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