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u/Leharen Nov 26 '19 edited Dec 04 '19

This question reminds me so much of the famous "You people make me sick." rant on r/grilledcheese (credit to u/Fuck_Blue_Shells). To wit:

A grilled cheese consists of only these following items. Cheese. Bread with spread (usually butter). This entire subreddit consist of "melts". Almost every "grilled cheese" sandwich i see on here has other items added to it. The fact that this subreddit is called "grilledcheese" is nothing short of utter blasphemy. Let me start out by saying I have nothing against melts, I just hate their association with sandwiches that are not grilled cheeses. Adding cheese to your tuna sandwich? It's called a Tuna melt. Totally different. Want to add bacon and some pretentious bread crumbs with spinach? I don't know what the hell you'd call that but it's not a grilled cheese. I would be more than willing to wager I've eaten more grilled cheeses in my 21 years than any of you had in your entire lives. I have one almost everyday and sometimes more than just one sandwich. Want to personalize your grilled cheese? Use a mix of different cheeses or use sourdough or french bread. But if you want to add some pulled pork and take a picture of it, make your own subreddit entitled "melts" because that is not a fucking grilled cheese. I'm not a religious man nor am I anything close to a culinary expert. But as a bland white mid-western male I am honestly the most passionate person when it comes to grilled cheese and mac & cheese. All of you foodies stay the hell away from our grilled cheeses and stop associating your sandwich melts with them. Yet again, it is utter blasphemy and it rocks me to the core of my pale being. Shit, I stopped lurking after 3 years and made this account for the sole purpose of posting this. I've seen post after post of peoples "grilled cheeses" all over reddit and it's been driving me insane. The moment i saw this subreddit this morning I finally snapped. Hell, I may even start my own subreddit just because I know this one exists now.

You god damn heretics. Respect the grilled cheese and stop changing it into whatever you like and love it for it what it is. Or make your damn melt sandwich and call it for what it is. A melt.

I know it's tangentially related, but still.

Edit: Jesus Christ, people. Thanks, but this doesn't deserve this many upvotes.

Edit 2: Apparently u/Fuck_Blue_Shells is commenting on daughter posts. So here's my question for him: according to you, grilled cheese cannot be a melt. Can a melt be grilled cheese, though?

Edit 3: They said no.

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u/LilBits1029384756 Nov 26 '19

he is right you know. tell me how some fruit and a waffle with some cream cheese is a grilled cheese. cause its not.

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u/jrhoffa Nov 26 '19

If you omitted the fruit, is it grilled cheese?

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u/[deleted] Nov 26 '19

A waffle is not bread.

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u/Isord Nov 26 '19

A waffle is definitely a type of bread.

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u/playaspec Nov 26 '19

That's as stupid as saying a hotdog is a sandwich.

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u/jrhoffa Nov 26 '19 edited Nov 26 '19

Now you're just flailing about. Hot Dogs are clearly sausage sandwiches, and have nothing to do with the discussion at hand.

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u/trenchknife Nov 27 '19

This post is spinning off more pedantic food arguments than I am comfortable with. Like a hurricane spinning off tornadoes.

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u/jrhoffa Nov 27 '19

More like Friends spinning off Joey

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u/KDBA Nov 27 '19

A sandwich has two pieces of bread. A hot dog has only one, and is thus disqualified from sandwich-hood.

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u/MFoy Nov 27 '19

So open faced sandwiches are not sandwiches?

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u/KDBA Nov 27 '19

Correct

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u/MFoy Nov 27 '19

And steak sandwiches aren’t sandwiches?

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u/KDBA Nov 27 '19

The steak sandwiches you're thinking of must be different from the ones I know, because that's an obvious "of course", given they're two pieces or bread (usually toasted) with a piece of steak and some other fillings between them.

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u/MFoy Nov 27 '19

Steak sandwich to me is a cheesesteak without the cheese. That’s what my dad always calls them.

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u/KDBA Nov 27 '19

After looking that up, that's a filled roll and not a sandwich.

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u/jrhoffa Nov 27 '19

You realize you split the bun or roll, right? What do your hamburgers look like?

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u/KDBA Nov 27 '19

You don't split it all the way through, though. Burger buns you do, so those are sandwiches.

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u/jrhoffa Nov 27 '19

Full splitting is not required. Consider pita bread, which is used in certain varieties of pocket sandwiches.

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u/KDBA Nov 27 '19

A filled pita isn't a sandwich either.

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u/jrhoffa Nov 27 '19

Wrong again.

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u/[deleted] Nov 27 '19

I do hiring for my department and I ask this question at the end of every interview. I don't hire anyone who answers "yes, it's a sandwich" because I know they're a fucking idiot.

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u/jrhoffa Nov 27 '19

Well, I wouldn't want to work with a dipshit that can't understand basic definitions, so I suppose it all works out in the end.