Toasts

[MikeMikeMike]

What is your favourite toast? Mine is currently 'hey ho for revelry and loud indecent cheer'. Please don't bother with bread based humour. I have sat here and considered it for a while and am confident I will have heard it before. :-)

[colinsvan]

spoilsport.

[Headtime]

"Here's for a deedly-doo-and-raise your glasses for some bread based humour"

[MikeMikeMike]

Oh alright. Go on then. Sanctions lifted.

[Quizmonster]

Now that you've lifted the bread-ban, Mike, I'll offer a response. It doesn't answer your question, but I thought it might at least interest you.

Rituals similar to the present-day Catholic mass - involving a holy man in drinking a special potion - have existed from earliest times. Dried bread was also probably dipped into the drink, as part of the ritual. In Latin, such a morsel was said to be �tostus', meaning �baked dry'. �Toast' is the English version of the word and took on the senses of toast as in �toast and cheese' initially and later toast as in �propose a toast'. By the 17th century in Britain, pieces of toasted bread were often put into beer to improve the taste, so �drinking a toast' acquired much the same sense as thousands of years earlier.

(There's a lovely story of a well-known 17th century beauty, bathing in the pool at Bath. One admirer scooped some of the water into his goblet and drank her health with it. Another claimed he would actually jump into the water with her, saying: "Although I like not the liquor, I will have the toast!" I wonder whether he did.)

[IndieSinger]

He lifted the bread bin?

[Mrs_Pegasus]

No toast jokes. Mine is "May the roof above us never fall in, And the friends gathered below never fall out"