The funny thing about “freedom toast” in the article is that French Toast, before WWI, was originally called German Toast, but then was changed to French Toast in the United States. (Ironically considering the amount of real guilt involved, WWI had much more vicious anti-German propaganda and actions during the war than WWII. Propaganda about “the hun” and anti-German-American sentiment were very high during WWI, while WWII was relatively quiet, most people not even knowing about the real atrocities of WWII, as opposed to the propaganda ones of WWI, until after the war.)
I have a friend who was visiting the States from Paris with his wife. One morning, he and his wife were in the dining room of the hotel that we were staying at, and asked me what “this” was — “this” being French Toast. I couldn’t believe that they, French citizens who had lived in Paris all their lives, had never encountered something that had been called “French” Toast for my entire life, but that would explain it.
The funny thing about “freedom toast” in the article is that French Toast, before WWI, was originally called German Toast, but then was changed to French Toast in the United States. (Ironically considering the amount of real guilt involved, WWI had much more vicious anti-German propaganda and actions during the war than WWII. Propaganda about “the hun” and anti-German-American sentiment were very high during WWI, while WWII was relatively quiet, most people not even knowing about the real atrocities of WWII, as opposed to the propaganda ones of WWI, until after the war.)
I have a friend who was visiting the States from Paris with his wife. One morning, he and his wife were in the dining room of the hotel that we were staying at, and asked me what “this” was — “this” being French Toast. I couldn’t believe that they, French citizens who had lived in Paris all their lives, had never encountered something that had been called “French” Toast for my entire life, but that would explain it.