Is Toast toast?

[Spartacus]

Or is it just grilled bread 

Edited November 21, 2025 by Spartacus

[CPR Dave]

Reminds of Toast ED. I miss that place. 

 

I've not been into the bakery that replaced it which for some reason doesn't appeal. It seems to be doing well though. Definitely not toast too.

[Sue]

Wasn't there a song back in the day consisting entirely of toast toast toast ad nauseam?

Or has my memory failed yet again? 

 

[ianr]

As in the famous Monty Perl sketch?

[tomskip]

A Little Bit of Toast by Streetband, with Paul Young (later 80s heart throb Paul Young) as lead singer. 

[Sue]

31 minutes ago, ianr said:

As in the famous Monty Perl sketch?

That rings no bells! Do you have a link?

Did you mean Monty Python? Mr Creosote?

9 minutes ago, tomskip said:

A Little Bit of Toast by Streetband, with Paul Young (later 80s heart throb Paul Young) as lead singer. 

Oh crikey, yes, I think that's what I must be thinking of 🤣

1978 😮

Edited November 21, 2025 by Sue

[ianr]

>> As in the famous Monty Perl sketch?

> That rings no bells! Do you have a link?

D'oh!.  Sorry.  So many programming languages...

> Did you mean Monty Python? [.....]

That's the fellow! 🙂  Same mode perhaps, but a different commodity. https://www.google.com/search?q=python+spam

[Sue]

55 minutes ago, ianr said:

>> As in the famous Monty Perl sketch?

> That rings no bells! Do you have a link?

D'oh!.  Sorry.  So many programming languages...

> Did you mean Monty Python? [.....]

That's the fellow! 🙂  Same mode perhaps, but a different commodity. https://www.google.com/search?q=python+spam

Ah yes.

That has just brought the revolting thought into my mind of spam on toast.

And now spam fritters, which it was my sad misfortune to be regularly given for lunch at school, many many decades ago.

[Twoddle]

A couple of fried eggs and two pieces of toast walk into a bar.

Bartender says, "Sorry we don't serve breakfast."

[Spartacus]

Are Muffins toast , or something else? 

[Sue]

1 hour ago, Spartacus said:

Are Muffins toast , or something else? 

No. They are muffins. Or Muffins.

[Jenijenjen]

2 hours ago, Spartacus said:

Are Muffins toast , or something else? 

I believe they're mules

Edited November 25, 2025 by Jenijenjen

[alice]

I have seen the Muffin man.

[Sue]

Ooops wrong link. Trying again

Take a look at this video, 'muffin the mule song'

https://share.google/mlZhQpPNAPpYwCoGY

Edited November 25, 2025 by Sue

[ianr]

2 hours ago, alice said:

I have seen the Muffin man.

I have met Muffin, and his keeper.  Was in fact on stage with them, in Wimbledon.  I remember being perturbed by the amount of powder on his keeper's face, and the possible damage that might be done to the grand piano's gleaming polished surface by his prancing about on top of it.  My reward for the appearance, afair, was a book or two, and a jam tart.

Edited November 25, 2025 by ianr

[alice]

53 minutes ago, ianr said:

I have met Muffin, and his keeper.  Was in fact on stage with them, in Wimbledon.  I remember being perturbed by the amount of powder on his keeper's face, and the possible damage that might be done to the grand piano's gleaming polished surface by his prancing about on top of it.  My reward for the appearance, afair, was a book or two, and a jam tart.

sorry but that is not the muffin man

[Sue]

1 minute ago, alice said:

sorry but that is not the muffin man

No, it's Muffin the Mule and Annette Mills.

The Muffin Man lives in Drury Lane. Do you know him?

🤣

Edited November 25, 2025 by Sue

[ianr]

Very well.  I have too an even dimmer memory of being made to represent the 'Muffin Man' in some kind of engineered entertainment at infant school.  Afair, my role was to remain hidden - even then, my preternatural talent for remaining still and quiet had been recognised - behind a circle of my colleagues, who sang the song.  At some stage in the proceedings the circle opened, to reveal me, with what I presume  would have been my tray of muffins.  God knows what they were.

From that production it was an obvious natural progression to my most notable appearance, in another class production: 'the guy' (as in 'Penny for the ...').

[diable rouge]

One year my school mates and I couldn't be bothered making a Guy so we took it in turns to be the Guy sat in an old pushchair.

I reckon we had about a 50% success rate... 😆

[Sue]

2 hours ago, ianr said:

I have met Muffin, and his keeper.  Was in fact on stage with them, in Wimbledon.  I remember being perturbed by the amount of powder on his keeper's face, and the possible damage that might be done to the grand piano's gleaming polished surface by his prancing about on top of it.  My reward for the appearance, afair, was a book or two, and a jam tart.

I always thought it was an upright piano.

Maybe it was grander when it was on stage in Wimbledon rather than on my grandparents' telly.

Was the penguin there? I like the penguin. I like the way he clacks his beak 🤣

[ianr]

> Was the penguin there? I like the penguin. I like the way he clacks his beak

No, none of the others.  Peregrine was in fact the only one I had time for.  Maybe something about him of a proto-Victor Meldrew, or maybe a hint of Gilbert Harding?  The only other one of whom I remember anything is the iirc rather tiresome Katy the Kangaroo.

The Annette Mills WikiP article I found interesting.  If you branch out from there you may eventually get to the 'official site' https://www.muffinthemule.co . Your browser might provide a small frisson if you take the necessary Advanced entry route to the latter, with warnings of possible danger if you proceed further.  In fact apparently nothing more than an expired certificate.

 

[Sue]

10 hours ago, ianr said:

Your browser might provide a small frisson if you take the necessary Advanced entry route to the latter, with warnings of possible danger if you proceed further.  In fact apparently nothing more than an expired certificate.

How disappointing!