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Wednesday, January 16, 2008

French Toast Season


Today is the first day of French Toast Season.

I know what you're thinking. "You can have French toast anytime you want. Why is this the season?"

One word: Snow.

As soon as the three flakes we get in the Tennessee Valley each winter start to fall from the sky, people panic, leave work early and head straight to the grocery store. There's a mad run on milk, bread and eggs (for some reason, the threat of snow doesn't have an impact on powdered sugar or syrup sales).

People in other parts of the country that get snow all the time don't understand it. When I lived in Ohio (where they get real snow, mind you) I would go to the grocery and get some things when it started snowing. Not just milk and bread and all that, but whatever we might need to get us through a couple of days if we were snowed in. We don't observe French Toast Season properly in my house, I guess. But the thing is, when eight inches is expected to fall in Ohio, the stores are still fully stocked up on the basic three ingredients for French toast.

So for those of you in other parts of the country that haven't been able to wrap your heads around why people in the South snatch up Wonder bread and Grade-A eggs like it's going out of style when it snows, the answer is simple: We're ardent supporters of French Toast Season.

And the rest of you are communists for ignoring it.

|| pary, 3:50 PM

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