Parts of American culture that have never really been imported outside the US

Yes, same thing. I had no idea!
I go through bags of AFBs.

never saw anyone pan fry a grilled cheese in britain ever.

but it's common in canada and I'm going to guess elsewhere too

Based on a couple of visits and family members, my impression was that the grilled cheese sandwich was one of the more popular Western dishes in India, even prior to trade liberalization.

melted cheese on bread is one of those things that scales up or down incredibly well. You can make it with cheapest or dearest of either main ingredient and it's still remarkable.

We def do grilled cheese. But mostly w ham thrown in. Croque monsieur, mes chouchous.

never saw anyone pan fry a grilled cheese in britain ever.

Yes. Sounds good though. I'm going to look into it.

Btw instead of butter, mayo needs to spread on thd outside. Thinly of course.

Who the fuck is this guy

My franco brother-in-law does croque monsieur/croque madame, though I hadn't heard about the mayo part. I felt a little physically ill reading that.

yeah, really. the butter is the godly part.

i am not a mayo person though. only when i make my world-famous potato salad in the summer.

Your potato salad has really been imported outside the US though.

never saw anyone pan fry a grilled cheese in britain ever.

no, but we also don't call them that - like RS said, we call them toasties and make them in sandwich toasters. I think of "grilled cheese" as referring specifically to US-style fried cheese sandwiches

also Brits are far more likely to just have "cheese on toast"

sandwich toasters aren't really much of a thing in the US! which really explains the panini craze in restaurants that had to be what, 10 or 25 years ago now? sandwich presses had some novelty

the cheese shop near my house has cheese toasties, though. kind of pricey since they use good cheese and homemade pickles/fancy meats

lol 10 or 15 i mean

I don't know that they are a huge thing here tbh, as a lot of people are content with just cheese on toast. But that + toastie are the two options, it doesn't really occur to people to fry a cheese sandwich (which is very out of character for us!)

xxxp or a "toasted cheese sandwich"

never saw anyone pan fry a grilled cheese in britain ever.
no, but we also don't call them that - like RS said, we call them toasties and make them in sandwich toasters. I think of "grilled cheese" as referring specifically to US-style fried cheese sandwiches

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i am from britain lol

but in britain you either have a toastie maker/sandwich press thing or you have it in the oven under the grill

xp I know, I was just clarifying the distinction that exists in my head between the American dish "grilled cheese" and their British non-fried counterparts which are never referred to by anyone here as "grilled cheese"

(I always thought they were the same thing until there was a thread on here where someone was explaining the American method and I was like wha)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaxyzK2mHqw

Fried bread is a thing over here, don't know why no-one ever thought of sticking some cheese on it tbh.

right?

think ive only put bread on the pan to make french toast

never bothered with a grilled cheese

i did however put toast/bread with cheese in the oven hundreds of times as a student

this philippine fella saw me heating up a sandwich in the lunchroom once and he seemed to be appalled

inspired to make a snack for cyrus and i. british china in honor of this thread.

https://scontent.fbos1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16002745_1730493687264276_8887851506842017086_n.jpg?oh=c5196df029c0bc9a59ac1ec8f1b0a1a3&oe=59217482

mozzarella for cyrus. swiss for me.

also made with extra-buttery Amish butter. soooooo friggin' good. they might not know much about iPods but they sure as heck know butter.

(it basically ends up tasting like bread made out of butter. but you only live once...)

Are there any other countries where the main type of eggs consumed are the leghorn white variety? There are polar opposite standards on eggs between the US/UK, we don't refrigerate them and sell them covered in shit and feathers whereas the US eggs have to be cleaned with 90 degrees F hot water until all traces of fecal matter are gone. Just through seeing them in US Movies + tv since childhood I have always liked the look of white eggs. But apparently our dirty eggs have a richer taste and bigger yolks.

we eat brown eggs too! but they taste no different.

I did read that from from a terrible UK newspaper, although not being refrigerated in transit might make a difference in taste.

Ha, I sometimes wonder if other people can taste a difference between white and brown eggs.

I deliberately bought brown eggs a time or two - couldn't taste a difference, though they did seem to be slightly smaller.

I can never recall seeing any brown eggs in American tv/movies. Like a random example: Ralph Cifaretto's death scene in The Sopranos, so I always thought they didn't exist there!

US brown eggs are brown from the the shell itself, not from being covered in bird shit, feathers, etc. Brown eggs in the stores go through the same washing process. I can't taste a difference either, but I have had eggs from home chicken farmers and those are noticeably better. It's what the chickens eat that matters, I think.

I remember the first time I lived with Americans they were SHOCKED AND APPALLED when I put ketchup on my French toast, but subsequent research has revealed that most of the world seem to be not on my side on this one.

^^^ savages itt.

i have in my time both fried and microwaved cheese sandwiches

xxp -- I...really, really want to FP you for that. But I guess that's not what it's for.

forgot i didnt own a microwave til recently

dont ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ even ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ surely

let lightning strike if i am telling a lie

Ketchup on French Toast? Porquoi??

I only didn't feel ill there because I blocked that one out as soon as I read it.

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/N5m4wjSAWQs/maxresdefault.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZOgBrgzQ2A

Jamie Oliver clearly Proper British, he utilizes a HP bottle as a weight and gives a shoutout to the queen, but this doesn't go near a Breville so obviously some transatlantic travesty

I agree that the grilled cheese sandwich is a misnomer. Alton Brown is kind of insane about this and has a whole involved thing where he actually grills the cheese, then puts it on grilled bread. http://altonbrown.com/grilled-grilled-cheese/