On 6/12/2012 12:24 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.

Back then you had to work for toast. At least you didn't have to use
fire to make toast.