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International game of 'Food Telephone' (startrek.website)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (3 children)

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 18 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago

And Black Forest cake was actually created by Forest Whitaker.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah and like when mashed potatoes were invented by a bunch of American doctors in Korea. When you take the time to learn about the history of food you really find some fascinating stuff

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really like that.

[–] [email protected] 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)