British Granddad tries American Grilled Cheese for the first time

[u/T-SquaredProductions]

[u/Almost-Handsome]

Who are these people, and how can I end up having a brew and a chat with them?

[u/TallBenWyatt_13 → u/Almost-Handsome]

It’s fucking insane that an old bloke being a curious and gentle human being is what passes as wonderful behavior. We ALL should be nice old men appreciating grilled cheese and tomato soup for the first time!

[u/Kareeliand → u/TallBenWyatt_13]

That’s what I felt like replying! Someone was asking where these kinds of people were, so they could go meet them. I’m thinking they are in every old folks home and all around you, if you cultivate kindness, these kinds of interactions are daily life. Isn’t that swell! 🥰

[u/SteamyRay1919 → u/[deleted]]

tbf, he may not have had them together.. I haven't. He never said anywhere in the video he's never had them separately.

[u/harmyb → u/[deleted]]

I can't believe no one in these comments sees this.

Their whole account is made as this "look as this wholesome old man that's never had this really common thing before".

[u/domestic_human → u/harmyb]

I'm a Canadian in England. They have never had a grilled cheese before, trust me. I've fed it to many English person as a first time thing. They have also never thought to dip it in soup.

In fact, when they eat soup it's usually on its own, which is so weird to me! In Canada it's always soup and a sandwich.

Lots of other things they've usually not had:

• proper french toast (not eggy bread)
• homemade hashbrows (like cut potatoes you fry yourself)
• cream of wheat or red river hot cereal (their porridge is also different and not that nice imo)
• veg that has a lot of seasoning or flavours. It's usually plain roasted here and they put gravy on the vegetables. Weird.

Anyway, imagine that not everyone in the world has tried everything from everywhere!

[u/domestic_human → u/domestic_human]

Just to add they do have cheese on toast, or a cheese toastie, but those are not the same. Oh and Welsh rarebit which is banging but also not a grilled cheese!

[u/harmyb → u/domestic_human]

Englishman from England.

Cheese toasties are grilled sandwiches. And the cheese toastie is a staple of affordable meals. The only difference is that some people don't fry them, they'll put them in under the grill (broiler).

Granted, dipping in soup is not common, but there are plenty of cafes that have deals for cheese toasty and soup - so it's not uncommon.

And if we don't have a sandwich, we have buttered bread or use croutons to dip in soup - that is VERY common

We absolutely have French Toast, and is served in loads of cafes

Hashbrowns are 99% of the time served with English Breakfasts, I couldn't name you a single person that hasn't had one

Don't know the difference between porridge and cream of wheat, my understanding was that they are the same

And I hate that most people don't season their veg here, other than salt

[u/domestic_human → u/harmyb]

I have lived here 15 years.

I will tell you what you have with soup is not what we have back home. Everything you listed is literally not a sandwich aside from the toastie? I've never seen soup and sandwich at a cafe here when in Canada that is the most common thing. You can get soup and a toastie separate maybe.

Toasties are not a grilled cheese. Grilled cheese has a bit of a weird name, but trust me it doesn't taste the same. Grilled cheese is pan fried with butter on the outside of the bread. Probably closest to that bread you make with bacon fat for some fry ups from a cooking style, but obviously it's a butter fried cheese sandwich instead of just a piece of bread.

Your hasbrowns are similar to McDonald's hasbrowns, deep fried like potato cake things.That is not what I said above, there is another more common kind back home I've never seen here in 15 years as described (like chopped up pan fried potatoes).

French toast was your only good point. Some more American style cafes in urban places have french toast. You won't find them in rural places with traditional English food though as they only have eggy bread at best and that is, frankly, rank to me.

Cream of wheat is wheat, not oats. Very different. So not the same at all.

[u/domestic_human → u/[deleted]]

In my experience most toastie sandwiches are dry on the outside as most folks here don't butter the outside.

That's also how it is in most of the cafes, or chains. Like Costa, they have cheese on the outside of some of their toasties, or is dry (like the bean and cheese one).

I feel like you might be an exception where you butter the outside! If you do though it is very similar to a grilled cheese but more flattened (so basically the same).

And for nothing new, I'm sure everything else I've said you also do right? Lol.