A slice of grilled bread topped with chopped tomatoes and a lot of pungent roasted garlic slices almost compensated, though.

Sweet dry: Italian beef placed on dry bread, topped with sweet peppers.

A child of the Great Depression, her lunch was often a piece of bread topped by the juice of a squeezed tomato.

Some manufacturers produce other versions including a popular bread topped with chocolate.

Manakish is a baked flat bread, usually topped with za'atar and olive oil.

During a lunch of smorrebrod, buttered bread topped with herring, we chatted with a Swiss couple.

There it developed into what we know today: flat bread topped with tomatoes, cheese, and anything else that might take the eater's fancy.

Antipasti include crostini toscani, sliced bread topped with a chicken liver-based pâté.

In the Philippines, biskotso refers to baked bread topped with butter and sugar.

You could make a coarser version with buttered bread topped with an anchovy.