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Soldiers (food)

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reported the invention of a device for cutting bread into soldiers. Shaped cutters to produce soldiers shaped like human soldiers are also available.
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The specific English term "eggs with soldiers" appears to date from the 1960s. The modern phrase first appeared in print in 1966 in British writer
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A sa gauche, Annou lui taille des mouillettes pour ses oeufs, des oeufs du matin, blancs, crémeux, duvetés
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to a "garnish of fry'd Bread, cut the length of one's Finger", as an accompaniment to boiled tench.
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Toast
United Kingdom
toasted
bread
soft-boiled egg
mouillettes
ApprĂȘte
piquettes
French Normand
lichettes
Lorraine Franconian
The Daily Telegraph
England
Alphonse Daudet
Le Petit Chose

Nicolas Freeling
Tony Hancock
Patricia Hayes
List of toast dishes
icon
Food portal



"Foods of England - Toast Soldiers"
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978-1-61312-211-2
Britspeak - An Urban Guide to Most Things British: A Cocktail that Includes a Dash of Cockney Rhyming Slang, English as She is Spoken, Food and a Little British Tradition

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