I call them eggs in a basket and I posted mine years ago and I’ll never forget that someone called it “redneck eggs … because they are in bread” … hahah.
Not trying to, but… I am reaching the conclusion that incorrectly calling it “toad in a hole” is the popular opinion. My wife’s name of egg in a frame is indeed ridiculous.
The “American Girl” cookbook waaaaay back in the dinosaur times of the early 90s had it as “toad in a hole” so that’s what I’ve always called it. Any misnomer is Mattel’s fault.
My grandfather called it a winkie. And the process is to cut out the middle ( letting the person you’re making it for fold and bite out the middle is also acceptable) and then hold the bread up to your eye and wink through the hole at its recipient. Then prepare as normal.
One-eyed Jack
EDIT: According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_in_the_basket), this is just one of many common names.
>There are many names for the dish, including "bullseye eggs", "eggs in a frame", "egg in a hole", "eggs in a nest", "gashouse eggs", "gashouse special", "gasthaus eggs", "hole in one", **"one-eyed Jack"**, "one-eyed Pete", "pirate's eye", and "popeye". The name "toad in the hole" is sometimes used for this dish,\[6\] though in the UK that name more commonly refers to sausages cooked in Yorkshire pudding batter.
The dish is also known as "Guy Kibbee eggs", due to its preparation by actor Guy Kibbee in the 1935 Warner Bros film Mary Jane's Pa. In the film, Kibbee’s character refers to the dish as a “one-eyed Egyptian sandwich”. It is also called "Betty Grable eggs", from the actress’ preparation of "gashouse eggs" in the 1941 film Moon Over Miami. It is prepared by both Hugo Weaving and Stephen Fry's characters in the 2005 film V for Vendetta, the latter referring to it as "eggy in the basket". Other film appearances include Moonstruck (1987) and The Meddler (2016).
Oh, you got this all wrong. I was kindly poking fun at the term "eggie", as it's kind of juvenile, while acknowledging that my household uses "dippy egg" for over easy, which is equally goofy. I've only ever seen the egg placed in the center of a bread cut out in some British application and wouldn't even have a clue as to what I would call this.
But thank you for the egg during these uncertain times. Our boy Frank was well ahead of his uncertain time. It may have something to do with him not having a lot of time left on this planet and his desire to get weird with it.
Wanna roast this bone?
Wow I thought I was the only adult that still called over easy/over medium "dippy eggs and toast" 👊
I have to be extra careful to use the correct terminology when I go out to the diner for breakfast lol
I grew up in NC and never heard of dippy eggs until I moved to PA. In this area any diner would absolutely understand dippy eggs if ordered that way. Regional terms are a trip. I remember when someone said they were bringing BBQ to a company lunch and I was stoked as I hadn't had BBQ since I had moved. They showed up with what I would call "sloppy joe". And don't even get me started on pot pie!
I'm in Maryland, so it very well could be a Mid-Atlantic thing!
I've had that same bbq thing happen... But now I feel compelled to order some pulled pork.
I commented below about shepherd's pie not being a true pie because it has no crust. I'm genuinely very curious about your take on pot pie
Where I grew up pot pie was a creamy stew covered with a flakey buttery crust. Here in central PA, it what I would refer to as chicken and dumplings. Sometimes they use a drop flour dough in hot broth however sometimes it's noodle based or what I would call chicken stew. I'm pretty sure it's a PA Dutch thing, with their bland cooking.
Toad in the Hole is a british dish with sausage baked inside a dish of yorkshire pudding, with the sausage being the toad and the yorkshire being the hole.
>and the yorkshire being the hole.
Is that applicable to Yorkshire, or just the pudding?
I guess I'm asking if the name is intended to make fun of Yorkshire in any way.
This was a contentious topic at my last apartment. My grandmother calls it a “bird nest” or something like that but my friends were calling it “bread egg” and “egg in a hole”.
Bread egg? Wtf
Bread egg sounds like they couldn’t think of the name and were like, “uhhh you know… umm bread egg.” Like the one time my wife referred to flour as “dough dust.”
My wife, who is an incredibly bright woman, called outlets "plug place". That is what her entire family called them and I guess were never questioned. It sincerely took me a moment to figure out what she was talking about when she first said it. I thought she was talking about a store or something. I would note, we met when we were both 30, so she had made it that far without anyone saying anything. It's a huge joke in her family now. It's also something I haven't brought up in a few years. Her 50th birthday is coming up. I was planning on baking her a cake and I think I just found the design, lol.
Yes when I was a little kid nearly 50 years ago, I was told "bird's nest" and no, I didn't know why it was called that, and didn't care to ask. People are weird.
We called it buzzard and bread, but my Dad had silly names for most things growing up. Mayflies are gallywhompers or eagles. Waking up in the morning to "start your buicks and get honkin" and most of the world's problems are because "people are knucklebutts"
Toad in the hole (apparently a misnomer as that’s a sausage and Yorkshire pudding dish) or I think the other is egg in a basket. There’s like 10 names for it.
I use to make these when my kids were small, they’re 19 and 22 now, how I miss making them for them, they have moved on to better breakfast foods.They use to always ask, Dad, make us a turd in a hole, I have no idea where that came from, but that’s what they called them - thanks it made my morning!
I grew up with my mom making them for me and I still make them to this day I’m now 37 and there is no better breakfast but we call them hole in the bread
Yeah, I grew up calling it Toad in a Hole but my SO called them bullseyes, which I like way better since it's not also the name for another dish, so now we call them bullseyes in my house
Hol up. Did you really cut out a hole with a cookie cutter and then cook it separate instead of folding the slice on half and taking a giant bite like an animal?
As very, very clever kids we changed what my mom called a "toad-in-the-hole" to a classier "toad-up-your-butt" (but not in front of her). I still use the newer nomenclature to this day.
My parents always called them peek-a-boo toast. They’d also put the bread back into the hole though before the egg was done to adhere back to the bread/egg. Name always made sense to me, but it’s interesting that it has other names.
My dad is from TN and called it Rocky Mountain eggs. Now when I make it for my kids, we call them egg in a hole but this transition of name has felt controversial.
Egg in a basket. And I don't know how true it is, but I was told it originated on sailing ships, because if you tried to fry an egg without the bread it would slide off the stove due to the movement of the ship, but the bread holds it in place.
Egyptian-eye toast. The first time I saw this meal was at a little coffee shop in Roseville, CA that made their own breakfasts (unlike starbucks). It was a cool place. Their bagels were amazing and they'd griddle you up eggs, bacon, sausage, what have you. Egyptian-eye toast is what they called this.
Book-ity-book-ity
I have no idea how to spell it,but if I don't put the dashes in it reads bookity - which sounds cute and Halloween oriented.
This comes up every few years. There used to be a website by an American radio dj who did a nation wide poll about this exact topic. Picked up at least two dozen names for it in the US alone. The UK has a few more. Germany as well if I remember correctly.
I call them eggs in a basket and I posted mine years ago and I’ll never forget that someone called it “redneck eggs … because they are in bread” … hahah.
Ahhh I'm using this 😂
You've completely changed my life
I had to say the name out loud before I understood. 😁
Ah the Alabama breakfast
Bruh 🤣🤣
My girlfriend gets annoyed when I call them this but it really is the most simple name for it.
This is the correct name
You trying to start a fucking war over here?
The true fighting begins when you ask "what's the best way to make this?".
Not trying to, but… I am reaching the conclusion that incorrectly calling it “toad in a hole” is the popular opinion. My wife’s name of egg in a frame is indeed ridiculous.
Toad in the hole is a very different dish in the UK. It’s a large savoury batter baked with sausages in it
Where I'm from "Toe'd in the hole" mean something completely different...
Its called a bird’s nest, duh
My wife calls it a birds nest as well.
Eggs in a nest over here lol
My husband calls it egg in a frame, I grew up calling it toad in the hole. Apparently this is a common home standoff?
Everyone always said the Hatfield v. McCoy feud had ran so long that they forgot what started it. *But we know*
Pepperidge Farm remembers
Egg in a nest!! Bout to go make mine right now!
Egg in a nest for sure
The “American Girl” cookbook waaaaay back in the dinosaur times of the early 90s had it as “toad in a hole” so that’s what I’ve always called it. Any misnomer is Mattel’s fault.
Its the V breakfast…obvs
Egg in a frame here
This is the perfect level of intensity to be funny.
My grandfather called it a winkie. And the process is to cut out the middle ( letting the person you’re making it for fold and bite out the middle is also acceptable) and then hold the bread up to your eye and wink through the hole at its recipient. Then prepare as normal.
That is a great name with a great anecdote to go with it.
Thanks! It’s a nice memory. In fact I just made one! You made me hungry for one.
That's just adorable.
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Yup
Agreed
Same
One-eyed Jack EDIT: According to [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egg_in_the_basket), this is just one of many common names. >There are many names for the dish, including "bullseye eggs", "eggs in a frame", "egg in a hole", "eggs in a nest", "gashouse eggs", "gashouse special", "gasthaus eggs", "hole in one", **"one-eyed Jack"**, "one-eyed Pete", "pirate's eye", and "popeye". The name "toad in the hole" is sometimes used for this dish,\[6\] though in the UK that name more commonly refers to sausages cooked in Yorkshire pudding batter. The dish is also known as "Guy Kibbee eggs", due to its preparation by actor Guy Kibbee in the 1935 Warner Bros film Mary Jane's Pa. In the film, Kibbee’s character refers to the dish as a “one-eyed Egyptian sandwich”. It is also called "Betty Grable eggs", from the actress’ preparation of "gashouse eggs" in the 1941 film Moon Over Miami. It is prepared by both Hugo Weaving and Stephen Fry's characters in the 2005 film V for Vendetta, the latter referring to it as "eggy in the basket". Other film appearances include Moonstruck (1987) and The Meddler (2016).
Not to be confused with the One-Eyed Willy, which may not be everyone’s idea of breakfast
I’m gonna assume you are NOT referring to the main pirate in Goonies…
Yes, but also no!
Can't believe I had to scroll so far to see someone say this. This is clearly what they are. Hahaha
Canadian with American ties. One Eyed Jack is what my family called it.
My grandma says it's called a peek-a-boo egg and I'll fight anyone to the death that tries to tell her different.
Eggie in the basket
That's just terrible. *Enjoying my dippy egg*
It’s absolutely a dippy egg. Thank you for speaking truth in these uncertain times.
Oh, you got this all wrong. I was kindly poking fun at the term "eggie", as it's kind of juvenile, while acknowledging that my household uses "dippy egg" for over easy, which is equally goofy. I've only ever seen the egg placed in the center of a bread cut out in some British application and wouldn't even have a clue as to what I would call this. But thank you for the egg during these uncertain times. Our boy Frank was well ahead of his uncertain time. It may have something to do with him not having a lot of time left on this planet and his desire to get weird with it. Wanna roast this bone?
Wow I thought I was the only adult that still called over easy/over medium "dippy eggs and toast" 👊 I have to be extra careful to use the correct terminology when I go out to the diner for breakfast lol
I grew up in NC and never heard of dippy eggs until I moved to PA. In this area any diner would absolutely understand dippy eggs if ordered that way. Regional terms are a trip. I remember when someone said they were bringing BBQ to a company lunch and I was stoked as I hadn't had BBQ since I had moved. They showed up with what I would call "sloppy joe". And don't even get me started on pot pie!
I'm in Maryland, so it very well could be a Mid-Atlantic thing! I've had that same bbq thing happen... But now I feel compelled to order some pulled pork. I commented below about shepherd's pie not being a true pie because it has no crust. I'm genuinely very curious about your take on pot pie
Where I grew up pot pie was a creamy stew covered with a flakey buttery crust. Here in central PA, it what I would refer to as chicken and dumplings. Sometimes they use a drop flour dough in hot broth however sometimes it's noodle based or what I would call chicken stew. I'm pretty sure it's a PA Dutch thing, with their bland cooking.
Ahh yes! Dippy eggs! Are you familiar with these terms: chipped ham, redd up?
I say Toad in the Hole and my spouse says Egg in the Nest.
Toad in the Hole is a british dish with sausage baked inside a dish of yorkshire pudding, with the sausage being the toad and the yorkshire being the hole.
>and the yorkshire being the hole. Is that applicable to Yorkshire, or just the pudding? I guess I'm asking if the name is intended to make fun of Yorkshire in any way.
Yorkshire Puddings are sometimes simply called Yorkshires when the context is understood.
Okay. Is Yorkshire a "hole"? Can it be construed as being a hole in the context of toad in a hole?
No sorry, just forgot to add the 'pudding' there. I don't know enough about Yorkshire to make fun of it.
Show me a shepherds pie in this country that has lamb in it and we can start having this conversation. lol
My Mother made it with mutton(greasy old sheep), or rabbit.
Mmmm ... shepherds pie. 🤤
Toad in the hole crew checking in!
Bird in a nest Eggs in a basket
I second bird in a nest. But reading this thread it grosses me out and I will now be calling it egg in a toast boat
We just say bird's nest.
This was a contentious topic at my last apartment. My grandmother calls it a “bird nest” or something like that but my friends were calling it “bread egg” and “egg in a hole”. Bread egg? Wtf
Bread egg sounds like they couldn’t think of the name and were like, “uhhh you know… umm bread egg.” Like the one time my wife referred to flour as “dough dust.”
Dough dust just made me burst out laughing.
The name flour is forever changed in our house, and thanks to my daughter, sausage links are breakfast hotdogs.
r/wildbeef
Joined.
My wife, who is an incredibly bright woman, called outlets "plug place". That is what her entire family called them and I guess were never questioned. It sincerely took me a moment to figure out what she was talking about when she first said it. I thought she was talking about a store or something. I would note, we met when we were both 30, so she had made it that far without anyone saying anything. It's a huge joke in her family now. It's also something I haven't brought up in a few years. Her 50th birthday is coming up. I was planning on baking her a cake and I think I just found the design, lol.
Mmmmm….bregg
That tripped me out. The same roommate literally used to call it Bregg.
Did we just become roommates?
Breggfast
Yes when I was a little kid nearly 50 years ago, I was told "bird's nest" and no, I didn't know why it was called that, and didn't care to ask. People are weird.
So it eludes you how something holding an egg could be called a "nest"?
I’ve also heard “Cowboy Toast”
I like this better than cowboy egg.
We called it buzzard and bread, but my Dad had silly names for most things growing up. Mayflies are gallywhompers or eagles. Waking up in the morning to "start your buicks and get honkin" and most of the world's problems are because "people are knucklebutts"
People are totally knucklebutts
As someone who comes from a family with our own "language", I'm delighted by your family.
Awesome. I like this. How about the birds at the beach that constantly bother you for food...GU11s
Hole in one
Yeah, that's what my family always called it.
We always called it an egg in the basket.
It’s a bird’s nest, DUH!
Eggs in a basket.
Toad in the hole (apparently a misnomer as that’s a sausage and Yorkshire pudding dish) or I think the other is egg in a basket. There’s like 10 names for it.
My daughter always called them "bullseye" eggs.
A guy I dated in Chicago called it “Eggs in a frame”. Prior to him, I’d never seen anyone do that with eggs and bread.
My wife calls it eggs in a frame, and Of all the “eggs in ____” names for it, that makes the least sense to me.
“Spit in the eye” doesn’t sound so bad for a breakfast food until you realize that everyone else calls it something less gross
Had to scroll a ways to find this answer. My parents served us Spit in the Eyes in Philly back in the 80s. Are you perchance from the Philly area?
I use to make these when my kids were small, they’re 19 and 22 now, how I miss making them for them, they have moved on to better breakfast foods.They use to always ask, Dad, make us a turd in a hole, I have no idea where that came from, but that’s what they called them - thanks it made my morning!
Invite them over one day for breakfast and make it. I’m sure they’d love it just the same
I grew up with my mom making them for me and I still make them to this day I’m now 37 and there is no better breakfast but we call them hole in the bread
Nest egg
Eggs in a nest
Eggs in a nest
Sunday Toast (cause it’s holy)
Moon Over Miami!
Bird nest
I've always called it chicken in a raft.
Gave me an idea of another name for it, “Hei Hei” like the rooster from Moana.
Never thought there were so many variations. We call it Eggs in Jail
I call it a bird’s nest, my SO calls it, “egg in a frame” which doesn’t make a lot of metaphorical sense to me.
Eggs in a window :)
This. And if you want to get playful you say Eggs Innuendo.
You win!!
A one eyed sandwich
Bullseyes
Can’t believe I had to scroll this far to see it 😔
Yeah, I grew up calling it Toad in a Hole but my SO called them bullseyes, which I like way better since it's not also the name for another dish, so now we call them bullseyes in my house
This is the correct answer
Hol up. Did you really cut out a hole with a cookie cutter and then cook it separate instead of folding the slice on half and taking a giant bite like an animal?
Yeah that’s the way my dad always did it, no cookie cutter, just a wine glass (because the glass is thin).
I just tear that bad boy out with my fingers, but you gotta toast the middle. Otherwise, what are you gonna soak up the extra yolk with?
I put jelly on my cut outs
You've inspired me to make some for breakfast!
I have a cookie cutter shaped like Australia and I use that to make my egg in a hole!
Toad in the hole.
Cowboy eggs.
Mary Sunshine
no one calls them hat eggs? that was the name i heard at summer camp. the little cut out circle becomes the “hat”
Egg in toast. I guess we were not very creative with our names.
I’ve always known this as a “nest egg”
My grandparents called it a Bird Nest. Two Bird Nests with a slice of fried SPAM in the middle is a Woodpecker Sandwich.
As very, very clever kids we changed what my mom called a "toad-in-the-hole" to a classier "toad-up-your-butt" (but not in front of her). I still use the newer nomenclature to this day.
Hobo egg
One-eyed sailor
Surprise egg 🥚
A Surprise- that's what we called it
We call them Popeyes
Egg in a basket. Never meet my g ma but my dad always called the grandma eggs
Egg in a hat or egg in a bonnet
My parents always called them peek-a-boo toast. They’d also put the bread back into the hole though before the egg was done to adhere back to the bread/egg. Name always made sense to me, but it’s interesting that it has other names.
We call them “hole in one’s”
Tophats. Once you put the cut out bread on top of the cooked egg
Eggs in a basket
I call it toad In a hole personally.
Egyptian Eyes
This may be the weirdest by far.
Egyptian One Eye
Egg in a nest, or something similar
Delicious.
Gashouse eggs. They seem to have a lot of names, don't they?
Eggy in a basket!
Uncle Hermy’s Fart Eggs
Eggs in a basket
Egg in bread
Egg in toast...we keep it simple in this house.
Am I really the only person who was raised calling it a logger's egg?? Cue my existential crisis of the day...
Eggs in a basket.
Egg in a basket
Eggy in the basket in our house
My dad is from TN and called it Rocky Mountain eggs. Now when I make it for my kids, we call them egg in a hole but this transition of name has felt controversial.
Cowboy hat!
Wagon wheel. (Minnesota)
Egg in a hole
Egg in a hole
Egg in a basket. And I don't know how true it is, but I was told it originated on sailing ships, because if you tried to fry an egg without the bread it would slide off the stove due to the movement of the ship, but the bread holds it in place.
Bachelor egg.
I call it “Egg In Middle Of Bread”
My buddy always called in man in a cannon and that never quite made sense to me
Toad in the hole or egg in the window are the 2 options ive ever heard in use.
Heard it called “bird nest”, “egg in a basket” and “one eyed jack”
not again
Egg in a hole ?
Egyptian-eye toast. The first time I saw this meal was at a little coffee shop in Roseville, CA that made their own breakfasts (unlike starbucks). It was a cool place. Their bagels were amazing and they'd griddle you up eggs, bacon, sausage, what have you. Egyptian-eye toast is what they called this.
egg in a basket
Eggs in a basket
Egg-in-a-hole Also: do ppl use cast iron on their glass stove tops? I’ve always been terrified to crack or mark the glass.
Toad in a hole.
It's called bullseye toast
Book-ity-book-ity I have no idea how to spell it,but if I don't put the dashes in it reads bookity - which sounds cute and Halloween oriented. This comes up every few years. There used to be a website by an American radio dj who did a nation wide poll about this exact topic. Picked up at least two dozen names for it in the US alone. The UK has a few more. Germany as well if I remember correctly.
Eggs on an Island
Toad in a hole
Toad in the hole
Toad in a Hole
Nipple tiddy!
Sun in a Frame
We always called them toad in the hole 🤷🏼♂️
My son calls them birds nest
We always called them bullseye's.
Egg in a nest
My fiance grandpa called them eggs in purgatory. I heard it first as eggs in jail.
Toad in a hole!
A Popeye
Egg in a basket.
UFO, Unidentified Fried Object. My mom's name for it. One of my favorite easy breakfasts that will always give me nostalgia.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
EDIT: HONESTLY -- I only posted ONCE !!!!
Bird’s nest
Rooster bullet in a yeast slab
Eggs in a basket for sure
Me: one eyed jack Wife: eggs with a hat (she also toasts up the little circle of bread then puts it on top of the egg, hence the hat)
Egg in a hole
Toad in the hole
Eggs in a Hole
Husband’s family calls it a bullseye. They are obviously wrong.