Lou wrote on Tue, 20 Apr 2010 09:12:27 -0500:

>> On 2010-04-19 17:51:17 -0700, Lou Decruss said:
>>
>>> Why does this seem so wrong? I just saw a clip on the tube
>>> about a new burger joint in Chicago. They showed a burger
>>> loaded with toppings and a sunny-side-up egg on it. It
>>> looks liked a total mess to eat. It there a region or
>>> culture that normally does this?
>>
>> Yes, where every people like eggs and they have a mouth,
>> seemingly.
>>
>>> I've read some places put an egg on pizza and that seems
>>> weird too.
>>
>> I had never heard of such thing some 20 years ago. I think I
>> first started encountering them with some regularity in
>> Vietnamese and Japanese food. It was an order of
>> whatever-the-heck with a fried egg on top. I loved it. The
>> was tentative at first.

> I've only recently seen these things. It seems the trendy
> burger joints are doing it. I see from this thread it's
> nothing new and must just be spreading here.

>> The most popular hip pizza joint nearby has one with a fried
>> egg and some other really great stuff. It's wonderful.
>>
>> The do seem to be popping up everywhere.

> It seems lots of people like it. <shrug>

It seems to me that it would taste fine even if increases the amount of
cholesterol. People do eat poached eggs on top of ham and covered with
Hollandaise: eggs benedict.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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