Monday 20 January 2014

Reminiscent of Soldiers

A soldier, in British English, is a thin strip of bread or toast; the soldiers that a slice is cut into are reminiscent of soldiers on parade. The toast is sliced in this manner so that it can be dipped into a soft boiled egg that has had the top of its shell removed. A lot of people also take pleasure in "vegemite soldiers" in Australia or "marmite soldiers" in the UK which go after the same principle and are spread with Vegemite or Marmite correspondingly.


In 2005 The Daily Telegraph accounted the creation of a device for cutting bread into soldiers. Shaped cutters to produce soldiers shaped like human soldiers are also obtainable.