Is it still called French Toast in India, or is there a specific local name for it?
It doesn’t sound strange per se … just creative. Kind of like an omelette fused into a piece of bread. Sounds tasty to me.
Can it really be considered the same dish? Is it called “French Toast” the world over? Even if it is, maybe it’s something like the associations the word “pudding” conjures up in the U.S. and the U.K.?
I prefer the American-style bacon over other styles (back bacon, Canadian bacon (which confuses the Hell out of Canadians, as their bacon is the same as ours,) German bacon, etc…I also like mine just barely starting to crisp up at the edges, with the fat still a little floppy.
And up in these parts, saying you don’t like maple syrup on your bacon or sausage is likely to get you hanged! 
I went to a “steakhouse” yesterday with a Korean and she did exactly that. It seemed odd to me.
I was eating a “Greek” salad in which the chicken had been sliced already.
French toast is bread dipped in egg and milk, then fried, isn’t it? I (and everyone I know) always just called that ‘eggy bread’. It’s usually eaten savoury here, but my kids like it sweet sometimes - with ordinary granulated or caster sugar - tastes like fairground doughnuts.
I eat pizza with knife and fork. It’s easier to cut any of the stretchy/chewy things than try to bite completely through them and when there’s lots of toppings ( I like veggie pizzas loaded), it’s much easier to keep any bits from toppling off and landing on you.
You can’t cut your meat any other way. ‘Tines down’ means that they are pointed toward the plate. ‘Tines up’ would be using your fork like a spoon.
Which would give Italians a heart attack. You are supposed to twirl the noodles with the fork against other noodles or against the plate. You don’t get a twirling spoon in Italy, nor in fancier restaurants.
I don’t think that’s what people are saying, Quiddity:
I think people are saying they hold the fork in such a manner that, when holding it parallel to the plate, the tines curve down towards the table, e.g. the curve of the fork is upside down. This would be as opposed to holding the fork with the tines curved up. Either way, of course, you can point the fork at the food to spear or hold it. I believe we’re talking about how the fork is held in the hand, not whether or not you point it at the food when you want to use the fork.
My mom is Irish, and I doubt she’d much care what the Italians thought.
Right. When I eat something that needs lots of cutting, I will use my fork in my left hand with the curve of the fork making the tines point toward the floor (sorta). So the fork is a mountain.
When I put the fork into my right hand, the tines point toward the ceiling (sorta). So the fork is a valley.
OK, we need photos. I can’t imagine holding a fork like a valley (or like a spoon) and then being able to spear food without twisting one’s wrist into some uncomfortable position. Scoop, sure. Spear, not so much.
The fork is held like a pencil. There’s nothing uncomfortable about spearing food.
Edited to add: This picture is all arty and stuff, and it’s using the wrong hand, but this is close to how I hold the fork in my right hand. The first two fingers are not so straight.
http://www.thespiderawards.com/AwardsPass/WINNERS-NOMINEES/PRO-still/pages/hand-&-fork.htm
Here’s a better picture:
Looks kinda sideways to me 
That’s an action photo!
Fork held in hand (concave up) resting in crook of thumb and forefinger and on forefinger and middle finger further down, parallel to plate, thumb facing up. Rotate wrist 90 degrees so thumb is inside, pinky outside, top of hand parallel to ground, fork orthogonal to plate surface. Move fork down and poke… And you call American Style eaters uncoordinated?
Yeah I’m not seeing how this is complicated. In the spirit of sharing, though, I’ve made two videos to demonstrate this amazing feat of dexterity. Please welcome my lovely assistant, a plate of leftover Thai food:
using a fork tines-up to spear food
using a fork tines-up to scoop food, without “pushing it all over the plate” or using a knife
It’s amazing stuff, but I promise it’s unretouched footage, and there were no special effects, mirrors, or tricks of any kind.
It’s nearly 4 in the morning. I had a weird dream so I got up for a while, and I’m surfing the Dope.
That is the background for me saying that for some reason those two videos strike me as utterly hilarious.
It very well could be. I wasn’t around when the rules of etiquette were first formed; I only know how people tend to think about them during the time I have been alive. I’m quite sure my Mom never said, “Be sure to switch hands, because they didn’t have forks in the original colonies”, but I don’t have any reason to believe it couldn’t have started that way.
Fatapple’s! There’s a good breakfast. Beans and tomatoes for breakfast? Yuck. Beans are a waste of calories.
I’m LMAO. I think they should go up on YouTube with no explanation. Maybe some music.
Opal, I put it to you that your fork tines are no longer in the ‘up’ position during the spearing and that your #2 will never work on my baked potato, my yam, or the rest of the corn or peas when the other stuff’s gone. And both definitely made me think of watching kids eat. But I do appreciate the trouble you’ve gone to and hope you end up on Letterman for having a YouTube hit.