On 27/02/2012 11:42 AM, James Silverton wrote:
> 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 don't know about the gender about the Canadian name. We call it
French toast.


> I think I am right in saying that in US usage, "Egg Bread" means bread
> with egg in the dough such as Challah?
>

I am not in the US, but this Canadian would think of "egg bread" as
something with egg in the dough.