Biden Is Toast! Perfectly prepared toast,

[MineralMan]

with an ideal 31% browning, slathered with premium butter and generously spread with orange marmalade. Yum!

Bon Appetit!

[The Valley Below]

1. Make mine with premium butter and Marmite.

[MineralMan]

2. Your choice of toppings, of course.

Crosse & Blackwell's Seville Orange Marmalade for me, though.

[The Valley Below]

3. Yours looks and smells better

[MineralMan]

4. Yes, well, Marmite is, let us say, an acquired taste.

Somehow, I have not acquired it so far.

[The Valley Below]

6. I loved it at first bite.

[MineralMan]

9. Not I, although I keep trying it from time to time.

It hasn't changed, nor has my opinion of it, though.

[The Valley Below]

12. It is a polarizing choice...unlike our great candidate!

Here's to freedom of choice in one's toast toppings!

[Cha]

25. I just googled it.. I was sure.. that's a lot of Marmite!

Marmite is produced in a factory in Burton-upon-Trent in Staffordshire and it has been made there since 1902. The factory produces 6,000 tons of Marmite a year. That's around around 50 million jars. The raw materials come from across the UK.

[brooklynite]

5. So, not getting the Vegan vote?

[MineralMan]

7. Uh, do vegans not vote for non-vegans?

That's bizarre, I think. They can have oleomargarine on their toast, with the marmalade. To each his or her own, I always say.

[Cha]

26. We Vegans could have Avocado Toast.. lol

[brooklynite]

8. This Japanese Toaster Costs $270. It Only Makes One Slice at a Time

Bloomberg

“We wanted to focus on the single slice, and treat it with respect,” said Akihiro Iwahara, who is in charge of technical development at Mitsubishi Electric's home-appliances division. “Our technology and know-how with rice cookers helped us come up with a way to trap and seal moisture.”

[MineralMan]

11. I have one of these:

Still works perfectly, although you do have to turn your toast.

[Cha]

27. lol@Old School!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. My grandma had one of those.

You do have to pay attention. We burned a lot of toast.

[MineralMan]

32. True. It doesn't pop up when done.

I use my sense of smell to detect how dark the toast is and when to flip it. It's fast.

[customerserviceguy]

20. If anyone

pays $270 for a toaster, it proves they have way more money than brains.

The full-bore-rip retail price on my blender is $400, but it was the only thing out of the retirement catalog that I could actually use. It makes a damn good smoothie, but I'd never pay even $100 for a blender.

[onetexan]

36. $270? that's a car payment for some. My toaster with extra wide slots cost me 20 bucks.

[The Valley Below]

13. Kicking ass in Wisconsin

[leftieNanner]

10. I like your analogy

But I'll take my toasted rustic olive bread, thick sliced, just warm out of the toaster, dry. No butter. No nothin'. Just fabulous fresh bread.

[MineralMan]

14. Sounds delightful.

[Tipperary]

15. But wait! Did I not read here that some guy got a

bunch of donations - the guy that dropped out some time ago?

[ritapria]

16. National Polling in early December of 2015 ( USA Today Suffolk Poll)

Hillary 56% Bernie 29 %

[MineralMan]

17. Hmm...and how many candidates were there at that time?

It's a different race in 2019. Very different.

Biden has led Bernie throughout the primary race. His lead is increasing, according to the most recent polling, while Bernie's numbers are going down.

Also, Hillary was the nominee in 2016. Bernie was the runner-up.

I'm not sure what point you're trying to make here.

[JustAnotherGen]

19. I agree a much different race

I think Pete wins Iowa, Sanders wins NH - and then whoever wins SC runs the board in Diverse states. .. Most likely Biden but possibly Booker or Harris.

[brooklynite]

18. And today Bernie is (checks notes) down to 15 %.

[ritapria]

21. Bernie will need only 30% of the vote to win one primary after the other

If Joe finishes in 4th in both Iowa and NH , Bernie is best poised of the other candidates to gain from Joe's fall ….If Bernie wins both Iowa and NH, his multi- racial working class coalition will explode ………..Bernie and Joe draw from the same resovoire of supporters ……. Not so for Pete …….

[Demsrule86]

29. See that is the Iowa and New Hampshire fairy tale...both Warren and Sanders will be hurt if they

don't do well...because of the electability concerns...partiularly New Hampshire...their own backyard. However, Biden not so much...so no one will say Oh God...Sanders or Warren won 'fill in the blank' we must swtich from Biden to whoever...Biden doesn't have electability issues...and two small white states are not going to matter to his candidacy. I actually think Biden will do fine in Iowa and New Hampshire...but who really cares?

[MineralMan]

22. If he drops another point, he'll miss getting any delegates in

some states. That's the risk when you have two candidates around that 15% mark. They're bound to be under the 15% rule threshhold in some places, and that will cost them dearly. Bernie and Elizabeth are running for second place, and hurting each others' chances for delegates. It's not a good thing for them. Not one bit.

[The Valley Below]

33. And who won?

[TidalWave46]

23. Strange thought.

Kind of comes across as a Biden fetish.

[MineralMan]

24. Does it? Oh, well.

As you can see, Biden is my choice among the primary candidates. I'm for him, see...

[Cha]

28. "Strange" is in the eye of the beholder.

I otoh thought it was a sweet take on all those who have predicted Biden is "toast" already.

[Gothmog]

30. Joe Biden sees fundraising improvement after rough summer

Link to tweet

Joe Biden took in more than $15 million for his White House run over the past two months, a sum that shows the former vice president’s fundraising operation has rebounded slightly after a lackluster summer in which he trailed his leading rivals.

Biden’s campaign would not say exactly how much he has raised since the end of September. But with roughly one month left before the current period ends, campaign manager Greg Schultz said in a memo provided to The Associated Press that Biden has already surpassed the $15.6 million he raised across July, August and September.

The improvement comes at a costly juncture in the Democratic primary, as candidates sprint to get their message out and mobilize supporters ahead of the first-in-the-nation Iowa caucuses in February.

Schultz said online fundraising helped fuel the increase, which he attributed to discredited attacks that President Donald Trump has made against Biden and his son over their past dealings in Ukraine.

[Blue_true]

34. I like the amount of browning. Skip the butter and marmalade.

I eat my toast straight-up, nothing else needed. I do use raw honey on toasted bagels though, but again, no butter.

[onetexan]

35. these days we gotta watch our waistline so the hubby & i have been resorting to slathering avocado

onto our toasts. Damn good with a cuppa java (without the donut)

[Gothmog]

37. These facts make me smile

Link to tweet

[Scurrilous]

38. K&R

[Scurrilous]

39. K&R