Virgin Mary image in Grilled Cheese Sandwich (now less OT)

[Benjamin Zimmer]

On Thu, 25 Nov 2004 13:49:52 -0500, Seán Fitzpatrick
<grendel.jjf at VERIZON.NET> wrote:

>I found in the late '60s that Dutch pub fare always included--often
>exclusively--a grilled cheese or ham & cheese sandwich made in a press.
>One asked for "een ham en kaas tostie", although I'm not sure about the
>"tostie".

I've seen "toastje", "toastie", or "tostie".  Basically the same as French
"croque monsieur", no?

And then there's the Australian "jaffle"...


--Ben Zimmer