James Silverton > writes:

> I have read various names for fried egg-soaked bread: US "French
> Toast", British "Eggy bread", Canadian "Pain Doré", and finally French
> "Pain Perdu". Are these really all the same thing and are the names
> used consistently in the various countries? My apologies if I have got
> the gender wrong on the two "Pains".
>
> I think I am right in saying that in US usage, "Egg Bread" means bread
> with egg in the dough such as Challah?

That's how I'd understand "egg bread," yes. Note that "eggy" and "egg"
are significantly different; "eggy bread" is either nothing, or else a
recognizable Britishism for French toast.
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