8 April 2014: Grilled Cheese Confusion.

This morning, when I was browsing around the Internet, I came upon the following post:

I thought back to my first week here, where I was making a grilled cheese and a couple of people in my house...I can't remember who, since I was still learning names and tend to avoid eye contact at all costs...were looking at me funny. I thought it was because I was pathetic at using the hob, but now, I'm guessing it was because I told them that I was going to cook a grilled cheese sandwich and did it in a frying pan.

So I snapchatted some of my friends here and sent them the above image, asking them how they make their grilled cheese.

"You make cheese toasties in the pan?" my friend Mimi replied.
"What other way is there to make them?" I asked.
"On the grill," she said.
"The grill outside?" I asked her.
"No, the grill in the oven," she sent back.
"There's a grill in the oven?!" I asked, quite confused at this point.
She sent me back a picture of her oven with the grill knobs circled.
"Then what's the grill outside called?" I asked her, even more confused.
"Still the grill...confusing," she sent.
"But wouldn't you burn yourself?" I asked, thinking about sticking your hand in the oven.
"Burn yourself on what?" she asked me. I realized that she had a point, so I replied:
"Idk. But wouldn't the butter drip?"
"No, we put a pan underneath it. Not sure what that's called," she said.
"Why not just make it in a pan?" I asked her.
"Nah, too confusing," she replied to me.

It's those little things that truly remind me just how different America and England truly are.

How to make grilled cheese like an American:

How to make a cheese toasty if you're English:

http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Cheese-on-Toast 

Curiosity got the best of me and I decided to go back to the Internet to see what the good people of the world thought about this grilled cheese v. cheese toasty issue. Please note that only a very small number of the posts that I found are represented here because most people are so passionate about this matter that they decided to emphasis their points with a naughty word that starts with the letter "f."

One point to England.

Good point, America. You get a point as well.

girlsgotafacelikemurder is the ultimate peace maker, it seems.

bakiufo is just as confused as I am.

I'm not really sure if I understand that simile, but I like the enthusiasm!

This is the one that made me give up.

In conclusion: I am now extremely hungry, so I think that I'm going to go put some buttery bread and cheese into a pan and turn it into food.