“Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea”
“Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea” is frequently cited, but never credited to any author. Something like the phrase is cited in 1903; the exact phrase is cited on the internet from 1995. The saying appears to have been printed on drinking cups by Celestial Seasonings (a brand of tea).
Tea Quotes and Sayings
Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.—Author Unknown
Backwoods Home Magazine
How to use those leftovers
By Marjorie Burris
(...)
I like the saying Celestial Seasonings has printed on one of its cups: “Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.” This saying can be applied to life situations as well as food; I take it as a challenge for either living or cooking.
13 May 1903, Oakland (CA) Tribune, pg. 6, col. 4:
LOVE ON TOAST.
“While I’ve no gold,” he whispered,
“Love’s riches shall be thine.
Though we, in a modest cottage,
On bread and water dine.”
“With love’s warm flame to serve us,
At slight expense,” said she,
“We can make of bread and water
Sweet feasts of toast and tea.”
—The Tattler in Town Topics.
Google Groups: rec.food.chocolate
Newsgroups: rec.food.chocolate
From: .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) (Joe)
Date: 1995/08/17
Subject: Re: Egg Creams
Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.
Google Groups: ny.forsale
Wanted: Used Kitchenaid
Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.
8/21/95
Pretty much what the header says. I’m looking for a used but working Kitchenaid mixer, preferably with the dough hook. Price negotiable, I’ve seen them recently for as low as $199 new. Capital District (Albany/Troy/Rens.) area preferred but not a requirement.
Thanks in advance,
Sarah G.
Google Groups: rec.food.veg.cooking
Help! Ideas for vegan sandwiches needed!
Teri
9/8/95
Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.
Google Books
Clinical and Professional Reasoning in Occupational Therapy
By Barbara A. Boyt Schell
Published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
2007
Pg. 144:
But it is the motto on the cup that I love. It reads, “Bread and water can so easily be tea and toast.”
Mama Dini’s Stamperia
Saturday, July 28, 2007
Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea…
I love that quote! And you know I love tea.
Google Books
Exploring Idioms:
A Citical-thinking Resource for Grades 4-8
By Valeri R. Helterbran
Published by Maupin House Publishing
2008
Pg. 26:
Chewing the Fat: Consider this saying (unknown origin): “Bread and water can so easily be toast and tea.” What does this statement mean?