Cheese zombie

Cheese zombie is the name of two different American baked goods, each made by sealing melted cheese between layers of bread dough. The Yakima County, Washington version was invented in the early 1960s by employees of the Grandview School District under lunch program supervisor Dorothy L. Finch, who were looking for ways to use surplus Velveeta cheese. It is a layer of cheese baked between two layers of dough and sliced into squares, and it got its name when one of the cooks said the first batch looked like a zombie. The second version was invented in Concord, California, in 1963 by the bakers Decla Phillips and Helen Ballock at Mount Diablo High School, using American cheese, and it is cut into circles and crimped with a special tool before baking to keep the cheese inside the bun. The term was registered as a trademark in 2009, and the Trademark Trial and Appeal Board later cancelled it as merely descriptive.