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

[Seán Fitzpatrick]

Hardly, unless you mean in the same way an Egg McMuffin is the same as a croque madame.
  http://www.cnn.com/FOOD/specials/1999/french.food/sandwich.html

To be fair, Google finds more than 21000 hits for "croque monsieur", some of which are little different from a toasted cheese sandwich.

Seán Fitzpatrick
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: Benjamin Zimmer 
Sent: Thursday, 25 November, 2004 14:59
Subject: Re: Virgin Mary image in Grilled Cheese Sandwich (now less OT)


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"...


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