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Posted by Cameron PM (# 18142) on
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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.
[ 18. September 2014, 08:30: Message edited by: Firenze ]
Posted by Bostonman (# 17108) on
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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.
Posted by Spike (# 36) on
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If someone says they'll give you a ride, it doesn't mean they're propositioning you, it just means they're offering you a lift.
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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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.
Posted by Lamb Chopped (# 5528) on
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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.
Posted by jedijudy (# 333) on
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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.
The restroom is not for resting, it's the loo.
North Florida has more of what folks think of as southerners. South Florida will have more transplants from the north. Accents will vary.
We talk louder than y'all. Don't be alarmed!
Any particular questions you might have, just ask!
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Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on
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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.)
Posted by Amanda B. Reckondwythe (# 5521) on
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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).
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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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!
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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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.
Posted by Sir Kevin (# 3492) on
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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!
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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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.
[ 01. September 2014, 22:40: Message edited by: mousethief ]
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on
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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.
Posted by Bostonman (# 17108) on
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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?
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on
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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.
Posted by basso (# 4228) on
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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.
Posted by Timothy the Obscure (# 292) on
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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.
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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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.
Posted by ExclamationMark (# 14715) on
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Preferably outside the chicken and before they become green
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on
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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.
Posted by Moo (# 107) on
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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'.
Moo
Posted by Boogie (# 13538) on
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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!
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on
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Originally posted by Bostonman:
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.
Posted by sharkshooter (# 1589) on
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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)
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on
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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.
Posted by Stercus Tauri (# 16668) on
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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?
Posted by Cameron PM (# 18142) on
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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.
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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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.
[ 02. September 2014, 19:39: Message edited by: Ariel ]
Posted by LeRoc (# 3216) on
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I like my egg fried (one side) together with cheese and oregano.
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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... and a good omelette is wonderful.
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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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.
[ 02. September 2014, 19:57: Message edited by: Firenze ]
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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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.
Posted by mousethief (# 953) on
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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 sharkshooter:
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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.
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on
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Originally posted by mousethief:
I learned this the hard way. Or rather, runny-slimy way.
I as well.
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Originally posted by Twilight:
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.
Posted by TonyK (# 35) on
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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.
Posted by PeteC (# 10422) on
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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.
Posted by deano (# 12063) on
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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).
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on
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Fried eggs should be not so much fried as poached in butter.
Posted by Sioni Sais (# 5713) on
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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.
Posted by Bostonman (# 17108) on
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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.
Posted by Leorning Cniht (# 17564) on
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Originally posted by Bostonman:
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?
Posted by Kelly Alves (# 2522) on
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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!
Posted by RuthW (# 13) on
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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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Originally posted by Bostonman:
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.
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on
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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?
Posted by Pyx_e (# 57) on
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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.
Posted by Karl: Liberal Backslider (# 76) on
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Originally posted by Pyx_e:
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?
Posted by Welease Woderwick (# 10424) on
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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?]
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on
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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.
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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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.
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on
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This is making me hungry.
I haven't made fried bread in so long...
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
I like my fried eggs sunny side up, runny yolk and cooked white, and crispy and lacy on the bottom.
Oh, Jade! You said some things on the feminist thread that shocked me a little but nothing like this. The egg you described is an egg ruined and should be given to the dog. No egg should have a rind.
To all the sunny side up, people -- that's a tasty egg but turning it "over easy," for two seconds keeps the yolk runny but cooks that clear film over the egg which is a bit "snotty," otherwise. Beware though, cooks in restaurants often turn it for three seconds and that starts to harden the yolk.
Question: I often come across characters in British books saying they're going to have, "an egg," for dinner. When we have eggs, the three of us usually use up a dozen and I would never bother to make less than three for myself, so is it true that dainty English sorts actually only eat one egg at a time?
Posted by deano (# 12063) on
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Bacon, fried eggs, sausage, black pudding and mushrooms, and fresh crusty bread. Perhaps a blob or brown sauce but only after the runny bit if the yolks are gone.
No beans or tomatoes. Not keen on too much liquid.
After that's all gone maybe a slice or two of toast with just butter.
The bread must be British so not sweet, and the butter must be salted.
And a nice cup of tea.
So, who's going to come round my house to cook it for me? Because the mrs says I'm too fat and can't have any of it. Only half a grapefruit. Ooooooh!
Posted by deano (# 12063) on
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Sorry for the double post but I do like Delia's omelettes. No whisking, just a bit of a stir with a knife to break the yolks and merge them into the whites; pan as hot as you dare before burning the butter; eggs in and give them fifteen seconds or so so start setting; then start to shove the edges into the centre, letting raw batter run into the gap. Continue until no more batter runs into the gap.
Dump any cheese into the middle
Tip the lot onto a plate folding it over. If it takes more than a minute you have overcooked it. The cheese will melt by the time you have walked to the table and sat down.
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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Originally posted by Twilight:
Question: I often come across characters in British books saying they're going to have, "an egg," for dinner. When we have eggs, the three of us usually use up a dozen and I would never bother to make less than three for myself, so is it true that dainty English sorts actually only eat one egg at a time?
It has been known. I'm guessing it would be a boiled egg, possibly with some bread, cut up into fingers to dip into it, and some salt, to dip the eggy fingers into.
The Full English Breakfast when done properly is a joy that should ideally be served at a table on a sunny terrace, with a pot of really good, fragrant coffee. My perfect version will not include fried bread.
The Full English Breakfast From Hell, by contrast, is eaten in a windowless room and consists of bacon that shatters on impact with the fork, tinned tomatoes, rubbery tinned, sliced mushrooms, sausages with a thin leather coating, a well and truly fried egg with hard yolk, and fried bread. This is invariably served as hard, brown, crunchy and oozing grease. The toast will arrive cold and leathery halfway through breakfast. Serve with a cracked mug of stale instant coffee and a minuscule carton of artificial milk and the day is yours. If you are very lucky you may have the chance of a bowl of Shredded Cardboard to start.
Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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For dinner is odd, I think. Dinner is the main meal, whether midday or evening according to class and locality. High Tea - the sort with a savoury dish, and sandwiches, and scones, and cake, not the dainty sort - or Supper - the sort which is a meal and not just a milky drink and biscuits - are where I would expect an egg. Boiled, poached, or fried on toast. With all the other stuff to eat, more than one egg would be too much.
I'm starting to fancy a poached egg on poached smoked haddock... with the yolk running down and mixing with the butter, and the juices mopped up with brown bread.
This is odd. The past few days I've had insomnia and feeling very under the weather, and unable to cook. I manage to eat half the amount of salad I usually do, and little else. But here I am waxing enthusiastic about food. (And on another site about comfort eating of bread and milk...)
And my weight is shooting up mysteriously. I can't eat any of the stuff I'm fantasising about, anyway.
Posted by balaam (# 4543) on
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Originally posted by Ariel:
The Full English Breakfast ... My perfect version will not include fried bread.
Then it is not really "Full" English. The type of bacon is important, it has to be back bacon, not streaky, cooked until the edges start to crispen and no more. Brown sauce to go with the black pudding is also a must. Eggs are the only variable, they can be fried, poached or scrambled, but never any of this Transatlantic over-easy thing.
Posted by Heavenly Anarchist (# 13313) on
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If I was to have an egg as a main meal it would usually be one egg poached and served on fish or ham or one or two eggs served in coconut masala. I would never have more than two, even if I was just having them on toast as a light lunch.
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on
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Cool Hand Luke can eat fifty egg.
Posted by Firenze (# 619) on
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I've heard 'an egg for your tea' - but never dinner. Where I come from, it's also possible to have The Pan for your tea. ('Tea' in this context is meal eaten about 6). In Ireland, we don't confine frying stuff to breakfast time. Besides the eggs, bacon, sausages, black pudding and tomatoes, there has to be fried potato bread. And soda farls and butter. And sweet soda bread with more butter and jam. And tea. And later in the evening, a cup in your hand. And some cake. Which will tide you over until breakfast, when you can get the pan out again.
Posted by North East Quine (# 13049) on
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Scrambled egg on toast, which involves neither sharp knives nor boiling water, was the first meal we taught our kids to cook. Add a slice of cold ham between the toast and the egg, and some cheese grated over the top, followed by banana flan and - voila! The 8 year old had made the family dinner single-handedly.
Apart from that, though, I wouldn't think of eggs as a dinner dish.
Posted by ChastMastr (# 716) on
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I haven't done my afternoon teas in a million years it seems. I need to do them again.
One thing I do is boil several eggs for seven minutes, then put them under very cold running water so they stop cooking, and when cool enough to peel, do so.
Then shave off just a tiny bit off the bottom of the large end of the egg, so it can be stood up on a plate. Arrange on plate this way as desired.
You can sprinkle a dash of something on top of each egg, like paprika or curry powder.
Put a small mound (a teaspoon or so) of appropriate tasty spice powders (tandoori, curry, etc.) on the plate or plates.
Then dip your egg as desired into said mounds of spice and eat. Each person may want their own wee spice-mounds.
The yolk should be not runny but kind of semi-solid and is absolutely wonderful.
Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on
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As far as fried aggs go, it's definitely easy over for me. I like a runny yoke but I won't tolerate any uncooked white. After frying the bacon I fry my egg in the bacon fat.
Posted by Ad Orientem (# 17574) on
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Originally posted by deano:
No beans or tomatoes. Not keen on too much liquid.
They both belong in the breakfast, I reckon. What I do is I build a barrier with the crust of the toast so that the bean juice doesn't go on the egg. I believe in keeping all the parts separate. I don't like it when people cut everything up and mix it all together.
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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Originally posted by Firenze:
In Ireland, we don't confine frying stuff to breakfast time. Besides the eggs, bacon, sausages, black pudding and tomatoes, there has to be fried potato bread. And soda farls and butter. And sweet soda bread with more butter and jam. And tea. And later in the evening, a cup in your hand. And some cake. Which will tide you over until breakfast, when you can get the pan out again.
The Full English is never as good as the Full Irish. Fried bread or hash browns are no substitute for a good potato cake, hot from the pan, with butter melting into it and a sprinkling of salt on top, and a decent few slices of soda bread.
Potato cakes and fried eggs are a good breakfast in themselves as well.
Posted by la vie en rouge (# 10688) on
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Originally posted by Ariel:
The Full English Breakfast when done properly is a joy that should ideally be served at a table on a sunny terrace, with a pot of really good, fragrant coffee.
Heresy! English breakfast must be served with tea.
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Posted by Penny S (# 14768) on
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Weight dropping again. I have an interim target - when reached I will allow myself a breakfast. Until then I must just imagine all that butter.
Posted by luvanddaisies (# 5761) on
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Originally posted by Twilight:
Question: I often come across characters in British books saying they're going to have, "an egg," for dinner. When we have eggs, the three of us usually use up a dozen and I would never bother to make less than three for myself, so is it true that dainty English sorts actually only eat one egg at a time?
Er, yes. More than one egg for a meal is quite a lot. I'm guessing you're exaggerating a bit - that'd be four eggs each if you had a dozen between three ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
Maybe when I was a student eaten anything else for a day or two, and I was feeling like being gross and unhealthy I might have two fried eggs & chips.
[Disclaimer: you asked about English sorts. I don't know about them, I'm Scottish, but I guess they're probably similar in that regard anyway, as far as I can tell from living in England for years]
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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Mind you, if you order an omelette when eating out, chances are it will be made with 3-4 eggs.
Posted by Albertus (# 13356) on
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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
]Er, yes. More than one egg for a meal is quite a lot.
And of course in France you'd only have one egg because there one egg is ...drumroll...un oeuf!
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Posted by quetzalcoatl (# 16740) on
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Full English! Soda farls! 3 egg omelettes!
Sorry, got to dash to the kitchen, craving, ah, constant craving.
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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Thanks to this thread, I travelled to work this morning wanting beans on toast with a couple of rashers on the side.
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on
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Originally posted by Stercus Tauri:
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 time I have ever heard the phrase "sunny side up" used in the UK was in a US hotel chain. In this country fried eggs are sunny side up by default; I am not sure what would happen if you asked for it to be turned over and cooked on the other side.
Posted by Pigwidgeon (# 10192) on
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Originally posted by JoannaP:
The only time I have ever heard the phrase "sunny side up" used in the UK was in a US hotel chain. In this country fried eggs are sunny side up by default; I am not sure what would happen if you asked for it to be turned over and cooked on the other side.
I always ask for mine "over easy" (flipped over briefly). I sometimes get funny looks at English B&Bs, but they've always been happy to oblige -- probably shaking their heads (once back in the kitchen) at the strange things these Americans do.
Posted by Jade Constable (# 17175) on
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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
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Originally posted by Twilight:
Question: I often come across characters in British books saying they're going to have, "an egg," for dinner. When we have eggs, the three of us usually use up a dozen and I would never bother to make less than three for myself, so is it true that dainty English sorts actually only eat one egg at a time?
Er, yes. More than one egg for a meal is quite a lot. I'm guessing you're exaggerating a bit - that'd be four eggs each if you had a dozen between three
Maybe when I was a student eaten anything else for a day or two, and I was feeling like being gross and unhealthy I might have two fried eggs & chips.
[Disclaimer: you asked about English sorts. I don't know about them, I'm Scottish, but I guess they're probably similar in that regard anyway, as far as I can tell from living in England for years]
Two eggs with chips or ham/gammon and chips is just the norm, not gross and definitely not unhealthy. The chips, maybe
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Here in Canada, she says, looking left and right for backup, two eggs is the default for a breakfast serving of eggs and certainly would be the norm for an all day breakfast, ie. breakfast meal served at lunch and supper time.
Often there is also an option with only one slice of toast, one sausage or two strips of bacon, and one egg. It is most commonly on the seniors' section of the menu or given as a lighter option for those who are dieting.
I've never cooked only one egg except one time when I made a soft boiled egg to go with toast for someone else who was sick.
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on
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Originally posted by Jade Constable:
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Originally posted by luvanddaisies:
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Originally posted by Twilight:
When we have eggs, the three of us usually use up a dozen and I would never bother to make less than three for myself, so is it true that dainty English sorts actually only eat one egg at a time?
Er, yes. More than one egg for a meal is quite a lot. I'm guessing you're exaggerating a bit - that'd be four eggs each if you had a dozen between three
Maybe when I was a student eaten anything else for a day or two, and I was feeling like being gross and unhealthy I might have two fried eggs & chips.
Two eggs with chips or ham/gammon and chips is just the norm, not gross and definitely not unhealthy. The chips, maybe
Thank you, Jade. All is forgiven.
Yes actually, no exaggeration; son has four, hubs has three, I have three, two go into the French toast the men have with theirs. I have three eggs and two slices wheat toast with a little butter for a total of about 400 calories. Hardly a gross fattening meal and we only have it one night a week. (None of us eat breakfast, ever.)
Thinking about this, my mother grew up on a farm and said her older brothers usually ate five eggs a piece when they came in from the early chores. I do think Americans eat bigger portions ofjust about everything than most British and it may be due to less variety per meal and less meals.
Posted by sharkshooter (# 1589) on
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Originally posted by lily pad:
Here in Canada, she says, looking left and right for backup, two eggs is the default for a breakfast serving of eggs and certainly would be the norm for an all day breakfast, ie. breakfast meal served at lunch and supper time.
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Yes, the norm for breakfast in a Canadian restaurant (often called a "chef's special") is 2 eggs, 2 slices of toast, choice of sausages, bacon or ham, and home fries (potatoes). A "hungry man", or similarly worded, breakfast would be 3 eggs, 3 slices of toast, sausages, bacon AND ham, and home fries.
Posted by Augustine the Aleut (# 1472) on
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Originally posted by Ariel:
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Originally posted by Firenze:
In Ireland, we don't confine frying stuff to breakfast time. Besides the eggs, bacon, sausages, black pudding and tomatoes, there has to be fried potato bread. And soda farls and butter. And sweet soda bread with more butter and jam. And tea. And later in the evening, a cup in your hand. And some cake. Which will tide you over until breakfast, when you can get the pan out again.
The Full English is never as good as the Full Irish. Fried bread or hash browns are no substitute for a good potato cake, hot from the pan, with butter melting into it and a sprinkling of salt on top, and a decent few slices of soda bread.
Potato cakes and fried eggs are a good breakfast in themselves as well.
This sounds remarkably like the Full Ulster Fry, but which featured soda farls, and was known to feature the occasional kidney. The tea was made so as to double as a rawhide tanning agent, and milk (preferably from the cow and not a dairy) might colour it slightly.
Posted by lily pad (# 11456) on
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Originally posted by sharkshooter:
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Originally posted by lily pad:
Here in Canada, she says, looking left and right for backup, two eggs is the default for a breakfast serving of eggs and certainly would be the norm for an all day breakfast, ie. breakfast meal served at lunch and supper time.
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Yes, the norm for breakfast in a Canadian restaurant (often called a "chef's special") is 2 eggs, 2 slices of toast, choice of sausages, bacon or ham, and home fries (potatoes). A "hungry man", or similarly worded, breakfast would be 3 eggs, 3 slices of toast, sausages, bacon AND ham, and home fries.
Ah, too true. I forgot about the hungry man. Often pancakes are an option in place of the toast too. Funnily enough, since this thread started, I have had eggs three days in a row - fried over easy, egg salad sandwich, and scrambled.
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on
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I had to look up soda farls because I kept reading it wrong and thinking it was something that might happen if one drank one's bicarb too fast.
These lovely farls seem to be like buttermilk biscuits only cooked in a pan instead of the oven. Handy for days when it's too hot to turn on the oven!
Posted by Ariel (# 58) on
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Originally posted by Augustine the Aleut:
This sounds remarkably like the Full Ulster Fry, but which featured soda farls, and was known to feature the occasional kidney. The tea was made so as to double as a rawhide tanning agent, and milk (preferably from the cow and not a dairy) might colour it slightly.
I never had soda farls in Dublin - they might be a Northern Irish thing. The first time I ever had them was a few years ago when they appeared on sale here in English supermarkets. Soda bread made an appearance for a while, but now seems to have gone again along with brack.
The Really Full Irish contains all the items I've mentioned plus black pudding and white pudding.
Posted by JoannaP (# 4493) on
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[Homer Simpson voice]
Ummm white pudding
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Posted by Cameron PM (# 18142) on
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In Newfoundland, at any bed and breakfast or restaurant that's not of a popular chain - you'll get the full English or the full Irish, sometimes a combination of the both. Some mornings all I want is two pieces of toast, a boiled egg and blood pudding just for to taste. There's nothing better than being like a child an cutting your toast into strips to put into the yolk.
I was absolutely beyond myself when I went into an A&W and found their breakfast was just two toast, two egg, and bacon. It wasn't even proper bacon, just a few strips of skin hauled off the poor pig and shoved onto a pan. Whate'eer.
Posted by Twilight (# 2832) on
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Been watching the 14 hour documentary on PBs, "The Roosevelts."
Teddy Roosevelt is said to have eaten a dozen eggs every morning.
Posted by no prophet (# 15560) on
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Ostrich eggs take hours to cook.
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