For most of my life toast was bread that was, well, toasted. It was generally white bread that was put in a toaster until it was golden brown. No matter where you went that was what you could expect when you asked for toast. Not any more. For some reason toasted toast is no longer available. More often than not the bread you have with your breakfast out looks like it was toasted with a hair dryer. This seems to be the standard today and I can't imagine why. It's true with bread and true with bagels. At Starbucks and Panera and elsewhere I have to request for a bagel to be triple-toasted to even make it acceptable. Is this under toasting to save time? save electricity? save money? Who knows? But it's another example of Americans being like sheep. They generally accept everything they are handed without question or complaint. I say this assuming that most people would rather have nice crispy toast than semi-warm bread. Now that I've got that out of my system, what's with these restaurants who give you one or two pats of butter for a stack of pancakes?
Look at the photo above. That's typical of restaurants today. Toast with hardly any color change at all, and two small dollops of butter for six pieces of "toast" and three pancakes.
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