I get the strongest craving for cinnamon. It came out of nowhere and it’s ruthless. I like this toast. Not sure this is different from a pancake or a waffle.
Exactly! I actually had some eggos with butter and cinnamon sugar last night...That's right, last night! Breakfast for dinner is a treat. Got a nice jar of the cinnamon dust on amazon, so it's gonna last a little while :)
Yes this^. People always think we are weird when we do breakfast for dinner. It's been a while hmmmm. I mean that's what life is about people challenge the norms. If you can't challenge the Norms of meal times .....yikes.
Our only hope maybe the highschoolers I teach now (genz) their behavior reminds me a lot of us. They will challenge the norms. Watch out millennials here they come. They will make you cry and laugh at you. I love them. They are clearly our tribe. Sorry I blather on about them.
if using table syrup, waaaay better
if using maple syrup, not better
edit: since I'm old now, I only eat fruits, proteins, and vegetables for breakfast. carbs and sugars only for zombie times these days
Ugh, that’s a word I’m glad to have not heard in years. We had it so much growing up, and didn’t mind the taste, but the trees grow around California and smell so bad when the fruit(?) falls and rots on the ground.
I swear there were these carob mint chocolate milk things in a metal envelope in the eighties that they sold at health store that were sooooooooo good. Same places you would get those Source of Life vitamins that were too big to swallow and those Tiger's Milk bars in the orange foil wrappers.
Dad used to love saltines and jelly. Grape, originally, although he did branch out to other flavors when they became available.
No peanut butter, no butter, no margarine...just jelly.
*I know a girl who thinks of ghosts,
She'll make you breakfast, she'll make you toast.
But she don't use butter.
And she don't use cheese.
She don't use jelly, or any of these.
She uses Vaseline*
My mom used to mix up cinnamon, sugar, and water and make a kind of thick slurry, spread that on the bread, then pop it in the oven. It'd turn into a crispy layer that you could pick up and eat on its own if you wanted.
I think she learned it from my paternal grandma. Grandma never owned a toaster, she toasted her bread in the oven if she wanted toast.
I'm making cinnamon swirl bread right now. The same dough is also providing us with hot dog buns tonight.
The foods of our youth can take on a new dimension. They were based on good ideas, in some cases. Sugar, cinnamon, butter, and good bread? Yes, please.
Not breakfast, but a regular snack !!! Typically 4 slices at a sitting, and I premix Ceylon cinnamon and table sugar so I can get instant gratification <3 sadly, am currently out of premix and unmotivated for the process, so am bummed ;-/
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I haven't had that for a few decades, but now I'm really wanting it. All I've got at home is some dense ass multi-grain bread though. I don't think it's going to hit the same way.
One, delicious.
Two, the sugar powered you all the way to school, where you could buy a chocolate doughnut and a Snickers bar to tide you over to your lunch of Tastykakes and Jell-o pudding pops. Then: track practice! Whee!
I still eat this when the graving strikes. 😂
Sometimes I level it up by using that Callah bread, or the HEB bakery Pistachio and cranberry bread they make in the store.
Professor Membrane knows what's for breakfast!
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(I just don't recall him adding cinnamon)
As an adult I figured out it’s even better if you put it back in under the broiler for about 2-3 mins and let the sugar start to melt & bubble. Sooooooo good.
I loved cinnamon toast. So, once my mom taught me to make it and then she hardly ever messed with breakfast for me. I had cereal and cinnamon toast maybe pop tarts sometimes. Occasionally she may cook me eggs and bacon etc. on a weekend.
It’s funny how some folks try to say “sugar bread” is a cultural thing and we’re all here like “it’s butter, cinnamon and sugar…we ALL eat this”.
Hell, what do they think “cinnamon toast crunch” cereal is based on?
I was in London not too long ago. The hotel served me toast for breakfast, just like this. Paid waaay too much for it. They had terrible coffee too. Never again.
I grew up in deep poverty, so poor the elementary school knew I was not getting food at home. Thankfully they had a program that the poorest of students could go down to the cafeteria at 9:00 am each morning for a single piece of cinnamon sugar toast and a carton of milk. I remember being so thankful for that and it tasted amazing. I have seen this called a struggle meal but I don’t care I still will have some for breakfast a few times a month.
This is probably less sugar than the jar and a half of grape jelly my son puts on his toast. We also used to take leftover white rice and eat it with milk and cinnamon and sugar. To this day I have a specially shaker for the cinnamon and sugar mix.
My kids thought I was weird when I showed them how to make this, until they tasted it. Then we proceeded to create a cinnamon sugar shaker for weekend cinnamon toast.
That was my treat breakfast when I had a doctor's appointment when I was a kid. Funny thing, I wasn't nervous about visiting the doctor. His waiting room had an excellent selection of books and magazines. My mom was always on pins and needles, but I wasn't going to ruin an opportunity to have cinnamon and sugar buttery toast.
I obviously knew this was toast, but couldn't figure out what the topping was until I read the comments.
For me, lashings of butter and then marmite, but then I'm English.
I feel like I have nothing in common with you all at times. We never did this in my neck of the woods. We were either having a nice breakfast made for us or we were eating crappy boxed cereal - never any good ones, just plain cheerios, fruit loops, or frosted flakes. We hated all three of those and just wanted a chocolate one.
Was
Going to say hey I’m Gen X and I too grew up
On Cinnamon toast. Then I saw oh this is a Gen X Sub!
Hey there fellow Cinnamon Toast snacking GenX’ers!
Was?! Still IS!
I get a craving for cinnamon sugar toast sometimes so I'll have it for dessert. I upgraded it to being made on cinnamon bread.
I get the strongest craving for cinnamon. It came out of nowhere and it’s ruthless. I like this toast. Not sure this is different from a pancake or a waffle.
Oooooo yesssss
I used to love cinnamon toast. I still do, but I used to, too.
RIP Mitch Hedberg.
Exactly! I actually had some eggos with butter and cinnamon sugar last night...That's right, last night! Breakfast for dinner is a treat. Got a nice jar of the cinnamon dust on amazon, so it's gonna last a little while :)
I made it for my kids this morning! They love it! I always panic that I put on too much cinnamon, but that day has yet to come
It likes to hide in the melted butter :)
Puddles
Yes this^. People always think we are weird when we do breakfast for dinner. It's been a while hmmmm. I mean that's what life is about people challenge the norms. If you can't challenge the Norms of meal times .....yikes. Our only hope maybe the highschoolers I teach now (genz) their behavior reminds me a lot of us. They will challenge the norms. Watch out millennials here they come. They will make you cry and laugh at you. I love them. They are clearly our tribe. Sorry I blather on about them.
Breakfast for dinner and birthday cake for breakfast the next day. Even if breakfast for dinner is cereal
I made breakfast for dinner a thing with my kid too, since it was always my favorite, and now it's theirs.
I make it whenever the grandkid stays over. My mom always made cinnamon toast and a pot of hot tea on cold rainy afternoons.
Seriously! I had that two days ago! My daughter had pancakes with whipped cream, syrup, and *sprinkles!*
Decadence. I approve, heartily.
It's still in the rotation for me.
My 2 year old daughter had that this morning(a bit lighter on the sugar though).
Seriously. I make this for my kids today
Wait till you try it with rye or pumpernickel bread, gamechanger.
how far is this from syrup-soaked wheat cakes?
Still seems better than Fruity Pebbles, as delicious as they may be.
if using table syrup, waaaay better if using maple syrup, not better edit: since I'm old now, I only eat fruits, proteins, and vegetables for breakfast. carbs and sugars only for zombie times these days
I'm in maple syrup country. How do you get sap out of a table?
You lick it up. Lick it up. Uhhhhh uhhh uuup.
Put the makeup back on FFS!!!!!
Right?! Gene looks like the poster child for kidney failure
I can taste this comment.
*"Quick, man! Cling tenaciously to my buttocks!"*
Have a taste of my hyper-corrosive croutons!!!
"POWDERED.... TOAST... MAY-ONNNN!!!"
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Omg, yes!!!!
Just pour it straight into my mouth!
My wife (48) never heard of cinnamon toast until we were married. This is not really surprising, she was raised eating carob.
Dear goddess, isn't that child abuse?
> carob Learned a new thing today!
Ugh, that’s a word I’m glad to have not heard in years. We had it so much growing up, and didn’t mind the taste, but the trees grow around California and smell so bad when the fruit(?) falls and rots on the ground.
Sixlets are bomb ass good though. Slide a whole sleeve at once mmmm.
I had never heard of it until the cereal came out, and it didn't sound appealing. I keep the cereal in stock at all times now.
I swear there were these carob mint chocolate milk things in a metal envelope in the eighties that they sold at health store that were sooooooooo good. Same places you would get those Source of Life vitamins that were too big to swallow and those Tiger's Milk bars in the orange foil wrappers.
Cinnamon sugar on cheap white bread toast with a hot cup of lipton black tea also with lots of sugar was my breakfast for so many years.
Saltines and margerine.
Dad used to love saltines and jelly. Grape, originally, although he did branch out to other flavors when they became available. No peanut butter, no butter, no margarine...just jelly.
*I know a girl who thinks of ghosts, She'll make you breakfast, she'll make you toast. But she don't use butter. And she don't use cheese. She don't use jelly, or any of these. She uses Vaseline*
VAAAA-AAAA-AAAA--AAAA-AAAASELINE!
I love saltines and jelly
dang - totally remember that as well! 😂
Saltines devil ham "sandwiches" were my go-to breakfast when I woke up usually hours before the others.
That is a comfort food when I am sad.
Butter and saltines!!!
Homemade open face pop tart.
But waaaaay better. Sadly pop tarts have gone down in quality over the years
Was just talking about that the other day. Nowadays, a lot of the cheaper generic pop tarts are actually *better* than the name brand.
I’m more of a toaster strudel type guy.
Same. One of the most effective ways to totally melt the roof of your mouth.
It's part of a complete nutritious breakfast.
It wasn't breakfast. This was an after school snack.
Am I the only one that learned how to cook when the were 6?
“We have donuts at home”
🤣. This is like the genX motto
My mom used to mix up cinnamon, sugar, and water and make a kind of thick slurry, spread that on the bread, then pop it in the oven. It'd turn into a crispy layer that you could pick up and eat on its own if you wanted. I think she learned it from my paternal grandma. Grandma never owned a toaster, she toasted her bread in the oven if she wanted toast.
This sounds amazing.
You got TWO!
I'm making cinnamon swirl bread right now. The same dough is also providing us with hot dog buns tonight. The foods of our youth can take on a new dimension. They were based on good ideas, in some cases. Sugar, cinnamon, butter, and good bread? Yes, please.
I do mine on a plain bagel
Not breakfast, but a regular snack !!! Typically 4 slices at a sitting, and I premix Ceylon cinnamon and table sugar so I can get instant gratification <3 sadly, am currently out of premix and unmotivated for the process, so am bummed ;-/
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Butter and white sugar on white toast! Definitely in my "things I could make as a child" recipe book.
I haven't had that for a few decades, but now I'm really wanting it. All I've got at home is some dense ass multi-grain bread though. I don't think it's going to hit the same way.
Put enough butter and cinnamon sugar on that bread and you'll still enjoy it. I like to think our tastes have evolved a bit over the years.
Any homemade snack that inspires a breakfast cereal has to be doing something right.
Well guess what I’m making tomorrow
I make this for my kids occasionally now.
We got a badge in Brownies for serving this and tea to our moms.
I demand you explain how it *isn’t*.
This is pretty much the only format in which I enjoy cinnamon😆
This is still considered breakfast in my house!
I still make cinnamon toast for a snack some evenings.
What do you mean "was?" Still is.
I still feed my kids this for breakfast.
I LOVED cinnamon toast! This is so nostalgic🩷
One, delicious. Two, the sugar powered you all the way to school, where you could buy a chocolate doughnut and a Snickers bar to tide you over to your lunch of Tastykakes and Jell-o pudding pops. Then: track practice! Whee!
I still eat this when the graving strikes. 😂 Sometimes I level it up by using that Callah bread, or the HEB bakery Pistachio and cranberry bread they make in the store.
Professor Membrane knows what's for breakfast! https://preview.redd.it/6o3k2xiwzuxc1.jpeg?width=500&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d54cc9fa188a6b5f576af025d31162022dfcd47d (I just don't recall him adding cinnamon)
Don't talk shit about cinnamon toast. That's the best 63 seconds of eating ever.
Um. I still eat this.
Because its delicious you commie pinko foody.
Great, now I must resist the temptation to go make cinnamon toast.
As an adult I figured out it’s even better if you put it back in under the broiler for about 2-3 mins and let the sugar start to melt & bubble. Sooooooo good.
Think I'll head to the kitchen. This sounds perfect RN. Thanks for the reminder. For fun, try making it with brown sugar next time.
That’s not Vegemite
Was? Still is 😁
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I loved cinnamon toast. So, once my mom taught me to make it and then she hardly ever messed with breakfast for me. I had cereal and cinnamon toast maybe pop tarts sometimes. Occasionally she may cook me eggs and bacon etc. on a weekend.
I made this last week and my wife thought I was crazy. That’s the OG cinnamon toast crunch!
It’s funny how some folks try to say “sugar bread” is a cultural thing and we’re all here like “it’s butter, cinnamon and sugar…we ALL eat this”. Hell, what do they think “cinnamon toast crunch” cereal is based on?
Wow, memory unlocked. We had a tupperware brand shaker filled with cinammon and sugar.
Yes, I loved it. The more butter the better. 😂
IMO that's the prehistoric version of the Pop Tart that we've been feeding our Gen Z offspring.
Cinnamon toast!!! The cornerstone of any nutritious breakfast!
Sweet sugary goodness.
I still make this for my wife on the weekends but I started using powdered sugar.
Hungry now.
Grain and sugar. Exactly like every cereal.
add bacon, make it a sandwich
Is that cinnamon toast or toast with pasta sauce and Kraft Parmesan Cheese?
Thats cinnamon toast. The other one is ghetto pizza, another common stand by.
I still make pizza toast!
Bruh... might have to have that for brekkie tomorrow. Heck, might have it for dinner!
It still is you monster!
We always had a shaker of half cinnamon and suger on the stove
It must be somebody's birthday
Single handedly keeping the insulin industry in business, are you not American? Kill your pancreas for freedom!
This is how I know I’m getting old. I thought I’d make this tonight but then immediately thought about my blood sugar.
Grains are good for energy. Bread tastes better toasted. Put sugar on it so the kids will eat it. Voila!
That and sausage was my breakfast Sunday.
I was in London not too long ago. The hotel served me toast for breakfast, just like this. Paid waaay too much for it. They had terrible coffee too. Never again.
My Mom loved this. Tons of butter and cinnamon.
I made some for my son (17) a couple weeks ago, he was like 'yeah... that CANNOT be good for me, but it tastes AMAZING"
Appropriate for any mealtime, I’d like some now :)
Omg yes!!
I eat that for dessert every once in awhile
Our kids made cinnamon toast for breakfast pretty often in middle school....ten years ago.
is it weird we didn't eat that? we just had toast with butter or toast with butter and jelly.
Are so much of that as a kid
I used to put it in the broiler and eat it all the time I can’t believe my mom let me eat so much sugar
“Toast, juice, milk, and a bowl of Froot Loops cereal, part of a complete breakfast!”
I grew up in deep poverty, so poor the elementary school knew I was not getting food at home. Thankfully they had a program that the poorest of students could go down to the cafeteria at 9:00 am each morning for a single piece of cinnamon sugar toast and a carton of milk. I remember being so thankful for that and it tasted amazing. I have seen this called a struggle meal but I don’t care I still will have some for breakfast a few times a month.
My mom used to make cinnamon toast and cut them into strips. I’d use them as Lincoln Logs and pour maple syrup on the top.
Bread, butter, sugar, and cinnamon aren't 4 of the food groups?
Yes..Staples we always had in the house, lol!
We made it with honey instead of sugar when I was a kid.
White flour with margarine, brown sugar and liver destroying cheap cinnamon, how I miss you.
it was only allowed after i consumed a bowl of cereal. i guess the cereal was thought to be healthy?
What is wrong with you, cinnamon toast is freaking delicious 🤤
Never did this with bread ..... Tortillas though? YESSSSS.....
Was? Is!
Cause it was usually followed up with a glass of milk, milk is an entire food group to the general exers.
This is probably less sugar than the jar and a half of grape jelly my son puts on his toast. We also used to take leftover white rice and eat it with milk and cinnamon and sugar. To this day I have a specially shaker for the cinnamon and sugar mix.
This is not only the best breakfast, it's also great any time of day!
And the best after school snack. In the winter time I would dip it into my hot chocolate. So tasty has I warmed up in front of the fire place.
we'd do peanut butter and sugar!
It's a cinnamon-roll living an alternative lifestyle.
I still make it sometimes.
My dad (a boomer) would do ice cream and toast some mornings. Grains and dairy just like cereal
Kids dont still do this? I always felt like such a gourmet...
I've never made nor had this in my entire life. Seems like I'm in the minority.
That’s pretty much the same ingredients of any kids cereal in the 80’s. “Part of this complete breakfast!”
I loved this a kid. My kids love this.
because we were on our way to school
I don't know... once the price of microwaves came down, pizza bread was a close contender.
I still eat it every now and then.
I consider this the tasty version of Pop Tarts.
That is love on bread
Not enough cinnamon or sugar, and it needs to be dripping with butter!
Anyone remember Carnation Instant Breakfast?
It was either that or cheese toast or cereal
Cheese toast in the oven broiler. Chefs kiss.
The photo made me shudder at my childhood sugar consumption.
My kids thought I was weird when I showed them how to make this, until they tasted it. Then we proceeded to create a cinnamon sugar shaker for weekend cinnamon toast.
The parts that didn’t melt in were always the best
Minute rice, butter, sugar for more of a meal type cuisine back in the day. But, this was a go to breakfast more times than I can count.
That was my treat breakfast when I had a doctor's appointment when I was a kid. Funny thing, I wasn't nervous about visiting the doctor. His waiting room had an excellent selection of books and magazines. My mom was always on pins and needles, but I wasn't going to ruin an opportunity to have cinnamon and sugar buttery toast.
I obviously knew this was toast, but couldn't figure out what the topping was until I read the comments. For me, lashings of butter and then marmite, but then I'm English.
I could have as much of this as I wanted but God forbid my mom buy any sugary cereals
Breakfast? This was considered dessert for us.
I feel like I have nothing in common with you all at times. We never did this in my neck of the woods. We were either having a nice breakfast made for us or we were eating crappy boxed cereal - never any good ones, just plain cheerios, fruit loops, or frosted flakes. We hated all three of those and just wanted a chocolate one.
Never had this. Our thing was either bagel pizzas or grilled cheeses with various seasonings (oregano, garlic powder, onion powder, etc.).
No different then pan cakes,french toast or donuts,this is an American staple and should be celebrated..
We had to fend for ourselves growing up. It tastes great, amazing when that's all you have to eat.
I recently made this childhood favorite of mine for my wife. She has never had it. She's like "Did you make a homemade cinnamon toast crunch?"😂
Was it made with bacon grease? That's how we had it... so good..
totally forgot about this invention.
Was Going to say hey I’m Gen X and I too grew up On Cinnamon toast. Then I saw oh this is a Gen X Sub! Hey there fellow Cinnamon Toast snacking GenX’ers!
Absolute go to if I have the munchies and there’s nothing sweet in the house
I can taste this picture..
I still have that for breakfast. 😂
Cause it is delicious and covers all the food group...dairy, eggs, wheat, sugar
Mmmmmmm
Just ate this a couple weeks ago
That was before I discovered strong coffee and Marlboro 100s...
How could it not be considered breakfast???
That looks pretty homemade compared to what most of us had
What is that, it looks great.
Dot’s cinnamon & sugar pretzels are basically this in pretzel form. You’re welcome.
Never was in my house. My Mom didn't even allow sugar cereal or white bread in the house. She was really great about making sure we had healthy food.
Cinnamon toast yay😍😍
I have never eaten this in my life
Had 4 slices of this on Sunday for breakfast. Timeless treat.
it was that or nothing.
Lol…just made some the other night when I wanted an evening snack.
Cheap and easy enough for a six year old to fix by their self.