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Do Brits enjoy grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup?

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This is a classic American lunch. In school they would serve it with one slice of white bread and one slice of whole wheat bread.

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Willing-Confusion-56@reddit

Toastie. We call it a cheese toastie
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EarFlapHat@reddit

The other big difference is the cheese we use. Red Leicester is the absolute best and way better than the bendy plastic cheddar stuff you get over in North America.
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Background_Humor5838@reddit

Just a friendly reminder that we do have all types of cheese in north America and most people have their own preference. It's not universally made with American cheese. I know American cheese is associated with the "cheesey slices" sold in the UK but actual American cheese is a real cheese. I personally recommend a mix of muenster and Gouda if you're pairing it with tomato soup but I haven't tried with it with red Leicester. I definitely will. Sounds really good.
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pryonic1705@reddit

You know I learned the other day that Australians call a toastie a "jaffle" and the toastie maker a jaffle-iron. Madness.
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MamaJody@reddit

I can’t speak for all of us, but I would personally only consider the type that you hold over an open fire to be a jaffle iron.
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Snoo_23014@reddit

Lol I dont have a toaster or grill, so I make toastie in a dry frying pan.
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godgoo@reddit

I have all of those things and that is the best way anyway. By far.
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Snoo_23014@reddit

Also, reheating pitta , naan and roti... get the dry pan hot , sprinkle water on the bread and press down for a couple of seconds!
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Appropriate-Diver758@reddit

Yep I am Australian and we call them jaffles and dip them in tomato sauce, which we call ketchup
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normalbehaviour86@reddit

Australians do not call tomato sauce ketchup. Source: I'm actually Australian.
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Appropriate-Diver758@reddit

Agreed. I missed the word don’t in my reply as everything is tomato’s sauce and if you say ketchup every Australia will correct you
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T4Abyss@reddit

But tomato sauce isn't the same as ketchup...the latter being vinegary, vs sweet 😁
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Subcluttervisability@reddit

I like the Paul Hogan toast method.
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fastsailor@reddit

Incorrect. A jaffle maker seals the edges of the toastie. A normal toastie is not a jaffle, as the edges are not sealed. Source: am an Australian who grew up with both a jaffle maker and a sandwich press. Jaffles are less common than they were, it seems.
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Autumnleaves144@reddit

In the uk a toastie maker seals the edges of the toastie. We don’t make toastie’s without sealing the edges.
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T4Abyss@reddit

Down under, it's also a [toastie](https://www.bigw.com.au/product/breville-power-4-slice-toastie-maker-lts425gry/p/792623). The jaffle iron is the camping version, but honestly the name has gotten a bit universal.
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Monday0987@reddit

Usually called a toasted sandwich. Unless you are camping and you stick a jaffle iron over the fire.
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NoNotGrowingUp@reddit

TIL Aussies call a toastie [a jaffle](https://australianfoodtimeline.com.au/jaffle-craze/) and it's not just a case of sticking o onto the end of a word.
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Monday0987@reddit

No they call them toasted sandwiches
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NoNotGrowingUp@reddit

[The toasted sandwich site I was reading](https://toastierecipes.com/what-is-a-jaffle/) suggested otherwise but I picked it up wrong, I'll erase that new information from my brain!
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Monday0987@reddit

I'm just letting you know what actual human beings call them in real life in 2026.
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NoNotGrowingUp@reddit

Thanks, I've been in Aus but no toasted cheese products were eaten to know what they might be called 😀
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Monday0987@reddit

I have very rarely heard people use Jaffle but only when referring to something made in a jaffle iron. For example my partner calls toasties 'toasted sandwiches' but we do have 2 cast iron jaffle irons in our camping kit that are used in a fire. If we made a sandwich with those (likely baked beans or an egg) he would call those jaffles. In the olden days people possibly had electric jaffle makers and maybe back then they used the term jaffle for what is produced in them. However if it's just a toastie it's not called a jaffle. In Victoria anyway.
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NoNotGrowingUp@reddit

I wasn't trying to be offensive with the add an o if it came across that way, Danny Bhoy, a Scottish comedian who spends a lot of time across in Aus [pondered the naming of various places/items as part of his show a few years ago](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXFcxsKcMrI).
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fastsailor@reddit

No we do not. They are different.
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Justplaythefkngnote@reddit

The best cheese toasties are made using toast and cheese then browning under the grill. For me, totally different taste than you get in toasted sandwich makers ! Oh and cheddar for the win. Stronger taste 😋
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EarFlapHat@reddit

Yeah but with tomato soup? Red Leicester is king!
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Justplaythefkngnote@reddit

Noooo!!! Cheddar with tomato soup... cheddar with anything. Red Leicester looks nice, but that's about it! no flavour profile lol
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Tenfoldgold@reddit

Try the Cathedral City Red Leicester (game changer)
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amiableshrimp@reddit

I second this, and their smoked cheddar too, divine
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twirling_daemon@reddit

I only recently discovered this magnificent creation A fantastic addition to my cheese dishes!
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One_Complex6429@reddit

Has to be fried to be a real cheese toastie. Not a just a sandwich stuck under the grill .
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Fanoflif21@reddit

No- FRY it- I mean obviously you can feel your arteries hardening even while your cooking it but after a night out...
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turdferguson3891@reddit

We have cheese that isn't plastic kraft singles ffs. For that matter I can buy imported red Leicester but there are plenty of cheddars from Wisconsin or Vermont or New York or Oregon or California that do just fine. You all have some weird ideas about what we do in North America. Quebec is in North America...
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EarFlapHat@reddit

Sorry, maybe I should have clarified 'use for grilled cheese'. That's usually explicitly Kraft singles!
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jetloflin@reddit

According to who?
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EarFlapHat@reddit

Just every single time I've had one in the States or Canada... It's diner food.
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turdferguson3891@reddit

There are gourmet grilled cheese places that do better
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EarFlapHat@reddit

If your response to 'usually grilled cheese use really processed cheese in NA' is 'there are some gourmet places that do better', you're agreeing with me. It's what you expect to get.
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turdferguson3891@reddit

No halfway decent restaurant in the US would make a grilled cheese with Kraft singles except maybe on the kids menu. At home? Yeah a lot of people make it that way.
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boudicas_shield@reddit

I’m from Wisconsin; we do not eat “bendy plastic cheddar stuff” lmao. Most people in America don’t. You have the same kind of melty cheese over here, actually. Yours is for kids and then you have regular real cheese for adults. It’s the exact same scenario in the States; you just refuse to understand that for some reason.
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EarFlapHat@reddit

I'm over in America... It's dire. It seems like if the regular cheese here doesn't sell, it's dyed black for the wheels of the cars. You can get artisanal cheese, but it's not what they use for a 'grilled cheese'. That stuff bounces. Melted red Leicester is not remotely waxy... I'm not sure what you're eating.
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Key_Grade_3300@reddit

I think he mistook a mini babybel for red Leicester and forgot to take the wax off
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Potsysaurous@reddit

How can you have trouble finding decent cheese in the UK? Please., I know you were offended by someone saying that American cheese has been in plastic but the UK has lots of wonderful cheeses.
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Skate-wench@reddit

You need to find somewhere else to buy your cheese in England. Only the cheapest supermarket brands of any version of cheese are flavourless. Go to a proper cheese counter and you’ll get the good stuff
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Aaaahfuckit@reddit

Where are you getting your cheese in the UK?? We have fabulous cheeses made here in the UK along with imported from France, Spain, Germany etc. Try ANY of the cheese from this site and tell me "the UK cheese situation is so lacking" https://www.finecheese.co.uk/collections/british-cheese
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YchYFi@reddit

Haven't had cornish crunches then or black bomber.
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ChallengingKumquat@reddit

The plastic cheese often found in individually-wrapped slices is typically called "American cheese" in the UK. That's why people tend to think Americans favour that type of pseudo-cheese product. Also, I've visited a number of States in the US, and I've found that street vendors like burger vans or places doing philly cheese steaks or sub rolls also often use that plastic cheese. So that's why the idea persists. Visitors to the US buy street food more often than they visit your house.
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ChallengingKumquat@reddit

A toastie is made in a toasties machine, and produces sealed triangles with cheese inside. A grilled cheese sandwich is toast, then melted cheese, then toast. It is not sealed.
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shannibearstar@reddit

A grilled cheese is not toast my guy
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QuietVisit2042@reddit

Americans fry bread in a frying pan and call it "toast", lol
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clamandcat@reddit

Nonsense, what are you talking about?
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QuietVisit2042@reddit

Exactly. That's not a grilled cheese sandwich in the UK because the bread should be grilled, not fried. It's done under the broiler, which in Britain was historically at eye level, not hidden inside the oven.
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clamandcat@reddit

Similar things can have different, or even nonsensical, names in different countries. In the US a flat cooking surface is often called a 'grill.' For example, 'grilled onions' are browned on a flattop, and never see the inside of a broiler. Could you even make a sandwich in this style only using a broiler? A similar thing like Welsh rarebit needs to be broiled, of course, but it’s open face. I am not sure you could successfully make a US style grilled cheese sandwich with broiler alone.
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jetloflin@reddit

No we don’t. Not sure where you got that idea from. Toast is made by putting bread in a toaster.
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SkepticalPyrate@reddit

What manner of sorcery is this? I’ve never seen a ‘toastie machine’ in my almost 46 years of life. Am I missing something? We always just used that ‘toastie machine’ in our kitchen that we called a range/cooker. Damned fine piece of machinery — can even make steaks, porridge, burgers, cakes, cabbage, all sorts. The grill setting is fantastic. Do you have one? If not, highly recommend. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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veryoddnames1989@reddit

A Breville. It’s a Breville for fuck sake. Everyone in the UK has an old Breville for toasties.
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SkepticalPyrate@reddit

I’m a lactose intolerant Coeliac who currently only has a house in Ontario, Canada and a pied à terre in DC for work. Growing up back home, we were too poor for one-trick gadgets, so I simply learnt how to cook, then honed my techniques from the fine dining chefs I’ve worked around. I’ve NEVER been a fan of single-facet gizmos. Oh, need an onion chopper, you ask? Nope I have one. It’s called a knife. How about an avocado slicer? Knife. Apple corer? Learn how to cut an apple. Slow cooker? It’s called an oven. Rice cooker? I just use my slow cooker. Citrus juicer? It’s called a fork. I do apologise for growing up too poor for a specialty gadget, then learning to cook to survive, then honing my skills with Michelin-starred chefs, but I’ll get right on that. Thanks so much. You’re a star. It still does sound wizard for people who have places to waste for a single-use bulk of space. If only gluten-free bread wasn’t so meh, it’d be great. Especially with how far they’ve come with lactose free cheese. Honestly, sounds so much better than, oh, I don’t know, using a pan?
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rsta223@reddit

>Slow cooker? It’s called an oven. Rice cooker? I just use my slow cooker. You cook your rice in the oven? An oven is in no way a substitute for a slow cooker, and if you're making rice without a rice maker, you'd do it stovetop, not in a slow cooker.
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Original-Director660@reddit

You’re not supposed to make your rice in the oven
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Anistappi@reddit

No no, he learned that from the Goodyear chefs he’s worked _with_, not under.  ”Need a slow cooker? Knife. Need a divorce? Knife.”
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Impossible_Gas_7584@reddit

They were very popular in the UK back in the 80's. Probably more so in working class homes, as they were relatively inexpensive gadgets for inexpensive food. They were a bit of a fad, you don't see them often these days. Can't believe you have a slow cooker, that's against your principles a bit isn't it? Got a kettle or toaster? What about a microwave? Well done for honing your skills with michelin star chefs though. Everyone i know who grew up poor fluffed their training with Heston. You though, wow.... you're a star!
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SkepticalPyrate@reddit

My slow cooker is my oven. I know how to toggle temperatures. No toaster, per se — just a multi-use gizmo I salvaged from the rubbish years ago. Allegedly, it’s an air-fryer, toaster, and wee oven, but I’ve only used the latter two. Chef Mike is only ever used to reheat a thing when I am dead tired and have lost the will to care for the day. Literally nothing else. Never even dined at Chef Blumenthal’s places, but I hope to. In the meantime, I just work.
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donuttrackme@reddit

An air fryer *is* a wee oven so you don't even know what you're using while acting all superior to everyone.
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Impossible_Gas_7584@reddit

You microwave your hot drinks i bet, don't ya. We can shit on north american culture, too.
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SkepticalPyrate@reddit

Glob, no. I have a kettle — it’s a true workhorse. Even makes my soup, as well as our tea and the occasional instant espresso when I’m working extra-late, plus heating the water for my bains-Marie. Bain-Maries? No, it’s a bath first, so I stand by bains-Marie. Anyway, I live by the, ‘NO UNITASKERS’ code. Actively making rice for tomorrow night in my rice cooker*. 1:1, washed jasmine rice to water, 180°, covered, for 45 minutes. I’ll have old-ish, chilled rice to fry with an egg or two. Maybe prawns if they’re available. (Probably not, though. Eggs are a great source of protein!) *oven, for anyone who hasn’t caught on yet
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ryadolittle@reddit

Not gonna lie mate, you sound like an absolute know. I bet they never find you in the kitchen at parties.
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abstract_lemons@reddit

…no good at chatting up, and [they] always get rebuffed🎶
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silk_mitts_top_titts@reddit

Lol every comment they make is just 100% deuchebag.
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OldStyleThor@reddit

How did you go a whole post without mentioning "Michelin starred chefs?"
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Prairie-Peppers@reddit

You're truly insufferable.
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Impossible_Gas_7584@reddit

Interesting, with all that michelin star training....you put soup in your kettle.
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u_r_succulent@reddit

lol that’s not even NA culture. This person is just a fucking weirdo.
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SkeeveTheGreat@reddit

“I only have two residences” my god
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onetimequestion66@reddit

You sound like you may very well be the most insufferable person in Canada and that really saying something based on what I’ve seen from Canadians online the past few weeks lmao
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PineappleBliss2023@reddit

You somehow got more insufferable than your first sanctimonious comment.
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Ambitious-Peen-69@reddit

Yea sure hahahaha what a knob
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Erinzzz@reddit

*This* is how you chose to spend your Saturday? Get out of your pied à terre and get some fresh air.
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ParagonFemshep@reddit

I can't even imagine what it's like to be this insufferable
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FudgeVillas@reddit

Aren’t there Canadian subs you can go and be a cunt in?
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ChallengingKumquat@reddit

Toastie machines cost around £10-15. Equivalent to around $13-20 USD,or $18-27 CAD. I've had mine for around 10 years, and I make toasties with it a couple of times a month. It uses less power than the grill does, so is perfect for a poor person like me (or you). It's not a rich person's gadget. Sorry you're so upset and angry that some people own a toastie machine.
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jizzyjugsjohnson@reddit

The only thing you’re cooking is a big ole pot of cringe
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Ragnars85@reddit

You sound fun.
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gilmea@reddit

Yes, all us millionaires have a $25 toastie maker.
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ChallengingKumquat@reddit

Mine isn't made by Breville.
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veryoddnames1989@reddit

Nor is mine but I still call it a Breville
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ChallengingKumquat@reddit

Username checks out.
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Acrobatic-Set9585@reddit

George foreman sandwich toaster 🙌
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Rusty_M@reddit

I much prefer that type. I don't like the sealed toasties as much
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Programmer-Severe@reddit

Toastie makers are a press, so it seals the sandwich at the edges. A bit like a waffle iron. This gives the edges a delicious crunch, as well as sealing the heat in guaranteeing the evisceration of the roof of your mouth. A toastie cannot be replicated in an oven or grill.
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cari-strat@reddit

Also spectacular for making chocolate toasties as you don't get the leakage.
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moneywanted@reddit

Toastie Makers do exist. They do indeed seal pockets inside the bread. I’m not even going to bother linking one as they’re so easy to find. But toasties don’t have to be made in one - a toasted sandwich is just as much a toastie.
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GreyStagg@reddit

I think you've got things the wrong way round. Toastie machines that make sealed triangles are just one type of toastie machine. And they became a thing *after* toasties became popular. They are just one way of making a toastie.
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Willing-Confusion-56@reddit

A cheese toastie is two pieces of toast with cheese in the middle. It can be made under the grill
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SirAccomplished7804@reddit

Not the same thing at all. Each has their merits. Not all North Americans use low grade American processed slices either. Here in Canada we have a huge variety of quality cheesed available.
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turdferguson3891@reddit

We do in the US too but per the internet it's just Kraft singles. I doubt they even were including Mexico.
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Ok-Constant-2683@reddit

Never called if that. It's cheese on toast or toasted cheese sandwich.
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Willing-Confusion-56@reddit

Toastie. We call it a toastie. You call it that but, as in myself and all my friends and family call it a toastie. If I said to a neighbour I'm having a toastie he would know what it is.
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KitFan2020@reddit

I also call it a toastie.
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Ok-Constant-2683@reddit

Fair, I was just providing context that British people don't all call it a toastie. I'm not the only one in the thread to do so. Personally toastie is just a marketing term I've seen in the last 20 years.
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Evening-Tea-3212@reddit

Last 20 years? I had toasties in the 90s
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AllieMick55@reddit

It’s not the same, grilled cheese is much nicer. I’m an English convert
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Hazel_RAAA@reddit

Grilled cheese and cheese toastie are not the same thing. Same ingredients, different technique
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AmbitiousAbalone6753@reddit

Yeah grilled cheese doesn't see a grill 😂 ... it gets fried
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Hazel_RAAA@reddit

I prefer them to the hot pockets of death, myself
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FabulousElection4672@reddit

Yes a cheese toastie and Heinz tomato soup is a classic combo in the UK
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MiniRollsYum@reddit

Why do you call it grilled when you don't put it under the grill? I've told Americans put oil and cook it in a frying pan. So you should call it a fried cheese sandwich. Normally a cheese toasty is done in a dedicated gadget or the old school way is just to cut slices of cheese, put them on a slice of bread and put it under the grill till both bread and cheese turn golden, ie, cheese on toast.
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too-cute-by-half@reddit

Butter, not oil, but yes. And in an indoor setting, "grill" is used pretty loosely in the U.S. to mean almost any high-heat, flat cooking surface. That top-down element in the oven is called the broiler.
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TooLittleGravitas@reddit

For years as a child, when reading American books, I thought 'broiling' was something like 'boiling' and was very confused about American foods.
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SUMMATMAN@reddit

Wtf is this true? I always assumed it was the same as a cheese toastie! The savages!
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runrunrudolf@reddit

Brit here and I've always made my cheese toasties in the pan too
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DefenciveV2@reddit

It is the same as a cheese toastie. Americans just make it in a pan.
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secretrebel@reddit

I’ve done this with French toast. Make French toast (eggy bread) like usual. Add a slice of cheese to one toast, put the other on top, fry, flip, fry more. It’s pretty good.
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x0_Kiss0fDeath@reddit

>I've told Americans put oil and cook it in a frying pan You've been told wrong, I'm afraid.
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kernowgringo@reddit

You make it the same way as if you were using a toasted sandwich maker but on a frying pan. I make a cheese sandwich with no butter on the inside and that smother it in butter on the outside and put it in a hit frying pan.
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Beneficial_Hat_2460@reddit

Wait until someone tells you what american's call a british grill! Broiled cheese on toast doesnt sound the best.
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GeneticPurebredJunk@reddit

Nah, I’ll have a cheese toasty made in a pan-we’re not all students still with a toastie maker!
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EarFlapHat@reddit

What we call the grill they actually call the 'broiler'.
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Captain_Stable@reddit

Two nations, United by a different language!
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crafty_j4@reddit

Thanks for explaining this. I’m from the US I was so confused how underneath a grill would get hot enough to melt the cheese properly.
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Tuna_Surprise@reddit

It’s because it originated from diners and in diner parlance it’s called a flattop grill. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattop_grill
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Snorlaxative79@reddit

Finally, the correct answer
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TwistMeTwice@reddit

TIL, thanks!
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DeadAnarchistPhil@reddit

Exactly! Cheese on toast! What American’s make is a fried cheese sandwich.
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No-Onion8029@reddit

The most disturbing part of this to me is the image of putting a perfectly good sandwich under the grill.  It would get dusty and might attract bugs.
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lameuniqueusername@reddit

Oil? No. Butter or mayo on the bread but if you use oil you are not a part of the Family of Man
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Puzzleheaded-Ad-4883@reddit

Or turn the bread toaster on its side?
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eriometer@reddit

I did this for those frozen slices of garlic bread and ended up setting it (the bread) on fire. Actual flames 😂
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Puzzleheaded-Ad-4883@reddit

Got to get that Maillard reaction going.
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Worried-Penalty8744@reddit

JML Toastabags were invented for this
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Puzzleheaded-Ad-4883@reddit

Doesn't that stop the formation of tasty burnt cheesy bits that can be extracted from the toaster for later enjoyment?
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nemmalur@reddit

Flat top grill was the original way of doing it. It doesn’t involve oil but butter, usually applied to the outside of the sandwich. “Under the grill” isn’t a thing in North America - that would be “under the broiler” as grilling is understood as cooking something on a grid or rack with heat from below or maybe from all sides.
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Financial_Excuse_429@reddit

Sounds scrumptious 👌 Non US btw.
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daneccleston86@reddit

Yep , I remember being at my local and they’d put it on the bar menu - instant purchase
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RonsonGlitter@reddit

I like a grilled cheese and I like soup but it is an abomination to have both together.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

An abomination? It’s not white sauce on pizza, calm down.
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Upstairs-Bath9158@reddit

Yes, but I call it cheese on toast, and it would come as melted cheese on a slice of toast rather than in sandwich form
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Dry_Low8077@reddit

Growing up we called it bubble cheese
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Beneficial_Hat_2460@reddit

toastie is well better, takes up less plate space, easier bites, better soup capture properties.
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himji@reddit

Less bread more cheese. Wins every time
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Sin_nombre__@reddit

Cheese on toast and a toastie are different things.
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Upstairs-Bath9158@reddit

Yeah - both tasty but both different. I prefer cheese on toast
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Livewire____@reddit

I call it heated and crisped fermented bovine secretions upon dessicated wheat based dough sections.
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Captain_Stable@reddit

Hark at the MasterChef narrator here! 🤣
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1337h4xer@reddit

Le de da Mr Frenchman
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Unit_2097@reddit

Possibly with selected aromatics (red onions), cured and treated pork cuts (processed ham) and a sweetened fruit dressing (ketchup).
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Justplaythefkngnote@reddit

or English mustard
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SantaFe91@reddit

Tabasco for me.
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Justplaythefkngnote@reddit

yep Tabasco also a very good shout! 👍🏻
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Livewire____@reddit

Well, I don't like to mince my words. I call a Spade a hardened, tempered steel, rectangular digging implement.
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MaximumDerekCat@reddit

But do you know your Accipitridae birds of prey from a large, hand-held, toothed cutting instrument?
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Cheese-n-Opinion@reddit

I'm sick of this modern youth slang
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Upstairs-Bath9158@reddit

😂😂
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SmashingK@reddit

So that would be a no according to grilled cheese lovers. They're very particular 😂
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herefromthere@reddit

And yet only one is actually cooked under a grill.
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Eddie-Plum@reddit

An American grill and an English grill are different things though. What Brits call a grill, Americans call a broiler.
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Defiant_Income_7836@reddit

But they don't even use the broiler. It's really a fried cheese sandwich....they butter the outside of the bread and pan fry the bread which melts the cheese inside. I had a girlfriend ask me for a grilled cheese in the US and she was genuinely disappointed when I gave her a toastie...the ungrateful wench, lol
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turdferguson3891@reddit

In restaurant terminology in the the US the big flat thing you fry on is a flat top grill. That's where the name comes from.
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eriometer@reddit

I thought they used mayonnaise?
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SantaFe91@reddit

I would need a deep fried Mars bar after that I think.
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Eddie-Plum@reddit

Yeah, they don't call it a broiled cheese. American really is a different language sometimes.
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Upstairs-Bath9158@reddit

Wait so what's a grill to them, a bbq?
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MortimerDongle@reddit

Yes
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Ok_Anything_9871@reddit

I get the bbq thing, and the big grills from below they have in fast food restaurants, but how is frying something in a pan grilling it?
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MortimerDongle@reddit

"Frying" something in a pan with no oil or only a little oil is often called grilling in the US. Of course, grilled cheese normally has enough butter that it's definitely closer to pan frying
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nemmalur@reddit

It’s a testament to the power of the cooker industry in the UK that Brits associate grilling with heat from above instead of from below on a rack. The grilled part of the sandwich came from flat-top grills in restaurants; making it in a pan is just an adaptation.
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Tuna_Surprise@reddit

It came from diner parlance where it was cooked on a flattop grill https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flattop_grill
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Plus-Sir-5149@reddit

Frantically to say the least 
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HungryFinding7089@reddit

Or Welsh rabbit
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THXORY@reddit

You're forgetting the Toastie
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Upstairs-Bath9158@reddit

True, I like a toastie but am more of a cheese on toaster myself tbh
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DeirdreBarstool@reddit

Same because I’m greedy and I feel like I’m getting double the food compared to a toastie, even though it’s roughly the same. 
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Derezzed87@reddit

Either that or a cheese toastie.
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robparfrey@reddit

Welllllll thanks. Now im off to my kitchen to go make this. And to answer. Yes, we do and its delicious
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strepsilt@reddit

Had this exact meal today. Fresh tomato soup, and did the toasties on the grill with strong cheddar, ham, mayo, tomatoes and onion chutney. 10/10 no notes, but imo nothing about it was American and I would’ve said it was the most British thing I’ve eaten this month
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KEW95@reddit

Separately, not together. Then again, I often eat things on the same plate separately 😅
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Euphoric_Rough_5245@reddit

I like grilled cheesus but I hate tomato soup, and I do mine in a frying pan.
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Some_Network_1591@reddit

I actually do tbh, I have a toastie machine that i chuck some cheese in some bread and then warm some soup up especially when i get TMJ flare-ups, it’s a go to for me when my jaw decides to just kill itself off
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Goaduk@reddit

Yes but we just have cheese on toast.
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Savanarola79@reddit

We call them cheese toasties here 🥪
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Commercial-Stick-718@reddit

Tomato soup and a toastie is a classic lunch for me, also good if I'm feeling unwell
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OrganisedDanger@reddit

I occasionally have them together but not particularly often. Cheese on toast or a toastie, or soup for that matter are more than enough for a meal on their own.
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Teaofthetime@reddit

Yes, it's a nice combination.
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ShingledPringle@reddit

If you are offering I wont say no. Home made soup?
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kingofcevapi@reddit

Cheese toastie with actual cheese. I tend to prefer a more mature variety of cheddar. The melt is a bit worse but the flavour is much better.
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armenianfink@reddit

I make my grilled cheese like an American in a pan, much, much better. But yes, amazing with tomato soup
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CallMeDanPls@reddit

Same mostly, but I’d still call it a toastie
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bushcraftbobb@reddit

Try mayo instead of butter on the outside of the bread . Game changer.
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Spiritual_Being5845@reddit

My son makes his grilled cheese with mayo instead of butter. I still love him though.
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armenianfink@reddit

This sounds crazy as the butter is one of the best bits, but I’m intrigued!
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Salty-Value8837@reddit

We love grilled cheese in Canada too but it isn't "American cheese". We like real cheddar.
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nickgardia@reddit

They’re ok but ham and cheese toasties are more popular
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Ok-Opportunity-979@reddit

Yes I had this growing up! Very good idea!
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LuDdErS68@reddit

With or without soup, you're getting eaten. With chutney or pickle.
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Frankie_Kitten@reddit

Oh my god yes! My favorite comfort food! 🥰
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PrettyWithNoLimits@reddit

not really a thing here
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DaddyStoat@reddit

The closest thing I’d ever had to the American grilled cheese experience (before havine the real thing) was the “student” cheese toastie - long life bread with supermarket own-brand margarine on the outside, and a couple of processed cheese slices rather than proper cheese, then cooked in a Breville (other sandwich maker brands are available). Super-cheap, filling, and if you introduced a tablespoon of Campbell’s bolognese sauce into it, tasted like pizza! The big difference is the cheese compared to the British toastie. A proper American grilled cheese uses American cheese (kinda a bland, orange-coloured cheddar-alike) is nasty in a sandwich and tasteless on its own, but it melts in just the right way for it to work for a grilled cheese sandwich. It’s got a specific ”gooeyness”. And the soup provides flavour. 😀
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Aromatic_Pea_4249@reddit

A cheese toastie with salad on the side is a lunch in itself. Tomato soup with a bread roll is also a lunch.
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simonwxm@reddit

Also known as Oasis soap because…… You get a roll with it
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SantaFe91@reddit

Yes it’s two lunches. For sure. I couldn’t.
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HighNimpact@reddit

You do know you could have less of each, right? Please tell me you know that.
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SantaFe91@reddit

🙃
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ayeayefitlike@reddit

Soup and a sandwich is a common thing though.
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Electronic-Sound331@reddit

But if you replace the sad salad with hot soup /replace the bread roll with a cheese toastie, then you have a better lunch!
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No-Cherry-6678@reddit

Debatable
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Independent_Duck_616@reddit

Sounds good 👍
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ExamNeat8446@reddit

Who dont!
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Warm-Band-5184@reddit

I do but only because I worked at summer camps years ago!
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kernowgringo@reddit

Yes, I had it the other day but, I learnt it from my Ex who was from Seattle
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Heeeey I live there.
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kernowgringo@reddit

I was there in 2006, very nice city with a lot of fun to be had
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

It’s definitely changed since then. There’s a lot more people and buildings now.
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kernowgringo@reddit

I could see that happening while I was there and a lot of the people I met were complaining about gentrification and how appartment blocks were being built everywhere. My ex used to work at Re-bar and hang out on Capitol Hill a lot.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

I’m not a fan of capital hill personally, but it can be fun. Housing has gotten crazy here. The area just doesn’t have the geography for a large city, but they’re trying their best. Haven’t spent much time in Portland but I had fun when I was there. The oregon coast is amazing too.
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Commercial_Shop_392@reddit

No.
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theelusivechantreuse@reddit

Yep, I had one with gouda. But I couldn't finish all of the soup......
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Anxious_Reporter_601@reddit

No, that's a US food. Any meal centered round a tin of soup is generally going to be US specific.
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ITAW-Techie@reddit

I don't think that's true? Heinz soup is very popular over here. I know a lot of people that use it to dunk bread.
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Anxious_Reporter_601@reddit

Yeah but soup and a cheese toastie isn't a UK thing. 
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ITAW-Techie@reddit

That's true
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Don’t y’all have meals revolved around tins of beans?
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Anxious_Reporter_601@reddit

Yeah totally. I'm not judging it's just a fact. Canned soup was heavily advertised in the US in the early/mid 20th century in a way that it simply wasn't in the rest of the world. It's why you have tomato soup with grilled cheese as well as why you have so many cream of xyz soup based recipes.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Isn’t Heinz soup in a can? Half the responses in this post mentioned Heinz tomato soup
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Anxious_Reporter_601@reddit

Yes. It being something people eat over here (genuinely news to me as a combo, not as individual items) doesn't mean it's not USian. Burgers are USian too and those are also delicious. Idk why you're responding like I said American food sucks.
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DrDedoverde85@reddit

The other way round for me I like a small portion of tomato soup and like two grilled cheese sandwiches again English cheese so not plastic s*** no offense 💚
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

What’s your favorite cheese brand?
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DrDedoverde85@reddit

I'm not sure really I like quite a lot but I do not like blue cheese and stilton that's disgusting
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gameovervip@reddit

Toasties are pretty popular here. Tomato soup is quite popular here. They’re seldom had together
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Velvet-Pebble@reddit

Very much disagree, toasties with tomato soup is a classic! At least in Yorkshire
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tamshubbie@reddit

in Yorkshire and never heard of it until my teenager started to request it from watching too many US socials
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Adhyskonydh@reddit

Its definitely regional, down in the south west, I have never heard of cheese on toast and soup.
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Bunister@reddit

I'm in Devon and would say it's a very common combo. Always tomato soup though, definitely no other type. Imagine having it with chicken soup...
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twirling_daemon@reddit

Agree. Janner originally, grew up in Cornwall. Very familiar with Devon & Cornwall Absolutely popular/common all the places I know!
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ThriceNightly_Whitey@reddit

Depends on the cheese, creamy Lancashire, brie, or Stilton with oxtail or a really beefy or game soup, make it even more regional and add toasted barm with melted cheese 😂🤣😂😘
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twirling_daemon@reddit

Are you from here‽ It’s deffo popular/common everywhere I know
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b0xd@reddit

I grew up and still live in Somerset and have had it all my life, you're missing out!
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twirling_daemon@reddit

I’m deep SW so about as far from Yorks as possible whilst being on the same isle 😂and I absolutely agree a toastie + soup is a general lunch Until my grave however I’ll maintain cheese on toast with soup is superior though 😉
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atomicshrimp@reddit

Yeah, soup and toastie is a fairly common light lunch option in about half of the cafes I can think of
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meatflaps-69@reddit

And Fray Bentos pies should be!
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RaveyDave666@reddit

Say what?
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meatflaps-69@reddit

Carefully curated atomicshrimp related comment ;)
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RaveyDave666@reddit

I used to eat them when I was younger, there not the worst but I honestly wouldn’t recommend them even to someone I don’t like 😂
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Windle_Poons456@reddit

This man knows his tins.
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dilzebub@reddit

I'm almost 40 and been having them since i was a child.
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Nat520@reddit

Is dunking a requirement? It is for me!
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nworbleinad@reddit

Disagree. It’s one of my favourites. It’s winter food for me. A perfect lunch.
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AtebYngNghymraeg@reddit

He said "seldom". I think it's probable you're an outlier.
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DullComfortable4579@reddit

I’m not so sure - I think it might be regional. Like lots of the replies who also have it regularly, I’m from Yorkshire. V common option in a cafe here.
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Electronic-Sound331@reddit

It’s a normal lunch to me here in Newcastle. I can’t believe we’ve found yet another north/south divider in something as simple as tomato soup.
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twirling_daemon@reddit

Absolutely not part of the divide, unless you have a random name for the bread involved or soup receptacle 😂
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Electronic-Sound331@reddit

I’m glad! And dear god, please no more regional bread name discussions 😂
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twirling_daemon@reddit

🤣🤣🤣 Apologies - I just couldn’t resist! 🤷‍♀️😂
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OpenHearing1562@reddit

South East and it's my daughter's go to poorly meal. We are safe from yet another divider.
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Electronic-Sound331@reddit

Pleased to hear it!
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FranScan@reddit

Yeah, cheese on toast, toastie, or sandwich and soup is very normal up here
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nworbleinad@reddit

Maybe. I’ve not done a poll. I’m just holding my hand up and saying I like it as a combo.
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Spiritual_Being5845@reddit

I love toasted cheese sandwiches, but it is not the same as a grilled cheese sandwich.
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HouseOfBleeps@reddit

Hard disagree! That’s a classic combo! Maybe some ham in the toastie too. South East/London.
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dosguy76@reddit

Soup and sausage roll, or soup and cheese on toast. Absolute winner. If we're going to be picky, really does require Red Leicester cheese, it's the perfect cheese on toast topping which melts and browns nicely. Double Gloucester is close. Cheddar is a last resort.
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FranScan@reddit

I’ve always had cheese on toast with soup!
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Sweaty_Ear_9247@reddit

Agreed. To the people straight up denying this (oh how I hate SM for this) maybe it's a regional thing?
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_KAZ-2YG_@reddit

Disagree. I had it loads as a kid, and it's still a staple in our home. I know loads of people who make it.
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Electronic-Sound331@reddit

I always have a cheese toastie with my cream of tomato soup. It’s a top tier lunch and I’ve definitely heard of other people doing this too. I’m surprised by all the comments saying it isn’t common here!
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honestlyVERYhonest@reddit

I hate to admit it but I love Costa’s cheese and ham toastie. If they sold tomato soup that would definitely be going on my order too. Note to Costa: this was my idea.
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Katinkia@reddit

I have them together all the time. I saw it once on a Gordon Ramsey program. I tend to have cheese on toast rather than a toastie though.
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lordrothermere@reddit

That was our staple snow day lunch when I was a kid, and it now is for my kids too... My wife had the same thing when she was a child. I would be surprised if this was an errant coincidence.
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armintanzarian420@reddit

Nah, that's a classic combination.
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gary-edwards2@reddit

Two words that should not be in a sentence, American and Cheese. It should be American and yellow coloured gloop that has no texture, no taste and even the mice reject
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

I don’t know if this is so much a thing anymore. We have good small companies that make cheese. Our grocery stores are huge and have imported cheeses as well.
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Organic_Armadillo_10@reddit

It seems a bit of a weird combination to me. I'd never even heard of it till a year or two ago, but still seems kind of strange. Tomato soup with butter and nice crusty bread works. And I've only ever had the toasted cheese sandwiches on their own. I guess it could work - but not sure I'd personally have it. The sandwiches are a bit too greasy and oily to be able to absorb the soup which is the whole point of the bread. I'm sure it maybe tastes fine, but don't really see why you'd choose to combine these 2 dishes.
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Afreshnewsketckbook@reddit

Isn't that just a cheese toastie? ...
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Specialist-Piccolo41@reddit

Depends on the cheese. Not most merkin cheese.
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Broad-Attention-6133@reddit

Can't speak on behalf of 70m ish others but yes, they're nice.
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YogurtHead6557@reddit

Since I took my two young children on a trip to the states last year, they are obsessed with grilled cheese, particularly the 9-year old. So yes, we do enjoy it.
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Rude_Sheepherder_714@reddit

Yeah, we eat them. A quick and enjoyable meal, no different to the beans on toast that seems to trigger so many non Brits...
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Numerous_Ad_2511@reddit

Love a toastie and soup I will have cheese toastie, cheese and ham, cheese and bacon cheese and turkey....all with tomato soup or chicken Noodle Much like just a sandwich and soup Endless combinations to be had Great for lunch or dinner
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YYZYYC@reddit

Toastie? Why do Brit’s have to make words sound cute and childish
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tango101-official@reddit

Toasted cheese and jalapeño sandwich, with tomato soup…. Perfect combo
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Velvet-Pebble@reddit

Also we don't grill them, we have a dedicated machine called a toastie maker (it's kinda like a waffle iron but makes a sealed sandwich
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Independent-Ad-3385@reddit

I learned this week so I am sharing it. Grilling means something different in America!! Like cooking from below.
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chipz-n-gravy@reddit

What we'd call grilling, Americans call broiling
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No-Cherry-6678@reddit

What an ugly word
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Beleriphon@reddit

Keeping mind it's derived from cooking a grill, like a literal grill or metal, over heat. So what the rest of the English speaking world would probably call a barbeque. Mind you barbeque in the USA is cooking technique and method, not so much a specific kind of device, that involves heat from below and a long cooking time.
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Boglin007@reddit

Well, it does come from French.
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StirlingS@reddit

Grilling at home in America (usually) means cooking on an outdoor BBQ. Grilled in an American restaurant is usually going mean cooked on a flat top grill/griddle.  Grilled cheese is cooked on a flat top grill in a restaurant or in a frying pan or panini press at home. I'm not sure I would consider a sandwich cooked in the oven (under the broiler) to be a grilled cheese sandwich at all due to the different texture the bread would have. 
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twirling_daemon@reddit

Please try it & report back! I’m so intrigued at these differences in language & method!
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metal_maxine@reddit

Oh. Interesting. I always make toasties under our grill. We had a toastie maker when we were kids (I suspect it was a wedding present) and it got used a couple of times before being declared too hard to clean.
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Velvet-Pebble@reddit

Most relatable thing I've read today
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Cheese-n-Opinion@reddit

Nobody's mentioned but cheese on toast is probably more common than toasties. I think you could argue that, in terms of its place in our culture, cheese on toast is the British analogue to grilled cheese more so than a cheese toastie. I think it's the more classic easy comfort food - and I'd be more likely to have that with soup.
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Old_Introduction_395@reddit

They make them in a frying pan, not under a grill.
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Velvet-Pebble@reddit

Yeah they throw it ON a grill, where we would say under. We'd call it frying I guess but it's the same method :)
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illarionds@reddit

"Throwing it on the grill" would be what we call BBQing. Not frying on the hob.
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BouncyBlueYoshi@reddit

These are separate meals. Or soup with buttered bread/toast
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not1or2@reddit

Why would you have “grilled” cheese with tomato soup?? Best is cheese on toast, grilled with some Worcestershire sauce. No need for tomato soup.
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mralistair@reddit

Grilled cheese sandwich is just a toastie really. I now prefer this method over the cheese on toast as you get less burnt crust
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not1or2@reddit

Noooo no toastie! Cheese on toast!
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mralistair@reddit

Different strokes.    But the grilled cheese (which is not grilled fyi, it's buttered on outside and put on frying pan / griddle)  If good for the crunchier breads and meltier cheese
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not1or2@reddit

No, they’re not good at all. Cheese on toast every day! Under the grill.
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mralistair@reddit

Sorry, you don't get to tell me what my taste buds think.
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not1or2@reddit

Neither do you me!
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1xLaurazepam@reddit

I for one fuckin love that shit. Off topic but Is anybody else here a fan of toasted tomato sandwiches? A small smear of mayo on toasted bread, thick sliced tomato and a shit load of salt and pepper.
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CaptainC00lpants@reddit

We just call it cheese in toast. We love it. Defo not normal with soup, but sounds lovely 
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misimalu@reddit

“Grilled” means something different, we say that for what you’d call “broiled” (related: we use the word BBQ for a gas grill or charcoal bbq) so when we say “cheese on toast” we’re talking about an open sandwich, a slice of toast, buttered, proper cheese slices on top (not shitty plastic American cheese) that’s been broiled (not fried or bbq’d)
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misimalu@reddit

Americans don’t butter their sandwiches or toast. Brits find this weird.
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Ok-Astronaut-2837@reddit

Excuse me. Americans absolutely butter our toast. Idk where you got the idea that we didn't. Toast from a restaurant almost always comes buttered. We don't butter our sandwiches, because mayo generally fits that bill. However, there is a debate about butter on grilled cheese tho. I personally use mayo and not butter, it creates a better crust imo.
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misimalu@reddit

Sigh. Not your sandwiches tho do you? If I put a rasher of bacon in a pretzel roll would you expect the roll to be buttered?
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Ok-Astronaut-2837@reddit

Not unless it was toasted.
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Bunister@reddit

Buttered???!
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misimalu@reddit

Yup. It’s one of the more nuanced of cultural differences but Brits butter their toast and sandwiches before putting the spread or filling on. The butter is nice yellow Irish type butter tho or they use a butter spread , not the weird white sticks of butter stuff you get here. Richer and tastier.
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twirling_daemon@reddit

I do not butter for cheese on toast If I’m making a toastie or a grilled cheese I butter the outside of my bread to create a crust but that’s it!
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Bunister@reddit

I am British. I would never put butter on cheese on toast.
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Illustrious_Bee5237@reddit

Agree you wouldn’t do that. Butter for sandwiches but not toast things.
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misimalu@reddit

I meant generally speaking Brits use butter for sandwiches. Americans don’t.
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jack853846@reddit

I read this in Hank Hill's voice.
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THXORY@reddit

Ewww no butter
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herefromthere@reddit

I can't tell if you're objecting to having butter or to not having butter.
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THXORY@reddit

Butter AND cheese? Way too sickly.
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coffeeebucks@reddit

Cheese on toast: cheddar etc on a slice of unbuttered bread, on a grill (not oven) Cheese toastie: cheddar etc sandwich, made in a toastie machine, or frying pan
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herefromthere@reddit

Cheese on toast - toast the bread, cut some slices of cheese of a larger block of good cheese, put that under the grill until the cheese is bubbling and crusty, maybe add some black pepper or lea&perrins or something on the top. Cheese toastie : butter the outside of both top and bottom slices of bread with real butter, add cheese in the middle (grated so it is a more even layer) then put that in a toastie press til it's all golden and crunchy all over and the cheese is sealed in. I really miss my toastie press.
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Blue_Star_Child@reddit

As an American my favorite cheese to use is Muenster. It melts so well.
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twirling_daemon@reddit

It’s ok, I’ve done it. I kinda enjoy it But grilled cheese cannot compete with cheese on toast Cheese on toast with tomato soup is my number 1 comfort food. When I’m sick or sad it’s all I want If I’ve had a good day but I’m chilly to my marrow especially if I’m tired too. It’s all I want I’ll accept grilled cheese but even while enjoying it I’m a little mournful it’s not the superior cheese on toast
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Bambam_26_@reddit

I think old people do. They always seem to be an option in quaint little cafes and tea rooms.
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AdThat328@reddit

I don't understand why a fried sandwich is called "Grilled". It didn't go near a grill...
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Chickadee_Sparrow@reddit

If you mean similar to Kraft cheese slices and Wonder bread, then no. You need real, not processed, cheese and same for the bread. Tomato soup is always a winner, especially on damp rainy days.
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ConsciouslyIncomplet@reddit

Not in the same way as US. However, remember that American cheese is very inferior to UK cheese. Most American ‘cheese’ is not actually cheese. Source: Live in UK and US for a number of years.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

I’ve heard this before and am excited to see the difference. We buy cheese from all other the world. Typically when we buy local cheese it’s from a place called Tillamook, which is very good.
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moonshine276@reddit

yeee, i make em in my toasted sandwich maker and have heinz tomato soup on the side
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CharmingImportance22@reddit

Yes. Next question?
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jobione1986@reddit

Cheese toastie and grilled cheese are different
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RepulsiveProposal961@reddit

No :(
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direct_architecture@reddit

Yes ! Toasted sourdough with goats cheese, tomato soup with basil and parsley and a drizzle of cold pressed, single origin olive oil.
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Real-Apricot-7889@reddit

We’d normally have cheese on toast rather than a grilled cheese sandwich 
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MerlinOfRed@reddit

I have cheese toasties far more than cheese on toast. But yes, we call them toasties. I was incredibly disappointed in Canada when I saw some very cheap "grilled cheese" on the menu, ordered it expecting Halloumi, and got a toastie made from plastic cheese and plastic bread.
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tcpukl@reddit

Why would you expect halloumi unless it was on the menu?
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MerlinOfRed@reddit

Well maybe not halloumi specifically, but "grilled cheese" to me suggests something halloumi-adjacent - a nice cheese that has been lightly grilled.
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tcpukl@reddit

In the UK it's normally cheddar. Plastic cheese is only for burgers.
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Bunister@reddit

I have never seen cheddar grilled, and I've lived in the UK for 51 years. It's always a halloumi-style cheese.
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No-Cherry-6678@reddit

Oh please, every toasted cheese sandwich ever in Uk is cheddar
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Bunister@reddit

Yes, but that's not what we are talking about.
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No-Cherry-6678@reddit

Yes it is
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Impressive-Safe-7922@reddit

The point is that we say "toasted cheese sandwich " or toastie. If you're unfamiliar with the American usage, "grilled cheese" sounds like you put some cheese on the grill - which I think is most commonly done with halloumi. 
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tcpukl@reddit

Even supported for have just released a sandwich episode and the American grilled cheese didn't include halloumi. I've really never heard of one that is not melted. It included mozerellla, monteray jack and red leicester and smoke apple wood. So all very melting cheeses. https://youtu.be/XL3lnNMSkms?t=265
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Impressive-Safe-7922@reddit

No one is suggesting that grilled cheese sandwiches/toasties would be made with halloumi. The original commenter once misunderstood "grilled cheese" as being a serving of cheese that had been grilled (NOT in a sandwich), which is most often done with halloumi 
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tcpukl@reddit

That sounds like cheese on toast which is cheddar.
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tcpukl@reddit

You've never had cheese on toast with cheddar? I've never seen cheese on toast with halloumi. Where did you get halloumi from in the 80s? It certainly wasn't in our tesco when I was a kid.
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Dic_Penderyn@reddit

You have, except you did not realise it was cheddar. The standard cheese in all greasy spoons and cafeterias is cheddar.
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tcpukl@reddit

Yeah this 51 years is bs. Cheddar is everywhere in the UK. Halloumi is a recent addition. Well I feel old. But not easily available for 51 years!
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Bunister@reddit

I've had cheese on toast a million times, but that isn't the topic of this conversation.
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Dic_Penderyn@reddit

Well in that case if you have had it a 'million' times, the chances are on at least one occasion you saw grilled cheddar.
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Bunister@reddit

On toast, yes. On its own, no.
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tcpukl@reddit

I've never heard of anything but cheddar in the UK . It's ubiquitous in this country. Halloumi doesn't even melt ffs.
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Bunister@reddit

Halloumi doesn't melt. That's why it's perfect for grilling.
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symbister@reddit

I dont believe you. Haloumi is sheeps milk cheese without rennet therefore it doesn't melt, instead it gets more rubbery as it is heated. Cheddar is ubiquitous in the UK and is a rennet made cheese therefore a melting cheese. 95% of all cheese on toast in the UK is cheddar, the other 5 is edam or gouda. [66 years of UK residency]
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MerlinOfRed@reddit

Good to know. Now, what does this have to do with the menu of a café in Canada in 2019?
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Petcai@reddit

Because there are very very few cheeses that you can actually grill, in our meaning of grill. Halloumi is the most common, grilled halloumi is nice.
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Sasspishus@reddit

Oh no that's horrible! So disappointing :(
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Less_Instruction_345@reddit

In England it's typically known as cheese on toast. I wouldn't tend to have it with soup, no.
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Aggressive-Bad-440@reddit

You mean cheese on toast (usually one slice of pre sliced bread - that's toast to Germans not brot - toasted for the usual amount of time, then add a square slice of cheddar cheese on top, microwave for usually 10-20s) with a mug of baked beans (also just microwaved).
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MrsSEM84@reddit

Hell yes! It’s the ultimate pick me up when I’m feeling a little ill or the weather is terrible.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Do you ever put cheese on a tortilla and put it in the microwave? Put a little hot sauce on it and it’s a nice snack.
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Sir_Colby_Tit@reddit

Confused Englishman here. So, when Americans refer to a grilled cheese sandwich, they're actually referring to a fried cheese sandwich? Is this correct?
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

They’re usually cooked in a frying pan on the stove top. Butter the outside of two slices of bread, put whatever cheese you want inside and put it in the pan. Flip the sandwich when it gets golden brown on one side.
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LifeInProgress1@reddit

Yes
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Wickedbitchoftheuk@reddit

Actually, Philadelphia sandwiches dunked in tomato soup is close to heaven.
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MorningSquare5882@reddit

A cheese toastie (roughly similar to a grilled cheese) is generally considered a lunch on its own here; much like baked potatoes. We often eat things as the main item that Americans have as sides. 
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Londoner_999@reddit

I'd like to know about the tomato soup they have in the US. Is it Cream of Tomato like we have in the UK?
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Here is a very traditional tomato soup. Doesn’t appear to have cream in it. It’s condensed so you add a can of water to the mix in a pot. It tastes fine but is pretty simple. https://www.target.com/p/campbell-s-condensed-tomato-soup/-/A-95174558?preselect=14735602#lnk=sametab Here is one that I typically get. https://www.target.com/p/progresso-gluten-free-vegetable-classics-tomato-basil-soup-19oz/-/A-14285202#lnk=sametab Also no cream.
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harrietmjones@reddit

This Brit hasn’t much but my mum used to enjoy this growing up.
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MidnightMist26@reddit

We don't have all this "grilled" stuff but we do eat tomato soup with bread now and again
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South_Hedgehog_7564@reddit

I’m sick with a chest infection. I would be so happy if someone made me a cheese toastie and tomato soup. My husband is ill as well. O misery!
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Phantom_Crush@reddit

Yes
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CuteFactor8994@reddit

When I go to the diner & order a grilled cheese sandwich, I ask for swiss, tomato & bacon on Rye with Russian dressing on the side. It's marvelous!
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No_Seat443@reddit

No. It’s a ‘Merican thing.
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T4rch@reddit

Just had this at a cafe, dafuq..... Looking over my shoulder now
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InboundDreams@reddit

Lol
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Cheese-n-Opinion@reddit

It's not the traditional combination like it is in America. But those two things (more or less) are individually popular so I'm sure some folk are having them together. We make cheese toasties rather than 'grilled cheese'. Growing up [Toastie makers](https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=6e72ffa629272dce&rlz=1C1VDKB_en-GBGB1073GB1073&sxsrf=ANbL-n5dxMNnPToKjbiqnUBIIh6281tI_A:1773493500331&udm=2&fbs=ADc_l-aN0CWEZBOHjofHoaMMDiKp9lEhFAN_4ain3HSNQWw-mMGVXS0bCMe2eDZOQ2MOTwmdSduEdP1lcK-3UDyorIbYRxdlisgD2tL_0713qVBZlUkJKs0QrqD7oXO4y3EsT5x4zU4WWKIKl1GQh9xGIeJvxQWQw0RjDJkvZn5BzUtXu_Qyi2UqXzgQwOJhkzqEPPoCEzjFpUK9GkajO4pt0DofDaUFuA&q=breville+toastie+maker&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiM4-SQup-TAxWBT0EAHdPwFbwQtKgLegQIExAB&biw=1707&bih=898&dpr=1.5) were really popular but you don't see them around as much nowadays.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

I’m a little surprised to learn that Brits like sandwich toasters so much. Kitchens there are smaller on average and toasters can be bulky and awkward to store. A pan fried or ‘grilled’ sandwich just needs a frying pan.
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Jetstream-Sam@reddit

They're often sold extremely cheap for an appliance. I think my one was like £7? Basically in that "Fuck it, gimme one" range and a separate appliance makes it easy to clean up compared to a pan, you just need to wipe it down rather than wash the pan up. It also means you can add other stuff to it easily that, in my experience, makes a sandwich fall apart a bit when cooking it in the pan
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Cheese-n-Opinion@reddit

Yeah agreed. We had one and it was fun for a while, but after the trend faded we got rid. I mentioned below but I reckon cheese on toast is the more classic thing we'd make - lie an open faced sandwich where you put the cheese under the grill (what you call the broiler).
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ClaireIsAlien@reddit

Yep.
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DashHopesTDH@reddit

It’s not a British thing. We would normally have buttered bread cut into little rectangles (soldiers) and a pile of salt for dipping. However I tried the grilled cheese with tomato soup recently and it was good but I felt a bit greasy after
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WoollyMamatth@reddit

Even better, a handful of grated Extra Mature Cheddar just dumped on top of the soup. Cheesy, salty, melty goodness 💕
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Previous_Estate5831@reddit

No, I don't. 😂
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Mummifiedsu@reddit

No I’d never heard of this before visiting America. We just dip plain bread in soup.
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jo-lemon@reddit

I love a ham & chse toastie with tomato soup for dipping
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Yolandi2802@reddit

I do. But then I grew up in Texas…
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hardlymatters1986@reddit

Yes but its called a cheese toastie.
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RavenSaysHi@reddit

I often have it when I’m on holiday in America.
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Antique_Cockroach_97@reddit

My scottish cousin always made tom soup & grilled cheese when she ironed wrapped the sandwich in tin foild and used the iron to grill it they were so good
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PaulBradley@reddit

Cheese sandwich, or a toasted cheese sandwich with tomato soup was a childhood delight. Or a cheese and onion pasty submarined in.
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Llemur1415@reddit

We have soup and a toastie. Quite a common combo in cafes. We have lots of different soups and the toastie could be cheese and ham or cheese and onion or chutney etc. At home we would normally have soup and cheese on toast which is bread toasted on one side then piled with cheese and grilled under the grill (broiler) but will make our own toastie if we can be bothered and it's usually a bit of a treat!
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I-am-Chubbasaurus@reddit

More cheese toastie and tomato soup, but yes.
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GamerChikx@reddit

I do, but not with tomato soup (I was put off as a child). I like making a grilled cheese with Jarlsberg, Greyère or strong Cheddar, usually with a thick homemade soup.
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Snow_Uk@reddit

We dont do grilled cheese like you A grill for us is the hot element over top We do have cheese on toast And some of is "brits" find that term offensive from Yanks but british is OK
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MixPlus@reddit

I think for us it would be "cheese on toast" rather than a "grilled cheese sandwich". (2 slices of toast topped with mature cheddar cheese and placed untill grill until brown and bubbling). I will happily eat that with tomato soup, but the ultimate combo is cheese on toast with french onion soup.
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reezle2020@reddit

I have tomato soup with grated cheddar directly on top of the soup, then have buttered toast on the side to dip in. So like a deconstructed version.
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Musashi10000@reddit

I like cheese toasties (what you call grilled cheese). I tried one with soup once. It was a horrible experience, and I do not understand the appeal.
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rich2083@reddit

Baton baguette cut in half with loads of red Leicester cheese on top, then grilled.
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CurryingFervour@reddit

Grew up with tomato soup or cheese on toast (not the same thing but probably our equivalent) as separate meals in their own right. Have tried our toasties and not a big fan. Watched American shows and saw grilled cheese made in a frying pan and it's now a regular staple in my household, often with tomato soup! Making a grilled cheese/toastie in a frying pan is sooo much faster, easier and cleaner. Pro tip is use mayonnaise on the outer sides rather than butter as it doesn't burn as easily!
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MaxximumB@reddit

This Brit and his wife does.
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Puzzleheaded-Web1519@reddit

Cheese on toast, topped with baked beans. Yum.
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KitFan2020@reddit

Christ. It’s 2am and I’m now craving Heinz tomato soup and a cheese toastie. Yes OP! It’s the perfect combination.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Get it gurl
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ultraviolet47@reddit

I like vegan Heinz cream of tomato soup with either (vg) cheesy garlic bread slices or a (vg) garlic cheesy pretzel. Delish! You can just sir fryer them, easier than toastie/grilled cheese.
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CharieRarie@reddit

An excellent quick and easy dinner! I make my toasties in the oven. I can fit 10 on my big tray, plenty for the whole family. They are a bit crunchier than grilled or fried ones but still mighty fine.
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wintermute023@reddit

Do you mean a toasted cheese sandwich? Sometimes known colloquially as a cheese toastie? If so then I would say it’s not impossible, but certainly not common. Tomato soup with bread is one meal. A cheese toastie is another meal.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

You gotta combine that shit bruh. Dip that fried cheese sandwich in the soup. It’s amazing.
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wintermute023@reddit

I’m far too British to have two meals in one. It would be like putting beef stew on a toast in the hole. 😬
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

How is soup and sandwich two meals?
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idreaminlowercase@reddit

I don’t eat it with soup however I like to dip it into ketchup 😋
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Fr0stweasel@reddit

Cheese toastie is an infinitely better and less moronic sounding than grilled cheese sandwich. Sometimes US naming conventions seem like they were invented by people with some sort of cognitive disability.
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Boglin007@reddit

It's not moronic - it retains the original sense of the word "grill," i.e., the heat comes from below (the grill, the literal iron framework on which the food/pan is placed, goes over the heat source). Don't know why we Brits (literally) flipped that meaning.
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Fr0stweasel@reddit

Can’t hear you over the sound of your mouth full of American balls.
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gypsyjackson@reddit

At least this time it had ‘sandwich’ in. Usually just called a ‘grilled cheese’, which sounds very messy.
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Weird-Gap5019@reddit

Anybody here cut up cheese into small cubes and drop them into their Heinz tomato soup?
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Useful_Result_4550@reddit

I do! but I grate the cheese on top and then with some bread and butter.
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Due-Resort-2699@reddit

I remember going to Las Vegas and seeing “grilled cheese” on the menu and thinking “oh that sounds interesting” only to find out it was a fucking cheese toastie 🤣
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Yakitori_Grandslam@reddit

Just a regular cheese sandwich. Soaks up the tomato soup so well.
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PrincessCellyBelly@reddit

Lived in America for a year once. Discovered this was a thing there. Got very fat. So, yes.
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Ok_Biscotti2533@reddit

Our grilled cheeses aren't like your grilled cheeses. Here, a grill is a heating element or gas burner above the thing you're heating, so more like a broiler. Now, if you want an English recipe for something g to go with your tomato soup, try this: Mix grated mature cheddar mixed with a beaten egg, mild beer (bitter or stout, depending on your taste), a spoonful of English or wholegrain mustard. Cut a thick piece of bread and toast one side on your "grill". Turn over and spoon this mixture on to the other side of the slice then put under the heat. Watch carefully as it bubbles and rises as it will burn quickly but is ready when it has browned on top. You can add Worcestershire sauce over the top if you like. This is a variation on Welsh Rarebit and is a delicious heart attack on a plate.
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catdog_man@reddit

Yes. I like to put something like a chilli jam in the cheese toastie, and something piquant in the soup as well.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

In college my buddy got one of those electric sandwich makers. One day he tried to make a sandwich and after he left the kitchen I slipped in a dried red chili into the sandwich. He came back to the kitchen when it was done and it took it into his bedroom. Two minutes later he came back to the kitchen and threw the sandwich at me without saying a single thing. I was so proud.
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abyssal-isopod86@reddit

Grilled cheese on toast with a splash I've Worcestershire sauce, cut into dippy fingers and dunked in tom soup! ***Deeeelicious!***
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ShadowCat3500@reddit

This Brit does!
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Nice. How about a big tortilla with cheese inside that you microwave or broil?
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andycwb1@reddit

Toasted cheese, please. I’m quite partial to an American style grilled cheese sandwich, but I’d usually make it with toasted bread and melted cheese, rather than the fried version that is a grilled cheese.
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Creative-Bobcat-7159@reddit

Cheese toasties? Absolutely. With tomato soup? Nope. I can see it would work so no shaming here, but it’s an American thing.
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ItsGoodToChalk@reddit

I am not British (although I live here), and I want it now.
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Empty_Change7506@reddit

No
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RobinOwl1407@reddit

Uh uh, absolutely not. The only good thing about soup is dipping bread and butter in it, so the butter goes all melty. If your dipper is already toasted, the butter is already melted
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NervousCost9257@reddit

Sunday tea special!!!
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actualinsomnia531@reddit

100%. Its a very different beast though. Usually cheddar (which tends to be stronger in the uk) and either broiled or in a toastie maker. For reference: UK grilled = US broiled
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rellim-yelsel@reddit

No.
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Sonarthebat@reddit

Hell yeah.
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Cosmic-Hippos@reddit

We call it 'toast n cheese' in Scotland, and we usually have it with a cuppa tea
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Thumbb93@reddit

My wife's American and she's got me hooked tbf
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Admirable_Holiday653@reddit

Yes we do very much
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Diligent-Worth-2019@reddit

A couple of times a year yes.
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Sockinatoaster@reddit

Never had it until i moved to the US. Grew up with cheese and onion on toast, not those shitty, plasticky, Kraft slices.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

You can make them with whatever kind of cheese you like…
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Sockinatoaster@reddit

Not in my house we couldn’t.
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SirGuestWho@reddit

No, tomato soup sucks as a soup personally, one dimensional
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PracticalAd4401@reddit

No but cheese on toast with soup slaps
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EUskeptik@reddit

I’m a fan of Welsh Rarebit. Also of tomato soup, but not together. -oo-
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Dazzling-Shower7907@reddit

This has always been my go to! I love it, but would settle for a cheese sandwich and a tomato soup!
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FranScan@reddit

Slightly related but I watched the Haunting of Bly Manor a few years ago and was irrationally annoyed when they had the British children say that their favourite food was grilled cheese sandwiches. We would not say that! They also had crickets chirping as a sound effect despite crickets only existing here in one tiny part of Kent.
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k_shields1@reddit

Ahhh love me a cheese toastie with tomato soup. Eat main part of toastie, then dip crusts in the soup. Top tier. Especially on a cold day 🥶😍 Now I want it. 😂
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Get it brother
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Persona_Insomnia@reddit

I tried it recently with a good cheddar cheese toastie and enjoyed it.
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RgCrunchyCo@reddit

Yes we do and it’s even better than the American version because our bread makes better toast.
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ComfortableBuffalo57@reddit

Open faced or closed, made on a flat top or in a panini press, frying pan or broiler… It’s all rock and roll to me. Let’s get along and enjoy our melted cheese on bread delights! In these trying times let not semantics divide the people over the simple pleasures of hot lunches.
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Material-Net-5171@reddit

No, never. A toasted cheese sandwich though, ansolutely.?
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Advanced_Gate_3352@reddit

Cheese and onion sarnie, on white bread, with too much butter, and a tin of cream of tomato with a dash of L&P. My go to comfort food.
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Ornery-Vehicle-2458@reddit

Can't eat tomato soup since the last time. Too traumatised. Think "Exorcist" without the spinning head. Jeez, that was bad...
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TwizzleShnizzle@reddit

A sealed cheese toastie (often called a Breville because of the brand, like Hoover) is the work of angels, and touched by demons. Flavours from heaven, mouth burns from hell.
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Weird_Georgiana@reddit

I'll have cheese on toast but not with soup, especially tomato soup.
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freebiscuit2002@reddit

The sandwich, yes. More often called cheese on toast, or a toastie. You wouldn't usually combine it with soup, though. Seems excessive.
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CptPJs@reddit

whenever I have it I say "I might go American and make a toastie with my soup, instead of just bread"
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Difficult-Post-3320@reddit

Cheese on toast or a toasted cheese sandwich yes. Don't fancy it with tomato soup but only because I am not a big fan of the latter.
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Mikon_Youji@reddit

Yes, we do. Except me don't call it a grilled cheese sandwich over here, we call it a "toastie".
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SwiftJedi77@reddit

Sure why not
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Sea-Horse-5793@reddit

"grilled cheese" must be one of the more absurd butcherings of English by Americans, it is such a poor description.
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Kirsten_Ghoti@reddit

We don't really eat grilled cheese. It's not that we don't enjoy it, it's just that we eat cheese and bread differnetly, either cheese toastie (buttered bread, cheese, toast it) or cheese on toast (toast one side of the bread, add cheese to the other, put it back under the grill (broiler) until the cheese is bubbly and browned) rather than the classic shallow fried grilled cheese.
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More_Dependent742@reddit

Grilled cheese, toastie, and cheese on toast - not the same thing. Grilled cheese (which is not grilled) is fairly uncommon in general. Cheese on toast (which is grilled), is pretty common in general, as are toasties. The classic for cheese on toast is cheddar (I'm going to hazard a guess that 9 to 12 month is most common strength for this), often with black pepper, or Worcester sauce, or Marmite. But obviously many other variations exist.
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shinymcshine1990@reddit

Fuck yes
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Y’all don’t eat peanut butter and jelly sandwiches though, do you?
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Electronic-Sound331@reddit

A lot of people do nowadays but it’s certainly isn’t as ubiquitous a thing here as it is in the US.
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Marzipan_civil@reddit

I would just have a piece of untasted bread to dip in my soup. Cheese toastie is a separate meal/snack.
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SwordTaster@reddit

Usually a brit will have a grilled cheese on its own, no soup in sight. And our technique for making such a sandwich is substantially different. The british way is to put cheese between slices of bread and then put this in the oven on a low temperature to melt and toast adequately. Meanwhile, the american technique is to make the same sandwich, but then apply butter or mayo to the outside of it, then put it in a frying pan and toast each side individually
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

I only recently learned that people put mayo on the inside of their grilled cheese. I think this could be a regional or cultural thing. Not sure.
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SwordTaster@reddit

Mayo on the outside (full fat) is good for frying it in. It's harder to burn than butter and tastes better than oil. Mayo in the inside is just fuckin weird
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Jimmyboro@reddit

I just cannot abide heinz tomato soup, it tastes just awful. They use the soup as the same sauce with their tinned spaghetti and its fucking horrible. This has ever only been and likely ever will be the only food I am ultra picky about.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Can’t you get another brand?
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Jimmyboro@reddit

Heinze tomato pit me off tomato soup for life, I just cannot abide any tomato soup!
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eastkent@reddit

It's something I've had but now I just see them both as separate meals, not just one meal.
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EatingCoooolo@reddit

No they do not.
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sveferr1s@reddit

I don't have cheese toasties with homemade tomato soup enough.
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tw1nkle@reddit

You can find it, but I It’s not a regular thing like it is in the US, and a grilled cheese is very rarely made the same way.
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Sad_Cardiologist5388@reddit

Yeah big fans in our house.
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cjdstreet@reddit

In what world is it american? Its 200% british
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Lowermains@reddit

I make roasted cheese to have with tomato soup.
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OddPerspective9833@reddit

Going to be honest, not really sure what a grilled cheese sandwich is
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Petcai@reddit

American version of a cheese toastie, except they fry it in a pan.
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OddPerspective9833@reddit

So not really grilled at all? 
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HollyGoLately@reddit

You mean cheese toastie
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

Does a toastie have butter on the bread before it goes into the toaster?
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HollyGoLately@reddit

On the outside so it doesn’t stick to the toastie maker
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reverendhunter@reddit

The toastie comes in many forms and can be freestyled
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Fit_General7058@reddit

No. The usual with a bowl of soup is either A. croutons in the soup B. A slice of bread to rip and dip in the soup.
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ice-lollies@reddit

I love Heinz tomato soup and cold cheese sandwiches. That’s even better.
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thatguysaidearlier@reddit

Yes. What might raise your eyebrows is that the soup is almost always Heinz Tomato Soup from a tin.
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FacebookNewsNetwork@reddit (OP)

I’ll usually use a canned soup too, but a bit above the condensed ones. Progresso tomato soup usually.
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Shitelark@reddit

It's okay, love the cheese toasty bit, tomato soup is very samey. But at least we get Red Leicester.
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Physical_Orchid3616@reddit

Brits dont make grilled cheese sandwiches. they make cheese toasties instead using one of those sandwich makers. similar, but not the same. not as good as grilled cheese. i once made american style grilled cheese for a small group of british people. they couldnt believe how good it was.
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Nevernonethewiser@reddit

It's the same. It's bread fried in butter on a hot pan with cheese in it. They're the same thing. Sometimes a machine does the heating and can imprint a specific shape/pattern, but a lot of the time it's just a flat pan.
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No-Cherry-6678@reddit

But why is it called a toastie when patently fried not grilled? Completely different creation
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Nevernonethewiser@reddit

Why is a grilled cheese called 'grilled' when it's fried? It also skips the main part of the dish. They're not grilling cheese, they're frying a cheese sandwich. The first time I heard the term "grilled cheese" with no context I genuinely thought in the USA they would just melt some cheese under the grill and eat that. When you heat bread, you make toast. It's more a 'toastie' than it is grilled. If it was cooked on a grill, maybe. Or indeed under one, which the US calls broiling (which sounds gross) but we call putting it under the grill. That would make sense. We could call it a friedie or a fried cheese sandwich I suppose, but literally nobody wants that.
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This_Rom_Bites@reddit

Tomato soup makes me queasy. Even the smell of it. I do like a cheese toastie, though. I have never grilled a sandwich.
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FL_MILLIONAIRE@reddit

There is no grilled cheese with onions, tomatoes, lettuce , mushrooms, sprouts etc grilled and with ice tea like in the US southern states in England they have sandwiches but you have to customize them to make a standard grill cheese. The British toastie is simply bread with cheese no other healthy vegetables.
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raquille-@reddit

Oh yes but I put ham and mushrooms in my cheese toasties as well. Bit of mustard. Some gherkins. Lovely.
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ratgirl9241@reddit

Yeah I sometimes make cheese toasties to have with soup. I like the soup and sandwich combo
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Educational_Walk_239@reddit

Tomato soup and a cheese toastie is top tier lunch for me.
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Fred776@reddit

"Grilled cheese" has a different meaning in the UK. It would be understood as cheese cooked under a grill (or "broiler" in US English) and most people would assume you meant cheese on toast. The nearest to grilled cheese in the US sense is a toasted cheese sandwich or cheese toastie. This would be made in a special machine or using the grill/broiler
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underwater-sunlight@reddit

I do toasties quite often. I have my breville sandwich maker in the back of the cupboard somewhere but it's much easier to use pans than it is to find the breville give it a quick wash because I havent used it in over a year, leave it sat on the counter for weeks before I eventually empty the cupboard just to pit it back in its place to repeat the process the following year
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daveysprockett@reddit

When I was much younger and could cope with the mix/fat content, I used to grill grated cheese directly onto the top of a bowl of tomato soup.
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SceneDifferent1041@reddit

No it's weird. Soup is soup and cheese toastie is cheese toastie.... Never the two shall meet.
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Full-Suggestion-1320@reddit

Mature cheddar to dip in the tomato soup, but a toasties, cheese on toast goes with Branston pickle and salad so no.
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No-Cherry-6678@reddit

I tend to grate cheese on top of soup and eat with bread and butter never heard of having with s toastie, maybe a northern thing? Toast doesn't absorb the soup like bread does
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twoquietsuns@reddit

Yes, cheese toastie and tomato soup is a kill combo!
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Jmslad66@reddit

I enjoy sandwiches with any soup
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Legitimate_Abies_640@reddit

I'm pretty sure we've been eating foods like that here since before America existed. Maybe not tomatoes but definitely cheese and bread has been popular here for centuries.  Call it what you want and cook it how you want but it's still cheese and bread. These are foods that have been around since the stone age.
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West-Ad-1532@reddit

No. My dad eats soup and ham sandwiches. Ultra processed shite tbh.
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crispycat40@reddit

I read that as soup was a filling in the sandwich. Niche.
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SatiricalScrotum@reddit

A slice of cold condensed soup, straight from the can.
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Former_Guarantee_794@reddit

Yeah, a proper cheese toastie is a staple, but it's definitely a separate meal from a bowl of soup here. The combo just isn't a thing like it is across the pond.
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Auntie_Cagul@reddit

Until I played The Sims I had no idea that grilled cheese sandwiches were even a thing. We don't make grilled cheese sandwiches here. We make cheese on toast. One slice of bread toasted under the grill (Americans might know this as a broiler) until the cheese bubbles. I've never personally eaten cheese on toast with soup. I've eaten buttered toast or some lovely crusty bread with soup many a time.
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cakesforever@reddit

We do make cheese toasties, kinda the same but they do it in a frying pan.
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Unusual-Biscotti687@reddit

Not me. Hate tomato soup.
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IsfetLethe@reddit

Cheese toasties are legit, never had one with tomato soup. Counter question: why do you call them grilled cheese sandwiches? Never once have I seen anyone from the US grill them
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Nat520@reddit

The name is a bit misleading, I’ll agree. It’s more like a griddled cheese sandwich. I make mine in a frying pan. Butter the outsides of the bread. Never got on with a “sandwich toaster”- too much of a faff.
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HotNeon@reddit

No. In 1460 the great Earl of Cheese was beheaded in the tomato uprising. Ever since then it's been illegal in the UK to eat cheese and tomato as part of the same meal
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Nevernonethewiser@reddit

The first time I had actual pizza on the continent I nearly cried. And that's why we have Melting Day on the 13th of May, to celebrate the Tomato Triumph. We have a great big bonfire and we burn effigies of cheese on them. Not real cheese, that would be a waste of food and money.
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Alert-Painting1164@reddit

No. Some Brits might pair a cheese toastie with tomato soup but it’s not a deep rooted cultural combo like it’s in the U.S.
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PengyLi@reddit

With (Heinz) tomato soup, we used to have ham sandwiches. Untoasted. Can be dipped.
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poorly-worded@reddit

I think you'll find the answer is regional specific
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GiveUsATBob@reddit

Yes. But rarely combined. Both of them are quick easy, relatively cheap meals. So you’d be more likely to have soup as one lunch and toastie as another.
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Distinct-Quantity-46@reddit

No
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Overall-Lynx917@reddit

"Soup & "Sandwich" - Scottish Meal Deal
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Princes_Slayer@reddit

Tomato soup with some form of cheese sandwich or toastie was common occurrence in our house growing up, and it continues to be a quick comforting meal in our crappy weather as a middle aged fogey that I am
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_KAZ-2YG_@reddit

Yep, had it loads as a kid and still love it now, only difference is my mum used a toastie maker rather than doing it in a pan.
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pixie1947@reddit

I sometimes (all the time) put grated cheese in the soup. It's fabulous.
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DifferentWave@reddit

Some of us do, some of us don’t. We’re not one homogenous mass.
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chaospixiestitches@reddit

Yes, and now i know what I'm having for lunch, thank you!
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Illustrious-Divide95@reddit

There's a breville out back!
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Alternative_Way_2700@reddit

Tomato soup, absolutely not....with anything (I detest tomato soup). A cheese (or even a cheese and ham) toastie with any other soup? Maybe, not tried it but it certainly sounds interesting and possibly something I may like. Mmmmm, just thought of a leek and potato soup with a toastie, now that sounds yummy.
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PlanetSwallower@reddit

I enjoy grilled cheese sandwiches without tomato soup.
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Unusual_residue@reddit

Toasted sandwich?
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tetlee@reddit

It's more commonly what we'd think of as a fried bread sandwich
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Icy_Oil_1024@reddit

Frying a butty so that the mayo finds its way to the outside is something I’ve yet to see a fellow Brit do, even in Glasgow.
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tetlee@reddit

You spread the mayo on the outside, pretty much turns out like buttering the outside
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dinkidoo7693@reddit

Its a cheese toastie over here. Personally i don’t usually have one with soup. Its more of a snack than a meal.
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No_Repair7134@reddit

I make a cheese toastie with tomato soup and call it Wet Pizza
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ZygonCaptain@reddit

What exactly do you mean by “grilled cheese sandwich”?
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peterbparker86@reddit

A cheese toastie
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ZygonCaptain@reddit

Cheers!
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anchoredwunderlust@reddit

I mean we would. We don’t tend to grill cheese and melt it in different ways but yeah
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Funny-Force-3658@reddit

That's lunch decided on. Thanks 😊
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Slow-Kale-8629@reddit

I'm a Northerner and to me this is two separate meals, I'd have either one or the other. Although "grilled cheese" to me would mean halloumi under the grill, and I'd call the thing you're talking about a cheese toastie. I also wouldn't have that very sweet homogeneous tomato soup. If I was eating tomato soup it would be the kind that looks more like a tin of chopped tomatoes, and it wouldn't have added sugar. I associate the sweet version with poverty food from the 1980s, along with spaghetti hoops in tomato sauce and processed white bread.
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throwra_tsatthestars@reddit

Cheese toastie and tomato soup is the best combo.
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AudioLlama@reddit

A cheese toastie is pretty common here I'd say. I've certainly had it with tomato soup. I'm a particular fan of adding nduja or some spicy meat to the toastie. Booyah
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Friendly-Handle-2073@reddit

No. We enjoy cheese on toast, or a cheese toastie. Grilled cheese!? None of that American vernacular shite!
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derekclysdale@reddit

i quite enjoy Egg & Cress with a veg soup.
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elizable9@reddit

I love a Toastie with a soup. Not only tomato soup either. I quite like cream of chicken with a cheese Toastie and often have corned beef toasties with tomato soup. Its not something that would be thought of as an odd thing here in the North East. I've had this my whole life. I also don't own a Toastie maker.
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CocoRufus@reddit

Cheese on toast and tomato soup? Yes. Yes we do
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Otherwise-Plane8282@reddit

There’s a big difference between what we call a toasted cheese sandwich and what the Americans call a grilled cheese sandwich in that ours is done in a sandwich toaster where as theirs is done in a frying pan and is more like a fried cheese sandwich
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Single-Aardvark9330@reddit

Cheese toastie yes, but adding soup seems a bit much
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Khaleesix87@reddit

Yeah but I call it a cheese toastie sandwich r just have cheese on toast with it
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Gildor12@reddit

Some do some don’t. It depends on the quality
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minty_tarsier@reddit

I see this all the time in the US so I started copying it here in the UK (except our cheese is nicer - sorry). But it's a great meal, so I appreciate the US for introducing me to it.
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No-Daikon3645@reddit

I love cheese on toast, but not with tomato soup. Blech.
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Few_House_5201@reddit

I’d enjoy them both separately, although it’s called a cheese toastie here. Both together would be too big for a lunch.
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Nrysis@reddit

Absolutely. Though to name it properly, it's made as ''cheese on toast', rather than a sandwich. Stick a tin of Heinz tomato soup in the microwave (preferably sans-tin in an appropriate receptacle), some bread in the grill (a broiler in daft American nomenclature?) with a healthy amount of cheese and a dash of Worcestershire sauce on top.
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BillyJoeDubuluw@reddit

Toast (or cheese on toast) with soup is a bit of a thing in parts of the south of England.  My other half is from the New Forest, I’m from Lancashire and I was bemused by what a treat this lunch option was perceived as when we visited a bunch of relatives down there.  That’s not to say I have never had toast with soup, but it seemed to be a much more popular choice on visiting Hampshire…  It also rang true once again when a colleague from that region got themselves all excited about the same lunch option. 
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Knightoftherealm23@reddit

Its an excellent combo. Tomato soup is one of your 5 a day then carbs from the bread and protein from the cheese. Add a bit of Worcestershire sauce - bobs your uncle and fanny's your aunt
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CrustyHumdinger@reddit

No, because I am lactose intolerant and tomato soup is gross
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Moiukal@reddit

It's a lot less common than in the states, though not unheard of. Most people I know opt for cheese toastie which is basically a grilled cheese but with no top and sometimes with condiments.
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BorderlineWire@reddit

Wouldn’t a grilled cheese with no top be more like cheese on toast, and a cheese toastie would be a toasted cheese sandwich 
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ash894@reddit

I’d argue that a cheese toastie is a toasted cheese sandwich whereas cheese on toast is just where the cheese is toasted on one side
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Dedward5@reddit

Yes, in general any cheese and tomato combination is good.
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Nolascana@reddit

We dont tend to make grilled cheese sandwiches. Toasties made in the likes of a Breville aren't the same thing. Cheese on toast isn't the same thing. Some people will absolutely make them the American way, and, will have tried the combination, because... we know it's a thing, and, if we like both things separately, then, why not? Not a combo ive ever tried, but one day I might.
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veggiecheesytteok@reddit

Cheese and beans on toast is probably the most common combo here but yep, we do have cheese toasties with tomato soup too. They aren’t fried like American sandwiches though, you stick em in a Breville toastie maker.
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JasperCarrots@reddit

It's the food my mum gave us when we were poorly, cheese sandwich (grated cheese, toasted buttered bread but not a toastie with melted cheese, too greasy for the soup) dipped in cream of tomato soup. Food of the gods. My husband and son love it too. Bonus points if you also have lucozade
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Crunchie2020@reddit

Greggs go to lunch is cheese onion pasty or cheese toastie to dip in tomato soup
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SnooHamsters7166@reddit

Do you mean a toastie?
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BritishEngBrittany@reddit

Absolutely !
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BigUnderstanding3751@reddit

Not together but a cheese toastie and tomato soup are both very popular
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True_Recognition_266@reddit

Yes. I love a cheese sandwich with any soup but grilled cheese? Not so much, although I would give it a try.
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targetsbots@reddit

This Brit does ❤️🥪🥣
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byjimini@reddit

Not grilled, no. I just make a cheese sandwich and cut into triangles to dip into our soup.
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Fantastic-Cat-5252@reddit

While it’s still hot enough to melt the cheese 😁👍
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Velvet-Pebble@reddit

Yep but they're called toasties
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DownrightDrewski@reddit

I've had many a cheese sandwich with a bowl of cream of tomato soup. Normally I just lightly toast the bread, make the sandwich and cut it into quarters that I'll then dip into the soup. Right, that's lunch now planned.
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DullComfortable4579@reddit

I have this all the time.
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bananabastard@reddit

It's not a common combo in the UK, but it should be. It's great.
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LordAnchemis@reddit

We have better sandwich selections this side of the pond :)
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Last-Weekend3226@reddit

I often make cheese on toast to have with tomato soup.
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Status_General_1931@reddit

Cheese toasties on their own
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Visual_Parsley54321@reddit

Yep. It’s a regular evening meal for me when I’ve worked late. Whole tin of tomato soup, heated up in the microwave (I have a special plastic cup with a vent in the lid) and a toasted cheese sandwich made with 2 slices of bread in a sandwich toaster.
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Total-Combination-47@reddit

No, we like cheese on toast more and don't tend to mix soup with a it, well expect with French onion soup but that a specific dish and a bit middle class. Over all it's two different meals/snacks for us. One is a toastie / cheese on toast the other is a delcious soup.
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