On Oct 7, 11:54*pm, "Julie Bove" > wrote:
> 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.

OH , had forgotten about patty melts! You used to see them a lot , but
now not so much..