Patty Melt
iirc in the past the menu would say something like patty melt, when you
ordered the server gave you choice of bread, cheese and anything else? its
something i think i have only tasted when dh ordered it, Lee
"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>I used to order these in restaurants quite a bit. Then after I found out I
>had diabetes, I would split one with my daughter because they were too many
>carbs for me. She was little then and would eat about 1/3 of the sandwich,
>if that. I would eat another 1/3 and my husband would eat the other 1/3
>along with whatever else he ordered. This particular restaurant used huge
>slices of rye bread which is why they were cut in thirds. But I could
>swear that these (and any other I ever ordered) had just a hamburger patty,
>grilled onions, cheese and most likely butter or margarine on the bread.
>
> When we took my dad to dinner at Shari's a few weeks ago, I decided to try
> a patty melt again. It did actually work quite well for my blood sugar
> but it tasted kind of blah. Not good like I remembered. But then the
> reason I decided to order it is because I feel anything else I have ever
> ordered in a Shari's has tasted pretty blah. The odd thing to me was that
> there was Thousand Island dressing on the sandwich. I ordered it without
> because I honestly don't know what is in the dressing and I don't usually
> like dressing of any kind. I do like a good Italian dressing in a pasta
> salad but that's about it.
>
> So tonight we dined at another local chain. They had a patty melt on the
> menu. And it listed Thousand Island dressing! Again, I ordered it
> without the dressing. This one was not only blah but horribly greasy. So
> much so that I had trouble even gripping it.
>
> 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.
>
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