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Toast

Wikimedia disambiguation page

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ438343
Source-derived summary

Toast most commonly refers to:

Toast (food), bread browned with dry heat

Toast (honor), a ritual in which a drink is taken

Toast or Toasted may also refer to:

Places

Toast, North Carolina, a census-designated place in the US

Books

Toast (play), 1999, by Richard Bean

Toast, a memoir by Nigel Slater

"A Toast" (anthem) ("Zdravljica"), a poem by France Prešeren and the Slovenian national anthem

"A Toast", the title recorded in law for the North Carolina State Toast

Toast: And Other Rusted Futures, a collection of short fiction by Charles Stross

Film and TV

The Toast (film), 2007 Chilean-Mexican film directed by Shai Agosin

Toast (film), 2010 BBC film adaptation of Nigel Slater's autobiographical novel of the same name

Toast of London, a British comedy television series, and its sequel Toast of Tinseltown

"Toast" (Space Ghost Coast to Coast), a television episode

Toasted TV, Australian children's television program

"Toasted" (Generation), a television episode

Music

Albums

Toast (Tar album), 1993

Toast! (The Arrogant Worms album), 2004

Toasted (album), by Fatso Jetson

Toast (Neil Young & Crazy Horse album), a previously unreleased Neil Young album

Songs

"Toast" (song), by Streetband

"Toast", by Tori Amos on the album The Beekeeper

"Toast", by Heywood Banks

"Toast", by Koffee from Rapture (EP)

Other uses in music

Toasting (Jamaican music), talking or chanting over a rhythm or beat by a deejay

Computing and the Internet

Toast (NHN Entertainment), a web portal for mobile games

Roxio Toast, a disc authoring and media conversion software program

The Toast (website), a feminist general interest site

Toast, Inc., a cloud-based restaurant software company

Pop-up notification, a graphical control element

"Toasted", a storyline in the science fiction comedy webtoon series Live with Yourself!

Editorial summary

“Toast” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Toast, Wikimedia and disambiguation can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2007, 2010, 1993—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Toast, Wikimedia and disambiguation.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Toast” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Toast, Wikimedia and disambiguation provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q438343. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2007, 2010 and 1993.

Critical limits

Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Use the entry as an orientation point, then follow its citations and revision history. Names, dates and institutional relationships should be checked against the original record.

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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from Toast” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.