Re: No more toast?

Nicholas D. Richards wrote, though the Organization header says
"Beware of Red Hot Beaks":

>And there I thought we were talking about a 'greasy spoon'.  So called
>because they had one spoon, which was used to spoon sugar out of the
>only sugar bowl and then to stir the mug of strong milky tea (no coffee
>in those days) the spoon usually tied to the table with a piece of
>string. Served permutations of bacon, eggs, sausages, black pudding (if
>yoy were lucky) and bread smeared with what passed for margarine; always
>bread. Not many such basic eateries remain, probably for the better.

The hard brown lumps of tea-drenched sugar that stayed in the bowl
were an entertainment too.
-- 
Ben