# "What Do They Call French Toast in France?" & Similar Questions
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [June 1, 2007, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300 "2007-06-01T04:06:52Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Rooh\_Afza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rooh_Afza)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/81 "2007-06-02T04:53:01Z")
[QUOTE=OpalCat]
I don’t see how the discussion at hand wasn’t providing facts and information. Apparently your input is just so vastly superior, though. Mainly what I took offense to was your “exasperation” that we even dared to broach the topic in the first place.
[/QUOTE]
I’m sorry, my reading comprehension must be off tonight. What, exactly, did you contribute to “information and understanding”?
Wait, hold on a second while I review…
Right. Scones are “only vaugely” like American-style biscuits, served cold next to brownies, and can be made from a box mix. Also, American-style biscuits and gravy look “exactly like vomit”. Thanks for…
Wait, I need to check the front page a second…
Oh, yeah. Thanks for fighting the ignorance!
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### Author:  [@Rooh\_Afza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rooh_Afza)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/82 "2007-06-02T04:54:36Z")
[QUOTE=TheLoadedDog]
If you’re in the wilderness, you’d probably best try cooking a damper on the campfire. Damper is made from a scone recipe, so it’s like scones but also different. 😃
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And for the almost-Anglo amongst us:
[Basic damper bread](http://www.aussieslang.com/features/australian-damper-bread-recipe.asp).
😉
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/83 "2007-06-02T04:58:11Z")
[QUOTE=Rooh Afza]
I’m sorry, my reading comprehension must be off tonight. What, exactly, did you contribute to “information and understanding”?
Wait, hold on a second while I review…
Right. Scones are “only vaugely” like American-style biscuits, served cold next to brownies, and can be made from a box mix. Also, American-style biscuits and gravy look “exactly like vomit”. Thanks for…
Wait, I need to check the front page a second…
Oh, yeah. Thanks for fighting the ignorance!
[/QUOTE]
Wow, chip on your shoulder much? :rolleyes:
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### Author:  [@Rooh\_Afza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rooh_Afza)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/84 "2007-06-02T05:02:06Z")
Er, no. Yourself?
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### Author:  [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 5:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/85 "2007-06-02T05:09:03Z")
How about a fry on your shoulder? Or a crisp?
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### Author:  [@Rooh\_Afza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rooh_Afza)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/86 "2007-06-02T05:14:22Z")
_burshes off trousers_
Ok, you got me there. I _was_ eating crisps just now, but the crumbs aren’t on my shoulders.
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### Author:  [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/87 "2007-06-02T05:47:41Z")
> [@](#):
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> What, in fact, is this “American cheese” stuff?
> It’s cheese made with water instead of milk. No flavor, of course, but we eat it out of pride for being a society that can make cheese out of water instead of milk.
AAARRRGGGH! This is not american cheese! It is cheese FOOD! It says so on the package. I don’t care what Wikipedia says about it. Genuine American cheese is real cheese. It is a very mild cheddar, and I like it. Kraft singles are not cheese! It says so on the package. When I am poor I can eat kraft singles, but it has a very synthetic taste. I buy Kraft Delux Deli style. That is real (Although not the best), American cheese.
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### Author:  [@WarmNPrickly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WarmNPrickly)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/88 "2007-06-02T05:53:57Z")
Oh yeah, and what about Venetian blinds?
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### Author:  [@NinetyWt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinetyWt)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/89 "2007-06-02T07:31:42Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher]
Genuine American cheese is real cheese.
[/QUOTE]
Um, see my post #76. 😉
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### Author:  [@Max\_the\_Immortal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_the_Immortal)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 7:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/90 "2007-06-02T07:36:20Z")
In Canada, we call it “back bacon” or just “ham”.
In Buffalo, do they just call them chicken wings? Hot wings, maybe?
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### Author:  [@Hostile\_Dialect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hostile_Dialect)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 8:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/91 "2007-06-02T08:35:11Z")
> [@Shecky](#):
>
> Who do they make fun of in Poland?
Iowans, probably.
> [@OpalCat](#):
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> Well first off, I’ve only lived in Georgia for 2 years–I’m not “from Georgia”.
I know where you’re coming from, but I knew you were a Zonie and I was using a looser definition of “from Georgia”. Based on the fact that I was hooked on Southern-style biscuits and gravy after living only a month or so in Texas, which as I understand most Southerners don’t even think of as being in the South. (I was at boot camp, though, and thus surrounded by swarms of people from every Southern state.)
The vegetarian bit changes things, though. How is that in Atlanta, BTW? Do you have to defend yourself all the time? Is it tough to eat out?
As for the vomit thing, bleu cheese and chicken a la king look like vomit too and they’re nothing to sneeze at. Not that you would eat either one, but still.
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 8:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/92 "2007-06-02T08:59:08Z")
[QUOTE=Quiddity Glomfuster]
A proper croque monsieur is a grilled ham and cheese sandwich which can be dipped in egg and fried. French Toast is just bread dipped in egg and fried.
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Interestingly enough this description of _croque monsieur_ sounds exactly like the American dish _Monte Cristo_, upon which [Wiki agrees](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monte_Cristo_sandwich).
> [@T\_SQUARE](#):
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> Apparently, in Austria, and perhaps other parts of Europe, an “American Bar” was not a place that served cheese fries, frozen drinks, and had goofy trinkets on the wall as I would have guessed.
>
> Rather, it referred to an architectural style of bar that is fairly skinny with the bar itself rather long and built along one of the side walls.
>
> Or so said the guy who works at Loo’s American Bar in Vienna, which is probably the best bar I’ve ever been too.
I’ve never heard that term before, but as an American who’s spent a ton of time in bars, I have to confess it seems awfully appropriate.
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### Author:  [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/93 "2007-06-02T09:04:09Z")
[QUOTE=fetus]
The vegetarian bit changes things, though. How is that in Atlanta, BTW? Do you have to defend yourself all the time? Is it tough to eat out?
[/QUOTE]
Atlanta is surprisingly good for vegetarians, actually. Plus it helps that when I go out to eat, I usually eat at ethnic restaurants which tend to have better options than American food.
I did recently end up at a family dinner with my boyfriend’s family… at “Ted’s” which is a steakhouse which has exactly NO vegetarian entrees, unless you consider their “get four side dishes as your meal” plate an “entree”. Things like that you just have to deal with from time to time.
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### Author:  [@GorillaMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GorillaMan)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 11:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/94 "2007-06-02T11:20:38Z")
[QUOTE=Shecky]
What are Cornish Game Hens called in the UK?
[/QUOTE]
Never come across them, being an American breed (according to Wikipedia). But the Cornish hen is a British breed, from Cornwall, so there’s no problem with calling it such no matter where you are.
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### Author:  [@SkipMagic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SkipMagic)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/95 "2007-06-02T12:38:59Z")
[QUOTE=Rigamarole]
On the flip side, is there anything anywhere else in the world called an “American” XXX?
[/QUOTE]
Jenna Jameson, I think.
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### Author:  [@ElvisL1ves](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ElvisL1ves)
#### Post date: [June 2, 2007, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/96 "2007-06-02T12:59:44Z")
[QUOTE=BobLibDem]
Does anyone else in the world sell what we call American cheese and what do they call it? (besides garbage)
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There’s an apocryphal story that the French, in response to that “Freedom Fries” nonsense, now call it “Idiot Cheese”.
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### Author:  [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2007, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/97 "2007-06-03T17:18:03Z")
[QUOTE=Christopher]
AAARRRGGGH! This is not american cheese! It is cheese FOOD! It says so on the package. I don’t care what Wikipedia says about it. Genuine American cheese is real cheese. It is a very mild cheddar, and I like it. Kraft singles are not cheese! It says so on the package. When I am poor I can eat kraft singles, but it has a very synthetic taste. I buy Kraft Delux Deli style. That is real (Although not the best), American cheese.
[/QUOTE]
“Willy, dear, I got a new kind of American-type cheese today. It’s whipped.”
“Why do you get American when I like Swiss? …I don’t want a change! I want Swiss cheese! Why am I always being contradicted? …How can they whip cheese?”
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### Author:  [@Hunter\_Hawk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hunter_Hawk)
#### Post date: [June 3, 2007, 5:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/98 "2007-06-03T17:34:27Z")
[QUOTE=Rooh Afza]
I’m really tired of this “biscuits are like scones but different and almost like crumpets but completely different from English muffin and utterly unlike focaccia but sort of like flatbread” argument that seems to appear each and every time citizens of the UK and America type away at each other on message boards. Don’t y’all ever get tired of it? I mean, seriously. They’re all just distinct variations of bread, just like angel food, devils food, pound, fruit, and basic sheet are variations of cake.
[Basic scone recipe](http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/buttermilkscones_71913.shtml).
[Basic biscuit recipe](http://scorpius.spaceports.com/~goodwine/biscuits.htm).
[Basic English muffin recipe](http://www.cooksrecipes.com/bread/english-muffins-recipe.html).
[Basic crumpet recipe](http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/database/homemadecrumpets_70053.shtml).
They are all essentially the same thing but, at the same time, essentially different. Please, for the love of god, stop comparing them to anything but bread.
[/voice in the wilderness]
[/QUOTE]
Hey, while you’re at it, a Venn diagram mapping the different characteristics of the various English vs. American bread-and-bread-type products would be really helpful.
And then you could move on to what constitutes a proper martini.
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### Author:  [@Rooh\_Afza](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rooh_Afza)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2007, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/99 "2007-06-04T02:56:00Z")
[QUOTE=Hunter Hawk]
Hey, while you’re at it, a Venn diagram mapping the different characteristics of the various English vs. American bread-and-bread-type products would be really helpful.
[/quote]
Useless exercise. The circles would overlap too closely to be recongnizable.
> [@](#):
>
> And then you could move on to what constitutes a proper martini.
Gin. Vermouth (optional). Fruit (olives or lemon) (optional). Anything else is just liquor in a fancy glass.
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### Author:  [@chowder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chowder)
#### Post date: [June 4, 2007, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-they-call-french-toast-in-france-similar-questions/406300/100 "2007-06-04T05:04:48Z")
What do they call a Glasgow Kiss in Edinburgh?
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