Why would anybody toast Leidenheimer bread?

I thought the whole point was that it was just crispy enough the way it was. I know Brett Anderson's roast beef po-boy series is a bit of a gimmick but I'm not going to say I haven't enjoyed reading it. Today, he's at Johnny's where he spends an inordinate amount of time going into this toasted bread issue. Apparently he likes his bread toasted because he says it keeps the gravy from making too much of a mess. But I think we've already established that he doesn't really get that that's the whole point of the thing.