curiosity

[cicirossi]

Do you have another name for a sunny side up or over easy egg? If so, what?

What do you call the potatoes you boil in the pot and drain and mix up with a utensil, stirring in milk or cream? ;) ETA: People! I do know that butter and other stuff like salt and pepper goes into this. I'm not stupid, I just want to know what you *call* them!

Comments

[squashed]

Sunny side up and over easy *nods*

Mashed potatoes.

Although like another poster, we call them smashed potatoes at home, and we do the roast beast thing, too *grins*

How would you answer the same questions?

[cicirossi]

soppin' eggs

mashed potatoes

;)

[tammylee]

*nods in agreement with all you've said*
Sometimes if I want my eggs quite runny I'll ask for them over soft and the waitress generally knows what I mean.

[tammylee]

You threw me off with the last line because I didn't read any butter going in there! I've never made mashed potatoes without butter/margarine in addition to milk.

[tygerseye]

We say sunny side up or over easy. ;-) And the potatoes are either mashed or smashed. My grandmother grew up caling them "whipped" but her mom actually whipped them with a beater/hand mixer.

[oshunanat]

I've heard the 'rents use both Sunny Side Up and Over Easy (though I don't like mine that way), I'm partial to Sunny Side Up myself.

And the potatoes sound like mashed, but I prefer mine whipped with milk + butter and a bit of cheese. Yummy.

[ephemera]

if I recall my us-ian correctly, sunny side up indicates a fried egg, and over easy, a fried egg you have mutilated by turning it over to cook both sides, so the yolks all hard and horrid, yes?

Mash, or mashed potatoes (smashed or creamed potatoes are variants I'm familiar with but mostly don't use) (and it's better with butter ;p)

[squashed]

Over easy would be turned over and left that way only briefly -- so the whites are hard, but the yellow is still soft. If you want the whole thing cooked through you have to say over-hard, or as I like it -- over dead.

;)

[ephemera]

nope - still an abomination upon the face of a fried egg ;p