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In Michigan, a sandwich made of bread and cheese* and browned in a frying pan is called a grilled cheese sandwich, but I have heard people from other places refer to this as a toasted cheese sandwich. Putting aside the image that "toasted" conjures up of melted cheese dripping down all over the inside of a toaster ....
I am wondering: is it a toasted or grilled cheese sandwich where you are?
Also, the exterior sides of the bread are buttered before cooking a grilled cheese sandwich. Any chance that a toasted cheese sandwich is cooked dry?
*well, OK; I like mine with tomato slices, too.
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I grew up with the same distinctions, Sparteye. A grilled cheese sandwich was buttered on the outside and fried. A toasted cheese sandwich was dry on the outside and was heated under the top burner in the oven (whichwe also call grilling come to think of it.)
But you must bear in mind that I had one parent from the Twin Cities and the other from the "little" Twin Cities. Of course, being from Michigan, you know the names of the latter, don't you???
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Glad ta be of assistince here. A grill is a seperate part of a cooker, under the hob. Ya can make toast here or even a toasted sandwich.
Ya don't put the sandwich in a toaster - but there are special toasters ya can get ta specially make toasted sandwiches. These are called toasted sandwich makers. (I won't go on about all the lovely fillens ya can put in them).
Now, I don't mean ta be pendantic, but surely the sandwich ya describes above is a fried sandwich? Do ya put oil on the pan? Is that not called French bread? Have ya no respect fer yer heart?
Oftentimes, where I come from, we grill meat etc instead of fryen it, as the fat runs away (not literary - though some may find it poetic) and it is much healthier.
Hope this answers yer query.
As always Gallant Ted
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We always called it a grilled cheese sandwich whether we fried it in butter or broiled it in the oven. And I've always seen it billed in the menu as a grilled cheese sandwich in all the parts I've lived or travelled frequently...Boston to Florida, New York City, Philly, east to Pittsburgh, and through the South to San Antonio. We do have a favorite sandwich in our immediate locale here on the tip of the South Jersey shore called a toasted hoagie. That's a hoagie (submarine, grinder) put into a pizza oven until the cheese melts and the roll is slightly crunchy...delicious! Especially on those old "munchie" nights, if you know what I mean.  Anybody else have these?
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We don't have toasted cheese sandwiches here in DeWitt. It's all grilled cheese, no matter how you fix 'em.
Toasted cheese would be a slice of cheese on a single slice of bread and prepared under a broiler--or something along those lines.
Warning! Recipe, but a modest one, comin' your way!
I'm with whomever above suggested that tomato slice. If you grill the tomato in between the slices of bread and cheese, ooh, la, la, that IS the best possible grilled cheese!
Does anybody remember Wonder Bread?
Bread regards,
WonderWord, who don't eat bread no mo'! Sugar Buster, I!
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