Cultural/National differences on.....French Toast

[Drac]

Wow...I was gonna bet on the Norman Invasion...

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AA

Ran into this with food before. Sometimes the name has nothing to do with the food. French fries were from Belgium (though they do speak french) as far as I understand it made popular by WWII vets. Same as pizza.

Jim

Add: Pizza being made popular by vets, not that it's from Belgium. From what I've read it is a Mediterranean dish back in Greece as well as Italy.

[artificer]

Hey...Turkey, ham and melted Swiss cheese on French Toast makes a Monte Cristo!

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AA

Mmmmm, Monte Cristo! Topped with a drizzle of raspberry syrup. The best of all worlds, cheesy, salty, and just a bit of sweet.

(the sound you hear is an artery clanging shut BTW)

ith:

No different than the French putting mayonnaise on their "french" fries (chips to you UK chaps).

I do admit to liking either mayo or vinegar&salt on my fries MUCH more than ketchup.

The one exception would be fast-food fries (which I don't eat anymore), which don't even taste like potatoes, and then ketchup will help disguise the "cardboardy-food-service-premade-prefrozen" taste.

[rondo]

My brother puts ketchup on his eggs...so not a far stretch in my mind doing the same with french toast...but i'll take mine with copious quantities of strawberry preserves...always have and always will.
Rondo

[auld argonian]

Maybe all of this is why there are Burns SUPPERS and not Burns BREAKFASTS.

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AA

[artificer]

Maybe all of this is why there are Burns SUPPERS and not Burns BREAKFASTS.

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AA

That's one of my favorite things about making haggis at home-

left over haggis, potatoes and a fried egg for breakies the next day.

ith:

[Watson42]

Growing up, my mother and her family ate french toast with ketchup or HP sauce, the reasoning being that it was merely toast with the eggs cooked on it. I gather than my grandmother didn't add cinnamon or nutmeg to her egg batter.
And I do recall myself and every one of my siblings staring at my mom as though she'd grown a second head when she told us that. Every so often she'll eat her french toast that way. I think it's mostly just to see our faces when she does.

[madmacs]

That sounds wonderful. I couldn't find a St Louis place but did a St Paul. Also found this -

http://www.food.com/recipe/Deep-Frie...h-Toast-185960

Do you have the place name and willing to share?

Jim

For a monte cristo? I believe the Grappa Grill on 94 in st charles (just the other side of the missouri from stl) makes them... or at least they did last time i had one... felt it was overly salty though

[madmacs]

Ran into this with food before. Sometimes the name has nothing to do with the food. French fries were from Belgium (though they do speak french) as far as I understand it made popular by WWII vets.

Another belgian thing to go with the fries is mayonaise... and you get some very strange looks asking for mayo with fries in the US...

[madmacs]

While growing up in Glasgow, French Toast was a standard meal - for lunch or dinner. We used ketchup/HP/Fuity sauce, rolled up the bread and skewered it with a fork.
My american wife was stunned to see me do this.
The majority of Americans I've met look at me as if I should be trailing a straitjacket for not wanting to slather it in syrup. Some look positively sick at the thought.

Is it just me who is nuts? Is it a Glaswegian/Scottish/British thing?

Inquiring mind wants to know....

Golden syrup by preference... tomato sauce (ketchup) if i have to...

[Clansmen]

I think I will have to asure Tony that I am with him on this one, never have I heard of such a noble food being treated in such fashion as to have syrup debase its noble taste...lol. That said as I have such a sweet tooth I am inclined to test this out, just so that I can at least say I know what I am talking about, (which would probably be a first for me).