On Jun 12, 6:24*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.

That's interesting.

My mom had an old toaster, but not that old. It would do this weird
thing where it would "fake pop up" but kept toasting then would
actually pop up a minute or so later.... Years later, I was reading
something about toasters when looking for one and there was one that
did something similar. It said it was a feature so that you could
immediately put more toast in after a batch popped up. Loved that
toaster. It had 4 slots. And I loved toast. I once made 12 slices--
and ate them all!

My mom would also leave butter out. Then it wasn't hard. But I think
that was a health code violation. The only time she kept butter in
the fridge was when it got really hot in the summer and the butter
would become a pool like the Wicked Witch of the West.