I had someone tell me he knew someone who preferred it this way. Any other instances of this preference you know of?
Do you mean they burn it, then scrape the charred part of the bread off? I have not heard of that.
I know people that prefer burned toast, though.
Burnt toast and a rotten egg? I got a tapeworm and that’s good enough for him.
Scrape that toast, boys:
My dad grew up eating toast that had been cooked over a wood-burning stove. And, from what I hear, his mother was not the best cook in the world. So, that was how he expected toast to be made. To the end of his days, he would always set the toaster too high, then scrape off the char. Before I was born, my mother had given up trying to get him to use a lower setting.
My paternal grandma would only eat toast made this way. To this day, the smell of burned toast still makes me think of her.
It wouldn’t surprise me at all. It’s the non-porn version of Rule 42.
I don’t prefer toast that way myself, but, after years in the Boy Scouts, I have to admit that I prefer my bacon almost burnt to a crisp.
I’ve mentioned before than whenever I’m watching a British television show or movie, I notice that if someone’s eating toast, he’s always shown scraping burnt toast.
I suspect it’s because they use those weird overhead burners for toasting in Britain instead of toasters.
A similar situation with my family. Apparently Great-Grandma had similar toaster difficulties and so regularly scraped Grandpa’s (burnt) morning toast. Then he got married to Grandma, who can operate a toaster. Supposedly the first time she made him toast, he told her she’d done it wrong because she hadn’t scraped it.
Or maybe that’s a family story.