What would you assume if someone asked you for this?

[Asuperblyfeauturedroomandexcellentboiledpotatoes]

Light-hearted one for a Sunday morning. Settle something between me and my husband.

If you asked someone what they want to eat, and they said "boiled eggs and toast" what would you give them?

YABU - Boiled eggs, in eggcups with toast cut into soldiers IE: boiled eggs and soldiers
YANBU - Boiled eggs (shelled) and slices of toast, because that's what they asked for

@Asuperblyfeauturedroomandexcellentboiledpotatoes. That looks lush and is how we have egg and toast. Always soft boiled, too.

I’ve never seen boiled eggs on toast. Poached eggs go on toast and boiled eggs go in egg cups in this house. It’s very hard to buy egg cups in the US in my experience so I imagine this is how Americans would serve boiled eggs and toast.

I'm not American

I never said you were, it was just an observation.

Exactly. I'm not cutting soldiers for an adult, that's daft. Egg in egg cup, egg cup on plate, toast also on plate.

I know you didn't, Im just saying I'm not to make the conversation fuller I suppose

Another vote for this. I had assumed this would be the standard answer for an adult - soft boiled, in an eggcup, and you can cut up your own toast.

But I'd always ask how done people want them, it varies from barely set to just the soft side of hard-boiled. Same as I'd always ask how someone wants their steak cooked.

Wouldn’t it be easier to put the soft boiled egg in an egg cup then scoop it out on to toast than to shell the soft boiled egg?

I've never heard of anyone shelling a soft boiled egg. There's no 'of course' about it.

This is bizarre. Are you married to the OP who, when she says it’s a red front door, her DP pretends he can’t possibly understand what she means then says it’s a rose front door? If not there’s two of you!

This is how we do it now everyone is grown up. My daughter started the trend and it's so much better in my opinion as I'm not keen on egg white without the yolk. This way each mouthful can have a good balance of toast, yolk and white. Think I'm going to have this for brunch now...

I would clarify what they want. Otherwise how am I supposed to know?
Otherwise I would just make it and put it infront of them and if they complained, I would smile and say sorry my mistake, I will make it that way, next time. 😁

I voted YABU but I would prefer hard boiled with toast on the side myself 😁

I do. I'm over 70 and I think I'll have one for my lunch after reading this.

Dippy egg and soldiers

i would have probably assumed eggs and soldiers unless it was my non British husband who would have definitely meant hard boiled as he doesn’t do soft boiled.

I have never heard of someone peeling a soft boiled egg. I would peel a hard boiled egg and eat a soft boiled egg from an egg cup

There is to me, just because I don't see why you would shell a hard boiled egg but not a soft one
I don't get why it makes a difference
You take more care with soft boiled, but that's it.
Have you never had something like a salad with a soft boiled egg? Would you put it on an egg cup if it with another dish and not toast?
I don't mean to be rude, the "of course" was just my expression of surprise

I've never heard of shelling a soft boiled egg.

Are your fingers made of asbestos?

How do you not burn your fingers, pulling the shell off a hot boiled egg??

I did not expect this soft boiled Vs hard boiled thing.

I pretty much treat a soft boiled egg the same way I would treat a hard boiled egg.

I am genuinely so confused about why people are even bringing it up.

Why does it being hard or soft boiled male any difference about whether or not it should be in an egg cup or on toast?

But isn''t the egg hot while you're taking the shell off? I would only bother with that faff for a child.

You run the shell under the tap, that's how you shell eggs

Sorry but don’t understand why you wouldn’t think he wanted boiled eggs in eggcups with soldiers, unless you’re not British and it’s not a thing where you come from.
In my house growing up we didn’t even say “dippy eggs”, “boiled egg and soldiers”
meant soft boiled eggs in egg cups and “hard boiled egg” meant exactly that, to eat with salad etc

I would serve sliced boiled eggs on toast as it’s my favourite and boiled eggs with soldiers would never occur to me! Might even include some sardine pate and spring onions 😋

I am definitely very much British
He is half Irish but brought up British

I didn't think he wanted boiled eggs and soldiers because, in my mind, that's a specific dish that you would ask for IE: you'd say "boiled eggs and soldiers" but he didn't, he said "boiled eggs and toast".

It's not something he normally asks for but he's had toothache so wanted something soft and simple. So I didn't have an assumption ready.

I said "you want them soft boiled?" And he said yes.

So I soft boiled the eggs, shelled them, cut them in half and put them on buttered toast. I called from the kitchen "do you want salt and pepper on them?" And he said yes
Would you put salt and pepper on egg and soldiers? Not sure

Any way, he happily ate them, he was just surprised because ause he thought that "boiled eggs and toast" means "boiled eggs and soldiers"

which it doesn't 😄

Boiled eggs hot go in egg cups. Cold hardish boiled eggs are sliced for sandwiches. Eggs on toast are poached. Anything else is wrong.