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

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Also, where are you from?

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

Eggy bread (southwest here) and always savoury.

Two separate things, so both.

Mum called it gypsum toast (from Newcastle)

French toast used to be another name for melba toast. Bread, toasted both sides, split horizontally and the untoasted bit lightly toasted. Served with pâté.
Eggy bread was a staple of Guide Camp, bread dipped in beaten egg and fried.

The sugar beaten egg etc was a US import.

From Wirral

Eggy toast!

I call it eggy bread when it is savoury and French Toast when it is sweet.

Eggy Bread. Oldham. Savoury.

Ah, this is the other name I was trying to think of, it’s lovely.

From the SW, would call it French Toast if savoury or sweet. Eggy bread just makes me think of manky toddlers.

Called egg dips to me - from north east.

Sweet version is called pain perdue in France, not le French toast!

Agree with pp that they’re different things. Eggy bread is savoury, French toast is sweet.

Eggy bread if savoury, French toast if sweet.

French toast always… eggy bread sounds horrific lol even though it’s the same thing

French toast is eggy bread with sugar & cinnamon melted on top.

This!!

Eggy bread and French toast are two entirely different things.

Eggy bread - best served standing in for the bread in a bacon sandwich

This is what my grandad used to call it, he was from Glasgow.

Eggy bread - bread dipped in egg and fried.
Yorkshire

French toast. I'm from the US, and it's always sweet.

Eggy bread, from the midlands.

I ordered French toast in the US thinking it was the same as eggy bread and it turned up covered in syrup and icing sugar

Eggs bread is savoury. French toast is sweet with cinnamon and sugar. Anything with cinnamon is Wrong.

I used to think it was called Poor Nights because I only ever heard it rather than saw it written down, and thought it was food for nights when you're poor.

Poor Knights here too - but it was "Poor Knights of Windsor" for some reason. Sweet or savoury

Have also heard the french name, Pain perdu - as it's made with stale bread that would otherwise be "lost" or thrown out

Born and raised in Glasgow and French Toast for me. My English OH thinks I'm putting on airs and graces though.

French Toast - never had sweet version, only savoury. I’m from the south east.