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OP is a native of Albany, NY, where everybody refers to hamburgers as steamed hams, even when it comes to their patented family recipes. This is for when OP must meet with other people who are not familiar with the regional dialect, even those from Utica, and are preparing for an unforgettable luncheon.
And they call them steamed hams, despite the fact that they are obviously grilled?
Uh well you see -- Y'know, the thing is --
Excuse me
Sometimes the technically proper name is just worse.
Like toasted cheese. Which is a weird south-central NY thing.
Some """people""" here in the Midwest call them cheese toasty
I'd never heard that while I lived there. What part of the Midwest?
I grew up there and we called them toasted cheese or grilled cheese pretty much interchangeably.
Always served with tomato soup though.
But not cheese toasty
Nah I've literally never heard anyone call it that (lower Midwest, MO/IL area)
Ah, I see.
This got me good, burst out with a loud “HA!” in a crowded coffee shop.