[HPFGU-OTChatter] Re: Full English Breakfast with **Brown Sauce**

[P. Alexis Nguyen]

montims:
> As to fried eggs, I had never known anyone, in England, Italy, or Germany,
> turn frying eggs over. When I came to the States I was totally dumbfounded
> to be asked how I wanted my fried eggs (uh - fried?)... I have learned now,
> but still do them "my" way at home... By the way, another shock to my
> system was discovering that Americans scramble eggs in a frying pan - we do
> it in a saucepan. I find American scrambled eggs much drier in texture -
> like chopped up omelette, whereas I prefer the creamier texture of eggs
> scrambled in a saucepan, but as ever it's what you've grown up with, and
> what you're used to...

It is a little weird to have so many ways to have your fried eggs
(coming from a person who didn't grow up with that herself), but you
can get sunny side up eggs at diners/restaurants/whatever - that's why
they ask you how you like your eggs.  A little anecdote: once when I
was little, I was told to make the fried eggs for dinner.  Not knowing
what to do, I flipped them as I've seen on TV, not thinking how the
eggs I ate never looked flipped.  Everyone at the table was a little
confused as to why the eggs were so very cooked, and the decision was
silently made that I wouldn't be allowed to do the fried eggs again -
I have long since figured out the problem but am still not making the
fried eggs when I go home.

As for the scrambled eggs, I don't know that I'd called them American
simply because they're dry; I'd probably just call them dry.  I've had
many homemade scrambles, and none have been as dry as the
diner/restaurant versions (or even dry), but then, we're not in as big
a hurry as those places.  (It's also that there are people who, like
some of my friends, prefer their eggs "dead," as in dry and as in
there is no such thing as a sunny side up/over easy egg.)

~Ali