[sparrish]

I came just to find out what a 'toast' is in this context. I'm understanding it's a 'little popup'... is that right?

[echoangle]

Yes, named that way because they pop up (mostly) from the bottom like the bread when a toaster is finished.

https://web.dev/articles/building/a-toast-component

[barbazoo]

The difference being that the toast is real

[beAbU]

A 'toast message' is a little popup that contains information for the user.

For some weird reason a lot of standard UX patterns are named after food. Hamburger menu, kebab menu, toast message, chips/pills, snackbar etc etc

[the__alchemist]

I attempted to explain this using the existing definitions, and they didn't quite fit!