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unusual facts about Toast


Mantorras

His nickname derives from the fact that, as a child, he suffered slight accidental burns, being then known as "Mantorras", from the Angolan expression "Mano Torras," which means "Toasted brother."


53rd World Science Fiction Convention

Diane Duane and Peter Morwood were Toast Mr & Mrs (the Toastmaster role).

Adrian Lester

Also, in The Day After Tomorrow, Lester had a minor role as Simon, one of the three researchers who drink a toast of "twelve-year-old Scotch" shortly before freezing to death.

Ames Brothers

One of the first acts to appear on the original The Ed Sullivan Show when it was known as Toast of the Town, they made their debut with him when the show was telecast live from Wanamaker's Department Store.

Asterix and Obelix's Birthday: The Golden Book

But the centurions, to whom he had entrusted the mission, drank the wine as a toast to Caesar's health, which had in fact was castor oil (Ricin), and then won a nice trip to the latrine.

Black Toast Records

Now recognized by Shazam, Black Toast Records releases have been made available on iTunes, Amazon, Reverb Nation, Spotify, Last.fm, and others.

Buttered toast phenomenon

A study by the BBC's television series Q.E.D. found that when toast is thrown in the air, it lands butter-side down just one-half of the time (as would be predicted by chance).

Chambers's Encyclopaedia

Lord Jowitt, the Lord Chancellor, gave the toast and described the endeavor as "outstanding proof" of British scholarship, while Mrs Law commented that she believed the work to be the first major encyclopaedia to be published in Britain since before the First World War.

Christian Wargo

Before joining Crystal Skulls in 2004, Wargo was in a band called Scientific, he released the album From the Nest of Idea in 2002 with the record label Burnt Toast Vinyl.

Christopher Dresser

Some of Dresser’s metalwork designs are still in production, such as his oil and vinegar sets and toast rack designs, now manufactured by Alessi and Alberto Alessi goes so far as to say Dresser 'knew the techniques of metal production better than any designer who has come to Alessi'.

Cinnamon Toast Crunch

Cinnamon Toast Crunch (previously called Cinnamon Grahams in the UK but now called Curiously Cinnamon), known as Croque-Cannelle in French Canada and as a different-tasting but similar-looking variant called Cini Minis in other European countries where available, is a brand cereal produced by General Mills and Nestlé.

Corrinne Wicks

As well as playing her role in Emmerdale for ITV, Wicks acted in the BBC's adaptation of Nigel Slater's best selling memoir Toast (January 2011); she played young Nigel's lusty secondary school teacher.

French Toast Crunch

French Toast Crunch is a breakfast cereal launched in 1995 artificially flavored to taste like French toast, by the General Mills company.

Gustafs skål

"Gustafs skål", literally Toast to Gustav, is a song written by Carl Michael Bellman as a salutation to Gustav III of Sweden, following the coup d'etat of 1772, which made himself an autocrat and ended the parliamentary age of liberty.

Hertfordshire County Football Association

Proposing the toast to the Hertfordshire FA was Sir Stanley Rous, Secretary of The Football Association, who ten years prior to his appointment to football's top job was a member of the Hertfordshire FA Council.

1960 – The Association celebrated its 75th Anniversary and at the Dinner Sir Stanley Rous, now a knight of the Realm, proposed the toast to Hertfordshire FA.

Hilary Liftin

She has also worked on Miley Cyrus' memoir Miles To Go, and Teri Hatcher's Burnt Toast: And Other Philosophies Of Life.

Joseph Dyas

Dyas is still celebrated by The Light Infantry for his actions at Badajoz, with a toast to "Ensign Dyas and the Stormers!".

Kaiser-Walzer

The waltz was originally titled Hand in Hand and was intended as a toast made in August of that year by Austrian emperor Franz Josef on the occasion of his visit to the German Kaiser Wilhelm II where it was symbolic as a 'toast of friendship' extended by Austria to Germany.

Lunch of Blood

Morrissey: "'People tell me that they fall in love with me, but I sit at home, night after night, watching television documentaries, and I ask myself: Where are all these people who are falling in love with me? And, you know, I’m stroking the cat … I’m buttering a large piece of brown toast … I’m asking myself whether or not I really have anything at all to do with youth culture … it’s very curious.'"

Mabel Mercer

In 1928, she was an unknown member of the black chorus in the London production of Show Boat, but she had become the toast of Paris by the 1930s, with admirers who included Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Cole Porter.

Make a Toast

"Make a Toast" is the second and final single from rapper Dolla's debut album A Dolla and a Dream.

Marcel Thil

He became a major celebrity and as a good friend of celebrated actor Jean Gabin, he was the toast of Paris during the next four and a half years when he successfully defended his middleweight title 11 times.

Maurice Bennett

In 2003, Maurice was commissioned to do a toast portrait of Dean Cain, the presenter for ‘Ripley’s Believe It or Not’, a worldwide syndicated television programme.

Nigel Slater

A film based on the book also called Toast, starring Freddie Highmore as the 15-year-old Slater and Helena Bonham Carter as his stepmother, has been broadcast on BBC One.

Pepe Soriano

Soraino has also recently turned to his Jewish roots in theatre works such as Jeff Baron's Visiting Mr. Green, where he teaches an unsympathetic parole officer a lesson in kinship and in cinema such as in the Chilean film, El brindis ("The Toast," 2007), where a Jewish-Chilean patriarch struggles to bring his disparate family closer.

Portillo's Restaurants

They feature pancake and waffle combinations and specialty items such as a baked apple pancakes, German pancakes, strawberry cheesecake french toast, and white chocolate raspberry Belgian waffles.

Samuel Johnson's political views

He was an opponent of slavery, well before the heyday of abolitionism, and once proposed a toast to the "next rebellion of the negroes in the West Indies".

Shannon Stephens

You can also find her on a bonus track of Denison Witmer's 2002 release titled Philadelphia Songs on "Burnt Toast Vinyl" (US).

Skol, Vikings

Skol (written "skål" in Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish and "skál" in Faroese and Icelandic or "skaal" in transliteration of any of those languages) is the Danish/Norwegian/Swedish word for "cheers," or "good health," a salute or a toast, as to an admired person or group.

Tea for the Voyage

During the summer of 2007, the band's track "Toast" was used by skateboard company Concrete Wave as the theme for their 2007 Evolutions DVD.

The Max Headroom Show

Each episode was preceded by Max's intro which said "He's the toast of the town (lightly buttered). He's the non-fattening sugar substitute in your tea. He's a bon vivant, a gaucho amigo, a goomba, a mensch, and the fifth musketeer. He's the apple of your eye and aren't you glad he's here. Direct from a wax and shine at the carwash around the corner, it's the man of the hour, or at least for a good thirty minutes, Max Headroom."

Thugz Nation

The album contains unreleased songs from Strength & Loyalty, like the Danja-produced song "Bone Thugs Boys", the Swizz Beatz-produced song "Toast 2 That", and the song "Never Been Industry".

Yard of ale

John Evelyn records in his Diary the formal yet festive drinking of a yard of ale toast to James II at Bromley in Kent, 1685.


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