On Jun 12, 3:24*pm, Dave Smith > wrote:
> On 12/06/2012 5:34 PM, dsi1 wrote:
>
> > I have heard that there are people that like their toast very dark. Very
> > strange indeed. I remember back in the old days, the toaster would burn
> > the toast every so often and we'd have to scrape, scrape, scrape, the
> > toast. I'm glad those days are gone.
>
> Most people here were probably raised with a pop up toaster in the
> house. When I was a kid we had a manual toaster. My grandmother had one
> until she moved out of her house at the age of 97. Both sides opened up
> and you put the bread in, one on each side. You waited a while, opened
> up the sides and flipped the bread around to toast the other side.

We toasted our bread over a fire.