Comment by resoluteteeth
3 years ago
If the bracketed note is simply a suggestion by the translator, at the very least it shouldn't be included in the quote in the Wikipedia article because it's misleading.
3 years ago
If the bracketed note is simply a suggestion by the translator, at the very least it shouldn't be included in the quote in the Wikipedia article because it's misleading.
That would be a pretty strange change to make by itself. It would solve the problem that the article attributes a quote to the Apicius that doesn't actually appear anywhere in the Apicius. But it would create the much more immediately obvious problem that bread soaked in milk, fried, and served with honey cannot plausibly be described as French toast.
I mean yeah if eggs are essential for it to be french toast then there's no point in including the reference at all.
But an alternative for the wikipedia article I guess would be to just clarify that there was a dish of bread soaked in milk that has been compared to french toast, but that it didn't actually have eggs so it's debatable whether it really counts.