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Fiona's avatar

Thanks for that Berta - I’ll be sure to try it out tomorrow morning.

Could you now tell us how to boil an egg so that we can have it with our excellent toast.

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pethybs's avatar

Su-fucking-perb. Oh we need more Bob and Bertha please! I used to know a wonderful gentleman in Wiltshire who would ask the unwary 'have you got the recipe for toast? I've lost it'. He also blames his bicycle for throwing him off into hedges when he wobbled, pissed, home.

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Christine's avatar

Berta, is it OK to put beef dripping on it?

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Alexandra Cooper's avatar

Brilliant !!! Barry you,ll have to write a Bertha book SOON !!!!!

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Sandra's avatar

Laughing out loud! What a treasure she is. Barry is a genius— his characters are sooo very believable . More, please.

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Suellen's avatar

Oh Lord. I'm American. I don't have a grill other than the thing I cook hamburgers on out in the backyard. I do have a "broiler" on my oven but I can't imagine it changing a piece of bread all nice and brown like this. Then there's the tea problem. I don't know how to make tea. Matter of fact I don't drink tea. I seem to be missing out on the most basic things of life.

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Jill's avatar

True, true!

You must grow up and learn how to make tea - and I'm talking about the beverage here, not the full-blown afternoon tea that only a true Brit can make, eh Bertha??

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J Dark's avatar

I can't believe it - knowing what was coming (a recipe for toast), I still read right to the end.

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Rob Behlmer's avatar

Now that I’ve finished laughing out loud, I just want to say that this made my whole fucking day!

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George Carmichael's avatar

Berta’s toast making instructions were absolutely hilarious, my family were looking at me as if I was some sort of oddity as I could not stop laughing out loud.

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A Collins's avatar

Brilliant. When are you bringing your cook book out Berta? Bound to be better than that other fella’s stuff

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Catherine's avatar

Never a truer word was written than the bit about the division of countries by the English.

I feel making a cup of tea should be the next installment. Although it could probably get a bit controversial.

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Lizzi's avatar

Berta is a national treasure!

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Charlie King's avatar

Tar Love, I like many other will have a toaster grill on top of our hob as we cant afford a grill in the oven BUT the benefit is I don't have to bend down and nosey in the oven to see if my toast is brown as it is at eye level. PS when I turned it over I put some sliced cheese, Tomato and Onion on the other side for a treat rather than butter. IF YOU KNOW HOW TO COOK SPAM FRITTERS THAT WOULD BE NICE TO READ

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Annie Bett's avatar

Brilliant Berta can you tell me how to get the shell off a boiled egg!!! mine keep taking half the egg away i am sure you have a trick xxx

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JanineHarriswriter's avatar

😂😂😂

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Tamara Jones's avatar

ROFL!

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