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* DidNotDoTheResearch: V makes a dish called \
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* DidNotDoTheResearch: V makes a dish called \\\"eggy in a basket,\\\" which AlanMoore summed up thusly: \\\"Now the US have eggs in a basket, which is fried bread with a fried egg in a hole in the middle. I guess they thought we must eat that as well, and thought eggy in a basket was a quaint and Olde Worlde version.\\\" Alan Moore\\\'s objection is a bit odd, though, since Brits \\\'\\\'do\\\'\\\' eat this for breakfast and call it \\\"Toad in a Hole.\\\" (Toad in \\\'\\\'the\\\'\\\' Hole more often describes a sausage dish.)
*** This British Troper has never heard of \\\"toad in A hole\\\" in her life. It\\\'s definitely not common enough that you could make a statement like \\\"Brits do eat this for breakfast\\\" or find it odd that Alan Moore hasn\\\'t heard of it. They might have been around in the past (as mentioned below), but it\\\'s certainly not a common dish these days.
*** Except the statement \\\"Brits do eat this for breakfast\\\" was also made by a British Troper. Possibly it\\\'s a regional thing?
** It\\\'s especially odd because it was much used during egg rationing to imitate the look of a fried egg. The dried egg became the yellow yolk, and the white bread the white. Probably a recipe his parents didn\\\'t use -- it doesn\\\'t appear in cookbooks much, people tend to just learn it from watching Mum and Dad cook breakfast.
But since at least \\\'\\\'some\\\'\\\' Brits seem to have heard of and eaten the dish in question, the passage does seem to be a case of DidNotDoTheResearch. The next question is what it\\\'s (most often, perhaps) called in the UK ...
*** This British Troper has never heard of \\\"toad in A hole\\\" in her life. It\\\'s definitely not common enough that you could make a statement like \\\"Brits do eat this for breakfast\\\" or find it odd that Alan Moore hasn\\\'t heard of it. They might have been around in the past (as mentioned below), but it\\\'s certainly not a common dish these days.
*** Except the statement \\\"Brits do eat this for breakfast\\\" was also made by a British Troper. Possibly it\\\'s a regional thing?
** It\\\'s especially odd because it was much used during egg rationing to imitate the look of a fried egg. The dried egg became the yellow yolk, and the white bread the white. Probably a recipe his parents didn\\\'t use -- it doesn\\\'t appear in cookbooks much, people tend to just learn it from watching Mum and Dad cook breakfast.
But since at least \\\'\\\'some\\\'\\\' Brits seem to have heard of and eaten the dish in question, the passage does seem to be a case of DidNotDoTheResearch. The next question is what it\\\'s (most often, perhaps) called in the UK ...
