Toast Meshulash (טוסט משולש) is the triangle toast: the standard Israeli pressed cheese sandwich made on square sliced bread and cut corner to corner into triangles, served as two or four wedges rather than one bar. The angle is the format rather than the filling. The cut is more than presentation, since it changes how the sandwich is built, eaten, and judged, favoring soft square loaf bread over a baguette and putting the focus on a clean, even press that survives being sliced through.
The build follows the standard toast logic with the bread and the cut as the deciding factors. The bread is square sandwich loaf, buttered or oiled on the outside so it browns evenly in the press. The filling is yellow melting cheese as the base, often with tomato, sometimes pickles or a thin savory layer, kept moderate so the sandwich presses cleanly and holds when cut. It goes into a hinged toaster press to flatten, seal, and heat it, then is sliced once or twice on the diagonal into triangles. The diagonal cut is the detail that matters: it works only if the cheese is fully melted and set enough to hold the layers together, so the wedges keep their shape and show a clean fused cross-section instead of falling open. Done right, the triangles are crisp and golden, the cheese runs to the edges and binds the bread, the cut faces are tidy, and each wedge is hot through. Done wrong, the cheese is undermelted so the triangles separate into loose bread when cut, or the bread is soggy from a watery tomato so the wedges sag, or it is overpressed into thin dry shards.
It is served as a small stack or fan of warm triangles, often with pickles or a side salad, and is the form a café or home kitchen reaches for when a toast is plated rather than handed over in paper. It varies first by the cut, two large triangles reading hearty, four small ones reading like a snack or a child's plate, and second by the filling layered with the cheese, plain, with tomato, or with a meat addition. The full vegetable-loaded toast and the cheese-only toast are recognizable orders of their own and deserve their own treatment rather than a footnote here, but they all return to the same idea: bread and melting cheese pressed flat and hot, here cut on the diagonal so the format itself is the point.