# Fried Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwich, Elvis style? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 24, 2006, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948 "2006-04-24T05:28:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/21 "2006-04-26T18:33:18Z")
What is a grill to you, then? Is it the same as a griddle? ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/22 "2006-04-26T21:06:17Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > What is a grill to you, then? Is it the same as a griddle? Griddle = frying pan. A “grill” is the same idea but on a much larger surface. A place called a “bar and grill” will have beer on tap and, back in the kitchen, an enormous flat table-like frying pan, like what McDonald’s uses to cook their burgers. Capiche? ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/23 "2006-04-26T21:10:06Z")
> [@chique](#): > > A “grill” **in this sense of the word** is the same idea but on a much larger surface. Just added the bold bit, as a “grill” can also mean, for example, a [Weber kettle](http://www.weber.com/). ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/24 "2006-04-26T21:16:19Z")
Heh, “divided by a common language” in a way that actually influences a recipe - to us, a grill is a contraption that radiates heat from above - so when we make “grilled cheese” we put it “under the grill”. I wonder if “grilled cheese” came from the US, and we misinterpreted how to make it? (It’s very tasty the way we make it, too, especially with Worcestershire sauce. And probably a tad less fatty.) How would you do a tuna melt? ---
**Author:** ![chique](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/4491bb/32.png) [@chique](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chique)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/25 "2006-04-26T21:46:07Z")
Hm, I’d call your method of grilling cheese “broiling cheese”. Sounds like they’re open-faced? And that’s how I make a tuna melt - on a cookie sheet in the oven, then set it to broil. Here a grilled cheese the “real” way two slices of bread buttered on the outside, cheese in the middle, then cooked in a frying pan until golden. Unless you’re lazy, in which case one can put cheese between toasted bread slices and nuke it until the cheese runs out. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Motorgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e36b37/32.png) [@Motorgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Motorgirl)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/26 "2006-04-26T21:47:22Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Heh, “divided by a common language” in a way that actually influences a recipe - to us, a grill is a contraption that radiates heat from above - so when we make “grilled cheese” we put it “under the grill”. I wonder if “grilled cheese” came from the US, and we misinterpreted how to make it? (It’s very tasty the way we make it, too, especially with Worcestershire sauce. And probably a tad less fatty.) How would you do a tuna melt? OO - I love discussing both food AND English-English/Aerican-English language differences! There may even be some regional variations in Americxan-ENglish which will complicate definitions. Cooked by heat/flame coming from above the food: in American-English = BROILED Cooked by heat/flame coming from below the food while the food is sitting on a metal grate: in American-English = GRILLED Unless you’re talking about GRILLED CHEESE, which where I come from is usually done on the stovetop in a dry frying pan. The bread is buttered on the outside so it browns & crisps up. Sometimes also called TOASTED CHEESE even though there is no toasted involved. Tuna Melt in my part of the world = two slices of bread, buttered on the outside. Tunafish (being tuna mixed with mayonnaise and if you’re fancy some chopped celery and onion) and slices of cheese between the slices of bread (swiss or american are popular choices). Dry-fried like the aforementioned “grilled” cheese in a skillet on the stovetop. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 9:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/27 "2006-04-26T21:52:16Z")
Yeah, grilled cheese is usually open-faced here. But now I’d doubting myself - maybe we usually say “toasted cheese”. This does involve toast, though, as you have to partially toast the bread before you throw it under the grill (broiler?) otherwise it ends up soggy. I suppose the real inventors of the grilled cheese/toasted cheese would be the French as usual - with the croque monsieur. Will have to look up how they make that properly, though I think it’s grilled (broiled). ---
**Author:** ![kaylasdad99](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kaylasdad99/32/3398_2.png) [@kaylasdad99](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kaylasdad99)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/28 "2006-04-26T22:03:22Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Heh, “divided by a common language” in a way that actually influences a recipe - to us, a grill is a contraption that radiates heat from above - so when we make “grilled cheese” we put it “under the grill”. I wonder if “grilled cheese” came from the US, and we misinterpreted how to make it? (It’s very tasty the way we make it, too, especially with Worcestershire sauce. And probably a tad less fatty.) How would you do a tuna melt? Presuming you have a tuna salad handy (can o’tuna, drained; chopped onions, mustard, mayonnaise, sweet pickle relish, or chopped dill pickle, seasonings to taste, and mixed to the consistency you prefer), you make a tuna salad sandwich, with a slice of cheese (no lettuce or tomato), butter the outsides of the bread, place it in a medium hot skillet, and toast it on both sides until the cheese is melted. So. tou you guys over there, when you order up a grilled cheese sandwich, it’s broiled. Let’s say the chef makes a cheese sandwich, butters the outside, and browns it in a skillet untio the cheese is melted and the outsides are brown. What do you call it? Toasted cheese? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2006, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/29 "2006-04-26T23:28:30Z")
If you’re really going to make an Elvis-style sandwich, don’t you have to fly to another city first? Or is that just an urban legend? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2006, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948/30 "2006-04-27T18:21:36Z")
> [@kaylasdad99](#): > > butter the outsides of the bread, place it in a medium hot skillet, and toast it on both sides until the cheese is melted. Cooked in a skillet (which we call a “frying pan”) with butter - to me that’s not “toasted”, that’s “fried”. > [@kaylasdad99](#): > > So. tou you guys over there, when you order up a grilled cheese sandwich, it’s broiled. Let’s say the chef makes a cheese sandwich, butters the outside, and browns it in a skillet untio the cheese is melted and the outsides are brown. What do you call it? Toasted cheese? A fried cheese sandwich? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fried-peanut-butter-and-banana-sandwich-elvis-style/353948.md?page=1)