CH Habits?
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CH Habits?
30 years on I still stand my toast on its side while I wait for it to cool; a hangover from school days when toast was kept warm [and very moist] in steamy trolleys. Standing it on it's side allowed the upper half to partialy dry out.
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Yeah, so do I. My uncle tried to tell me once that you should stand toast on end so that it didn't go soggy, but he couldn't say why. When I tried to explain about the evaporating water, he didn't want to listen. Hmmph.bap wrote:30 years on I still stand my toast on its side while I wait for it to cool; a hangover from school days when toast was kept warm [and very moist] in steamy trolleys. Standing it on it's side allowed the upper half to partialy dry out.
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Golly we never had toast! I do remember cutting bread as a dining all trade before breakfast - I still have the scar to prove it. Slice the long Prewett's loaf in half lengthways then down through the middle of each half corner to corner and finally cutting about 200 triangular slices from the four pieces of the original loaf. I can't remembeer what happened to the pieces that we cut though. (presumably the deep cut on the forefinger of my left hand bled freely into the slices - no health and safety in those days! I am not sure we even had anywhere to wash our hands in the Dining Hall! OK. I know we were supposed to have had some sort of wash in the lave ends before scurrying up for trades, but there was very little time .......)bap wrote:30 years on I still stand my toast on its side while I wait for it to cool; a hangover from school days when toast was kept warm [and very moist] in steamy trolleys. Standing it on it's side allowed the upper half to partialy dry out.
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Re: CH Habits?
Delia showed how to do it in her 'How to cook toast' programme. If Delia says so, it must be true!Ruthie-Baby wrote:Yeah, so do I. My uncle tried to tell me once that you should stand toast on end so that it didn't go soggy, but he couldn't say why. When I tried to explain about the evaporating water, he didn't want to listen. Hmmph.bap wrote:30 years on I still stand my toast on its side while I wait for it to cool; a hangover from school days when toast was kept warm [and very moist] in steamy trolleys. Standing it on it's side allowed the upper half to partialy dry out.
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WHY? Is this a Horsham fetish?cj wrote:I always put my PE kit on if there's a power cut.
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I remember cutting bread for breakfast but ours were bloomer loaves, cut in half then each half lengthways to make quarters, then cut the slices. Bread cutting in 6s was the duty of Lower V who had to cut so many quarters before it moved to the next person. Don't remember giving hygiene much thought!
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I was being silly. Anyway my PE kit doesn't fit anymore and I don't look like Britney Spears in a uniform to pass it off. The morning after the hurricane hit in '87, we were instructed at breakfast to go and change into our PE kit, presumably so that we didn't get our uniforms too dirty. Unfortunately, everything went back to normal by the evening when the power supply was reconnected. We must have been the only children attending school in the South-East that day. I remember having a Latin lesson with JED in the dimpsy of the Classics block. Ironically, my parents who lived a few miles away were without power for about 12 days and we arrived home for half-term to find them hunting and gathering to survive. My boy-scout brother set to in the garden and built a fire and cooked spaghetti bolognese on it. I guess I have Mr Shippen to thank for that.Katharine wrote:WHY? Is this a Horsham fetish?cj wrote:I always put my PE kit on if there's a power cut.
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I was stuck (literally) in a prep school north of Horsham where my parents taught - the only way out was over the trees for 3 days until the drive was cleared. 10 days later we got the power back, and 3 weeks later, we got the phones back!cj wrote:I was being silly. Anyway my PE kit doesn't fit anymore and I don't look like Britney Spears in a uniform to pass it off. The morning after the hurricane hit in '87, we were instructed at breakfast to go and change into our PE kit, presumably so that we didn't get our uniforms too dirty. Unfortunately, everything went back to normal by the evening when the power supply was reconnected. We must have been the only children attending school in the South-East that day. I remember having a Latin lesson with JED in the dimpsy of the Classics block. Ironically, my parents who lived a few miles away were without power for about 12 days and we arrived home for half-term to find them hunting and gathering to survive. My boy-scout brother set to in the garden and built a fire and cooked spaghetti bolognese on it. I guess I have Mr Shippen to thank for that.Katharine wrote:WHY? Is this a Horsham fetish?cj wrote:I always put my PE kit on if there's a power cut.
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