So, do you call it eggy bread or french toast?

[Overmydeadbody]

I want to know.

Eggy bread if it is just bread soaked in egg and fried but French Toast if more effort went into it and I used decent bread and I usually add cinnamon and Stuff.

Also, French Toast is for breakfast and Eggy Bread is for supper on a Saturday. I don't know why.

Eggy Bread if for me and dh, Gypsy Toast if for dd (she HATES eggs, wont even sit next to me if I have them, so wouldnt eat Eggy Bread. Called it Gypsy Toast and she loved it....kids.....)

Always thought French Toast was if you ate it sweet - we dont, always with ketchup

me and dh argue about this alot. i am of the opinion that french bread usually has cinnamon, nutmeg or sugar added to it and is meant to be sweet or eaten with something sweet, whereas eggybread is just egg and savoury.

womble - do you not have real things to argue about?

When i was in Pakistan i used to call it French toast. Now i call it eggy bread.

When I was little we used to call it French Toast, but dh always called it Eggy Bread and now dc call it Eggy Toast.

Deadpiraterobots and annoyingdevil,
my Grandma used to make Poor Knights of Windsor with stale bread and Rich Knights of Windsor with stale cake!

Eggy bread is just egg and bread fried and french toast is with cinnamon and sugar I thought - like the american's do!

french toast. Though the current MsPan is French and didn't have a clue on how to make it.

Two different things in my house.

French toast - I use thick sliced bread or brioche, dip it in a mixture of egg and milk with a pinch of cinnamon and serve it with maple syrup.

Eggy bread _ I use sliced bread, dip in egg only and serve with ketchup

We called it pap-pair-doo when we were little (grandmother was French).

I see now looking at Othersideofthechannel we were saying 'pain perdu'.

Ah the nostalgia.

gYPSY BREAD HERE, doused in icing sugar after and fried off again quickly till it caramelises mmmmmmmmm

We have both in our house

Eggy bread is ordinary bread dipped in egg/milk and fried and is usually for supper

French Toast is Brioche dipped in egg/milk/sugar and served with something sweet such as icecream, fruit sauce or maple syrup and is usually for breakfast

:O)

SG

eggy bread in my house aswel
with loadsa ketchup mmmmmmm i want some now

I grew up with french toast, but married eggy bread

My mum called it fairy toast to get me to eat it. Usually with sugar or salt. Tried Nigellas donut toast recently - vvv nice but so filling.

DS and I had some last night for our tea, yummy.

Eggy Bread!

It's officially called French toast.

Reason being that in medeival times they were really poor so had to use whatever food stocks were left.

Usually there would be eggs and stale bread (french especially because it goes off so quickly) left so thesewould be beaten together and fried to make a meal.

It did'nt actually originate in France it was just that their bread went out so quickly and was the widest used for the purpose in those days

Eggy bread - camping food

yum yum, eggy bread with garlic salt and cayenne pepper!

that's really interesting mamadiva.

In Switzerland we call it "croute doree" which translates "golden crust" much more poetic!