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CMV: If a grilled cheese sandwich has anything other than some kind of bread, cheese and butter/mayo/oil, it is no longer a grilled cheese sandwich.

I see people all the time call things grilled cheese that aren't and I don't understand it.   How the hell is a sandwich with ham, turkey or even brisket a grilled cheese when the primary ingredients are not cheese.  Cheese cannot be an after thought or an accent in something something called "grilled cheese sandwich"  anything other than primary cheese bread and butter/mayo/oil is a sandwich with cheese or some kind of melt.  Help me understand this absolute insanity.   

This is a pretty light hearted CMV and is inspired by the fact that I keep seeing these giant meat filled sandwiches with cheese on them being called things like "brisket grilled cheese sandwich"  and to me that is a sandwich yes but it shouldn't be called a grilled cheese. 

Maybe I'm the crazy one but a half pound or pound of meat on bread is just a sandwich even if it has cheese on it.


EDIT: I have been informed that apparently restaurants and trendy internet people love to toss around the term "grilled  cheese"  its apparently seen as a fad or a fancy item now.


EDIT 2: Did anyone realize that by my own definitions two pieces of  chocolate cake with cream cheese frosting could be considered a grilled cheese sandwich?  I just did  hours later.  This is quite an interesting thought.
gpt
I will argue a middle ground:

If there is enough cheese and few enough other ingredients that the sandwich sticks together from the melted cheese after being grilled (aka, you don't risk losing a slice of bread flipping it on the skillet or while eating it) it can be a grilled cheese.

It seems a safe line to draw for me. Bacon bits, some pickles, a handful of chopped chicken or a tomato slice are more enhancers than focal points. They don't magically make a grilled cheese a different thing.

This ignores melts, of course, which do stick together but have other things co-starring with, instead of enhancing, the cheese.