After 30 years, our daughter had a confession: She hated our toast.

[brooklynite]

Apparently, our older daughter, Gwyn, has never cared for the toast my wife and I make, the toast we served her for nearly 20 years. I became aware of this only last year when I was helping Gwyn move into an apartment in Los Angeles and we were out shopping for a new toaster oven.

“Here’s one just like ours,” I said, excitedly. Wouldn’t it be great, I thought, to continue the Kelly family tradition of transforming bread into toast with a features-laden, Consumer Reports-recommended Breville toaster oven?

“Ugh,” said Gwyn.

And then it all came out, right there in the middle of Bed Bath & Beyond. Ever since becoming an adult and going out into the wider world, Gwyn had come to despise our toast. Basically, we don’t toast our bread long enough. It’s slightly warmed bread, barely qualifying as toast in her eyes.

Suddenly unburdened, Gwyn had a few things to get off her chest about our scrambled eggs, too. If our toast isn’t toasted enough, our scrambled eggs are toasted too much. Gwyn had grown up watching us leave them in the pan till the last molecule of moisture was gone. She’d seen her mother, Ruth, tell countless diner waitresses to make sure the cook knew that her eggs should be “hard” or “dry” or “Sahara-style” — whatever shorthand described well-done scrambled eggs.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2022/10/16/scrambled-eggs-dry-toast/

[electric_blue68]

1. Truth happens! ...

Ooopsies. I guess you could be glad she didn't fuss!
OTOH you might the kind of patents who'd want your kid's opinion.

I prefer mine a medium brown.


As for scrambled eggs - yup, I like mine drier, but mildly damp to a bit wet areas is fine.

[Biophilic]

2. Oh, man, these deep secrets from the past. Ah, well, live and learn.

[genxlib]

3. Sorry, that's on her

Unless there is some toxic dynamic going on there, it doesn't take a lot of courage to say "can you toast mine longer".

First world problems.

[XanaDUer2]

7. Exactly nt

[getagrip_already]

4. It must be in the handbook.....

Our adult kids only like floppy soft bacon; the kind you get in buffets. We always made it crispy.

Go figure......

[Marthe48]

5. You aren't alone

I know people who don't like toasted bread at all.

However, my best friend's Mom preferred serving very moist scrambled eggs, and my friend never got over it

[Polly Hennessey]

6. Crunchy, crusty toast and almost hard scrambled eggs.