WotD: fried egg

[muckefuck]

1. das Spiegelei
2. het spiegelei, de paardenoog
3. el huevo estrellado
4. l'ou estrellat
5. l'œuf sur le plat
6. yr ŵy wedi'i ffrïo
7. an ubh fhriochta
8. jajko sadzone
9. 달걀 프라이
10. 煎蛋 jiāndàn

Bonus: spegelägget

Notes: Last night I mentioned to monshu that I'd learned the Indonesian for "fried egg" and it was telur mata sapi or "cow eye egg". As odd as this sounded, I told him, it made much more sense to me than German Spiegelei or "mirror egg". This prompted me to ask him for the French, but he didn't know it so here we are. As sunny side up seems to be the default, most of these languages don't have a lexicalised term; if it's important to specify, one says the equivalent of "cooked only on one side".

Comments

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

I never got the hang of making a perfect soft-boiled egg. Besides, the crispy bits of pan-fried white are just irresistible!

[richardthinks.livejournal.com]

My wife uses an artery-traumatizing stick of butter, and that frilly outside edge of white goes frothy and deeply unhealthy and delicious. A happy life and a short one, I fear.