Fried green tomatoes and pimento cheese: Southern stars align on a bun Pimento cheese and fried green tomatoes have become Southern classics on their own. On a sandwich, they’re unbeatable.

And pimento cheese is served at all of them: weddings, wakes, football games, baptisms, board meetings, baby showers. It’s the kind of dish that travels well and keeps longer than most. But more ...

Sometimes pimento cheese can be just a little too…wet. (If you know, you know.) That’s why I mix my mayonnaise in by the spoonful.