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As part of our celebration of Grilled Cheese Month, we stopped by the Morris Truck to see what they’ve been up to lately.

One of the things we like about the Morris Truck is they are always changing up the menu. You never know what you’re going to get, and their ingredients are often seasonal.

On this trip, we were tempted by the morcilla sausage and raclette cheese sandwich, which cost $10. This was the highest priced item on the menu, but homemade morcilla sausage sounded too good to pass up.

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NYSF Note: This article was pre-empted by Hurricane Sandy, but it’s still a good read.

We recently heard the Morris Grilled Cheese Truck had several new items on their menu, so it was time to stop by and see what they were. One of the things we like about Morris Grilled Cheese is they like to change up the menu for seasonal items. Another thing we like is they use some pretty interesting ingredients in some of their sandwiches.

Looking at the menu, there were several new items we had not seen before, and whittled it down to two choices: an ale cheddar with roasted broccoli sandwich or a manouri and lamb sausage sandwich. Both were $9, but the lamb sausage put it over the top.

We also ordered a cup of spicy tomato bisque for $2.

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It’s been a while since we’ve been to the Morris Truck, but it was too hot for grilled cheese, so I was hoping they would have one of their cold summer sandwiches.

The menu at the Morris Truck rotates, with certain items appearing more regularly…and I was in luck.

They had a cold feta with summer squash sandwich. Although the bread was grilled, the filling was cold. That’s what I call the best of both worlds.

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Food Freaks sandwich (credit: New York Street Food)

Yesterday the NY Times had a feature called Rethinking Grilled Cheese.  To us it was more like celebrating grilled cheese, because we’ve been following and talking about three of these guys for quite some time.

Last June at the Taste of the Parks, we raved about the braised short rib, gruyere, blackberry jam, pickled red onions and watercress on grilled sourdough (pictured above) from Food Freaks.  At the time, we said it was our favorite dish of the day, and there were several past Vendy Award Finalists at the event.

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There are currently 3 grilled cheese trucks in New York, and they are pretty different from each other.  Today we’re going to talk about the Morris Grilled Cheese truck.

The Morris Grilled Cheese is named after the great-grandfather of the owner, who was a Russian immigrant that drove a produce and meat truck.  The Morris Grilled Cheese truck was reportedly an old NYPD paddy wagon, with bars for handcuffing suspects still intact when they bought the truck!

I was in the mood for Italian food, and Morris had a sandwich with ricotta meatballs, provolone and homemade marinara sauce on focaccia bread for $8.

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