🍞The Great Toast Debate - Sweet Vs Savoury🍞

Mary_Scope
Mary_Scope Posts: 6,170 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists
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Following on from our recent toast discussion and @Carl_Scope’s controversial claim that toast isn't a savoury food, I thought we could have a vote and see what the community consensus is on this bold statement 😄

Where do you stand on the ultimate toast topping spectrum?

Are you Team Savoury or Team Sweet and do you have any toppings that could be seen as a bit rogue? (Mine is Branston pickle!)

An overhead shot showcasing a variety of colourful, gourmet toast combinations arranged in two columns on a grey surface. The toppings feature a mix of fresh fruits, berries, vegetables, eggs, meats, and cheeses on toasted sliced bread.

🍞The Great Toast Debate - Sweet Vs Savoury🍞 9 votes

Savoury - marmite, avocado, salted butter, hummus etc
55%
OverlyAnxiousRachel_ScopeAnhedonia2egiste2rJimbo007 5 votes
Sweet - jam, chocolate spread, honey, biscuit spread etc
44%
yellowpineapple84Carl_ScopeBluebell21justj74 4 votes

Comments

  • Rosie_Scope
    Rosie_Scope Posts: 9,741 Online Community Team

    For me, it is more about the time of day the toast is consumed. For breakfast - 100% a sweet meal and therefore sweet toast - jams, fruits, peanut butter.

    For lunch, dinner, or snack - anything goes, but generally more savoury! Cheeses, chutneys, hummus, things like that.

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 6,170 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    This makes a lot of sense @Rosie_Scope. What would you have for a midnight toast snack?

  • Dynamisante
    Dynamisante Community Member Posts: 227 Contributor

    Definitely savoury for me, morning noon or night, tomatoes 🍅 on toast, avocado on toast, mushrooms on toast, hummus etc, luckily I don’t have a sweet tooth, maybe twice or three times a year when I need a sweet tooth ‘binge’

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 6,170 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Mushrooms on toast is delicious @Dynamisante yum, I could eat that now for breakfast😅 Do you have jam or chocolate spread when you have sweet toast?

  • Carl_Scope
    Carl_Scope Posts: 329 Online Community Team
    Sweet - jam, chocolate spread, honey, biscuit spread etc

    Good to see that sweet is winning here. Can't believe we're even having to debate this 😉

    I'm willing to accept Rosie's compromise but I've got to ask you @Dynamisante: aren't tomatoes on toast sweet?

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 5,353 Online Community Team
    Savoury - marmite, avocado, salted butter, hummus etc

    I can't believe that sweet is winning! @Carl_Scope how much are you paying them?

  • Carl_Scope
    Carl_Scope Posts: 329 Online Community Team
    Sweet - jam, chocolate spread, honey, biscuit spread etc

    I don't need to pay them! We're the silent majority, while you're just in the savoury toast echo chamber, @Rachel_Scope

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 5,353 Online Community Team
    Savoury - marmite, avocado, salted butter, hummus etc

    @Carl_Scope 🙄

  • justj74
    justj74 Community Member Posts: 168 Contributor
    Sweet - jam, chocolate spread, honey, biscuit spread etc

    I went for sweet because I have marmalade toast every morning but I adore buttered toast and tea of an evening too

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,482 Championing
    Savoury - marmite, avocado, salted butter, hummus etc
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1151102#Comment_1151102

    I was almost 'none of the above'! I just have normal butter or cheese on toast.

    The options there make it seem like savoury has to be heavily salted butter with marmite, olives and anchovies to make it as savoury as possible! 😆

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 5,353 Online Community Team
    Savoury - marmite, avocado, salted butter, hummus etc

    How could we forget cheese on toast @OverlyAnxious. That's made me hungry now. Do you put anything on the cheese? I use worcestershire sauce. It just feels wrong without it. The best cheese on toast I ever had was cheddar and halloumi. Absolutely amazing 😍

  • OverlyAnxious
    OverlyAnxious Community Member Posts: 6,482 Championing
    Savoury - marmite, avocado, salted butter, hummus etc
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1151140#Comment_1151140

    Nope. Worcestershire sauce has two things I don't like…some flavour and a soft texture. I literally just have two slices of toast with one slice of pre-cut cheese between it! 😬 I know many on here will be horrified by the boringness of that. 😅

  • Rachel_Scope
    Rachel_Scope Posts: 5,353 Online Community Team
    Savoury - marmite, avocado, salted butter, hummus etc

    We all have our own tastes @OverlyAnxious, so you do you!

  • Jimbo007
    Jimbo007 Community Member Posts: 1 Listener
    Savoury - marmite, avocado, salted butter, hummus etc

    Smashed avocado and marmite

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 6,170 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Do you have that on the same piece of toast @Jimbo007? A big welcome to the community from me too!

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 6,170 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    I was in Tesco last night and come across Ginger Preserve.

    Has anybody tried it? I've never seen it before! And what is the difference between a jam, a conserve and preserve?😅

    A glass jar of Tesco Ginger Preserve held in a person's hand. The label reads "TESCO GINGER PRESERVE", described as "WARMING & SWEET", and notes "Made with roughly chopped stem ginger for added bite" against a background image of sliced ginger root

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