Subtitles section Play video Print subtitles Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Word Origins 56. The word origin today is French toast. Okay. Let's look at the note here. There were different versions of French toast dating back to the 5th century. There was a version of French toast that was made in France during the 17th century called pain perdu which in French basically means lost bread. All right. So why do they call it lost bread ? Because it was stale. It would have been wasted anyway. This was because it was mostly made from stale bread and dipping it in milk egg and cinnamon was a way of masking the stale taste. So if they didn't do that, they probably would how to throw the bread away, and it would have been lost or wasted bread. But they were able to figure out a way to save the bread and still make it kind of tasty by baking ... by turning it into what you know, is today French toast or pretty close to French toast. Because of course there were a lot of versions over the years. Let's continue. Pain Perdu is what the French in France today referred to as French toast too. Okay, So let's continue. However the origin of the name is not connected to this or to France, to its culture, to its cuisine... Yeah. Basically at least not in English anyway. According to legend, the man who created the modern day version of French toast was an innkeeper from Albany, New York. His name was Joseph French. Thus the word French in French toast refers to his last name, his family name. He created the dish in 1724 and started to advertise it as French toast. Now there are some people who say that his grammar was poor. That he should have said French's toast you know for his last name. And he just called it French toast. But either way. That's the way he referred to it and the name has stuck ever since. So that's what that's where the origin of the name in English comes from . Anyway, French toast it was from this innkeeper in 1724. But there were versions of French toast long before that. Okay. Anyway I hope you got it. I hope it was clear. I hope it was informative. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
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