Once again the language barrier raises its head.
Was having a chat with Mikel on AIM and we started discussing food. I told him I'd gone to make a bacon butty for my daughter. He asked what a butty was - so I explained: bacon butty, egg butty, etc. - scouse slang for sandwiches.
I then explained an egg butty is sometimes known as French Toast. To which he replied that to Emma, an egg butty is eggy bread. To me eggy bread is something entirely different. I explained my eggy bread and Mikel told me that's called egg on a raft where he hails from. (An egg fried into the hollowed centre of the piece of bread.)
So are there any other names for egg butties or eggy bread? If so, what are they?
(And yes, I am hungry and that's why the fixation on food!)
Around here, your eggy bread is known as "egg-in-the-hole" or "egg-in-the-nest."
And French Toast isn't a sandwich.
No French Toast is bread dipped in egg and fried, but is still called an egg butty...
(I'm scouse, you'll have to excuse me ;o)
I grew up calling your "eggy bread" either "cut outs" or "egg cut outs" as we often used different cookie cutter shapes to make them. Later I learned the name Vix suggested "egg-in-the-nest."
French toast was just bread dipped in egg and milk and then fried. At our house, generally served with powdered sugar or syrup. Though it never had another name for me growing up, my daughter has decided to call it "Egg toast."
Although you can dip a sandwich in egg and fry it and then its called a Montecristo!
Quote from: "Ainsley"I grew up calling your "eggy bread" either "cut outs" or "egg cut outs" as we often used different cookie cutter shapes to make them. Later I learned the name Vix suggested "egg-in-the-nest."
French toast was just bread dipped in egg and milk and then fried. At our house, generally served with powdered sugar or syrup. Though it never had another name for me growing up, my daughter has decided to call it "Egg toast."
Ugh - sugar and lemon juice is the way my hubby and kids eat it. I grew up having salt on it, YUM!!!
(as I said before to Vix, 'scuse me I'm scouse - I have to be different)
LOL I grew up with powdered sugar and syrup on my french toast!
A local thing that we do down in Tucson is grill polish sausages and green chiles ( you have the scrap the skin off and seeds out) and then wrap it all up in a homemade tortilla. Now THAT'S good eating.
Another weird thing I eat is pizza with pepperoni and jalepenos. Now THAT'S good too. LOL :cheers:
I've always referring to them as "egg in a basket". No idea why. My uncle first made them for my sis and I when we moved to MI oh so long ago and his sons ate them with ketchup - YUCK!
And, french toast... is french toast. Bread dipped in egg (that is beaten with a bit of milk and vanilla), fried and smothered in powdered sugar. That's how I make it at least. Very good.
QuoteAnother weird thing I eat is pizza with pepperoni and jalepenos. Now THAT'S good too. LOL
How is that weird? Sounds good to me! If you want weird pizza, you have to come here to Japan... I'm sorry, but eggs, mayonaise, potato, corn, broccoli and asperagus were just not meant to be pizza toppings!
But my favorite pizza in the states was pepperoni and pineapple. YUMMY!
:lol:
No wonder that poor non-englishspeaker gets confused time to time!
So many names for one food.
French Toast sounds like Köyhät Ritarit (= poor knights) which here are served with strawberry-jam and whipped cream.
Quote from: "Kaysea"Once again the language barrier raises its head.
- scouse slang for sandwiches.
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Quote from: "Mikel"Quote from: "Kaysea"Once again the language barrier raises its head.
- scouse slang for sandwiches.
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Scouse = ?
*rolls eyes* I've told you before scouse - liverpudlian - comes from Liverpool - eg: the Beatles (and me) (and Emma's grandad) ;)
Quote from: "Kaysea"Quote from: "Mikel"Quote from: "Kaysea"Once again the language barrier raises its head.
- scouse slang for sandwiches.
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*rolls eyes* I've told you before scouse - liverpudlian - comes from Liverpool - eg: the Beatles (and me) (and Emma's grandad) ;)
Ooh, scouse is from Liverpool? My gran and mum hail from Liverpool!
Eimi...ok, yeah my pizza toppings ARE normal compared to those toppings! LOL I can see broccoli and corn, and maybe by a WIDE stretch potatoes...but hte others...I'll pass.
Strawberry jam and whip cream sounds good on french toast too!!!! yuuuummm...i just got done with lunch and all this food talk is making me hungry again! :cheers:
How about peanut butter and jelly on toaster waffles! That was one of my favorites growing up.
Ooo, that sounds good too. LOL it reminds me of what my friend's boyfriend was eating the other night: Peanut Butter and Bacon. Just like that. Peanut Butter and Bacon :gag: I gave him soooo much crap for that! LOL :cheers:
Quote from: "allikat"Ooo, that sounds good too. LOL it reminds me of what my friend's boyfriend was eating the other night: Peanut Butter and Bacon. Just like that. Peanut Butter and Bacon :gag: I gave him soooo much crap for that! LOL :cheers:
I haven't had that for years.
And it's only good with mayo.
Peanut butter and mayo on a hamburger/cheesburger with tomato is delicious as well.
Quote from: "allikat"Ooo, that sounds good too. LOL it reminds me of what my friend's boyfriend was eating the other night: Peanut Butter and Bacon. Just like that. Peanut Butter and Bacon :gag: I gave him soooo much crap for that! LOL :cheers:
:P He and my old roommate would get on well together. She had a thing for bbq sauce. Once I caught her eating bbq sauce on a peice of iceburg lettuce.
My only 'weird' food is marmite, and that isn't even that odd to Brits. It's good in a cheese sandwich.
As to the egg/bread debate... bread dipped in egg and fried is French Toast, and is eaten with maple syrup. Egg dropped into the hollow middle of a piece of bread is something else entirely, but I'm not sure I have a name for it besides, "egg dropped into a piece of toast with a hole in the middle."
Oh hey! Is French Toast and French Fries still called "Freedom Toast" and "Freedom Fries" in the American Congressional Cafeteria? Or have we pretty much forgiven the French now?
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My only 'weird' food is marmite, and that isn't even that odd to Brits. It's good in a cheese sandwich.
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What is marmite? I don't think I've ever heard the word before.
Quote from: "Eimi"Oh hey! Is French Toast and French Fries still called "Freedom Toast" and "Freedom Fries" in the American Congressional Cafeteria? Or have we pretty much forgiven the French now?
I'm pretty sure we've forgiven the French. I haven't seen "Freedom" anything in years.
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My only 'weird' food is marmite, and that isn't even that odd to Brits. It's good in a cheese sandwich.
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What is marmite? I don't think I've ever heard the word before.
It's similar to vegemite -- in my opinion, a little milder in taste.
I just think it's amazing how many different foods are out there and how many similar foods there are with different names. I want lunch! waaahhh! :cheers:
Quote from: "Patrick"Quote from: "Eimi"Oh hey! Is French Toast and French Fries still called "Freedom Toast" and "Freedom Fries" in the American Congressional Cafeteria? Or have we pretty much forgiven the French now?
I'm pretty sure we've forgiven the French. I haven't seen "Freedom" anything in years.
I have no idea about the congressional cafeteria Eimi, but you obviously haven't been around a military base recently Patrick. :) EVERYTHING there uses "Freedom" or something similarly patriotic somewhere.
Really? I haven't seen Freedom seriously being used anywhere, although the AFROTC at my school uses it mockingly to refer to our food.
I guess it depends on where you are. When I was in Virginia, everything was "Freedom Toast" or "Freedom Fries" or "Patriotic Pie", but where I am right now is much more relaxed. The fires are actually French, although the French bread is generally called Cuban, although it is not true Cuban bread. Weird.
Quote from: "Rochelle"The fires are actually French, although the French bread is generally called Cuban, although it is not true Cuban bread. Weird.
oooooo Did we forgive the Cubans too? My, I leave country for a few years and everyone turns friendly all of a sudden ;)
In Japan fries are called "POTEITO FURAI" or "FURAI POTEITO" - in other words "Fry Potato". And HAMBAGA and HAMBAGU are both made of friend meat loaf, the only difference being that a HAMBAGA is a meatloaf-burger and HAMBAGU is just a meatloaf patty with stuff on top.
Quote from: "Rochelle"Quote from: "Patrick"Quote from: "Eimi"Oh hey! Is French Toast and French Fries still called "Freedom Toast" and "Freedom Fries" in the American Congressional Cafeteria? Or have we pretty much forgiven the French now?
I'm pretty sure we've forgiven the French. I haven't seen "Freedom" anything in years.
I have no idea about the congressional cafeteria Eimi, but you obviously haven't been around a military base recently Patrick. :) EVERYTHING there uses "Freedom" or something similarly patriotic somewhere.
Nope I've never actually been to a Military base. And now that I think of it, most people just say "fries" not "french fries" so the french is kind of just left alone mostly. I do hear people say "French Toast" though, so as to not get it mixed up with regular toast.