Sandwich Man

The good old New York DAILY NEWS - home to countless snappy headlines ("FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD") and grisly pictures of murdered gangsters bleeding all over the sidewalk, reports on the sandwich above, and as they say on TV news, you won't believe how much it costs!

Or maybe you will, if you've ever been in a Noo Yawk hotel and sent your laundry out.

They call it a grilled cheese sandwich, but this tasty morsel also features wagyu, which is Japanese beef so expensive that it's only sold at auction.  You just can't run down to the Tri 'n' Save and get a pound of it.

"The reality is the cattle from the prized Wagyu beef are pampered, they are treated like royalty. They are fed organic grains and are raised all-naturally. So their fat is distributed evenly throughout their body, and it's actually good fat because of what they eat," said Steve Mangione, spokesman for The Old Homestead Steakhouse, which is selling these sandwiches - white cheddar, beer cheese and creamy fontina melted on white bread with some Wagyu - for just $275.

The article doesn't mention whether you get chips and a pickle spear for that, and I'm betting that you don't.

I'm sorry to be bringing you this news as August mercifully drags to a steamy close, but the Steakhouse was featuring this, along with an $89 peanut butter and jelly sandwich, a $150 bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich, a $225 pastrami sandwich and a $250 Philly cheesesteak. But it's ending soon, because so is August, and August is National Sandwich Month.  And here I never even got around to sending greeting cards to mark the occasion.

I'll tell you what. If you want to come over for lunch one day, I can fix you a sandwich just as good as this with Taylor Pork Roll - the official tubular meat product of Heaven - and various cheeses that I have lying about, for much less. In fact, for $275, I will wash and wax your car while performing a medley of Broadway showstoppers in the garage.

For a hundred more, I'll send you home with a brownie in a ziploc bag.