Number 58, Toast!

Number 58,  Toast!

This story was in the Daily Telegraph on Saturday 7th July 2012.  Apparently a piece of toast was left over from Prince Charles' breakfast on the day of his wedding to Princess Diana back in 1981. It is up for auction with an estimate of five hundred pounds!  Looking carefully at the photo of it, it doesn't look very appetising.

Toast!

I thought I’d poke a little fun,

And ridicule a royal someone.

It seems that after getting wed,

(Or just before), some bits of bread

Were toasted for the royal table,

Though Prince Charles was only able

To consume but one or two;

And feeling nervous, (wouldn’t you?),

Left one piece uneaten there,

In the toast rack cold and bare.

And now this slice is past its best,

By twenty years (and all the rest);

But not in terms of money, no

This measly piece of toast will go

Under the hammer for a price;

(Five hundred pounds reserve is nice!)

And it could bring in even more,

I’ve no idea to whom it’s for,

But someone took it from the tray,

Knowing it would sell one day

To some poor chap who needs a life,

More than he needs a butter knife!

But what gets me about this tale,

Is partly that the toast is stale,

But more because it looks as though,

It was made from cheap white dough;

Mother’s Pride or Kingsmill bread,

For a prince just out of bed!

And as he was the poshest toff,

All the crusts had been cut off!

© Stephen Saunders

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