I was just trying out booshaka.com, a search engine for Facebook, and typed in the words “Dr.” and “Toast”. While my vanity search didn’t pan out, I did discover that lots of kids like to serve their moms breakfast in bed with toast and Dr. Pepper.

Martha: “Awesome breakfast made by my awesome son for mothers day! Eggs, bacon, pancakes, toast and dt dr pepper! Ah i love my kids!”
5 hours ago

Sonya: “Breakfast in bed for mothers day… Apple Jacks,, toast with jelly,, an orange and a Dr. Pepper!! They are too sweet!! Love you kiddos!!”
5 hours ago

Crystal: “So I have the most wonderful boys ever. They made me breakfast in bed. Oatmeal, toast, and dr. Pepper. Cute for three little boys. I love them dearly.”
7 hours ago

Laverna: “Mother’s Day memories of a small boy and girl proudly serving Mother breakast in bed. Rubbery eggs, toast with the burned part scraped off, a weiner split and cooked, flowers from the yard and a Dr. Pepper wrapped in foil…a priceless gift that can never be equaled and will never be forgotten. Thank you David and Darla. What a privilege it is to be your Mother.”
8 hours ago

Linda: “Favorite Mother’s Day memory. My oldest child was 5, and on his own he made me a Pop Tart and a piece of toast with jelly, put it on a tray with a can of Diet Dr. Pepper, and brought me breakfast in bed. :-) — LJ”
9 hours ago

Tiffany: “Enjoyed a Mother’s Day breakfast in bed…eggs, toast, & a can of Dr. Pepper! How thoughtful!”
9 hours ago

Heather: “HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!! Thought this would be my one day to sleep in but instead my wonderful children brought me breakfast ( special k bar, peanut butter toast, pudding, and a dr pepper) in bed at 6:30 this morning.”
11 hours ago

I received this article from the Grain Foods Foundation. Enjoy!

DENVER, CO – It’s the world’s first comfort food, and one of the most enduring simple pleasures in our nation’s history. More than 75 million Americans enjoy a piece of golden brown toast every day. In fact, our nation’s love of toast has inspired the creation of collectors’ conventions, a national toaster museum, web sites, songs about toast and cookbooks with recipes for nothing but toast.

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by John Carroll
San Francisco Chronicle

Some years ago, writer and model Annie Lamott lived on a houseboat at Issaqua Dock in Sausalito. It wasn’t really even a whole houseboat; it was sort of like an in-law apartment at one corner of a larger vessel.

There were few appliances in her personal space. She had been confronted with the cruel question of downsizing: Would you like to have a stove, or would you like to have a place to sit down? Annie got a chair and gave up gourmet cooking.

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(From the New York Times Sunday magazine)

The first electric toaster appeared in 1909. It toasted one side at a time and required constant vigilance: when the toast was done, you pulled the plug. The first automatic electric toaster was designed in 1919 by Charles Strite, a man sick and tired of burned toast. Americans were skeptical at first about investing in a single-function appliance, but prices dropped and — such is the allure of toasted bread — sales mushroomed. From 1922 to 1930 sales tripled, from 400,000 units to 1,200,000, thanks in part to the introduction of sliced bread by Wonder. Toasters now live in 88 percent of American homes; the tiny chrome hearth on the counter may well be the one object that pleases most of the people most of the time.

by Johnny Insipid
touchmythingy@hotmail.com

HELLO, AND WELCOME,

As a member of Toastmasters International I shall speak to you a speech. On toast. And of it’s mysteries.

My speech begins as thus:

People will fear the many things they do not understand. Some do not understand war or perhaps the beauty seen from a really good height. Some fear spiders. For others, of too great a number, it is toast.

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by Vanessa Jones
Academic Psychiatry
Imperial College School of Medicine (St.Mary’s)

Here is a way of making toast that is also a race:

ingredients:
bread
marge/butter
marmite
processed cheese slices

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by Bob Condor
Chicago Tribune

TOAST has its fans on the Internet. You can find dozens of sites dedicated to the morning comfort food. Here are some of the highlights from the Toast Resources site, http://dsp.com/tritone/toastlinks.html (ed. note: moved to http://www.drtoast.com)

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Celebrating the invention and perfection of one of life’s truly golden pleasures

by Bob Condor
Chicago Tribune

THE EVERYDAY slice of toast is not without its celebrity interludes. As Sir John Falstaff calls for more drinks at a high point of frivolity in Shakespeare’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” he yells after the server, “Don’t forget the toast!” Falstaff was asking for the cube of hot buttered toast traditionally tossed into warm drinks in the heyday of the Bard, leading to the use of the word “toast” as a way to celebrate life’s most important moments.

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by Alan Burdick
New York Times

Not long ago I was given a toaster as a gift. For years I lived without one. Toasting, it seemed to me, was a sham: in goes the pre-sliced slip of machine-molded white bread, and out pops a pretense of royalty, an impostor to the throne of cakes and jam and tea. The toaster — invented, I’d always thought, expressly to facilitate this sorry masquerade — was to blame.

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by Dr. Toast

The Toaster was invented in 1491 by an obscure French alchemist by the name of Gérard Depardieu (no relation to the actor). The invention was actually a lucky mistake – Depardieu had been trying to invent a machine that would take ordinary slices of bread and transform them into gold bullion.

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