Kelsey from Washington, D.C., says her family uses the term wishing well eggs to denote the the result when you cut a hole in the middle of a piece of toast, break an egg over the hole, and then fry up the whole thing. She’s also heard people call it egg in a basket, egg in a hole, toad in a hole, pocket eggs, and kaya. This simple dish goes by dozens of different names, including egg in a nest, egg in a cage, egg in a window, egg in a pocket, pirate’s eye, camel’s eye, bull’s eye, bird’s nest, Popeye, One-eyed Pete, One-eyed Jack, cowboy eggs, hocus-pocus eggs, cartwheels, and knothole eggs. This is part of a complete episode.
When you’re talking about the location of an inanimate object, is it okay to say that it lives there, as in The peanut butter lives in that cabinet or The flashlight lives on that shelf? Strictly speaking, of course, that object isn’t...
Sean in Oneonta, New York, says that when he was growing up in New Jersey, his family would pile in the car and set off on a surprise adventure, whether a short distance or long, and the kids would be told only that they were going on Buxtehude...
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