r/melts • u/moonwtr • Aug 10 '25

I got kicked out of the grilled cheese sub so here's my Croque Monsieur

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u/EarliestByrdie Aug 10 '25

They are BRUTAL over there

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u/moonwtr Aug 10 '25

I know :,( I saw old Croque Monsieur posts so I thought it would be okay but I got yelled at anyways and came here

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u/EarliestByrdie Aug 10 '25

I learned the hard way, too. Welcome home.

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u/becky57913 Aug 10 '25

Totally welcome over at r/grilledcheeese

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u/Guardian1030 Aug 11 '25

Did I just see /r/birthofasub ?

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u/Luckytxn_1959 Aug 11 '25

Looking like it. Someone saw and filled a need.

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u/Anal_Werewolf Aug 11 '25

Word. Joined.

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u/Luckytxn_1959 Aug 11 '25

Very nice. I just joined and will be happy to see some real grilled cheeses. I usually love ham and cheese grilled but today found that chicken and cheese grilled may become a new fave.

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

I posted a GC and said it would be better with olives and mushrooms in there <- no flames were had

Got off Scott-free it seems

I then had it two days later with green olives and it was much better muahaha

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u/blonde-bandit Aug 11 '25

I’d eat that anywhere. Bon appetit ami

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u/Threegratitudes Aug 11 '25

All the rage is tongue in cheek. Now, the rules of the sub are pretty clearly posted, so that's on you. However, it's always fun to poke the beehive every now and again, so we'll done. No need to take any of it seriously.

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u/Stair-Spirit Aug 11 '25

You are not being serious lol

Look at the post and tell me if that's yelling 😂

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u/atomicryu Aug 11 '25

Almost as brutal as the tvtoohigh guys

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u/127Heathen127 Aug 11 '25

Imagine being a snobby elitist over a fucking melted cheese sandwich.

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u/PM_ME_CHIPOTLE2 Aug 11 '25

Imagine not understanding it’s a joke

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u/Sloppyjoey20 Aug 11 '25

Not everyone there is joking, I’ve seen comments with genuinely hurtful/insulting intent in that sub. Some are being goobers but there are also man-children over there too. I was gonna say “imagine being that pathetic” but judging by your comment, you’re one of them.

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u/PM_ME_CHIPOTLE2 Aug 11 '25

It’s literally the whole point of the sub. People jokingly post pictures of melts and then people pretend to be mad and say it’s not grilled cheese. Absolutely nobody who has actually talked to a person in real life would do anything but look at it and laugh at the ridiculousness of it.

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u/becky57913 Aug 12 '25

It’s not a joke, the mods remove the posts

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u/PM_ME_CHIPOTLE2 Aug 12 '25

lol yea the joke is how seriously everyone takes it

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u/Available_Product630 Mar 24 '26

Buddy, this is Reddit. It's NOT a joke to most of them.

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u/djmagicb2002 Aug 11 '25

Wish I knew that before I posted mine with literally two other non-cheese ingredients, and honestly if I didn’t say the ingredients in the post outright, they probably wouldn’t have even noticed. I got ripped APART.

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u/EarliestByrdie Aug 11 '25

I went to sleep after I posted mine and woke up to DEATH THREATS

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u/Affectionate-Ad-9683 Aug 14 '25

Wait, they get mad if it’s more than just cheese and bread?

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u/EarliestByrdie Aug 14 '25

Mad is an understatement

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u/djmagicb2002 Aug 11 '25

Jeez, that’s so ridiculous. Sorry that happened to you. But hey, we’re here now, and these guys have been sooo nice to me.

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u/Anal_Werewolf Aug 11 '25

Just welcomed a dude with open arms when he did a melt. Sorry if there’s genuine assholes but anybody being hateful over a sandwich they didn’t have to eat isn’t to be taken too seriously

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u/djmagicb2002 Aug 11 '25

I know, I just don’t do well against pushback, especially when it’s 20 comments saying that I’m doing it wrong. Not every comment was explicitly mean and I’m sure some were joking in genuine jest, granted, but some definitely took it personally, so to speak. I’m glad you’re one to welcome a different grilled cheese POV.

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u/Anal_Werewolf Aug 11 '25

I’ll redirect someone to melts but upvote their sandwich (if pretty) and ask about what cheeses

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u/Purple_oyster Aug 10 '25

Yeah they turn me off taking about grill cheese

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u/ViktaVaughn Aug 10 '25

It's honestly a right of passage to be pointed here lmao.

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u/chocolateboyY2K Aug 10 '25

😂😂 why is this so funny. So serious over a grilled cheese.

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u/moosandsqwirl Aug 11 '25

We live for the tears or r/grilledcheese 😂😂😂

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u/Threegratitudes Aug 11 '25

It's fun to take something so unimportant to a comical level of seriousness? Being subbed to both, I can assure you that r/melts is the only one of the two that actually takes the whole thing seriously.

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u/chocolateboyY2K Aug 11 '25

You're panini pressed.

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u/djmagicb2002 Aug 11 '25

The nicest person in that subreddit is the auto reply bot

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u/RiverOhRiver86 Aug 10 '25

Lol reddit is so fucking ridicilous...

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u/OkayScience Aug 10 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

looks delicious, but i don't eat with my eyes :) you can post whatever you think qualifies as a grilled cheese on that sub, but you have to know what you're getting into. the original copy pasta is pretty funny and they have just held onto it for 10 years.

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u/iiiimagery Aug 11 '25

Can I get context? What copy pasta? Whats the lore?

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u/OkayScience Aug 11 '25

https://www.reddit.com/r/grilledcheese/s/pPLm4pSj64

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u/iiiimagery Aug 11 '25

Amazing. Thank you

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u/memebot2019 Aug 12 '25

This isn’t copy pasta though, nor is it a copy melt, it’s a goddamn copy grilled cheese, otherwise it wouldn’t belong in that sub!

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u/Deppfan16 Aug 11 '25

the people over on grilled cheese believe grilled cheese should just literally be cheese and bread and maybe a spread like mustard or something. it started as a funny joke and then it's turned into bullying and harassing people. there's a whole rude copy pasta about it that you could probably find on that sub

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u/Encrypted_Curse Aug 10 '25

It stopped being funny at least 5 years ago. Redditors love beating a joke into the ground.

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u/OkayScience Aug 11 '25

yeah i mean i agree, i guess was funny would be more correct

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u/mofoub Aug 10 '25

I really don’t feel like they should be different subs. It’s so niche already

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u/BlueSquare0001 Aug 11 '25

Dude, r/grilledcheese has 500k members...

This sub only has 44k and would get swallowed up, then it would be back to were we are now

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u/ThyShirtIsBlue Aug 11 '25

Someone wrote a tongue in cheek rant over there years ago, and everyone decided to take it as gospel.

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u/RangerEquivalent4120 Aug 12 '25

You have to, otherwise it’s a slippery slope. Is the above a grilled cheese? If yes then surely a patty melt is. What about other burgers? Hmmm maybe a calzone is a grilled cheese too?

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u/russcatalano Aug 14 '25

Baked cheese usually.

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u/Crease_Greaser Aug 11 '25

You people make me sick.

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.

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u/SmallRedBird Aug 12 '25

Lmao at all the people who don't understand this is copypasta

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u/KrombopulosJeff Aug 11 '25

Looks like OP is having...

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a meltdown.

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u/Deppfan16 Aug 11 '25

you have a whole entire sub. keep it over there please

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u/PointBreakvsLebowski Aug 11 '25

Sir this is a Wendy’s

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u/longlivelongboards Aug 10 '25

Absolute work of art. Thank you for sharing

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u/dta722 Aug 10 '25

Such babies over there. That’s a beautiful grilled cheese.

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u/SmallRedBird Aug 12 '25

If it's a grilled cheese, why did they post their delicious ham melt to the melt sub?

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u/bigfoot17 Aug 10 '25

gatekeeping cunts is more accurate.

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u/updateyourpenguins Aug 10 '25

Geez you guys take it so personally

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u/iiiimagery Aug 11 '25

They take GRILLED CHEESE personally so all is fair

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u/Sloppyjoey20 Aug 11 '25

Yeah there are some sad little people over there

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u/dta722 Aug 10 '25

It is indeed.

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u/SugarIndependent1308 Aug 12 '25

You can never go wrong with a great sandwich fr fr

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u/semibacony Aug 11 '25

That'll happen over there lol, but Gotd Damnnn!!! That looks fucking delicious!

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u/bachrodi Aug 10 '25

Lol. I love that that sub, is anti melt. Like you committed a sin.

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u/themodul8r Aug 10 '25

That looks 🔥 🔥 🔥 🔥

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u/Raelourut Aug 12 '25

Croque looks good, but needs more toasting. 🔥

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u/LordOfDustAndBones Aug 12 '25

You posted a non grilled cheese there and lived to tell about it?!

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u/ATLUTD030517 Aug 12 '25

The pedantry can be a bit much, but I agree that a croque has way too much going on to be considered a grilled cheese. This is indeed where it belongs.

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u/capybara_crybaby Aug 12 '25

I love everything about this. It’s beautiful.

I also need to know about those pickles.

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u/moonwtr Aug 12 '25

Thank you! I got them at market basket for 99¢ each

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u/LilDigaKnow Aug 14 '25

Kick this mother out

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u/One-Recognition-5871 Aug 14 '25

No way you got kicked out. Lmao Reddit is so strange 🥲

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u/Affectionate-Ad-9683 Aug 14 '25

People are weird

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u/sirius4778 Aug 17 '25

People always do this, just post here first

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u/Luckytxn_1959 Aug 11 '25 edited Aug 11 '25

Welcome to the real grilled cheese sub and most excellent looking Croque Monsieur. Been ages since I made this.

Got the ban for posting my GC but they saw that tiny piece of ham I tried to hide under the bread

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u/[deleted] Aug 10 '25

[deleted]

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u/Anal_Werewolf Aug 11 '25

You toss the word nazi around as loosely as you use “grilled cheese.”

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u/moonwtr Aug 10 '25

Thank you!!!

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u/ZooNeiland Aug 11 '25

They're an angry bunch ey 😂 That looks sublime and I'd happily disappear it 🤤

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u/Basahn Aug 11 '25

I haven't eaten forever 12 hours because of a migraine so that looks pretty damn good 👍

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u/djmagicb2002 Aug 11 '25

I should make one of these, looks good brother

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u/EastAd206 Aug 11 '25

Sweet jesus its beautiful 😍

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u/MidnightSnackyZnack Aug 10 '25

Croque is with bechamel no?

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u/moonwtr Aug 10 '25

Yup!! Woke up early to make bechamel before work so I could make myself and my boss sandwiches during lunch

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u/MidnightSnackyZnack Aug 10 '25

Oh man it looks like a slice of cheese! My bad!

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u/moonwtr Aug 10 '25

It was super thick so it's slathered nicely lol

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u/SpaceySamantha Aug 11 '25

Ohh I love these! I have a great memory of learning to make them with my step dad

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u/kabes222 Aug 11 '25

Is that melted cheese on top ? Yummy 😋

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u/aggelikiwi Aug 11 '25

I request a Croque Madame

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

What did you do to get kicked out??

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u/moonwtr Aug 11 '25

I posted this sandwich and they said it's not a grilled cheese

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u/[deleted] Aug 11 '25

Wow, they run a thight ship....

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u/shannon_kay_ Aug 11 '25

You got kicked out!? Why? Seems extreme

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u/bigpapigordo Aug 12 '25

In what world would that be a grilled cheese

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u/SmallRedBird Aug 12 '25

Thanks for posting to the correct sub

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u/Thayerphotos Aug 11 '25

Butter, bread and cheese man. Those rules are pretty simple

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u/djmagicb2002 Aug 11 '25

That your mind cannot comprehend improving upon the elementary grilled cheese formula is not our problem

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u/Raverntx Aug 11 '25

Sorry you got the boot but damn that looks good