It’s a patty melt.
Not without swiss, it isn’t.
Grilled cheese sandwiches can have a little bacon or ham on them, by the way. They’re still grilled (not “toasted.” Toasting uses dry, indirect heat, browning in pan with fat is not toasting it’s “pan grilling” or “griddling”). It’s still better to call them “grilled ham and cheese,” or “grilled cheeses with bacon,” or whatever than just grilled cheese.
Those are BINOs. The only difference between them and Arby’s usual roast beef sandwiches is the type of bun and the optional addition of lettuce and tomato.
If I seem a little peeved about this distinction it’s because I was duped into buying one of those. I stupidly expected it would be a ground beef patty that had been roasted. (BTW, is it even possible to cook a ground beef patty this way?)
From the “Piss me off something fierce” file:
I bought some awesome steaks the other day – the kind that I would generally never buy, but they were on such a great sale that I splurged. They’ve been marinating since this morning, and in a little over an hour I’ll be firing up the grill and cooking those babies up to perfection.
But thanks to this thread, all I can think about is how good a fucking grilled cheese sandwich would taste right now.
I’ve never heard that term being restricted to a single type of cheese. As long as you have a meat patty and some cheese to melt on it, it’s a patty melt.
I also want to point out the OP is silly. They aren’t calling it grilled cheese. They’re calling it a grilled cheese Thickburger. Notice the bold. That’s the important. They’re saying this is what you get when you add a (thick)burger to a grilled cheese sandwich.
It doesn’t matter what their advertising is like. Every single organization out there has had an ad that was stupid. You really can’t go around not using any of them. Well, at least, I can’t afford to only go to places that don’t advertise.
And it’s not like you’re actually accomplishing anything, anyways.
I haven’t had the pleasure of seeing the commercial, but it does sound entertainingly stupid (or stupidly entertaining).
Me, I stopped eating at Hardees several years ago after their baseline service level went from inconsistent to generally poor to “Hello, does anybody fucking work here??”
But not because of a commercial. It’s not like it’s offensive or racist or political – just dumb. What I don’t get is why a dumb commercial would cause somebody to not eat someplace where they ordinarily would eat. I like Quizno’s sandwiches, whether I like their ads or not, so I eat them. It’s like you’re depriving yourself of food you like to punish them for misusing the term “grilled cheese.” Does not compute.
Come to sacramento for an actual grilled cheese burger:
www.murietaonline.com/images/cheeseburger.jpg
The Squeeze Inn (once featured on Diners, Dives, and Drive-Ins) makes your burger, then they put an obscenbne amount of sharp cheddar on it, throw some ice on the grill and cover. The cheese is on the burger annd then as you can see off to the side, all grilled up to the pinanacle of tastiness. So in the case the word Grilled in Grilled cheese sandwich is modifying the word cheese and not the word sandwich.
Nope. I’m going home in about 1/2 hour and making myself two for dinner, with tomato soup. I had no intention of doing so before I opened this thread.
Goddamn. I’m going to a nice restaurant with a friend tonight, and now I want to go home and make myself a nice cheese sammich. Failing that, haul my butt to the deli a couple blocks away from here for lunch.
I hadn’t THOUGHT about grilled cheese sammiches in months.
I’m sorry, marinating steaks is just wrong. You will never be in my clan. 
I’m on board with any food item that loosely translates to ‘‘Mr. Crunchy.’’
I went to the grocery store but for the life of me I couldn’t find Gruyere cheese. Or pronounce it for that matter.
Either way, looks like it’s grilled provolone tonight!
It completely depends on the cut of meat. I would never marinate a strip, filet, porterhouse or ribeye, but you can bet your ass I’m marinating a flank steak.
The poster did say “the kind I would never generally buy”, so that either means an alternative cut of meat or something really expensive, which would be my aforementioned “don’t marinate” four cuts I listed above.
I wouldn’t get down on someone for trying something different, though. It’s just not for me.
Anyone ever used this on a steak? Divine.
I’ve noticed that shop, but I didn’t realize it was a restaurant too. I’ll be happy to try it, maybe this week.
Has anyone considered that the term ‘grilled cheese’ is itself not fully descriptive of the product you’re all talking about?
I mean, if you just take cheese and grill it, it melts and drips through the bars.
I watched a chef do that once. Scraped off the grill - this time laid down the bread on the grill THEN put the cheese down.
This would have made a way better OP to this thread.
Am I the only one who doesn’t like grilled cheese? MY preferred cheese sandwiches?
Two slices of thin whole wheat bread
One slice of mild cheddar or provolone
Fresh spinach
Either a wee Italian dressing or honey mustard
I love a good grilled cheese. And the link to the burgar at Hardees is not a grilled cheese. Though it may be good on the rare occasion.
Oh, Patty melts are on rye bread.
And some of those sandwiches are billed as ‘roastburgers’ even though they’re just a roast beef sammich with lettuce and tomato.
http://geekadviser.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/02/arbys-roast-burger.jpg