Meaning of toasted special | Babel Free

Definitions

a toasted sandwich of sliced pan bread and a filling of ham, cheese, usually onion, and often tomato, typically served as a pub lunch

Ireland

Examples

“To sharpen the appetite try an excellent peppery Bloody Mary (£2.22), then a choice of thick home-made soups with brown sodabread and butter (75p) followed by a "toasted special" — a Ryan's concoction of melted cheese, ham, tomato and onion sandwich (£1.20).”

“I stopped near Ballydehob, at a tiny lino-and-Formica pub with a niche market of dung-encrusted farmers, and dined on the Irish national pub dish, the Toasted Special – a sandwich of ham, cheese, onion, tomato, and anything else that's in the fridge or on the worktop, all served at the temperature of lava.”

“I decide not to have a pint? I want to keep my mind clear and anyway it's only, like, one o’clock in the day. I order, like, a toasted special and a coffee and the two boys order whatever.”

“He closes his eyes and conjures up a toasted special, the cheese dripping out between the crusts, the ham salty and soft.”

“Being a self-styled connoisseur of pints of stout and toasted specials, I had always just assumed that there was no finer marriage of beer and food.”

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