Egg and soldiers - toast or bread!?

[KillingLoneliness]

Ok this is lighthearted but it drives my DH mad!

I grew up in Essex so I don’t know if this is an Essex thing but whenever I make egg and soldiers I always cut up buttered bread.

My DH was really confused and asked why have I not toasted the bread so I asked him “what do you mean?” And he just looked at me like I was mad and went on to say you need to use toast because it’s stiff so it’s easy to dip in the egg but I’ve never done it that way, I do it that same way my Nan has always made them, including drawing silly faces on the eggs!

My DH isn’t from the UK either and his whole family find some things I do a bit baffling in general 🙈

So AIBU for dipping bread and not toast? 😂

Toast .

Your DH is correct. I don't think boiled eggs and bread is a thing. How the fuck do you dip bread?

Toast the bread you savage!

Toasted

I feel slightly unsafe even thinking about raw soldiers 🫣

Toast. Surely bread just flops about?

Bread? WTAF?!

Soldiers need to be standing to attention, so they need to be toasted or they’re not standing to attention.

Not an Essex thing, I'm from here too and it's definitly toast!

Toast!!! How the fuck do you dunk strips of bread?!

Always bread and butter!

Toast, unless you want a bunch of limp soldiers.

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

Are you some kind of monster?

Toast.

Of course you toast it, OP, you savage.

Obviously toast, just bread is too soft to dip

Won't the bread just kind of like fold up before you can even push it into the egg? Eggs and toast soldiers. It was even on an egg advert, I'm sure it was.

Have you just watched Stacey Solomon's insta story by any chance?

Always toast. Makes the bread stronger!

Toast

Bread...toasted bread. That your bread. Soldiers like being rigid.

Toast!!

Toast, and it has to be loaded with butter.

Toast!

Surely trying to dip bread into a boiled egg is like thumbing in a semi...?

bread and butter with a little bit of salt.

I am literally dying! 🤣🤣🤣 what prompted my question was I made them the other day and my BIL was just as confused by my use of bread but my niece also doesn’t have toast as her mum uses bread and him and my dh were jokingly judging me!
I’ve just seen Stacey Solomon on Instagram also uses untoasted bread!
Your comments are giving me such a good chuckle!