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Tostado & Carlitos

Tostado: an illustration of ham, cheese and butter on white bread.

Tostado

Four words at the café table, un tostado y un cortado, and the press answers: crustless pan de miga striped gold around ham and machine-cut cheese, quartered into triangles timed to the coffee.

Tostado Mixto: an illustration of ham and cheese on white bread.

Tostado Mixto

Mixed tostado; ham and cheese variation.

Tostado Especial: an illustration of ham, cheese, egg and tomato on white bread.

Tostado Especial

Special tostado; with additional ingredients (egg, tomato, etc.).

Tostado de Salame y Queso: an illustration of salami and cheese on white bread.

Tostado de Salame y Queso

Salami and cheese tostado.

Tostado de Queso: an illustration of cheese on white bread.

Tostado de Queso

Cheese tostado; just cheese.

Tostado de Jamón y Queso: an illustration of ham and cheese on white bread.

Tostado de Jamón y Queso

Ham and cheese tostado; the classic café order. Thin ham, mild cheese, pressed until golden.

Tostado de Jamón Crudo y Queso: an illustration of cheese on white bread.

Tostado de Jamón Crudo y Queso

Cured ham and cheese tostado; with jamón crudo.

Tostado con Tomate: an illustration of ham, cheese and tomato on white bread.

Tostado con Tomate

Tostado with tomato added.

Tostado con Huevo: an illustration of ham, cheese and egg on white bread.

Tostado con Huevo

Tostado with fried egg.

Tostadas: an illustration of butter and jam on baguette.

Tostadas

Toast; simple breakfast toast with butter, jam, or dulce de leche.

Tostadas con Manteca: an illustration of butter on baguette.

Tostadas con Manteca

Toast with butter.

Tostadas con Dulce: an illustration of jam and butter on baguette.

Tostadas con Dulce

Toast with jam.

Tostadas con Dulce de Leche: an illustration of butter on baguette.

Tostadas con Dulce de Leche

Toast with dulce de leche; iconic Argentine breakfast.

Carlitos: an illustration of ham, cheese and butter.

Carlitos

A plain ham-and-cheese tostado with one heretical addition: ketchup. A Rosario bar owner improvised the Carlito in 1953, and in 2014 the city council voted it into protected cultural heritage.