‘I noticed Donald Trump’s face on my toast – he had an awesome crunch and did not crumble’
Ashling Sans, 57, was making her breakfast when she saw the face of Donald Trump on one slice of toast and she says it was the ‘breakfast of a lifetime’
Lovely set up
A woman has revealed how she discovered Donald Trump’s face staring back at her from a slice of toast during her morning meal. Ashling Sans, 57, had just finished spreading butter on her two pieces of toast at her home in Mojácar, Spain, when she realised one bore an uncanny resemblance to the American President Donald Trump.
The events organiser, who also resides in Oxford, Oxfordshire, but hails from Ireland, explained: “Every morning I have two slices of toast with Irish Kerrygold butter for breakfast.
“The morning was like no other, when it popped out of the toaster, I put it on my plate and started buttering it.
“When I was finished I went to pet Ninja and when I glanced down, I saw his face. We locked eyes and I froze.
“It was the butter giving him a frown, then the eyes, and the crust at the top looked like his eyebrows. Trump’s face was starring right back at me.”
Following snapping a photograph, Ashling revealed that rather than preserving the accidental work of art, she ‘polished him off’.
The mother-of-one commented: “Until the Trump toast, I hadn’t eaten a piece better – it was beautiful. It had a great crunch but didn’t crumble.
“I shoved the toast straight in my gob and enjoyed every morsel. I don’t eat crust, so I gave them to the two wild boar that come and say hello every evening. The crust when straight down their snorts.”
There is actually an official word for seeing famous faces in food, which is pareidolia.
It’s that weird psychological quirk where your brain insists on seeing a specific pattern—usually a face—in completely random objects. It’s the reason you might spot a celebrity in a potato chip, a scowl on a bell pepper, or the classic “Jesus on toast.”
It’s not just this Trump-seeing lady as humans are actually hardwired for this. Because recognizing friends or threats was so vital for our ancestors’ survival, our brains developed a “face radar” that is a little too sensitive.
We are programmed to find order in chaos, so when we see two dots and a line, our brain jumps to the conclusion that it’s looking at a person.
Basically, it’s a false positive from your visual system trying to be helpful.
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