Stick to milk in a bag: Canadian chef outrages Brits with ridiculous toad in the hole recipe
"This is the worst tweet to come out of America this week."
Itâs a #toadinthehole kind of morning. @drnategoldsteinâs first. https://t.co/MFSmzCAymA pic.twitter.com/gpWOnFnara
— Mitchell Davis (@kitchensense) December 3, 2017
A Canadian food writer's unconventional take on a classic British dish has left the UK's food-lovers in despair.
Mitchell Davis, a successful critic and chef who resides in New York, tweeted a picture of a baked egg and bread combo with the caption: "It's a #toadinthehole kind of morning. @drnategoldstein's first."
Anyone who has eaten the dish will know it typically consists of sausages baked in Yorkshire pudding and, despite the name, is really quite delicious.
Davis's recipe – a slice of bread without any meat or pastry – was something the British public was not going to stand for.
Prominent critic Jay Rayner lambasted it in the politest way possible. He said: "I've just told the great US food writer @kitchensense that describing this as toad in the hole would result in an international incident. Clearly we are divided by a common language."
One replied: "I share your outrage. It does look a bit more like an actual toad in a hole somehow though."
"Yeah this is not toad in the hole, and I've never heard anyone call it this so that's weird to me. Egg in a hole, or egg in a nest," said another.
This is Toad in the Hole. pic.twitter.com/fq7Tyoajov
— Swanboy (@2swangen24) December 3, 2017
Eeeeeks! pic.twitter.com/JNwomgEHVY
— Hannah Dods (@HanConversocial) December 3, 2017
What vision of hell is this
— Nicholas Templeman (@shoesbynoonoo) December 3, 2017
Nomenclature aside, Iâve rarely seen a more depressing breakfast. Is it Scandinavian?
— lisa.moab (@lisamoab) December 4, 2017
This is the worst tweet to come out of America this week.
— Simon the angry one (@HillsideD) December 3, 2017
Other Twitter users 'reimagined' other foods in the style of Davis.
I am having this delicious pizza #pizza #pie pic.twitter.com/GyX5yZLls4
— alex (@meta_content) December 3, 2017
I woke up this morning and fancied a nice steak. pic.twitter.com/CXCic2HDVp
— Old Man Student (@StudentBremner) December 3, 2017
here's a lasagna i made earlier pic.twitter.com/OvY90aHiBI
— katie ð» (@katieel__) December 3, 2017
Davis was unapologetic and would not back down. To North Americans toad in the hole is very different to how it is made in Britain.
#fakenews https://t.co/RvZEIDHwAP
— Mitchell Davis (@kitchensense) December 3, 2017
I grew up in Toronto where this was what we called it. https://t.co/7QI6qrXEUh
— Mitchell Davis (@kitchensense) December 3, 2017
His fellow Americans were happy to back him up:
In Canada that is called Toad in a Hole. https://t.co/sIMqbML7e9
— Bryan Leblanc (@bryan_leblanc) December 3, 2017
It's what I knew as 'toad in the hole' as a kid...
— Lynne Murphy (@lynneguist) December 3, 2017
wait...if thatâs not Toad in the Hole, what is?
— Victor G D Garvey (@ChefVGDG) December 3, 2017
Same - and I have no idea why! I make this for my kids all the time and they always wonder why it's called that...
— breana (@breana) December 3, 2017
If this fallout proves anything it is that when it comes to food, the UK and the US don't always see eye to eye. Hopefully our two great nations can draw a line under this and move on, right?
Someone needs to be reminded who invented the language... ;)
— Fergus Macleod (@fergusmacleod) December 3, 2017
If that is a toad in the hole, then I am Donald Trump
— Simon (@SiCornwell) December 3, 2017
That is the most unappetising plate of food I have ever seen and I've eaten some crap in my time~
— Paul McCaffrey (@fendermac) December 3, 2017
That's hundred year old tomatoes, some ear wax slices and don't even get me started on the egg thing. #notoad
— Julian Rowlands (@jrbando) December 3, 2017