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.

My parents used to make it with bread dipped in egg and cheese mixture. They called them Ashbians ... not sure if that was just them though from when they lived in Ashby De La Zouche.

Eggy bread.

Never had a sweet version though...

Oh my god… that is bloody cheesy genius!

Eggy bread, London. Only ever had it savoury as a child/when made myself. I've only had it sweet in cafés etc and there they always call it french toast.

gypsy toast. My gran used to serve it with sugar, honey and sliced banana. Cornwall.
Boiled egg is a dippy egg because you dip your soldiers into it.

Oooo I think I have to try that version! I imagine it'd make a good hangover breakfast.

Eggy bread and I'm south west. I feel like French toast is a different thing and sweet. Eggy bread with butter and tomato sauce. Amazing

I think French toast is sweet, made with cinnamon and vanilla and served with maple syrup. Eggy bread is savoury. I'm from the south west and had loads of eggy bread growing up, didn't have French toast until I started to go on nice holidays in my 20s

French toast for me, brought up in the South East. Eggy bread is OK though. I've always made it savoury (though I do a lovely pain perdu with brioche from a New Orleans cook book), and had assumed that the sweet version of French toast was an American interloper like mac'n'cheese.

Always French toast (whether sweet or savoury) - Londoner. Eggy bread just sounds wrong to me, although I admit that French toast is more of a misnomer than eggy bread!

It was called Chucky Toast in my house. Bury, Lancs, 1970s. Presumably I asked for "Chucky egg toast" at some point and it stuck. Or because my mother is a fruit cake.

Eggy bread SE England

Gujarati bread

French toast, not that we ever have it, no one likes it.

Aussie with French dgm and we called it what sounded like pap air doo

Which I now know is for pain perdu

It was always French toast in our house when I was growing up. But I have gone my own way as an adult and call it eggy bread now! I always felt weirdly pretentious calling it French toast. Am from Belfast.

Gypsy toast growing up in Yorkshire. But Dh says I can’t call it that, without offering an alternative, so I’m never quite sure what to call it now.

Just to throw a spanner in the works, there's a third option. Chefs call it pain perdu. It can be sweet or savoury, the egg mixture is richer(cream instead of milk) what do you all think...is it the same ? (And don't the Americans call the sweet one cinnamon toast ?)🤔😀😋

Eggy bread is where you cut a hole out of the middle of the bread, and put the egg on so the yolk goes in the hole. And fry it.

And don't the Americans call the sweet one cinnamon toast ?)🤔😀😋

Cinnamon toast is toasted bread spread with a mixture of cinnamon, sugar and butter. I haven't had that for years. I might have to make that tomorrow.

Eggy bread is where you cut a hole out of the middle of the bread, and put the egg on so the yolk goes in the hole. And fry it.

I call that eggs in a basket.

Isn’t that bird in the nest?

We call that a one eye sandwich

Eggy bread always savoury served with barbecue sauce or ketchup.
French toast always sweet with cinnamon/syrup finished with a dusting of icing sugar.
(From London area)

I call that pain perdu when speaking to french friends and french toast when speaking to English friends. It's the same thing to me, just a variation on the same recipe. Like the way you get slightly different recipes for a shakshuka or even scrambled eggs.