French toast
I am rather partial to a slice of eggy bread or two. In fact when I was younger I went through a phase of eating nothing but eggy bread. With lots of ketchup. 6 slices at a time. I couldn't get enough of it.

I had no idea at the time, being a mere nipper, that the correct terminology for such food was French Toast.

Neither did my Mother it seems, as she berated me constantly for calling it eggy bread as it was too common. How did she class it up?? By making me call it "Fried Bread Dipped in Egg".

I mean, it doesn't eggsactly (sorry) roll off the tongue. And it isn't even technically correct for fucks sake, with the bread having been dipped in egg BEFORE being fried.

Bread Dipped in Egg and then Fried is more like it.
(Jboy, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 17:15, 7 replies)

Eggy Bread - The food of the gods!
Although it was only after what I think is best described as a "gazpacho soup" moment, that I was informed that "grown-ups" call it French toast...

Somehow it seems less appealing now... Maybe because it brings back to me the embarrassment, or maybe it's the French connotations.
( Coventry, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 17:52, closed)

Hmm...
I've always called it Gypsy Toast...
(Ovaltina, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 18:19, closed)

I call it
French Bread, and eat it with grated cheese or HP sauce.
(bamboozled Can hear you getting fatter, Sat 18 Oct 2008, 21:33, closed)

@Chacony
Seconded!

People look at you rather confused if you call it that though.

I thought it was just me and my rather odd family that called it that.
(Meya, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 18:48, closed)

I don't understand?
Surely what with gypsys being the lowest of the low, gypsy toast would just be stale bread?

Mind you, still doesn't explain why it's French toast. Unless the first time it was made a shit load of Germans marched all over it.
(Jboy, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 23:10, closed)

I always thought French Toast...
was a sort of tarted-up, sugary version of Eggy Bread...
(notjustahatrack peeling a sausage..., Sat 18 Oct 2008, 19:16, closed)

I've just thought
that I might be extremely common. I used to get French toast with jam in the middle and brown sugar on top once cooked.
That's commonly known as not good for your health.
(muzzvsworld, Mon 20 Oct 2008, 0:16, closed)