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? 😂

Bread and butter!

Another vote for team bread and butter. I've not had dippy eggs and soldiers for probably decades but now I want them very much and we have some Warburtons white sliced, so I think I might have that for breakfast tomorrow.

I fear this is going to be another one of those great MN Divides like shoes on/off or loo brushes yes/no, what have you started @KillingLoneliness ?

I have no regrets! 🤣

They can’t stand to attention like soldiers, to be dipped in, unless it’s toasted. On a side note, boiled eggs in our family are named chuckle eggs so for us it’s chuckle egg and soldiers. We only call boiled eggs this though, we aren’t heathens.

THE SCREAM I JUST SCRUM

Buttered bread. Never toast

Like feeding a slug into a slot machine.

Toast lol

I'm in Southampton if that makes any difference

Absolutely bread. White loaf, thickly sliced, buttered and cut into soldiers.

Toast is OK if the bread is getting stale

Bread and butter - I called them ‘choochers’ with a short ‘oo’ like in book. (I think it was my own babyish pronunciation of ‘cho choos’ like trains).

Toast. What use is a flaccid soldier?

Who eats snotty eggs on floppy bread?!

This. I no longer eat eggs, but it seems I am still invested in this debate 😂

Absolutely depends on the bread, a nice fresh crusty loaf -bread and loads of salted butter. Generic sliced stuff - toast it.

Chuckie egg for us

I cannot stand eggs nowadays, but used to have them lots as a child. I distinctly remember bread with a thick spread of yummy salty butter on them.

My DM learned from her DM, who was German, so that throws another nationality in to the mix!

Bread

If it's good enough for Stacy Solomon....

Couldn't quite think how to put it but..... very much this!

Toast

Team bread all the way.

Bread. The dipping slows down the toast eating so it’s just cold and chewy.

Soldiers were always bread and butter when I was growing up. I am now gluten free and GF bread is no good for soldiers whether it's toasted or not, it just falls apart 😕

My daughter has the Schar white bread and that toasts well and works fine as soldiers .