Are there sandwiches that don't benefit from a sunny-side up (or over-easy) fried egg?

[ipsedixit]

This is really a question for those that like fried eggs, and in particular fried eggs with runny yolks.

I think just about any sandwich out there can benefit from a sunny-side up egg -- be it a grilled veggie sandwich, a meat based one (like pastrami or roast beef and BBQ pulled pork), even seafood ones like a fish or an oyster Po'boy, or ethnic varieties like a Banh Mi.

There's just something special that words cannot do justice when that runny, custardy yolk bathes itself over the other sandwich fixins.

Maybe PB&J might be the exception, but I'd still give it a shot.

Your thoughts?

[tim irvine]

I too would try it on it PB and J. I think it is that good. There is a food truck here that makes a bulgogi burger with a fried egg on it. It makes me lie awake more excited than a kid in a Christmas movie.

The whole idea of putting fried eggs on stuff entered my food lexion by way of stacked blue corn enchiladas with Hatch chilies.

[Bacardi1]

Sorry, but YES - there are far more sandwiches that I have the time to list here that definitely do NOT benefit from a runny fried egg on top.

This takes personal preference to a new level.

[sunshine842]

I love runny yolks, and will happily mop them up with buttered bread all day long.

I love scrambled-egg sandwiches.

I love an egg broken in the middle of a pizza, or a poached egg broken over a salad that's been lightly dressed with vinaigrette (the yolk mixes with the vinaigrette to make the best. dressing. evar.)

I don't dislike runny yolks on a sandwich, (and really like the flavors/textures) but they always seem to be more mess than they're worth.

[Uncle Bob]

I had a pineapple sandwich... wheat bread, Duke's mayonnaise, pineapple slices for lunch today. As I had just returned from the hen house, I thought of this thread. ~ Hmmmm a nice fresh yard egg, fried on my pineapple sandwich....Ahmmmmm No thank you. ;)

[Paprikaboy]

When i saw your post I thought well that's gotta be right what can't be improved by a runny yolk?

Decided to test the theory by adding a fried egg to my cheese and mango chutney bagel. Unfortunately I have to report it does nothing for the sandwich. Obviously not a big enough sample so i'll keep on experimenting.

[MGZ]

This thread has led me to the realization that this weekend, I need to find time to make myself a fried mortadella sandwich, on a hard roll, with an egg on top. Maybe some thinly shaved onions and/or melted cheese?

[cresyd]

For me a smoked salmon sandwich with cream cheese on a sandwich can be embelished and improved with many other ingredients....but personally I don't think I'd want it with a fried egg.

[John Francis]

For me, no sandwich benefits from an over-easy egg, not even egg salad. Not one of them. But I guess that's not me.

[HillJ]

Personally a fried egg on tuna or chicken salad wouldn't work for me but beyond that I can't think of one that wouldn't work with a fried egg.

[Dirtywextraolives]

Tuna salad
Seafood salad
Fluffernutter

[WiscoKid]

I bet liverwurst would be pretty gross with a fried egg on top. Well, at least the texture would be, hehe =)

[Dirtywextraolives]

You read my mind, as I was about to type that, then held back. I love liverwurst. I love eggs. Maybe, just maybe I would try that. If I was pregnant.

[Will Owen]

My favorite sandwich is liverwurst with sliced HB egg and a slice of Swiss. Mom fed me one when I was about nine and it's been the tops ever since. Runny egg? Mmmmm don't think so.

[Dirtywextraolives]

Now THAT sounds great!

[cavandre]

I was also thinking liverwurst and chopped chicken liver.

[MGZ]

I'm lovin' the idea of a liverwurst sandwich with a fried egg on top. Then again, I'm pretty much with ipse on this one. Most sandwiches could benefit from a gooey fried egg on top.

[LeoLioness]

I think that sounds delicious, actually.

[Booklegger451]

Hmmm... I'd say you probably need a medium or hard boiled egg to go on your liverwurst sandwich. It would be pretty texturally weird with a fried egg (but would probably taste pretty good).

[LeoLioness]

Tuna salad? Hummus and raw vegetables? Chicken salad?

[pikawicca]

Egg salad, grilled cheese, tuna salad? Yuck!

[meatn3]

Actually it's really good with grilled cheese!

[Will Owen]

I never met a runny-yolk fried egg sandwich until I was in my twenties; every fried-egg sandwich I'd seen (and that was very many indeed) had its yolk broken and cooked to some degree of solidity. And then when I was visiting a couple I knew they offered me an egg sandwich, and were as surprised as I was because they'd never seen a non-runny fried egg sandwich …

No, I don't care for drippy sandwiches in general, and if they are I don't want it to be egg yolk. The deliciousness part I do get, though, so if I can have it served on something like a pasta plate, and go after it with knife and fork, I'd be happy to try. One of those burgers, a meat loaf sandwich, a chip butty (sandwich of French fries, yum!) or a Sloppy Joe. Since I eat Sloppy Joes with utensils anyway it's a great candidate, and egg would be a great improvement. I'm thinking that the best results would be gotten with a loose-textured filling, a hand-patted burger patty being about as tight as one would want.

[tcamp]

I love drippy fried eggs but any sandwich I plan to eat at my desk at work will not include that ingredient. I do take breakfast sandwiches to work but I pierce the yolk when frying.

I am intrigued by the idea of pimento cheese with a fried egg.

[MGZ]

"I am intrigued by the idea of pimento cheese with a fried egg."

It's very good. I have done that a coupla times.

[Veggo]

There won't be a fried egg option on the pimento cheese sandwiches at The Masters in Augusta any time soon.

[ipsedixit]

Well, that's different, right?

There's not having the option, and then there's "it's not good even with the option", no?

[512window]

All of them.

I can think of nothing more disgusting than a sunnyside up egg dripping down the rest of my food.

[Violatp]

Oh, I am with you! And I love fried eggs; love a creamy, liquid yolk for dipping - but in a sandwich? No. Even a breakfast sandwich is out for drippy yolks.

[Sooeygun]

Same here. Love a dippy egg, but never on a sandwich. Breakfast sandwiches at my house are made with an over hard egg.

[foodieX2]

Agree that its great on any meat based sandwich… yum!

PB&J

PB & Banana

Lobster salad roll

Strange maybe but I can't see a fried egg on my egg salad on toast

Meatn3- not a fan of the CC sandwich but with an egg? double yuck.

[meatn3]

I agree on the double yuck! I was adding to the list which don't benefit from an egg...perhaps we should make it a triple yuck.

[pinehurst]

I LOVE fried eggs, but don't think I'd care for one on my seafood salad sandwich (w/mayo)....I'd like that to stay cool and have the only "warm" contrast the buttered, toasted roll.

[laliz]

I thought of PBJ, but you said you'd give that a shot.

[ipsedixit]

I will, and I will report back.

[meatn3]

You beat me to it - PB&J...

I'll add cream cheese and jelly and olive and cream cheese sandwiches!