Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/09
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]At 11:19 PM 7/8/03 -0600, Tim Atherton wrote: >Actually, eggs are a better example - if you order breakfast at your average >hotel or Transport Cafe across the Atlantic, unless they are used to >Americans, if you ask for your eggs "over easy" or "sunny side up", you'll >either get a blank stare or whatever the chef feels like giving you. The terms for the only conceivably decent manner of eating hot eggs by themselves -- coddled or scrambled -- work just fine on both sides of the Great Pond, though the Lowland Scots occasionally use "jumbled" for our "scrambled". The USian "hard-boiled" is the British Isles "hard-cooked", but, again, they will understand the USian useage. No one but the lowest of the low could ever eat a fried egg, so who would or could want to know the proper terms for such horrible concoctions? Marc msmall@infionline.net FAX: +540/343-7315 Cha robh bąs fir gun ghrąs fir! - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html