"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 7 Oct 2011 21:54:57 -0700, "Julie Bove"
> > wrote:
>
>> So my questions are... Do you normally put Thousand Island dressing on
>> your
>> patty melt? And what kind of cheese do you use? Both of these had Swiss
>> but I am pretty sure that the ones I had in the past had American cheese.
>> I
>> also think these past two restaurants didn't use a good, flavorful rye
>> bread. To me a good rye bread has a strong taste to it and these did
>> not.
>
> Not American, mild cheddar (although swiss isn't unheard of). A patty
> melt is a cheeseburger on rye bread (with grilled onions) and the
> bread is lightly grilled to toast it. Thousand Island dressing would
> be an abomination.

That's what I thought. I have since looked up recipes. Although the cheese
varies and sometimes even the bread, I have seen none with Thousand Island
on it.