A toast to toast!

Who doesn't love toast?

It would appear that toast is not just any old breakfast item.

Who'd have thought it evokes such a reaction! Twice in the last week toast has figured in completely different conversations.

Most of us would probably agree it's high up on the list of comfort food or midnight snack and probably the fastest too, whether it's with cheese on (toaster bags are a brilliant piece of kit for a lazy toasted cheese sandwich) or whether with a preserve of your choice. I have a Grandson who always has his with lemon curd.

Anyway, I would always have said toast is toast is toast – apparently not, as my Dil (Daughter in law for the uninitiated) pointed out to me recently. Cheryl overheard her daughter Alyce talking with friends saying, quite emphatically, “my Grandma makes the best toast”. “There has to be something you do differently” - not that I'm aware of …

Then as you know my friends arrived from France. The first morning it's “would anyone like toast?”. The best part of a whole loaf later, together with a certain famous Danish butter … perhaps there is something going on here …. it's simple enough - serve hot and a production line with enough butter on so that you have to lick your fingers, don't be shy about the amount of butter or guilty – this is a treat – not an every day occurrence.

That set me thinking – is there an art form – some don't like it hot, may be some like it toasted and then the butter on after it's left to cool – not my personal favourite I have to say.

I think I've done toast a dis-service – we take it for granted. I realised this when it was pointed out that whilst the French are fab at baguettes et al they are not so hot on sliced bread for toast – put good toasting bread together with a good quality butter and you've cracked it. Note to self – completely misjudged the bread order.

Post toast it's on to the roast!