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.

Always knew it as French toast and it was always savoury.

French toast with cheese melted on top and tomato sauce yum

It's pain perdu here, served as a breakfast treat on high days and holidays.

My family (from Durham) call it gypsy toast

When I was a child, our family always called it gypsy toast . No idea where that came from but always known as that . I'm from Suffolk.

eggy bread. bread dipped in eggs then fry with brown sauce. Edinburgh

Definitely French toast. Eggy bread just sounds ridiculous

So are there regional differences do a runny egg yolk and toast?

it’s a ‘dippy egg’ here.

French toast for me, I'm from southwest Ireland. Not sure why people insist french toast has to be sweet. When I lived in France it could be sweet or savoury and was most often made with leftover baguette at home rather than brioche like the restaurants.

French toast ( Scottish Mum).

Do you mean a boiled egg? Which we would call egg and soldiers.

Or a fried egg with a runny yolk? I'd call that a dippy egg.

Yup - soft boiled egg in an egg cup.

Itsnt a runny fried egg ‘sunny side up’ or is that when it’s flipped?

I like a runny yolk 😋

Eggy bread is how my mum says it, she's Welsh. DW says french toast. We both grew up in Glasgow.

Eggy toast with ketchup or marmite.
I have never had the sweet version, it really doesn't appeal.

Oops forgot to add I'm from Midlothian in Scotland

French Toast -Scottish

I think a fried egg with a runny yolk is sunny side up. But we never called it that. Just fried eggs with a dippy yolk, or dippy eggs.

DS just calls them "flat eggs" the yolk being runny is assumed

Cheap easy meal here, akin to beans on toast or similar.

French Toast also in Scotland 😊

French toast, whether it’s savoury or sweet.

I'm Lancastrian, but have Welsh, Irish and Yorkshire… ish(?) roots.

So not sure where it comes from.

I don’t think I have ever had it ‘sweet’. That explains how I have seen it served up with fruit on tv!

Overrated!

But it was always eggy bread.

We have never been able to settle this debate in our house, so we decided to call it oeuf-y pain instead

Lost bread over here! I always thought that was pretty normal but am now realising it probably came from my Belgian grandmother, who must have translated it literally from the French pain perdu. I can't think of it as anything else though!

Eggy bread. Perthshire.