Is "white toast" a descriptive term for a type of person or did I imagine it?

[Reel]

I have an idea in my head that it refers to a hateful white person but I might have just imagined it. I am not trying to be mean or funny or derogatoryl so I apologize if it is really something and I offended anyone. I searched google and found nothing but I figured I'd turn to the bastion of collective knowledge that is ATOT.

 

[cKGunslinger]

"White bread" is a term used by liberal beatnicks in P&N (*cough* Steeplerot *cough*) to describe anyone who lives in the suburbs or doesn't base his life on Rage Agaisnt the Machine lyrics.

But I've never heard of white toast.

 

[compuwiz1]

You mean Milk Toast. My picture of a wimpy man, whose wife carries his balls in her purse.

Edit: I was pretty close

 

[HamburgerBoy]

White bread, not white toast.

 

[cKGunslinger]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
You mean Milk Toast. My picture of a wimpy man, whose wife carries his balls in her purse.

Oh yeah, haven't heard that in a while.

 

[lizardboy]

"milquetoast" is the actual word you're looking for

From Jonathan Bennett: ?I used the word milktoast the other day to describe a person who is unmotivated, ambivalent, and apathetic in their general demeanor. I was questioned on the true meaning and origin of the word. Am I using it correctly? What is its actual meaning, and where does the term come from??

[A] You?re not quite there. The usual spelling is milquetoast, but said the same way as your spelling. And the usual sense is that of a person who is timid or meek, unassertive. Such people may appear apathetic or unmotivated, but that?s not the reason for their being quiet.

It?s an eponym, named after a fictional cartoon character named Caspar Milquetoast, invented by the American illustrator Harold T Webster in 1924. The strip was called The Timid Soul and appeared every Sunday in the New York Herald Tribune up to his death in 1953. Mr Webster said that his character was ?the man who speaks softly and gets hit with a big stick?.

The name is just a Frenchified respelling of the old American English term milk toast, an uninspiring, bland dish which was created from slices of buttered toast laid in a dish of milk, usually considered to be food for invalids. There?s an even older foodstuff, milksop, which was untoasted bread soaked in milk, likewise something suitable only for infants or the sick. From the thirteenth century on, milksop was a dismissive term for ?an effeminate spiritless man or youth; one wanting in courage or manliness?, as the Oxford English Dictionary puts it. Mr Milquetoast is in the same tradition.

http://www.worldwidewords.org/qa/qa-mil1.htm

 

[Eeezee]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
"White bread" is a term used by liberal beatnicks in P&N (*cough* Steeplerot *cough*) to describe anyone who lives in the suburbs or doesn't base his life on Rage Agaisnt the Machine lyrics.

But I've never heard of white toast.

LOL, I love those types of people. Life is so hard for you, down with the government! *throws up the horns*

I had never heard of white toast

 

[Squisher]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
You mean Milk Toast. My picture of a wimpy man, whose wife carries his balls in her purse.

Edit: I was pretty close

Close, but no cigar------------milquetoast

 

[SampSon]

Originally posted by: cKGunslinger
"White bread" is a term used by liberal beatnicks in P&N (*cough* Steeplerot *cough*) to describe anyone who lives in the suburbs or doesn't base his life on Rage Agaisnt the Machine lyrics.

But I've never heard of white toast.

Best answer.