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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?)
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9/5/11 02:16 (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] khava.livejournal.com
I have always called this "Rocky Mountain Eggs," which is not listed but is close to the listed name "Rocky Mountain Toast." My mother claims we called it this because her brother always used to make them when he was camping in the Rocky Mountains, but I've long suspected that the name was more widespread than that.

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9/5/11 10:04 (UTC)
Posted by [identity profile] gallian.livejournal.com
We call it Rocky Mountain Toast, but I've never met anyone else who does. I always assumed it was my dads fault (it was a father-and-son dish from my brother's childhood.)

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