab 10?
That one looks good?
Crab juice.
We got the face very very good.
Nice work.
I love it. Love I taste the love
and and you can taste a good cheese.
This is a good cheese and that competition
is to eat 15 of these. Wow OK 15.
I think yeah, there it's butter and cheese.
This is basically butter, cheese and bread.
Yeah, she's so little competition.
I know her social media,
her YouTube in her Instagram incredible
showing her eat and all this stuff.
It's a diet Buster to do we wanna close?
It's worth it like inhaling happening
the way that they just like crunch the
crunch on the top of the the bread there.
Everything perfect perfectly.
My daughter loves these.
I feel guilty like I wanna give one
to her about. They're right though.
Dipping it in tomato soup just
makes it that much better.
Yeah, that's a good one.