Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/10
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ian You forgot to include a few rashers of the best British bacon, with that egg, the whole lot encased in a fresh bap. Then the whole thing becomes a buttie. Jerry Ian Watts wrote: > Marc James Small wrote: > > > 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? > > Also: > > > How many citations to British, Irish, and Scottish cookery books do you wish? > > You can cite as many cookery books as you like but the fact remains that I > (like others on this list) have *never* heard anybody here in the UK refer > to a hard-boiled egg as a 'hard-cooked' egg. > > A fried egg is unquestionably the finest form of cooked egg. This is > especially the case when the egg is fried in butter rather than oil and > sandwiched between two slices of stodgy white bread. If this makes me some > kind of dreadful prole then so be it. > > Ian Watts > > -- > To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html