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

We scoop soft boiled eggs out of their shells here to go in sandwiches- not even with toast 😮

Do you never have a warm soft boiled egg with a salad or another dish like a curry? Something like this?

Well, yes with a salad. But this was vaguely about eggs and bread.

My husband occasionally asks for what was known in his family as "chuckie eggs", which is a couple of soft-boiled eggs roughly mashed up on toast with plenty of salt and pepper. I'd never come across such a thing, being from the civilised North (Yorkshire) as opposed to his barbarian upbringing in Lancashire, but it's actually delicious. Even more so with some crispy bacon. I'm a convert!

I'd say three minutes or five

Yes, it's lovely. I boil the eggs for 5 minutes and then take out with a slotted spoon and put into cold water to stop them cooking. The yolk is "jammy" rather than solid and I peel then eat with salad or rice etc

This

I would not shell a soft boiled egg, unless it’s going in a noodle soup

To make the conversation fuller! Ok then. 😕

I still have it every time I go and stay with my dad 😂

I wouldn't say it's very hard to buy egg cups in the US, though they certainly aren't as ubiquitous as in the UK. I've never seen eggs served as the OP has done. Most Americans wouldn't understand the term "egg and soldiers," though.

@AsuperblyfeauturedroomandexcellentboiledpotatoesI would have served the eggs in cups but with slices of toast rather than cut up into strips (soldiers). I would have also asked for the person's preference as to how soft they wanted the eggs to be.

Mmmmmmm chuckie eggs.

You mash a soft boiled egg up in a cup with lots of salt, pepper and butter. Don't forget the butter. Then you tip it onto the toast. Lush.

It's a northern/Scottish thing. In my childhood it was always with plain bread (as opposed to pan bread) but I can't seem to get that in southern supermarkets :(

Egg in an egg cup and soldiers.

Please don't take offence. I just meant to add to the conversation, to add context, to make it more interesting etc.

Sorry, OP, but if anyone in my house asked for boiled eggs and toast, I would assume they meant soft boiled eggs and soldiers - although for an adult I would check if they wanted the toast cut into soldiers or if they would do it themselves.

For us, poached eggs go on toast, soft boiled eggs are unshelled and go in an egg cup, and semi-hard or hard boiled eggs are shelled an go on salads or in sandwiches. I've never known anyone do it any different

I would also be wanting chuckie eggs! I might have to go and make some ... with soldiers of course.

With soliders would be soft-boiled eggs and should be specficied as such. Hard-boiled eggs is on slices of toast.

I do have eggs like this on toast because I like them on toast with avocado but I am not capable of poaching eggs.

I’d assume whole toast, because if they’d wanted soldiers they’d have asked for soldiers. They might have planned on scooping out the whole egg onto the toast and having an egg butty.

Chuckie eggs are soft boiled eggs all mashed up, there's no point in soldiers

If they wanted dippy eggs and soldiers they should have asked for dippy eggs and soldiers, this is British law.

I love boiled including hard boiked on toast with butter.
I never had egg and soldiers. I am not from uk thoigh and that was not norm in my family or where I grewup in general.

I know what they are! I like mine with soldiers! what else would you have with it? Just regular big toast?

Yes!!

Neither of your options.
Am I the only person who has never eaten or made “soldiers” in their life? It’s just not a thing for me (Scottish living in Wales)

Boiled eggs and toast is eggs in egg cups, done to the desired hardness or softness and slices of toast.

I have no choice but to remove the shell from dippy eggs for my 5 year old, he will eat the shell as well if it’s on the plate 😂