To think that MIL has exerted a malign influence here (LIGHTHEARTED)

[MagicClawHasNoChildren]

DD(4) has recently started asking for her toast 'without the butter melted in' in the mornings. As far as I'm concerned, this is the height of weirdness, so naturally, I was wondering to my husband whether this creature was born or made.

He then casually mentioned that that's how his mum eats toast - she toasts it, lets it go cold, and then smears butter on it like it's a massive ryvita. AIBU to be appalled at this shocking influence on my innocent baby? It starts like this, but where does it end?

(Disclaimer for the hard of humour: DD can have her toast any way she wants, and I love my MIL very, very much. She's a wonderful person, toast preferences aside, and I'm glad she spends as much time as she does with my kids. )

The toast should be hot but the butter cold as I don't like it melted in either. The best way (and by that I mean the tastiest) is to slice the butter like cheese and put it on top of the toast.

I am both glad and afraid that my daughter has so much company here.

To the poster who said LTB: I'm getting my ducks in a row. It surely can't be long before such psychopathic tendencies start to emerge in my (until now lovely) DH, can it?

My mum likes burnt toast, cold, smothered in butter.

Bloody weirdo that she is.

Your mother in law is correct with her way of eating toast. I like to leave mine to go, put butter on it and then add HP Sauce or salad cream on top. I can only eat hot toast if it's very hot (as in just come out of the toaster) - even then, I'm so slow when I eat (because I'm always talking!!) that it doesn't stay hot enough for long enough. Cold toast all the way! My husband thinks I'm weird, but he drinks his tea and coffee cold (I can drink 3 mugs in the time it takes him to finish his), so it's swings and roundabouts really as to which of us is weirdest!

Sorry everyone, I'm afraid you are doing it wrong and your MIL op is completely out of line. The toast should be hot, butter/spread melted in properly and warmed marmite added so that they all meld together in gooey loveliness. Anything else is an abomination. Except perhaps for the addition of some crunchy peanut butter on Special Days.

What is this madness???????

I prefer my toast cold and crisp with cool creamy butter rather than hot and soggy.

My DP definitely doesn’t use less butter when he eats toast like this. He has toast with his butter. And he wants the bread toasted for longer than one cycle of our toaster but not as much as two - so he frequently has burnt toast with too much butter. Where is the enjoyment in that?

He will also bite clean across two fingers of a Kit Kat so he’s a complete weirdo.

the hills are that way >>>> RUN

Definitely a red flag.

But I'm more stunned at the number of complete weirdos on MN. Hot toast straight out of the toaster with melted salted butter is the only way.

I actually gag when I see people who are so callous that they have a lump of solid butter on their toast. Disgusting 🤮

When my DD was a toddler she used to ask for toast and butter - she used to eat the butter 🤢 and then the toast
she has grown out of it!!! - since looking at her eating the butter as a weird bit of cheese was wrong in so many levels!!

Cold toast, better if it’s gone slightly rubbery too, rather than crispy, with proper butter is the best! But my nephews always used to go home from staying with me asking for my juicy toast, which was hot and dripping in butter. I can turn my hand to any toast it seems 😂

I quite like toast like this too - this is why the toast rack was invented, surely?

NC with MIL, LTB so there is no longer any influence and call 999 immediately.

Hmm, you should go nc as soon as possible.

As a teenager my sister put her toast in the fridge for a few minutes before she buttered it. She also cut the crusts off, then once she'd eaten the toast she'd slather the crusts in butter and eat them

Toast racks were invented so that us normal folk could weed out the witches that needed flogging or better still, hanging.

My SIL still recalls a self catering holiday, they took my Mum who had MS & needed care so wasn't very dexterous
SIL said she took enough butter for 3 adults for a week, My Mother demolished the lot in 2 sittings, eating hot toast with the butter dripping through onto her plate.

This however is correct procedure for crumpets

(I like cool toast, so its half & half)

I eat toast cold, regardless of whether I’m just having butter/margarine on it or if I’m having marmite/marmalade/honey (not at the same time!) on it.
cold toast, lemon & lime marmalade topped with a bit of squirty cream

Yeah but the nice toast would be worth it.

Only if it is made for you and brought to you on a rack. I bloody hate those toasting machines.

I have a cute little pink porcelain toast rack which aids the cooling process.

hahahahaha my cousin said this to my grandmother when she was little. As my gran hated anything to do with fussy eating, she was most annoyed and talked about it for ages hahahaha I think the words were 'I want to see the butter' so your daughter describing melting etc is a step up from her hahaha

That’s how I eat my toast, it’s great

This is the way.

I hate it in cafes when they either pre-butter or, worse, give you those little pats of butter but place them under or on the toast so you’re faced with a package of oily melted butter.

I'm going to have to go and make some toast now. 😋