I was curious about French Toast the other day. Turns out it was invented by someone with the last name French and the intention was to call it French's Toast. But when he printed the name, he forgot the apostrophe and 'S'!

[–] altima_neo@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Similar story with German chocolate cake. It was German's chocolate cake. A guy named German.

[–] mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 12 points 1 year ago

And Black Forest cake was actually created by Forest Whitaker.

[–] seliaste@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In france we call it "pain perdu", lost bread

[–] Grass@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago

I really like that.

[–] doc@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That's a legend; the name was used in England before the mythical Mr. French existed in the US!

(also French Toast was invented at least before the 6th Century)