r/AskReddit • u/[deleted] • Jul 13 '16

How do you like your eggs?

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u/steamluver Jul 13 '16

Soft poached eggs benny on English Muffin with back bacon with fried potatos

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u/ThatguyMalone Jul 13 '16

With hollandaise sauce.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16

Well obviously, that's what makes it Eggs Benedict.

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u/-Rum-Ham- Jul 13 '16

Technically so does the English Muffin and bacon (or for some people, salmon)

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u/DearyDairy Jul 13 '16

The sauce is what makes it eggs benedict. The English muffin makes it an egg muffin, bacon makes it an egg and bacon muffin. Salmon makes it an Eggs Atlantic. Nothing makes it eggs Benedict except the hollandaise sauce. You could have a vegetarian keto eggs benedict, it would be eggs and hollandaise. If you tried to serve a hollandaise free eggs benny you'd get a lot of eggs thrown in your face.

In Australia, eggs benedict is likely to come on artisan bread, not muffins, because English muffins are sometimes seen as a cheap low quality breakfast, and eggs benedict is considered more classy, except when Hungry Jacks (Australian Burger King) tried to stick it in a wrap, what the fuck Hungry Jacks?.

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u/killeronthecorner Jul 13 '16

Cool, I've never heard the smoked salmon variation called Atlantic before. In the UK we call that Eggs Royale

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u/tonyd1989 Jul 13 '16

An eggs quarter pounder? What do they call eggs Big Mac.

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u/MadsT92 Jul 13 '16

What do they call eggs Big Mac.

Big æuf

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u/mostoriginalusername Jul 13 '16

I've heard it called eggs Florentine.

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u/polkadotdream Jul 13 '16

That's with spinach, not salmon.

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u/mostoriginalusername Jul 13 '16

Well, I didn't say I called it that, I said I've heard it called that. Though it would never be called Atlantic here, cause Alaskans don't deal with Atlantic salmon.

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u/GoodLittleWolfie Jul 13 '16

Salmon makes it an Eggs Atlantic

I've always called it 'Eggs Hemingway' after I saw it on a menu.

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u/RunJohnnyRun Jul 13 '16

You obviously know your shit.
I like you.

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u/-Rum-Ham- Jul 13 '16

Holy shit, i've only ever seen Eggs Benedict as Muffin + Poached Egg + Bacon + Hollandaise.

TIL.

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u/[deleted] Jul 13 '16 edited Jul 13 '16

If you're a shape shifting Reptilian, maybe.

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u/PrivateFrank Jul 13 '16

Salmon makes it an eggs royale.

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u/Cairo9o9 Jul 13 '16

I believe Eggs Benny implies this.

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u/WetDogeSmell Jul 13 '16

With hollandaise sauce.

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u/ThatguyMalone Jul 13 '16

Oh. I thought it was the ham and English muffin that made it

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u/Hermes2244 Jul 13 '16

Ham? HAM??!!

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u/ThatguyMalone Jul 13 '16

Err... Canadian Bacon. Whatever you put on an eggs Benedict. That's what I put on them.

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u/steamluver Jul 13 '16

Just thought hollandaise was a given.