German toast?

Laurence Horn laurence.horn at YALE.EDU
Sat Feb 10 09:43:34 UTC 2001


At 4:10 PM -0500 2/10/01, Barnhart wrote:
>I've been interested in the origin of French toast and German toast.
>One speculation is that French toast was concocted first by a Mr.
>French about 1724 in Albany, N.Y.  The earliest evidence I've found for
>the term (for the egg variety) is 1882 (OEDs).  Several sources have
>mentioned the name French toast as an alternative arising from distaste
>of things German in the wake of WW-I.  They suggest that the name was
>German toast.

I'm surprised it didn't shift to "Liberty toast" then.  Are there any
other instances of "German X" shifting to "French X" at that time of
de-Hunification?    (Please don't tell me that pre-WWI teenagers gave
each other German kisses...)
larry



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