(bogus address) writes:


Indiana 'pitches in' with its own brand of slang terminology [...]
Hoosiers speak their own language. Here's a quick glossary of terms,
courtesy of the Indiana University Department of Linguistics. [...]

Cheese toasty: Fort Wayne-speak for a grilled-cheese sandwich.

That's the standard usage in the UK. Is Indiana really the only
place in the US to use it?

If you'll accept absence of evidence as evidence of absence, I'll
submit my anecdotal report that in 56 years of living and eating in
various parts of the US (mostly Ohio, Massachusetts, and Rhode Island,
with multi-year stays in New Jersey and New York, multi-month stays in
various parts of California, multi-week stays in limited areas of
Colorado, Pennsylvania, Georgia, and other parts of California, and
multiple shorter visits to dozens of other states--but hardly ever
Indiana, one of several states I'm happy to leave to others [that goes
for Georgia too, but duty called]), I've never heard the phrase, nor
read it before today. And it sounds damned strange, too.

Lee Rudolph