My favorite is French Toast. It’s just “golden bread”, pain doré.
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MacNCheezus@lemmy.today 10 months agoCorrect. The “frites” part means exactly the same as “fries” (well, technically it means “fried”).
Americans just LOVE to make things sound fancier by adding “French” to the name to give it some “ooh là là”. See also: “French” vanilla ice cream (everywhere else in the world it’s just vanilla).
Kojichan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Noodle07@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Nah it’s “pain perdu” which means lost bread. It’s list because it’s too hard to eat normally anymore
Kojichan@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Maybe it’s called that where you are? In Quebec we call French Toast “pain doré”. :)
Noodle07@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Oh interesting
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
“French Fries” is a shortening of “French fries potatoes” and they indeed came to America via France.
toynbee@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 10 months ago
Indeed. Actually the real french word is “fries”, and “frites” is a mistake children make, like saying “pourrites” instead of “pourries”
DarkSirrush@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Actually, French vanilla is used when actual vanilla bean is used in the flavouring, if t just says vanilla its either artificial or a miniscule amount of extract.
__nobodynowhere@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
French vanilla ice cream is vanilla ice cream in the French style. The ice cream is French not the vanilla.
French vanilla ice cream has egg yolks. Regular vanilla ice cream does not.
Jean_le_Flambeur@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
Lul, instead oft making vanilla mean (real) vanilla and calling fake “vanilla flavoured” or vanilin like a sane person