8 Foods That Don't Come From Where You Think

French toast goes by many names eggy bread, wentelteefjes, gypsy toast, sweet toast but the contents are usually the same egg, milk, sometimes sugar, sometimes vanilla, cook. You may be forgiven for assuming the dish originates in France what with the French bit in the title but you would be making an ass of u and me.

The first mention of what would be known as toast by a thousand titles was first found in a 5th century Roman coookbook called Cookery and Dining in Imperial Rome by Apicius, but obviously the title was in latin. The book in itself is fascinating not just for the earliest known recipe for french toast but it also gives helpful advice on the preparation of flamingo. Yum.

Once you have bread it's not revolutionary to soak it in something and cooking it but this is certainly the earliest refernce to the dish so the Roman's get the credit, but what else have they done for us?