Timeline for What is the term for serving a soft-cooked fried egg that breaks when the meal is consumed?
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| Sep 3, 2016 at 11:41 | comment | added | jiggunjer | I think the Japanese dishes come with an "onsen egg". Typically served on the side but eaten added to the dish. | |
| Sep 3, 2016 at 1:03 | history | edited | Megha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
came up with suggestion from the comments
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| Sep 2, 2016 at 23:43 | vote | accept | hawkeye | ||
| Sep 2, 2016 at 19:46 | comment | added | Chuu | One of Chicago's trendiest restaurants is "Au Cheval" whose signature dish is a burger . . . topped with an egg. Nice to know where the name comes from. | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 19:37 | comment | added | Relaxed | In French, “à cheval” means both (literally) “on a horse” and “on top of something” (or rather “in between two things” or “on both sides of something”). “Oeuf à cheval” therefore means egg on top of something and what is usually meant is a beef steak (the same dish is also sometimes called, arguably improperly, “steak à cheval”). | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 18:23 | comment | added | Megha | @AndrewMattson - ahahaha... if there is, I wanna know :D I think maybe it's too commonly used, so maybe nobody needed a term to describe it or thought it unusual enough to name it - since "with an egg" just covered the idea. Someone should make one up! | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 17:57 | comment | added | PoloHoleSet | There's gotta be a French term, somewhere! :D | |
| Sep 2, 2016 at 14:31 | history | answered | Megha | CC BY-SA 3.0 |