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[โ€“] oce@jlai.lu 38 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (31 children)

Nobody in France calls French fries or French toast "French". We're definitely happy to attribute the fries to our Belgian friends and nobody thinks something as ubiquitous as toasts could have a single inventor. I think those are Anglo-Saxon cultural elements.

[โ€“] Prunebutt@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 day ago

FIY: French toast is the english name for pain perdu.

Also probably not "invented" by the French, but no one thinks they invented simple toast.

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