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? 😂

I'm from Sheffield, never had toasted soldiers! My great gran used to make me egg and soldiers for breakfast made with bread and butter.

Thick sliced bread buttered then folded in half and sliced into 5 soldiers, I have never had a flaccid soldier.

Genuinely interested how the hell you dip a soft bendy strip of bread. 🤔

YABU bread surely lacks the structural integrity compared to toast

Toast the bread, spread the butter and the add sea salt to the butter on the toast so it sticks to the butter. This means that you don't have to keep adding salt to the egg as every mouthful will already have salt in it.

Toast!

Always bread with plenty of butter. 2 slices of bread, preferably Warburtons. Cut in halves, one half of the 2 slices is made into mini soldiers, the other halves are left for sandwiching the remaining egg.

Essex / Kent - always grew up with it being bread and butter. We've moved and mine DCs have grown up with floppy soldiers too...

How does dried toast soak up that yummy runny yolk?

skiing has it right - toast, then salt the toast, not the egg.

Bread!

This reminds me of the time I learnt from DH that apparently my way of doing weetabix (pour milk on, heat in microwave, mash to form a porridge-like consistency) is apparently not how everyone else does it. I think I checked with MN on that one as well at the time and was firmly told how wrong I was!

Mind you, soldiers are evil. You end up with nothing but white left. Far better to keep the toast whole and scoop the egg onto it with a tea spoon.

It's got to be toast so you can give it a good dip 🤷‍♀️.

Well after all this talk yesterday this morning I thoroughly enjoyed some egg and soldiers with “floppy” bread 😁