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Default 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.
>