# Let's talk grilled cheese **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [September 5, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658 "2023-09-05T18:29:20Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2024, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/121 "2024-09-08T21:58:42Z")
“Macaroni cheese,” as a US-ian, to me sounds like cheese that is appropriate for macaroni or something like that. I would say “cheese macaroni” for macaroni that’s made of cheese. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/122 "2024-09-09T02:29:31Z")
You are always welcome to stay, remember that. There are other good places to eat and drink, at least ones I like. Three of them are withing two blocks of the Wheel Barrel. ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/123 "2024-09-09T02:43:45Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > You are always welcome to stay, remember that Sounds good. All I need is a cup of coffee in the morning and hopefully a cat or dog to commune with while I read my trashy novels in between going out for flights of grilled cheese sandwiches. I’ve been known to wander through art or history museums for variety. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 3:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/124 "2024-09-09T03:18:03Z")
I have a dachshund Mauser and a cat Atilla. The latter is standoffish but Mauser, especially if he thinks there is the chance of food, will not leave you alone. There are places with art too. but sadly the state history museum is closed for renovation. Capital building, zoo, a dog park. If you like military air history there’s a good museum for that. For cooking there’s a really fantastic spices store, How about Hazel Hill chocolate shop too. It has to be good to have survied for over twenty years as an independent shop, not part of a chain. A great used book store for trashy novels, plus good books as well. ---
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/125 "2024-09-09T03:36:22Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > Mauser, _especially if he thinks there is the chance of food_, will not leave you alone You have just described all dachshunds everywhere. 🐕 ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/126 "2024-09-09T14:19:28Z")
This was a Doritos commercial from 2015. but it wouldn’t print up, but if you enter Doritos dachshund commercial 2015 it should pull it up. one of my favorite commercials with a dachshund. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/127 "2024-09-09T16:41:42Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > UK: Macaroni cheese > USA: Macaroni **and** cheese > > You guys need an ‘and’ in there; we don’t. Definitely need an “and”, but I can get away with an “&” if necessary. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/128 "2024-09-09T18:38:22Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > I have a dachshund Mauser and a cat Atilla. The latter is standoffish but Mauser, especially if he thinks there is the chance of food, will not leave you alone. Really? A dachshund motivated by food??? Whoda thunk it. j/k > [@Baker](#): > > This was a Doritos commercial from 2015. but it wouldn’t print up, but if you enter > Doritos dachshund commercial 2015 it should pull it up. one of my favorite commercials with a dachshund. I’d forgotten that one! They didn’t need a special dachshund actor dog either. Any dachshund would have behaved that way. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2024, 6:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/129 "2024-09-09T18:48:54Z")
I somehow missed this thread the first time 'round. > [@DrDeth](#): > > The better the quality of the cheese, the better the sandwich- IF the cheese will melt. If your cheese doesn’t want to melt, put it on a sandwich with one that does. The melty one will help the non-melty one along. > [@Chronos](#): > > The absolute best cheese for a grilled cheese sandwich is those big blocks of “Government Cheese” that they give away for free… Is that still a thing? It still exists in some form. One of our neighbors gave us a couple of big blocks blocks of virtually identical cheese not all that long ago. I’m not sure where those blocks came from; a nearby school might have been getting rid of some overstock. ---
**Author:** ![adhemar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@adhemar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/adhemar)\ **Post date:** [September 10, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/130 "2024-09-10T13:55:48Z")
I have had this and I CAN taste the mayo but then i dont like mayo. ---
**Author:** ![Balthisar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/balthisar/32/2825_2.png) [@Balthisar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Balthisar)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/131 "2024-09-15T00:30:52Z")
> [@Mangetout](#): > > USA: Macaroni **and** cheese > > You guys need an ‘and’ in there; we don’t. We gain efficiency via laziness, though: it’s “mac & cheese.” Personally I don’t like the ampersand, but it saves two keystrokes. ---
**Author:** ![ParallelLines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/parallellines/32/3575_2.png) [@ParallelLines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ParallelLines)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 2:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/132 "2024-09-15T02:07:02Z")
You sir are working too hard. At least half the places that sell various substantial places simplify further. Things such as **mac n cheese** or worse **mac n cheez** No need for the finger stretch for ye olde shift key. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 2:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/133 "2024-09-15T02:35:40Z")
Do you have a pimento cheese recipe? I’d love one, and what’s the best bread for sandwiches? ---
**Author:** ![BippityBoppityBoo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bippityboppityboo/32/5745_2.png) [@BippityBoppityBoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BippityBoppityBoo)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/134 "2024-09-15T05:01:39Z")
> [@Patx2](#): > > Do you have a pimento cheese recipe? @swampbear is the one you want to ask for that. ---
**Author:** ![stui\_magpie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stui_magpie/32/11010_2.png) [@stui\_magpie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stui_magpie)\ **Post date:** [September 15, 2024, 8:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658/135 "2024-09-15T08:51:49Z")
I grew up with them as a Toasted Cheese Sandwich, now known as a toastie ( which covers every kind of sandwich you can toast) For the straight cheese version, you just need white bread, butter, and at least 2-3 different kinds of cheese, some slices and some grated. The old Kraft Single goes in, plus some aged cheddar and some grated mozzarella. Butter inside, assemble the sandwich, put butter in the pan, butter one outside of the sandwich, dry side down into the butter on medium heat, Once both sides are browned, I turn the heat to low and put the lid on the pan to really melt the cheese. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-grilled-cheese/989658.md?page=6)