Toast Egg Hole Food Naming

[eredien]

Here is a little instructional recipe comic about how to Make the food with Eggs in a Hole in Toast, which I don't even eat.

Why was I so interested in this dish? Well, here is a spreadsheet on what to call it. There are at least 62 different names that I found. Is there any other food with this many accepted variations on the name? I wonder why there are so many. Maybe it is a regional linguistic difference, like the coke/pepsi thing.

I had originally hoped to make a Venn Diagram of the entire thing, before I realized that:
a.) Open Office cannot generate Venn Diagrams
b.) This spreadsheet would make an interesting problem in the current mathematical limits of Venn diagramming.

If you are a computer scientist or a linguist and would like to analyze this data, please do so. Or, if you are an artist who wants to give it a go. I think that it would make an interesting problem in the limits of Venn diagramming.

Names that statistically should occur but don't exist include:
One-Eyed Hobo
One-Eyed Pirate (I cannot believe this combination does not exist)
Pirate's Eggs
Sun & Moon (Pretty obvious, with the round things...)
Sunny Toasts
Sun's Eye
Sun in the Hole
Sun in a Window (or this one)
Toad in a Blanket
Baby in a Basket
Baby in a Nest
Baby in a Blanket (or this one...why is the Baby in a Hole, for God's sake, instead of a basket or nest or blanket?)
Toasty Eggs (The reversal is obvious)
Hen's Eye
Chick's Eyes (Maybe these are too gross for some people, but why is a Camel's Eye a lot better?)
Gaslight Windows (Steampunk Brunches Everywhere may adopt this term).
Chicks in a Hole
Chicks in the Egg (Seriously?)
Hen on a Nest (Seriously, seriously?)

Comments

[skygiants]

Me too! For a while I also got them both confused with Spotted Dick, until I realized that, puns aside, Spotted Dick had nothing to do with sausages.

[nightengalesknd.livejournal.com]

Huh, the Bubble and Squeak recipes I've seen did not include sausages, just mashed up fried veggies. I did a lot better with all these dishes after a friend brought me back a cookbook from England!

[eredien]

The only Bubble & Squeak recipe I have ever used involved bacon; the first time I ever saw it cooked it was in a colonial historical reenactment village. I thought it was the best thing ever--cabbbage, bacon, raisins. I was a weird little kid.