And what do you call those eggs fried in a piece of bread?

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

Answers

Oh, I forgot that there was a potential third answer to the question: the busser.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

The cooked-for... but since I'm always the cook, maybe my answer's biased a little bit. :)

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

Neither. That's why they invented take-away!

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

Firehouse eggs were called Toad in a Hole in my house.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

Eggs in a hole.

We take turns cooking. He always cleans the kitchen because laundry is my chore and the kitchen is his. Just about everything is equal .

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

I believe that he (she) who cooks should not have to clean. My boyfriend is a wonderful cook, but a terrible slob. So I clean up after he cooks, no problem. Except that since he's such a slob he doesn't clean up after me. But that's ok, I do if faster and better anyway. My ex-boyfriend was an awful (and I mean awful) cook, but he always washed the dishes (albeit in COLD water-to save money????). I can't win!

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

Well, in days of old, when me and Jeremy would have a mutual dinner/lunch/whatever meal, it was very striclty divided: one person cooked, the other cleaned up.

Since then, since I usually was the only one there, I cleaned up eventually. Since moving back home, I do a little bit of the cleanup, mainly because I don't remember where anything goes. Of course, if I eat at Mr. Kipper's house or he eats at mine, most of the cleanup goes to whoever's house we are at.

I generally try to avoid cleanup, since washing dishes was my chore for about 10 years.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

Well,I bitched and bitched and bitched at Jake for the longest time to DO the dishes... but he never got the hang of it, so when we found outI was pregnant (Sorry - my space bar is being sticky) I bestowed upon him the lovely chore of cleaning out litter box, so I took over the dishes again. Good Thing too... I can keep up with them easier than he can.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

I do the dishes, if I want them clean the same week they got dirty. My husband's no good at all at daily maintenance tasks. He's an excellent cook though - especially East Indian food and vegetarian sushi.

-- Anonymous, September 19, 1999

Daniel doesn't do anything that remotely involves stepping in the kitchen. In fact, the only time he even gets close to preparing food is when he slaps a burger on the barbecue (although the last few times, I have asked him 3 or 4 times to start the BBQ and he just sits and plays his game so now I've learned how to BBQ...damn, never realized how smart he is.)

But I never thouch the lawnmower, water the plants, and hardly ever clean the bathroom....so I suppose it's a fair trade.

I don't understand why he'd rather scrub the toilet than clean the kitchen...but I'm not going to argue.

And I never heard of egg in the hole until I met Daniel. My family was *so* uncultured.

-- Anonymous, September 20, 1999

We don't cook. I wash the inevitable cereal bowls and glasses once a week. Yay Chris! I grew up with Toad in a Hole.

-- Anonymous, September 20, 1999

Where I'm from, we call them Popeyes.

I kind of like the idea of not having to clean up my own messes, but in my house the cook cleans up. Also, about 99% of the time I'm the cook. I don't mind so much... I almost never clean the bathrooms, so it all works out.

-- Anonymous, September 20, 1999

I looked at the pictures, but I really couldn't see the problem. Our kitchen looks like that all the time!

Neither of us cook much and we never make big elaborate meals. We don't even eat together most of the time. If one of us does cook we both clear the table. One of us washes up pans later. I like to do a lot of dishes at a time so I won't wash up after every meal. He used to be tidier but I've corrupted him to my way of life.

Why make your own sushi when the sushi place can do it faster and better?

-- Anonymous, September 20, 1999

It usually is my oldest son, who's 12. (Oops, sorry. ALMOST 13! LOL) But since we,ve graduated to a dishwasher it really isn't that bad of a chore

-- Anonymous, September 20, 1999

oh my gosh, i must be very out of it, because i've never heard of that egg dish. anyone have a picture or recipe ? i'm intrigued.

and the cooked-for should definitely clean up. i've come to love cooking now that i figured out i can guilt-trip jimmy into cleaning up after me. "babe, that was delicious!" "thanks. that dish was REALLY hard to make. i'm sOOOooOoOo tired now." "oh? well, you rest then.. i'll clean up."

=)

-- Anonymous, September 20, 1999

I love the name Popeyes - never heard of them called that before but it is very fitting if you see those kinds of eggs. In my house the person who cooks does not have to clean up but if my husband cooks he often cleans too - he's nice that way! My big problem is getting my 17 year old to do her share.

-- Anonymous, September 23, 1999

I invariably end up cleaning up whether I cooked or not. Matt say that he will clean, but never does it.

And my family always called them "one-eyed Egyptians." Don't ask me why. And why is it that every family in the world has a different name for those stupid things? I mean, scrambled eggs are scrambled eggs no matter whose home you're in!

-- Anonymous, September 26, 1999