Comments on: Raise A Toast http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html Dispatches from the South Bank of the Mersey Wed, 24 Feb 2010 17:44:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Quinn http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html/comment-page-1#comment-4298 Quinn Wed, 13 Feb 2008 16:09:33 +0000 http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html#comment-4298 It's a very good point, and one I had considered myself before dismissing it at first...surely the butter or spread of your choice can't count as a topping, can it? It's an assumption that could really bugger up your monthly budgeting as you leave the bakers some 15 pence lighter than you had expected. Of course, all those 15 pences mount up, and we shouldn't be surprised; you never see a poor baker, do you now? It’s a very good point, and one I had considered myself before dismissing it at first…surely the butter or spread of your choice can’t count as a topping, can it?

It’s an assumption that could really bugger up your monthly budgeting as you leave the bakers some 15 pence lighter than you had expected. Of course, all those 15 pences mount up, and we shouldn’t be surprised; you never see a poor baker, do you now?

]]> By: iamnotthebeatles http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html/comment-page-1#comment-4297 iamnotthebeatles Wed, 13 Feb 2008 15:55:27 +0000 http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html#comment-4297 It is also suspiciously vague - as it fails to mention whether the all important butter which needs to be spread nice and thickly under yer Marmite counts as a separate topping and therefore an extra 15 pennies or not. In short, I need to see the small print. It is also suspiciously vague – as it fails to mention whether the all important butter which needs to be spread nice and thickly under yer Marmite counts as a separate topping and therefore an extra 15 pennies or not.
In short, I need to see the small print.

]]> By: Quinn http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html/comment-page-1#comment-4188 Quinn Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:59:44 +0000 http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html#comment-4188 smallbeds: Nice suggestion, though if I were to wear a hat insulting a particular type of shop I think I would go after greengrocers, with their silly plastic bags and rows of inedible vegetables. Stick to fruit and I'd be fine. OccupiedCountry: I don't much mind Hampsons to be honest, but all their stuff has a uniform factory-made look to it. I much prefer Beeley's with their massive chain of two shops round our way, where all the pasties have a ramshackle look as if made by a partially-sighted work experience lad, clumsily crimped with spilt gravy. But they taste bloody gorgeous. As for toast, I await the inevitable court case when Greggs announce "Toast Extra", and Sayers sue them for infringing their patent. Meanwhile, we old-timers sneekily carry on regardless, grilling our "hooch toast" in the safety of our own homes, using that old Morphy Richards we hide at the back of the cupboard. smallbeds: Nice suggestion, though if I were to wear a hat insulting a particular type of shop I think I would go after greengrocers, with their silly plastic bags and rows of inedible vegetables. Stick to fruit and I’d be fine.

OccupiedCountry: I don’t much mind Hampsons to be honest, but all their stuff has a uniform factory-made look to it. I much prefer Beeley’s with their massive chain of two shops round our way, where all the pasties have a ramshackle look as if made by a partially-sighted work experience lad, clumsily crimped with spilt gravy. But they taste bloody gorgeous.

As for toast, I await the inevitable court case when Greggs announce “Toast Extra”, and Sayers sue them for infringing their patent. Meanwhile, we old-timers sneekily carry on regardless, grilling our “hooch toast” in the safety of our own homes, using that old Morphy Richards we hide at the back of the cupboard.

]]> By: OccupiedCountry http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html/comment-page-1#comment-4186 OccupiedCountry Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:59:41 +0000 http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html#comment-4186 That's what I was going to say. I can buy UNSLICED bread at my local family baker and I'm supporting the local economy rather than some faceless corporate retailer that bakes bread from "redidough ® ™" ;-) Got to admit though - who the hell thought of redesigning toast and then marketing it to an unsuspecting public? Mark my words, in 20 years time today's kids will have grown into consumers who believe that toast comes from the local supermarket in a seal-wrapped packet. That’s what I was going to say. I can buy UNSLICED bread at my local family baker and I’m supporting the local economy rather than some faceless corporate retailer that bakes bread from “redidough ® ™” ;-)

Got to admit though – who the hell thought of redesigning toast and then marketing it to an unsuspecting public? Mark my words, in 20 years time today’s kids will have grown into consumers who believe that toast comes from the local supermarket in a seal-wrapped packet.

]]> By: smallbeds http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html/comment-page-1#comment-4148 smallbeds Tue, 05 Feb 2008 20:15:43 +0000 http://www.obscurer.co.uk/2008/02/raise-a-toast.html#comment-4148 <i>I am not disparaging bakers in general,</i> That's hardly the Blitz spirit: <a href="http://www.zeppotron.com/unnovations/bakers_hat.html" rel="nofollow">strive and struggle against the tyranny of your local baker!</a> I am not disparaging bakers in general,

That’s hardly the Blitz spirit: strive and struggle against the tyranny of your local baker!

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