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All of the mentions of raspberry or other types of jam made me think of my favorite type of grilled cheese sandwich on steroids... the Monte Christo.
I have never made one as good as the ones served to me by a waiter, and the best I have had were served in Las Vegas.
At home, it's sharp cheddar, sour dough, butter on the outside and mayo & mustard on the inside. Nothing to it!

I make grilled cheese as my father taught me - on a waffle iron. Not the kind used for Belgium waffles but an old time waffle iron.

Supermarket white or whole wheat bread, though sometimes I use Philadelphia's Metroplitan Bakery's whole grain bread. A healthy smear of soft and real butter on the sides meeting the grill.

Sliceable aged cheddar cheese - cut thick - enough to cover one piece of bread.

Optional, but should be mandatory - in-season tomatoes, the ones that still taste like tomatoes, and leftover baked ham. There should always be leftover baked ham in the fridge.

Fold the sandwich together, buttered sides out, and place on the heated waffle iron. Close the top and be patient. The sandwich is done when the bread is buttery crisp and the cheese starts melting onto the waffle iron's crevices.

Serve with waffle iron chese scrapings on the side. Those obsessed with such things, and I seem to be, will appreciate the grid network on the sandwich which promotes an orderly section by section and row by row consumption.

@joylissa - mayo as the "outer" butter or "inner" butter...or both?
I'M INTREGUED!

You didnt serve them with a man's liver and a nice bottle of chianti...LOL

By "peeling" them did you just mean taking them out of the pods?

Fava beans have pods and shells; if the favas are young you only need to take them out of the pod, if favas are older & large they my also have to have the shells removed to get rid of the bitter taste (kind of alot of work).

Oh, by the way you can cook them in the pods, in the shells or totally peeled....

@topchef, dried or fresh?

i recall some incident with trying to make a sandwich with processed american cheese slices, mustard and i think... potato\ chips or something? i made this on one of the rare occasions i was babysat claiming "my mom lets me make this all the time" i know i ate too many cheese slices that night and then threw them up.
i kinda still make the same kind of food mistakes.

Bologna on white bread with ketchup. The ketchup made everything so soggy. When I was little, I loved eating it since it kind of tasted like a hot dog. Now the thought of it makes me ill...

YES I am totally with the Miracle Whip Haters. I think I hate it because it has that slightly sweet flavor. If I wanted sweet, I'd have PB&J. I guess I always associate mayo with more savory flavors and the sweetness of Miracle Whip makes my taste buds confused and upset.

The worst ever? White bread, glops of mayo, raw white onion, parsley. Someone made this for my husband and me right after we got married. She wouldn't tell me what was in it, just that it was a surprise and I would love it. I'm amazed that I was able to get it back out of my mouth without incident, and by incident I mean the almost instantaneous upchucking that usually occurs when I accidentally bite into raw onion. It was HIDEOUS! But at least she used Hellman's ;)

Most of mine deal with tuna. I think the official worst sandwich I ever had was a tuna salad hoagie from Wawa. I have no idea how people eat their tuna, but it is SO heavily mayonnaised it just oozes out of the sandwich. Blech. I can feel my arteries clogging just thinking about that day.
I also made the mistake once of packing a tuna salad sandwich (made at home with a normal tuna:mayo ratio) to eat several hours later at lunch. I don't think it would've been hazardous to my health to eat the sandwich, but it definitely felt like the salad had taken a turn for the worse over the course of that time. Apparently it wasn't kept cold enough.
One last one...my family had a constant war going as to how to make tuna salad. My mom and I agreed that it should be tuna, mayo, celery, and onions, my dad wanted his with relish (*shudder*). So one day at lunch, my mom offered me tuna salad, i bit in expecting my normal sandwich, and got my dad's sandwich instead. Horrible surprise.

Bologna, Kraft Singles and Miracle Whip on fat white bread. Blech!!

Also, I don't like butter on cold sandwiches, so... some kind of mystery pre-wrapped deli style meat like olive loaf with buttered bread. The horror....

Actually, most of those weird, funny smelling deli-style meats on anything are gross.