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

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

I've always called them Rocky Mountain Toast. Hens in a Nest is a different dish involving eggs in biscuits made in a muffin pan, and I almost never make it because it requires medium eggs. (If you use the normal big ones, they overflow the little muffin cups.)

[eredien]

The eggs are in the middle of the biscuits, like a kind of breakfast jelly donut? That sounds really cool. How do you make it? I am thinking that would be delicious to try with biscuits and vegan cheese, not to mention freezable.

[fiddledragon.livejournal.com]

Not quite -- you kind of bend the raw biscuits (the recipe uses refrigerator biscuits, but any kind that's actually a dough rather than a batter would work) into little nests and put them in the muffin papers, then break an egg in the middle and bake. The original recipe has grated cheese and wheat germ on top, but it's pretty customizable. It also almost always results in the biscuits laminating themselves to the muffin papers so that you end up having to eat the paper, which I thought was *delicious* when I was seven ;-)