AIBU to think that DH is wrong about eggy bread?

[Yambabe]

He likes it savoury, with beans and maybe a bit of bacon.

Now OK I will allow that bacon goes with everything but I like mine like the americans have it, with a sprinkle of cinnamon, maple syrup and a dash of cream.

Also I am cooking it so it comes how I serve it!

I am right and he is wrong, right?

I like covered in dark sugar and ice cream. Made with brioche so has to be sweet. Yum yum

It's French toast to me,no matter if it's savoury or sweet. It's never eggy bread. I prefer savoury,but do ocassionally have it with a little strawberry jam on top.

I always think it weird when you see sweet versions on menus.

Ketchup all the way!!!

Oh c'mon people. It's egg and bread = savoury. Get a grip. Where are your morals?! Sugar has no place on a plate of eggy bread.

I haven't made it for ages as every time I do i need about 500 eggs (does anyone else's bread soak up too many eggs) and the house smells of eggy bread for a week. Really need some eggy bread now. ......

I think it's a cultural thing.

I am Australian so for me it's french toast - so it's a sweet dish. I make a delicious version with brioche, served with a small amount of maple syrup and fresh berries.

I had never heard of eggy bread until I came to Britain.

Bit ignorant here. I always thought that eggy bread was a slice or half slice of bread slapped in beaten egg and then fried. How can you put cheese or anything else in it?

As for French toast, my mother used to toast bread under the grill or over a fire on one side only and called that French toast.

Those saying cheese in, are you making a sandwich - two slices of eggy bread cooked, and then cheese in between them, or something else?

DH says sweet, I say savoury. Pretty much on its own (fried in Butter tho, so salty). Pretty much an egg sandwich from the ingredients, but Oh, so much better.

The other thing about French toast is that it's not just egg, but egg with quite a lot of milk.

So I think that eggy bread and french toast are probably two quite different dishes.

If for breakfast/brunch then savory with bacon, black pudding and mushrooms. If a rainy afternoon treat I sprinkle caster sugar over one side when frying and serve with berries and chocolate sauce!

French toast in this house too.

We always have eggy bread on Sundays, with ketchup. It's the only way. We once had friends staying the weekend and they MADE me put brown sugar and cinnamon on their slices. I nearly gagged. It's just wrong.

Making it sweet is a wrong as my Mum's jam omelette. Apparently it's in an old French recipe book written by Ian Fleming which is just weird in itself. Sometimes I ring her and ask what she's having for tea. She says, 'You don't want to know' which means she is making herself an omelette then putting jam on it. Wrong on SO MANY LEVELS. Would you make a jam omelette? No. So step away from the cinnamon and syrup and stick with ketchup. Omelettes and eggy bread have the same basic ingredient people. You sweet weirdos.

Savoury

Oh and we call it french toast.

Any which way it comes is good for me! I especially like it substituting the milk for baileys ;)

Savoury. Egg and milk whisked up, bread dipped in and then fried.

Nothing else.

I can possibly accept some black pepper but even that's living dangerously IMHO.

Eggy bread with maple syrup here - occasionally with bacon too.

It's egg and bread ultimately, so definitely a savoury dish in my opinion. The idea of serving with maple syrup and cream turns my stomach. It's like putting maple syrup and cream on scrambled egg on toast.

Not if you put cream and sugar into the egg.
It's still 2 totally different dishes though.

We call it French toast, I eat it with maple syrup and crispy bacon (yum!). DH eats it with tomato sauce (yuk!)

We call it gypsy toast and serve sprinkled with sugar. Nothing else.

It can be whatever you want it to be - don't forget everything covered in Maple Syrup is American - when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s eggy bread was ALWAYS savoury. However - I now make a mean eggy bread using sliced brioche - FANTASTIC - with fruit and maple syrup - think Strawberries and raspberrys in summer - yum yum.

Wait...wait...what? You put sweet stuff on eggs and bread? For real?
As farewellfigure says above, that sounds as revolting as making a jam omelette. Want some custard on your chips, anyone?

Egg can be eaten with sugar - have you lot never eaten a cake?

Savoury!

We had a Sicilian version last year made by a lovely nonna (who cuddled the kids afterwards!) in the Mercato Centrale in Florence and it was HEAVEN (aside from being a bit salty). It seemed like the bread had been soaked for a while, it was super-crunchy and had herbs in it (mint was definitely one). I'd love to have got the recipe, but they were too busy. They weren't even sure what it was officially called. I shall track it down one day!

I like it with a smear of ketchup.
But.... 'camp doughnuts' is a jam sandwich with the edges sealed up with milk, egged and fried then tossed in sugar before eating. Very popular with the Brownies!

Savoury with ketchup (brown sauce at a push), I wouldn't often say this but in this instance the DH is correct