On the Origin of Melba Toast

"On the Origin of Melba Toast" (social media post screenshot). Left: Viktor Vasnetsov's 1883 The Feast. Right: Melba toast.

"On the Origin of Melba Toast" is a short poem by Karl Jones.

On the Origin of Melba Toast

I'll bet it goes way back to the Cro-Magnon era:

"Shit, you burned the toast in the campfire—!"

Over millions of years, evolutionary pressures resulted in less-burned toast, and eventually the well-toasted Melba Toast we enjoy today.

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles

External links

• Post @ Twitter