To think dippy eggs and toast is the best thing ever?

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Just that really! Simple pleasures

Soft boiled eggs are indeed lovely, with or without toast.
But calling them dippy eggs sounds wrong to me. I've never heard anyone in rl call them that and tbh unless they were talking to a small child I'd think they were rather odd.

I thought a chucky egg was the runny one. God I haven't heard that in ages. Takes me back. My mum always said it
Quite fancy one now, with lots of salt on the yolk

YANBU

YABU not to call them soldiers

YANBU to put Marmite on the soldiers

Isn't a Chucky egg just referring to it being from the chicken?

My sister used to eat eggs and shoulders.

Isn't a Chucky egg just referring to it being from the chicken?

Good point!

We actually just called them 'egg 'n' a cup'

I love a good dippy egg. Nothing quite like it. Toast just going cold before butter to ensure a proper rigidity to dip. Mmmmmm

I'm not a big one for kitchen gadgets but I have a Petra https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00008WFDK/ref=cmswwrcppapi_taPYzbNSPB42G which is the best invention ever and I get perfect eggs every time. I also have eggs more frequently because it always seemed a waste to boil a pan just for me

I couldn't bear eggs until I was a grown up but I still call them dippy ...

So glad the health police recommendation of no more than 2 eggs per week has been pilloried!

If "dippy eggs" is good enough for the BBC then it's good enough for me!

YANBU, OP, only I'm now eating low-carb which means no toast for me. Therefore, you're being VVVU for putting the thought into my head!

Crumpet with marmite, cheese and a poached or dippy egg on top is even better

😉 of course

Ok, slightly off topic, but in reply to whoever it was who said "wargh don't call them dippy eggs, why not boiled eggs?!"
they're not the same thing. Boiled eggs are boiled eggs. As in hard. Dippy eggs are soft boiled eggs and not the same thing.
Used to love them as a kid but sadly allergic to them now. If someone can tell me how to make vegan dippy eggs and soldiers I'll be a happy bunny....

YANBU. My soft boiled eggs and soldiers come out perfect every time. I'm going to have them when I get up now, so thanks, OP!

I love them. DP brings them to me in bed. Burford browns. Sourdough toast. Herbamare. Best breakfast ever.

My favourite is poached eggs on toast !

Soft boiled eggs with Warburtons toastie, spread with salted butter. Belinda Carlisle was right - heaven really is a place on Earth.

Oh. and when you've finished eating them you tip them back over, so it looks like a real egg again.
Then you get your adult to smash it open. And they feign shock and disappointment that there is no real egg.

My dad did that to me and I loved it.
Ds2 now does it to me. Every single time. And he too adores it.

Please tell me it's not just me?

(not envy)
Runny eggs are disgusting.

I wouldn't call them runny. Runny suggests free flowing. Soft boiled eggs should be rich, unctious, glossy. Mmmmmmm

We used to do that oblomov

We actually went one step further - at my house they were just 'eggs and soldiers' because everyone knows what type of egg you're serving due to the 'soldiers' bit. Also, can't you dip into a fried egg?

Am very sad today, had planned on cooking me and DD a couple of dippy eggs each for breakfast but found out that OH cooked and ate almost all the eggs last night, only two left, and then I dropped one when putting it in the pan thanks to DD shouting about something which broke and got ruined so there was only one dippy egg left and I had to give it to DD because otherwise I would be a cruel mother :(

Wtf are chucky eggs?

Hens eggs ie from a chuck rather than a duck or goose.

< Remembers making YP with duck eggs mmmm>

can't you dip into a fried egg?

Yes and poached.

When you've finished your boiled egg you have to turn it upside down and smash it so that the witches can't go to sea....

When I was little I'd turn my finished egg over and then tell my mum that I didn't want it. She then had to play along knowing full well that she'd taken the top of the egg off for me. Ah to be young and innocent again.
What are baked eggs?

That's it - I'm working from home today - I'm making eggs and soldiers!