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Cameron PM
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So soon * 'll be taking off for a holiday-type-event in Florida. * was there twice, once when * was younger with my parents and another with my school's old band, so * never did have to do much talking.
Last time * was there, * went for breakfast at the hotel's restaurant and they asked me how * liked my eggs - stupid as * was, * told the girl * liked them "fried" and she, and the whole counter laughed at me.
So what is some things * 've got to keep in mind? * know they don't drink proper tea down there and they don't understand what a ground floor is. Can anyone help me? * 'm literally going to write these things down in my cheque book to remember.
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Bostonman
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Don't worry -- even my (American, born and bred) mother has a funny story about the first time someone asked how she liked her eggs, just since they didn't eat out much when she was a kid!
I'd add that "iced tea" will almost always mean sweat tea. If you want it unsweetened, ask specifically if they have unsweetened iced tea.
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Originally posted by Bostonman:
I'd add that "iced tea" will almost always mean sweat tea.
Must be what they mean by a cold sweat.
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Don't know about Florida, but "iced tea" comes unsweetened in a huge area of the country by default. I'm drinking some now. To be safe, just specify "sweet" or "unsweetened" wherever you are, and you won't have to deal with regional weirdnesses.
"I'm not from around here. Could you explain what you mean a bit more?" should get you a lot of help.
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Floridian reporting in.
Shame on whomever. We do know what a fried egg is, but I suspect your leg was being pulled. You might want to ask, instead, for over light (runny yolk, barely set white), over medium (more done), well done. There is also a spoon egg, where the hot grease (of whatever provenance) is spooned over the egg until the desired degree of doneness. Of course, there are the other alternatives; scrambled, poached, hard boiled, etc.
To get good tea, made properly, just come to my house. Otherwise a lot of restaurants around here will ask if you want your iced tea sweet or un.
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ChastMastr
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I have nothing useful to suggest but I hope you will enjoy your time here in Florida!!
(I'm in Clearwater which is part of Tampa Bay on the west side of the peninsula.)
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Amanda B. Reckondwythe
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Originally posted by jedijudy:
There is also a spoon egg, where the hot grease (of whatever provenance) is spooned over the egg until the desired degree of doneness.
I've heard that called basted egg.
And there's sunny side up (fried on one side only, not flipped over).
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I had an American to visit, had to do a full English breakfast, of course, and asked how he liked his egg, and he said "over easy" which he did not get as I had never done it and didn't want to risk trying for the first time on that occasion!
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I only spent 5 days in Miami once, and for so far as I can tell there were no cultural misunderstandings.
The fun thing is that in those 5 days I haven't spoken a word of English.
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Originally posted by Cameron PM:
...I went for breakfast at the hotel's restaurant and they asked me how I liked my eggs - stupid as I was, I told the girl I liked them "fried" and she, and the whole counter laughed at me.
We like our fried eggs 'over medium'. I don't cook them - I just eat them: my wife does the frying. Most of the time we have cheddar cheese omelettes as she cooked for us this morning...
The computer doesn't know how to spell omelette, but I do!
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The problem I've had is that "over easy" and "over medium" mean different things to different cooks. I've ordered eggs "over easy" and got snot encased in a tissue-thin layer of solid white. And I've ordered them "over medium" and gotten white shoe rubber encasing completely solid yolks. And in both cases was told "that's what over easy/medium [delete as needed] means."
If you must have a fried egg, tell the waiter exactly how done you want the white and the yolk, respectively. Then whatever they call it at that restaurant, you stand a fairly decent chance of getting what you want.
As for me, I've stopped ordering fried eggs when eating out.
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Any breakfast place I've ever been to will do over easy, sunny side up, over firm, scrambled, poached, or in an omelette, but almost never shirred. When I'm in doubt, I go for scrambled.
Tea in Canadian restaurants usually means teabag. Iced tea means vaguely tea flavoured sugar water. Safest way to get it iced in my experience is to ask for tea and for a glass of ice. Tea always means hot, unless you say 'iced' or commonly "ice". A confusing thing at times in the USA where you have to specify 'hot' sometimes. You make your own tea and pour over the ice. I do this very rarely. I don't recall anywhere in Europe having iced tea.
My experience in American restaurants for breakfast is eggs will come with enough food to feed more than one: toast, bacon, sausages, potatoes, sometimes pancakes.
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Originally posted by no prophet:
Any breakfast place I've ever been to will do over easy, sunny side up, over firm, scrambled, poached, or in an omelette, but almost never shirred.
I've never even heard of a shirred egg! I almost wondered if it were a misspelling (sweat tea indeed!) but have looked it up and it appears to be some sort of bizarre baked thing. Can someone confirm?
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ChastMastr
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Originally posted by mousethief:
If you must have a fried egg, tell the waiter exactly how done you want the white and the yolk, respectively. Then whatever they call it at that restaurant, you stand a fairly decent chance of getting what you want.
That's what I do. "Yolks runny, whites cooked," is what I say. Sometimes they ask, "Oh, over medium?" or the like, and I just say, "I don't know, just yolks runny and whites cooked." And if they aren't like that, I send it back as politely as possible.
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The last time I recall us having this discussion, I was one of those complaining about how hard it is to get eggs fried medium.
We exposed yet another pond difference. Ken said something like "What on earth is up with you people? These are fried eggs we're talking about!" Other British types agreed with him.
I suppose he had a point, but I do like mine medium (-ish). And I still miss you, Ken.
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The problem is that English--and perhaps Canadian--cooks have never figured out how to turn a fried egg (also,they fry them in oil instead of butter or bacon fat). Mousethief is correct--if you are fussy, define your terms. My version of over easy is to cook them on one side until the white is just barely opaque, then turn them and cook the other side for about 30 seconds.
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Sioni Sais
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Never mind getting fried eggs done right (and yes, some British cooks do cook them in butter) can't anyone do scrambled eggs right? Too often they are overcooked to a disgusting degree. Omelette ditto.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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You'd probably hate mine Sioni. I have an abhorrence of liquid egg white and will "overcook" to avoid any danger of it.
I can turn fried eggs over. Doing so without breaking the yolks is the difficult bit.
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
...can't anyone do scrambled eggs right? Too often they are overcooked to a disgusting degree.
I never order scrambled eggs in a restaurant for that reason. My favorite restaurant serves eggs the way I like them when I order 'over easy'.
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The first time we went to Florida we were totally bewildered by the choice of ways they cook eggs! The waitress was very patient in describing all the choices.
Turns out my favourite kind is called 'over easy' - which means fried with solid white and runny yolk, turned briefly to make sure there are no snotty white bits.
Can't bear snotty eggs!
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I've never even heard of a shirred egg! I almost wondered if it were a misspelling (sweat tea indeed!) but have looked it up and it appears to be some sort of bizarre baked thing. Can someone confirm?
Nothing bizarre at all. It is sort of like a quiche, but hold the garbage. If done right, the texture is to die for along with a hint of butter. Like an angel dancing on my tongue.
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
..."Yolks runny, whites cooked," ...
This is over easy. So you can eat the white with a fork, and dip your toast or potatoes in the yolk!
And, please, no ketchup! ![[Projectile]](graemlins/puke2.gif)
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I prefer, "over easy," myself but, really, none of us should be ordering them now that salmonella is so prevalent in our America eggs. Order our sausage and pancakes with maple syrup instead! Tell them to bring extra butter.
My American father got laughed at in an American restaurant for ordering a "four minute egg." He meant soft boiled but no one here does that anymore.
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Stercus Tauri
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Why "over easy"? That's how I like them too, but what does it actually mean? When I am home and am faced with the traditional Scottish cardiac breakfast, they are always "sunny side up", but you never hear that phrase there. Or do you?
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Cameron PM
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Originally posted by Stercus Tauri:
Why "over easy"? That's how I like them too, but what does it actually mean? When I am home and am faced with the traditional Scottish cardiac breakfast, they are always "sunny side up", but you never hear that phrase there. Or do you?
The only reason I know about sunny-side up is because of this thread, but that's usually how I have my eggs anyways. Last time I was there, I was made fun of a lot - I was younger, so easier to victimise I guess.
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Ariel
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1) Fried in a little butter until the white is done and the yolk not quite. Not turned over. Served with either bacon, sausage, mushrooms, tomatoes and toast, or ham and chips, depending on what time of day it is and where you are. Ham, egg and chips when properly done may be simple but can be very satisfying.
2) Hardboiled and sliced in a ham and egg sandwich, though a good egg sandwich by itself can be a pleasure, seasoned with a bit of salt and pepper and with two slices of freshly baked bread, and the butter melting a bit from the still warm sliced egg.
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I like my egg fried (one side) together with cheese and oregano.
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Firenze
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Breakfast eggs makes me think of a hotel in Zurich which offered a boil-your-own facility. It was quite a delicate calculation to get the egg at the exact point of set white/runny yolk, depending as it did how many other people were dumping eggs into the communal saucepan.
The other place I used to commission a boiled egg was a rather upscale wine estate/hotel in the Western Cape. The breakfast chef, who was more accustomed to doing fried, scrambled or omelettes, would nevertheless rustle up a satisfactory boiled egg - except they had no eggcups, and I'd be given it in a ramekin.
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Ariel
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Originally posted by Firenze:
Breakfast eggs makes me think of a hotel in Zurich which offered a boil-your-own facility. It was quite a delicate calculation to get the egg at the exact point of set white/runny yolk, depending as it did how many other people were dumping eggs into the communal saucepan.
We had that at college. You also had to label your own egg so you'd know it again. It usually resulted in a small group of people standing round the cauldron, watch in one hand, spoon in the other, jostling each other as they tried to read the by-now semi-legible lettering on the eggshells and scoop the relevant one out just in time.
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I know what "sunny-side up" means, and have since childhood, so in these parts at least it's part of the dialect.
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
..."Yolks runny, whites cooked," ...
This is over easy.
Or over medium, depending upon the restaurant. Really. This is why you must specify what you want. It is pointless to give a directive they may or may not understand the way you do, then when your eggs come back snotty to say, "Well that's not what MOST REAL AMERICANS mean by 'over easy' so what's wrong with YOU people?" Much easier to just say "I want the yolks runny and the whites firm." I learned this the hard way. Or rather, runny-slimy way.
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Order our sausage and pancakes with maple syrup instead! Tell them to bring extra butter.
Outside of New England and upstate New York, real maple syrup is very rare in restaurants. They give you some yucky "pancake syrup" even when it says "maple syrup" on the menu. Real butter is sometimes hard to find as well.
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Boiled. Left out of the fridge overnight, then put gently into boiling water and simmered for 4 minutes and ten seconds - for a large egg as defined in England. Result - runny yolk (suitable for dipping 'soldiers' and firm white).
Until recently, only enjoyed on holiday as eggs were, apparently 'bad for you'! It was claimed they raised cholesterol or something. Now we're told they are actually very good for us - I wish they would make up their minds!!
Fried eggs are OK (especially with ham or bacon) done with firm white and runny yolk but not turned. I don't know why anyone should find this difficult to achieve!
What is difficult is a good omelette - fortunately Mrs TonyK is excellent at these so we enjoy an omelette two or three times a month.
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Egg breakfasts are a specialty on most restaurants where I live. When I ask for over easy, that's what I get,with home fries and meat or sliced tomatoes.
At home, I make a two-egg omelet. Sometimes with home fries with a vegetable like spinach on the side. Never toast.
In England I quite enjoy grilled tomatoes.
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I tend to avoid the Full English in the US. It's just not right, so I will go for pancakes or omelettes and what have you, or porridge (but you have to ask for oatmeal).
I tend to wait till I get back home for proper fried eggs, good quality bacon and sausages to die for (usually all from Chatsworth Farm Shop), along with good bread (I loathe toast with breakfast. Toast FOR breakfast is fine).
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Fried eggs should be not so much fried as poached in butter.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by deano:
I tend to avoid the Full English in the US. It's just not right, so I will go for pancakes or omelettes and what have you, or porridge (but you have to ask for oatmeal).
I tend to wait till I get back home for proper fried eggs, good quality bacon and sausages to die for (usually all from Chatsworth Farm Shop), along with good bread (I loathe toast with breakfast. Toast FOR breakfast is fine).
The man speaks the truth especially re: toast. Fried bread or fried potatoes are OK but not toast and definitely not chips.
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Bostonman
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Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
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Originally posted by deano:
I tend to avoid the Full English in the US. It's just not right, so I will go for pancakes or omelettes and what have you, or porridge (but you have to ask for oatmeal).
I tend to wait till I get back home for proper fried eggs, good quality bacon and sausages to die for (usually all from Chatsworth Farm Shop), along with good bread (I loathe toast with breakfast. Toast FOR breakfast is fine).
The man speaks the truth especially re: toast. Fried bread or fried potatoes are OK but not toast and definitely not chips.
Fried bread is one that I'd never encountered until I spent a summer in England. Just seemed like extremely buttered toast to me.
My ideal is about a six-minute egg (yolks custardy, neither runny nor solid) on top of buttered toast and Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese with some nice summer tomato and a bit of salt and pepper.
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Fried bread is one that I'd never encountered until I spent a summer in England. Just seemed like extremely buttered toast to me.
Buttered toast? Why would you fry bread in oil or butter when you have perfectly good bacon fat available?
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Originally posted by Stercus Tauri:
Why "over easy"? That's how I like them too, but what does it actually mean? When I am home and am faced with the traditional Scottish cardiac breakfast, they are always "sunny side up", but you never hear that phrase there. Or do you?
Only all my life. That was my preffered fried egg when i was a little girl.
I have had pretty good luck around here with over- medium orders.
When I was in England I ordered a full English and discovered I actually like beans on toast. Neutral on toast, generally hate baked beans, but the two together? Yum!
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Originally posted by Stercus Tauri:
Why "over easy"? That's how I like them too, but what does it actually mean?
Did anyone actually answer this? "Over" because the egg gets turned over, and "easy" because you go easy on cooking the second side -- cook it just enough to make sure the white is not snotty (per Boogie's perfect description).
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My ideal is about a six-minute egg (yolks custardy, neither runny nor solid) on top of buttered toast and Vermont extra sharp cheddar cheese with some nice summer tomato and a bit of salt and pepper.
That's going to be my breakfast in the morning -- I'll pick the tomato while the eggs are cooking.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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What I don't understand is that there are presumably people who do want their eggs snotty, or no-one'd ever do them that way. Are they the same people who are responsible for the half-cooked anaemic bacon with floppy rubbery fat on it that infests canteens and supermarket cafés?
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Eggs are of the devil and you are all going to hell in an egg-basket.
They are acceptable in cakes, meringues and batter based products.
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Karl: Liberal Backslider
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Eggs are of the devil and you are all going to hell in an egg-basket.
They are acceptable in cakes, meringues and batter based products.
I expected better Pyx. Shouldn't there be a "and people who like them are worse than Hitler" in there?
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Pete forgot to mention that there is at least one person in India who cooks good scrambled egg - not dried out but moist and succulent and full of herbs and garlic and fresh black pepper - fab on Rye toast, even if I do say it myself.
Baked beans [UK style] on toast benefit from a scattering of grated sharp cheese on top and flashing under the grill so it melts a bit. The beans also need a little butter or Brown Sauce adding.
[When I saw the thread title I thought it was referring back to the old condom advert: "How do you like your eggs in the morning? Fertilised or unfertilised?]
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Pomona
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I like my fried eggs sunny side up, runny yolk and cooked white, and crispy and lacy on the bottom. I like my scrambled eggs really soft and creamy though, and I prefer my (back only please, and smoked if possible) bacon to not be crispy except for a little crisping of the fat. Fried bread is a lovely treat, I haven't had it in years though. White toast and real butter otherwise, and hash browns. I do prefer good-quality sausages to bacon generally though, especially Italian-style ones with fennel seed.
Wetherspoons breakfasts are shockingly good.
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Penny S
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Fried bread varies a lot. Some eateries seem to deep fry it (along with the mushrooms). I personally find deep frying a non-breakfasty process. I use the bread to soak up the pan juices, so not just fried in the fat, but also holding the tomato juice. Depending on the tomatoes, and the fat quantity, it may not be crisp.
Eateries also vary in the contents of the full English. I do not go for tinned tomatoes, which seem to be the favoured form, or tinned mushrooms, and prefer to omit the beans. If offered black pudding, I will go for that. Proper bubble and squeak (mash and cabbage, like fried colcannon, except on Boxing Day, when other left overs may be added. But not peas. Eatery b&s varies and may be best avoided), or left over mash, or sliced up potatoes are things I use. Many places now use frozen hash browns for the potato bit - I'm not sure how authentic these are.
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