{"id":12233,"date":"2016-04-12T10:00:34","date_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=12233"},"modified":"2016-04-12T10:00:34","modified_gmt":"2016-04-12T09:00:34","slug":"cheese-flies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=12233","title":{"rendered":"Cheese flies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.punchbowl.com\/holidays\/national-grilled-cheese-day\">National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day<\/a> today. It&#8217;s also National Licorice Day, and Be Kind to Lawyers Day, at least in the USA. Is it a special day elsewhere?<\/p>\n<p>The equivalent of the grilled cheese sandwich in the UK is known as cheese on toast, and in French it&#8217;s known as a <em>Croque Monsieur<\/em>, which usually includes ham as well. The American version dates back to the 1920s, but apparently the idea of combining cheese and bread like this started in Ancient Rome.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a little video in French from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/french\/frantastique.htm\">Frantastique<\/a> about <em>fromages<\/em> (cheeses) and <em>mouches<\/em> (flies:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CP4fsAYDo7w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>To learn more about <em>fromages, mouches<\/em> and French &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/french\/frantastique.htm\">try out Frantastique for 7 days!<\/a><\/p>\n<p>By the way, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gymglish.com\/en\/\">Gymglish<\/a> will be offering a 30% off discount to all users how have signed up to their lessons. This is to celebrate their 12th birthday!<\/p>\n<p>Do you have other names for this type of sandwich?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently it&#8217;s National Grilled Cheese Sandwich Day today. It&#8217;s also National Licorice Day, and Be Kind to Lawyers Day, at least in the USA. Is it a special day elsewhere? The equivalent of the grilled cheese sandwich in the UK is known as cheese on toast, and in French it&#8217;s known as a Croque Monsieur, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104,111,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-french","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}