Cheese on toast Welsh rarebit as "posh cheese on toast". Cheddar cheese is most commonly used for Toasted Cheese, as this is a particularly good cheese for toasting. Lancashire dairies, in conjunction with a "National Toasted Cheese Day", have promoted Lancashire cheese as the best cheese to use. In Scotland the dish is sometimes referred to as roasted cheese or 'melted cheese', where the bread need not be toasted before applying the cheese. Cheese on toast Toasted cheese, cheese toast, cheese on toast, cheesy toast, roasted cheese, grilled cheese, cheese grill or choast is a snack made by placing cheese (which may be
Welsh rarebit this; what is more, Ben Jonson died almost a century before the term Welsh rabbit is first attested. According to the American satirist Ambrose Bierce, the continued use of "rarebit" was an attempt to rationalise the absence of rabbit, writing in his 1911 "Devil's Dictionary": "RAREBIT n. A Welsh rabbit, in the speech of the humorless, who point out that it is not a rabbit. To whom it may be solemnly explained that the comestible known as toad in the hole is really not a toad, and that "ris de veau à la financière" is not the smile of a