# Honey on toast? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 30, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982 "2002-03-30T23:14:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/1 "2002-03-30T23:14:18Z")
(Hello, thought I’d pop in this weekend…) Today I put some break in the toaster and went looking for butter, only to find that there wasn’t much. It was too much of a nuisance to scrape cold butter over the toast, but I wanted something to give it more flavor. My eyes fell on the honey. I decided to try it and compare, so I spread some butter on one piece, and put a think layer of honey on the other. The honeyed toast was pretty good - different but equal to butter, I’d say. I then started in on the buttered toast. About halfway through, I had a thought - what if I combined the two? I got the honey open again, a spread a layer on my toast over the butter. That accomplished, I took my first sample of my brainchild. Oh. My. God. Pure bliss. That was probably the best piece of toast I’ve had in ages. Simple delicious. If I wasn’t so lazy, I’d do it again… mmmm… ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 30, 2002, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/2 "2002-03-30T23:54:54Z")
Even better than honey & butter on bread is honey-butter on bread. Easy to make (toss a stick of butter in a foodprocesser or mixer, add some honey and whump the bejezus out of it: It spreads easily, it’s not as sticky as pure honey and pure butter, and it’s just yummy beond words. (And it’ll keep in a sealed tupperwear container for weeks or even months) Now I’m hungry, dammit. Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/3 "2002-03-31T01:02:31Z")
If you have not done so already, try various jams on toast, or even peanut butter on toast. ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/4 "2002-03-31T01:37:34Z")
Yum! I love honey butter on toast! ---
**Author:** ![AbbySthrnAccent](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/eb9ed0/32.png) [@AbbySthrnAccent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AbbySthrnAccent)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/5 "2002-03-31T01:39:42Z")
and on warm homemade bread. ---
**Author:** ![Tedster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4491bb/32.png) [@Tedster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tedster)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/6 "2002-03-31T02:09:01Z")
Honey and Butter go together really well, don’t they? Of course, an ice cold glass of milk goes well with, too. Avoid like the plague margarine and other synthetic abominations. Roman Meal bread makes excellent toast and peanut butter sandwiches, btw. ---
**Author:** ![Honey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/honey/32/5074_2.png) [@Honey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Honey)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/7 "2002-03-31T02:43:19Z")
::Sings the Carly Simon song:: Oh , Sorry I thought this thread was about me. I’m not vain. Honey. ---
**Author:** ![DAVEW0071](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e19b73/32.png) [@DAVEW0071](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DAVEW0071)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/8 "2002-03-31T02:43:43Z")
My eight-year-old son eats a peanut butter and jelly sandwich on toast for breakfast nearly every morning. In fact, he’ll often tell us, “I’ll just have my usual this morning.” Hey, protein, carbs and simple sugars. Not a bad way to start the morning. ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/9 "2002-03-31T03:16:18Z")
butter/honey ration, fenris? And uh, wouldn’t that make a helluva mess in the mixer? ---
**Author:** ![Fenris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fenris/32/498_2.png) [@Fenris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fenris)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/10 "2002-03-31T03:28:09Z")
You’d think so, but if the butter’s cold (and the blade and bowl of the mixer cold too) it all works out. Start out by “blending” the butter alone, and once it starts getting “creamed”, start adding the honey. As for the ratio, I dunno. At least a couplea tablespoons of honey to 1 stick of butter. (I just taste and when it tastes “right”, I stop adding honey.) Fenris ---
**Author:** ![Cougarfang](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c67d28/32.png) [@Cougarfang](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cougarfang)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/11 "2002-03-31T04:33:10Z")
Hmmm… _Scampers towards the general region of the kitchen gleefully_ _Silence, broken by scattered clattering of utensils_ RRRRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRRrrrrrrrrrrRRRRRRRRrrrrr_CLICK_ _Cougarfang scampers back in, looking slightly shell-shocked_ Uhm _lick_ I _lick_ see _lick lick_ why there’s a _lick slurp lick_ lid to the _sluuuuurp_ blender… Saaay, _slurp lick_ this stuff tastes _lick_ pretty darn good _slurp_ plain… _Settles down in a corner, sucking paw_ Mmmmm… where’s the toast? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![LouisB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dfb087/32.png) [@LouisB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LouisB)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/12 "2002-03-31T08:14:22Z")
**Fenris** , when I was a kid, about a million years ago, my father introduced me to the butter / honey thing. My mother made the best biscuits in the world and they were the bread of choice for the mixture. I still do it from time to time, but my biscuits don’t compare to Mom’s. ---
**Author:** ![Eggles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/d9b06d/32.png) [@Eggles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eggles)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/13 "2002-03-31T14:35:13Z")
**Grelby** - did I read your post right? You have never put butter and honey together on toast??? What do you normally put on your toast? ---
**Author:** ![Rayne\_Man](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/df705f/32.png) [@Rayne\_Man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rayne_Man)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/14 "2002-03-31T20:01:20Z")
" Is there honey still for tea?" Rupert Brooke "Butter and Honey shall he eat, that he may know to refuse the evil and choose the good " The Bible “Eating Bread and Honey” Nursery Rhyme As you see a long tradition of bread , honey and butter ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [March 31, 2002, 8:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/15 "2002-03-31T20:10:10Z")
Over in these islands in the North Atlantic, that’s what we (most of us anyway) always do. Butter first, then jam, marmalade, honey, marmite, nutella, chocolate spread, etc. Most sandwiches too are made with butter. It’s particularly popular in Ireland - the only place where I’ve seen people spread butter on bread thickly, _then_ add mayonnaise, cheese, ham, etc. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/16 "2002-04-01T02:34:15Z")
No, this for some reason had never occured to me before. I was just bored and trying to make something tasty. I was very pleased with the result. Thanks Fenris, I’ll have to remember that, and try and convince the family to let me dirty up the ol’ blender, hehehe… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![cagiva650](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cagiva650](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cagiva650)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/17 "2002-04-01T03:03:08Z")
A Toast to toast, the following haiku from [Dr Toast](http://www.drtoast.com/) Ritualistic A Genesis of Breakfast Immaculate Toast ---
**Author:** ![istara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e79b87/32.png) [@istara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/istara)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/18 "2002-04-01T10:31:22Z")
Yuk I hate honey and butter together. I like my toast very well toasted, almost burnt to a crisp in fact, and my honey a medium thickness and unpolluted by any other spread or condiment. ---
**Author:** ![Jimson\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/838e76/32.png) [@Jimson\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jimson_Jim)\ **Post date:** [April 1, 2002, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/honey-on-toast/100982/19 "2002-04-01T18:03:50Z")
**LouisB** has the right idea. Butter and honey on biscuts warm from the oven. mmmm biscuts… Oh and **jjimm** when I was in Sweden, they made sandwiches that way too.