I bet were seeing more of a rapid shift in language and food culture. Now that Caze has me thinking on the subject. Most of my younger family from Ireland routinely refer to French toast and most of them cook it the usual French way, sweet rather than savory.
but we’ll take a particular cousin from Dublin as an example. Her first trip to the US as an 8 year old she had my grandfather cook her French toast of the sweet variety for breakfast every day. Complained that at home they only had eggy bread. Except or two restaurants that were far away, And when she could get her dad to make it. Flash forward to her post college years and she was managing a cafe that’s apparently known for its French toast made on brioche with an insanely rich sweet custard base, cream added egg yolks sugar etc. She now refers to the dish as “French toast” universally regardless of how or where it’s made.
There’s been a really fast development of Irish food culture concurrent with the whole Celtic tiger thing. And hiberno-english has rabidly evolved and moved further from British English over the last 20 years. There have been similar shifts over in the UK, food wise.
