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> Last weekend we went to one of our popular local independently owned
> San Diego East County restaurants. I ordered a patty melt, I have not
> had one in a long time and I was looking forward to having one.
> To the best of my knowledge and my many, I mean many, years of
> experience eating patty melts, I've always gotten, and have come to
> expect a ground beef patty, of varying degrees of quality and fat
> content, topped with a slice of Swiss cheese and grilled onion. It is
> then placed between two slices of rye bread, again of varying degrees
> of quality, and grilled until a toasty brown and adequately greasy.
>
> You can imagine my disappointment when anticipating a nice hot,
> greasy, cheesy, onion-y patty melt I was served a ground beef patty
> between two slices of Kraft American cheese slices, yes, the kind that
> you can buy individually wrapped, (you know, the stuff you buy to wrap
> the dog's pills in to get him to take them) on marbled un-toasted
> bread, that's it.
> I wish now I would have gotten a picture of it but I sent it back
> because I knew the waitress picked up the wrong order. I was informed
> that, that is a patty melt.
> A substandard cheeseburger does not a patty melt make.
> This is only part of the story.
>
> So, what do you expect when you order a patty melt?
>
> We went down the road and I had a Cholula burger and a nice tall cold
> beer.
> http://i31.tinypic.com/6xt7i1.jpg
>
> koko

I would expect exactly the same thing you do!
What!!! No swiss cheese, grilled onions, or rye??? Heresy!