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" I have a special relationship with French toast. I can&amp;#039;t remember if it stemmed from desire or maybe just curiosity, but it was the first thing I ever learned how to make by myself. Granted it isn&amp;#039;t brain surgery, but for an 8 year-old kid, making French toast is surely something to derive some sense of accomplishment from. I would like to think that the first batch of egg-battered breadstuff I served up from nonstick pan to plate was culinary perfection, but more likely it was barely passable as French toast. Since then I have perfected my French toast making skills to a near science, but no matter how sweet it is, French toast still requires a fair amount of labor to produce.    Over the last decade or so, readymade frozen French toast has found its niche in grocery store freezers. Despite the ingenuity of this product, the results are more often than not gravely disappointing. Soggy, syrupy, and generally foul, these slices of convenience pale in comparison to the real thing. But as mentioned above, the real thing takes some time and significant effort and is hardly practical for a rushed weekday morning routine. So you can eat a bagel instead, or go for something equally toaster-friendly like Van&amp;#039;s French Toast Sticks.  Not exactly sticks, more like thin slices of French toast bread subtly perforated into three long pieces, Van&amp;#039;s French Toast Sticks are a vast improvement on what used to pass for frozen French toast. While they are something short of a revelation, this wheat free and gluten free convenience food somehow gets it right with a reasonably crusty and fragrant facsimile. Right out of the toaster they are crisp and warm with a center that is dense, but not soggy or too dry. There is a faint perfume of molasses and a caramel-like flavor to the toast, but nothing overpowering or gratuitous. For the most part (even with the gluten free feature, which is barely perceptible) they taste like conventional French toast (less like fancy homemade French toast, and more akin to something adequate and satisfying that you might order at a local diner). Van&amp;#039;s French Toast Sticks come in boxes of 6 (approx $3.50) and are sold at Shoprite, Barrons, Wild Oats, and Whole Foods Markets.   "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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