Key facts
- Type
- Sandwich
- Place of origin
- France
- Serving temperature
- Hot
- Main ingredients
- Bread, butter, ham (typically boiled), cheese (typically Gruyère ), pepper and salt
- Variations
- Croque madame
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Wikidata facts
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- inception
- 1910-00-00
- Commons category
- Croque-monsieur
- different from
- croque-madame
- native label
- croque-monsieur
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Encyclopedic overview
A croque monsieur ( French pronunciation: [kʁɔk məsjø], croque = "crunch", monsieur = "mister, gentleman") is a hot sandwich made with ham and cheese.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “croque-monsieur” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.