Daily Life - How Would You Like Your Eggs? (0069)

A: Wow, you're up early today! What's for breakfast?
B: Well, I felt like baking, so I made some muffins.
A: Smells good! I'll make some coffee. Do you want me to make you some eggs?
B: Sure, I’ll take mine, sunny side up.
A: Eww, I don't know how you can eat your eggs like that! Ever since I was small, I've had eggs and soldiers.
B: You know, my dad had scrambled eggs eggs every morning for twenty years. It drove my mom crazy!
A: You know what really drives me crazy? When I ask for soft boiled eggs, and they overcook them, so they come out hard boiled! How can you dip your toast into a hard boiled egg?
B: You're so picky sometimes.
A: Here you go, honey, fried eggs.
B: Dammit! I asked for sunny side up! How many times do I have to tell you.

Key Vocabulary

bake cook in the oven
muffin common noun, plural a small break or cake people usually eat for breakfast
sunny-side up phrase with egg fried on only one side
eggs and soldiers phrase soft-boiled eggs with strips of buttered toast on it which people usually eat for breakfast
scrambled eggs common noun, non-variable a way of cooking eggs by mixing them in a pan
soft boiled egg phrase eggs cooked in the shell so the yellow part is still soft and wet
hard boiled egg phrase egg cooked in the shell until the inside becomes solid
picky Adjective too careful at selecting things and usually hard to please
egg common noun, plural the egg of a bird (especially a chicken or a duck) people usually eat as food

Supplementary Vocabulary

hen common noun, singular female chicken
over-easy Adjective an egg friend on both sides; cooked so the yolk is still soft
common noun, singular eggs mixed, then cooked, and then folded in half;
yolk common noun, singular the yellow part of the egg
egg white common noun, singular the white part of the egg
frying pan common noun, singular a large, flat pot used for cooking eggs and other things