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  OP, is this you?
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  Jokes aside, counterpoint: If the sandwich filling is primarily grilled cheese, it is still a grilled cheese. If cheese is out-proportioned by other ingredients, or if the other ingredients are a significant element (see: croque monsieur, reuben, hot-ham-and-cheese) it is no longer a grilled cheese.
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  Grilled cheese with ketchup? Grilled cheese.Bit of lettuce? Grilled cheese.Few bacon strips? Grilled cheese.Condiments or spices? Grilled cheese.
  Ham, tomato, lingonberry jam, stone-ground mustard, grilled cheese? That's a melt...And a bit of an odd one at that. Also I have all of those things and I am going to try that.
  It's only a melt if it's a sandwich with melted cheese on, obviously. Cool cheese? Sandwich. A hot-ham-and-cheese may be either a sandwich [hot ham, cool cheese] or a melt [cool ham, hot cheese] depending on the details. All melts are sandwiches but not all sandwiches are melts.
  And of course, it's not a grilled cheese if the cheese is not grilled. Have you buttered or oiled the inner of the bread slices? That's fried cheese now.
context: I guess butter isn't allowed >
  
  Imo, butter or mayo on the bread in order to toast it is more of the cooking method vs an additional ingredient in the sandwich. >
  
  MAYO?!
  Not judging, but genuinely curious because I’ve never heard of this! 😃 Before or after it’s cooked? What does it do? >
  
  Mayo is sometimes used instead of butter for outside the bread to fry. I haven't yet tried it, but I've seen it done. It gives the bread a good crisp. >
  
  Right.  Just cheese.  Straight cheese.  If you put it between two slices of bread it's no longer a grilled cheese, it's a grilled bread and cheese.
  Calling things by the primary ingredient is not exactly all that weird. >
  
  
  it's no longer a grilled cheese, it's a grilled bread and cheese.
  
  If we're gonna be technically correct about this, it's a fried-bread-and-grilled-cheese.
  'Grilled cheese [sandwich]'' is not parsed as 'Cheese sandwich which is grilled' but rather 'sandwich primarily containing cheese which is grilled'. The bread is fried and the dry heat it transfers grills the cheese. >
  
  And if you put anything other than a hamburger patty on a bun, it's no longer a burger. >
  
  Not at all the same thing. >
  
  Where’s the line? How can adding ingredients in 1 sandwich change the name, but the same ingredients to the other not? >
  
  I’d argue the hamburger is named for the patty, not the toppings. I can have a naked hamburger, just the burger between bread. 
  Nothing is stopping the cheese from becoming grilled; the name is still accurate. >
  
  The meat is stopping the cheese from being grilled. The fat from the meat is what cooks the cheese. >
  
  Wouldn't that be called a melt? >
  
  Regionally, yes. >
  
  True >
  
  I love a slice of ham in my grilled cheese >
  
  Delicious. >
  
  This is a fact. Anything else is an “and cheese” sandwich. Frequently it’s a melt. >
  
  I don’t call it a grilled cheese with ham. It’s a grilled ham and cheese. That’s just a different sandwich from a grilled cheese. >
  
  If you use the same method to cook it as grilled cheese, I see nothing wrong with saying like 'grilled cheese with bacon' because you made a grilled cheese and added bacon. It's not a bacon melt, it's not a bacon cheese sandwich...you made grilled cheese With bacon.
  *wanted to add that a local sports bar does a "Grilled cheese burger" that has two grilled cheese sandwiches as the buns for the burger. That's like a compromise between both sides of this discussion lol >
  
  
  It's not a bacon melt
  
  It is a bacon melt. A melt is a sandwich with melted cheese. This does not preclude it being a grilled cheese though. All grilled cheeses are melts, but not all melts are grilled cheeses.
  And specifically in bacon's case, you probably haven't used the same method. Bacon is quite fatty so potentially, you've fried the cheese in bacon fat. Not a grilled cheese. >
  
  But if the bulk of the sandwich is still cheese, it's more grilled cheese than bacon melt. There's a fine line between what defines the sandwich and what accents the sandwich. >
  
  Grilled cheese is two pieces of bread with cheese in the middle, anything else is a toast. >
  
  
  anything else is a toast.
  
  *sips toast from my toast toast while seated in my toast and browsing toasts on popular toast toast Toast*
  Ah, delightful. >
  
  People like this are fucking wankers. >
  
  People like what? >
  
  i fully agree >
  
  This bugs me too.