America Hates Electric Toasters!

Hey I like that.

Bit overkill though. Must take hours for that fire to get going before you start toasting

 

Exactly!

It's not about fun. It's about the driving experience. The fine and subtle tones in the exhaust tone upon the ears like an expensive Italian motorcycle or the best German sports car. Life would be dull and uninteresting, hardly worth living, without the occasional drive through some back country road.

 

This, from a country that routinely uses toast coolers to insure that the toast is always stone cold when served.

Anticipation is half the enjoyment.

 

I was being sarcastic about the toast

Twinings is pronounced "twine ings".

In my opinion Twinings is not the best tea in the UK. If you want good tea try either Yorkshire Tea (Yorkshire Gold Tea - not cheap but worth it) or Tetleys. It is my understanding that many parts of the US have very hard water and if that's the case then try the Yorkshire Tea Hard Water variety.

Yorkshire Tea

Tetley Tea

Oh and to make a good cuppa you must pour the boiling water onto the tea - don't leave it even 20 seconds. And unless you're the Queen you don't want to pour the milk in the cup first either. If you ever use an individual tea bag in one cup (without a tea pot) then never ever ever squeeze the tea bag! You folks know about coffee, we know about tea


@daniel Cold toast? Yuk. You must have gone to the wrong sort of hotel or upset them somehow.

 

Toast is more ecological because it is a form of carbon sequestration. In the process, vapors are released, and the surface is carbonified and eaten.

 

After reading this thread I'm definitely going to look at toast in a different light now. And tea as well. I like tea and I like a good roast of coffee. Thankfully there is Intelligentsia in Chicago.

 

This is my new euphamism for elimination, "I am going to sequester some carbon"

 

It probably says a lot about the demographics of PC members
that the ubiquitous electric toaster, once being singled out as the
subject for satirical comments on America's unreadiness to give EVs
a running chance to be accepted, goes without any defenders...
toasters have feelings too.

You see, there probably is a large group of younger Americans, who
probably not only don't hate the electric toaster,but have have a
subconscious fondness for the humble, yet heroic, toaster. Here's why:

The Brave Little Toaster is a 1987 animated adventure film adapted
from the 1980 novel of the same name by Thomas Disch. The film was
directed by Jerry Rees and released by Walt Disney Pictures. The film
is set in a world where household appliances and other electronics have
the ability to speak and move, pretending to be lifeless in the presence
of humans. The story focuses on five appliances— a toaster, a desk
lamp, an electric blanket, a vacuum tube radio, and a vacuum cleaner
—who go on a quest to search for their original owner.
Wki/The Brave Little Toaster)

The theatrical trailer:

And FWIW, two sequels too:
The Brave Little Toaster To The Rescue
The Brave Little Toaster Goes To Mars

NB: TheElectricMe, All in good fun... no criticism meant.

 

Sadly, this is the toaster I think of.

Does anyone want any toast? - Red Dwarf - BBC comedy - YouTube

 

I really thought it was ridiculous, with 38 voyage crew on the Lord Nelson, 37 of them Brits, and only seven days, meaning tea 7 times, that on one day they assigned the only Yank on board to make the tea. Needless to say they were so unhappy with the result that my watch leader threw out the tea I had made and did it over himself.

It was actually my second step-father who noted the ubiquitous use of toast coolers in England. I don't eat breakfast, but I noted the toast coolers while keeping my mother company. The toast (not just at our table!) was in these little racks that held the slices of toast vertical and separated for better air circulation.

 

Dave Barry has a thing or three to say about toasters.

Edited to say: The column linked to above inspired this award-winning website.

 

Re: The Dave Barry article: I ate a pop tart once. It was a horrid, tasteless crust, with a very thin spread of jam inside. It was about one step up from eating sawdust, and one step below fried grasshoppers, which taste just like very burnt toast.

 

...good but I hessitate to mention the final conclusion re: carbon sequestration argument of toast is, at end of life, we should not request cremation. But I don't want to go there....

 

Don't you DARE go hatin' on Pop-Tarts.

 

Eating does not sequester any carbon unless you are putting on weight. Otherwise the carbon winds up being exhaled as CO2. In fact, eating releases sequestered carbon back into the atmosphere. Wheat and other grains have the potential to last for millennia, so they are sequestering carbon. Grind them into flour, bake it into bread, toast it and eat it, and you are turning it back into CO2.

So, sorry to bust anyone's bubble, but toast is on the wrong side of the carbon footprint equation. (I still like it, though.)

There are worse things that people put in their mouths. But as junk foods go, pop tarts are pretty low on the scale, being both bad for you and vile tasting.

 

OK, I have to agree with that 100%. Except for the "Bad for you" part (which is, as Linus Pauling proved, is wrong). And the "Vile tasting", (which everyone knows is wrong).