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French toast or eggy bread: What do you call it?

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AlpacaTheBags · 04/06/2022 14:37

Also, where are you from?

It's French toast for me. I'm from Glasgow.

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MargeSimpson79 · 04/06/2022 14:39

To me eggy bread is just dipping it in egg and then having a savoury meal. French toast includes sugar so is sweet.

So I use both and I think they’re different things! (From the south)

AyeUpMeDuck · 04/06/2022 14:42

Eggy bread and I'm a midlander me babbie

AlpacaTheBags · 04/06/2022 14:42

That's interesting. It's French toast to me whether it's sweet or savoury.

I'm going to have to make some now.

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Mrsjayy · 04/06/2022 14:42

French toast here, I am also in Scotland ( Stirling) I have mine savoury I don't like it sweet.

Sswhinesthebest · 04/06/2022 14:43

Eggy bread and it needs lashings of tomato sauce!

Yarnasaurus · 04/06/2022 14:43

Eggy bread, from SE England.

Furrbabymama87 · 04/06/2022 14:44

Eggy bread, Liverpool. There's a place that does it near me and it's called French toast, but that's made with syrup and powdered sugar. I think of eggy bread as savoury.

MillieFromMars · 04/06/2022 14:44

Eggy bread - dip a slice of bread in beaten egg and fry. Serve with ketchup.

French toast - use brioche, add milk & cinnamon to the egg before dipping and frying. Serve with a dusting of icing sugar, maple syrup and fruit.

SheldonesqueTheBstard · 04/06/2022 14:44

Eggy Bread. Savoury only. Scotland - higher up.

NiqueNique · 04/06/2022 14:45

French toast, whether savoury or sweet. But I’m not from the U.K., just live here.

Mrsjayy · 04/06/2022 14:46

I sometimes go to a cafe with my dd so she can have sweet French toast it has fruit and whipped yoghurt, it's just not right !

easyday · 04/06/2022 14:48

French toast (London). I've never had it savoury.

twinkletoedelephant · 04/06/2022 14:50

Depends on who I am cooking it for

Twin 1 it's eggy bread ..

Twin 2 it's french toast ..he doesn't like eggs :)

Dilbertian · 04/06/2022 14:50

Either or neither, depending on who I'm talking to.

I'm a Jewish Londoner. First it was challah brei, until I realised that my non-Jewish friends called it French toast. And then my Northerner dh taught me to call it eggy bread.

Natsku · 04/06/2022 14:50

Poor Knights. Then if I put jam and whipped cream on it it becomes Rich Knights.

NannyR · 04/06/2022 14:50

I call it eggy bread, whether it's sprinkled with sugar or served with baked beans as a savoury.
Eggy crumpets are amazing too, they are definitely savoury though.

NightmareSlashDelightful · 04/06/2022 14:57

Eggy bread. From Manchester originally.

Growing up, French toast to me was just fried bread; i.e. no egg. (I do now know that isn't actually what French toast is.)

Mrsjayy · 04/06/2022 14:58

Eggy crumpets sounds amazing !

HopingForMyRainbowBaby · 04/06/2022 15:00

Gypsy toast for me

TheVanguardSix · 04/06/2022 15:01

French toast. Though I'm from California.

dudsville · 04/06/2022 15:01

I never have it, but "eggy bread" always sounds childish to me, and i didn't realise French toast was the same thing, though as upthread, with cinnamon. Live and learn.

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 04/06/2022 15:02

French toast - almost always sweet
from London. DM from S Coast, DDad from NE.

My DC (Yorkshire) have grown up calling it “fireman toast”. It’s what I called it when ds was a toddler, obsessed with Fireman Sam and a very fussy beater!

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 04/06/2022 15:02

“Eater” not “beater”.

Mabelface · 04/06/2022 15:03

Beggarman's pancakes, originally from the wirral.

Mumwantingtogetitright · 04/06/2022 15:05

French toast. It's particularly delicious made with ciabatta.

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