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2012/2/5 Bob W <[email protected]>: >> >> I once wrote an essay on Toast, and it may be the most popular thing I >> ever published on my blog. Read the comments: >> http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2009/02/10/On-Toast >> > Very American. You're pretty much all wrong about toast. Here's the way it's > done in the civilised world. > > When the toast is ready you put it in a rack so that it doesn't go soggy and > will be crisp when taken to the breakfast table and buttered. > > Soldiers are for dipping into a soft boiled egg. > > I dislike marmalade, but the best is Frank Coopers and taking a jar when you > visit your French friends will ensure that they remain so. I was told this > at 14 by my French teacher just before I went to stay for 2 weeks near > Rheims with my pen-friend's family. It was true then and is true now. > Marmalade confuses the French, who call it confiture, which is the same word > that they use for jam, which is clearly very different from marmalade. > English confiture also amuses them endlessly because we put the word > 'preservative' on the label. This means something entirely different in > French. > > If you're eating your toast later in the day, perhaps after a wet, muddy and > cold walk in the countryside, then you must have it hot buttered, which is > to say you may butter it straight away, as you've described. But that is not > toast, it is hot buttered toast. > > B > >> On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 9:27 AM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>>> i despise most toasters; there are only a few worth having, the >> >> rest >> >> >>> designed >> >> >>>> to fail after a few years; ... >> >> >> >> >> >> Hmm. I have a simple KitchenAid toaster with wide slots to allow >> >> >> bagels to be toasted that I bought in 1985 for $20. Still working >> >> just >> >> >> fine. It's a cheap piece of tin crap but it just keeps on >> toasting. >> >> >> >> >> > >> >> > My butler and housekeeper take care of my toastage needs. I'm >> >> informed there >> >> > is a 'kitchen' somewhere in the east wing. >> >> >> >> Always cold when it gets to the table. Don't stay at Bob's. >> >> >> > >> > you should have said. Next time I'll get Mercedes or Juanita to warm >> it up >> > for you in their special way. >> > >> > B >> > >> > >> > -- >> > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> > [email protected] >> > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above >> and follow the directions. >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
