When your in france and you want french toast what do you ask for?

Question

When your in france and you want french toast what do you ask for?

Answer 1

You ask for Pain Perdu (wasted bread), but you won't probably be able to buy it, in most places in France it is a home made dessert, not something sold.

As for its origins, it was made with bread one couldn't use for regular meals because it had become too dry, hence the name wasted bread. As food was never wasted, one used it for other things like a good filling dessert.

Answer 2

Pain Perdu is correct.  Pain Grille' is just regular toast.

Answer 3

Pain grillé français.

That's how you say it in French. If that is what you were asking. lol.

Answer 4

in english we call it french toast, but in france, they just call it toast. lol

Answer 5

No really, it's "pain perdu" and you will not see it in cafes.  Its something people make at home to use up bread that would otherwise be "lost" or wasted.

I agree with the person who suggested the waffle (gaufre) as a reasonable substitute.  It won't come with syrup, tho, unless you are in a very touristy part of Paris.  There are a couple of restaurants around, particularly in the 7th, that have American style breakfasts and you *might* find something similar to French Toast but then, you'd know you were really in a tourist place.

Answer 6

pain dore

Answer 7

French toast  is said "pain grillé"

that literally means toasted bread,

and have to be pronounced "griyé"

There's another thing that's called biscotte

It's like "french toast" but it's not fresh

it's more brittle, and only used for breakfast with butter and jam.

(I was living in USA during 2 years and I never found "biscottes"  in supermarket, but maybe you can find it in big cities where there's more choice)

Check on google images (between "pain grillé" and biscotte to see the difference)

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MEA CULPA

I was wrong, french toast means "pain perdu", definitely

Answer 8

I have never seen French toast in France.  I have heard 2 stories:  1) French toast is not from France.  2) French toast is from France and originally made by poor farmers who could not afford to buy dessert.  They just used ingredients that they had on the farm-- old bread, milk, eggs with a small amount of sugar sprinkled on top (maple syrup was and is still hard to find in France).  Pain grille' as someone said is plain toast.  Biscotte is an Italian cookie which often contains almonds and is very dry, but is great dunked in milk, coffee or tea.  You can find biscotte in many upscale coffee shops in the US and in the cookie/gourmet section of some supermarkets in big US cities and by mail order.  If you like French toast, you might also try Belgian waffles (covered in confectioner's sugar) which are available in France.

Answer 9

Pain Perdu. That's French Toast in France, yet if it was translated into English it would mean "Lost Bread."