| 释义 |
Post Toasties orig. U.S.
Also with lowercase initials and sing. Post Toasty, -ie.
The proprietary name of a breakfast cereal first marketed by Charles William Post (1854–1914), American manufacturer (cf. Postum). Also transf. and fig.
[1907Trade Marks Jrnl. 2 Oct. 1941 Toasties... [Substances used as food or as ingredients in food]. Charles William Post,..London, England, and..Michigan, United States of America; manufacturer. ]1908Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 31 Mar. 1177/2 Postum Cereal Co. Limited, Battle Creek, Mich. Filed 28 Jan., 1908. Post Toasties... Cereal Breakfast Foods. 1914H. W. Wiley 1001 Tests of Foods vi. 72 Many are the letters received in regard to the cereal breakfast foods, especially for children's use. One mother writes me: ‘Two small youngsters are anxiously awaiting your opinion in regard to their favorite shredded wheat, grape nuts, and post toasties.’ 1926–7Army & Navy Stores Catal. 2/1 Breakfast cereals, Post Toasties—pkt. -/9. 1943G. Greene Ministry of Fear iii. iii. 202 There was milk and post-toasties and bread and marmalade. 1945L. Shelly Jive Talk Dict. 31 Post toasty, corny character. 1950A. Wilson Such Darling Dodos 134 Little pyramids of chocolate powder and post toasties..called ‘Coconut Kisses’. 1969Listener 22 May 732/1 They range from chilling glimpses of the world in the next century to golden, Post-Toastie pieces of life in which..the ancient decencies are reinforced. 1979P. Niesewand Member of Club iv. 30 The economy-size box of Post Toasties on his breakfast table. |