On Cooking: Making Really Soggy Cinnamon French Toast

All the stereotyping I'd absorbed from Hollywood has made me think putting "French" before a noun automatically makes it sound haute -- or snooty. Take your pick (exception: French fries).

Beware.
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But French toast is really just bread dunked into a mixture made up of beaten eggs and et ceteras -- milk, sugar, vanilla, hbzmdrohmaesnfgjmyrkldiy -- and fried. At least to my novice feelers, it's a simple, easy way to spice up regular toast, and a good way to start cooking -- toasting bread was probably the first thing about food preparation you learned how to do.