Another UP staple - Trenary Toast

TRENARY – It’s just toast. It’s dry and hard. And it’s sold in a plain brown paper bag.

Yet, it’s been incredibly popular for years in the Upper Peninsula.

Trenary Toast, as it’s called, has lasted 87 years, baked using the same recipe, sold in the same plain bag, dusted with the same cinnamon sugar topping as it always was. About 215,000 bags are sold at more than 200 stores and restaurants in the U.P. every year, or shipped by mail to ex-pat Yoopers all over the country who crave a memory of home. There’s even a couple of bed and breakfasts Up North that actually leave a bag of the toast on the pillows in the rooms instead of a chocolate. And it’s hard to find a Yooper who didn’t grow up on the stuff.