I will not eat eggs and Mrs. Butterworth.

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When Cody and I moved across the driveway of our first apartment into the one next door there was a morning where the food was in one apartment and the dishes were at the other. I was eight months pregnant and still vomiting quite regularly. I needed to eat within a half hour of waking up or my vomiting would get even worse.

Ah, pregnancy.

On this particular morning Cody woke me up and took me to IHOP immediately to feed me. I ordered some sort of pancake or french toast with no frills and Cody ordered some enormous plate of meat, cheese and eggs. My breakfast came with eggs also, but the very thought of eating an egg, even ordering an egg made me ill. Cody ordered for me and had my eggs poached so that he could eat them himself.

Fine.

Now if you’ve been to IHOP then you’re probably aware of the syrup caddy on the table, four different kinds of syrup for your enjoyment. When Cody got the poached eggs he picked up a syrup bottle, poured in ON THE EGGS and stirred them into a lumpy yolky syrup soup which he ate with a spoon.

A. Gross

B. When your wife is still violently ill eight months pregnant and dry heaves at the thought of cantaloupe, THIS IS EVEN MORE GROSS.

Thus began the great egg/syrup debate of the moosh family. I cannot, CANNOT, let syrup touch my eggs. Cody pours it on his eggs. My in laws don’t mind if eggs and syrup touch and I have a friend who won’t even eat them in the same meal.

So who’s the majority? Who’s the minority?

Eggs and syrup are one edible issue I have strong opinions on.

That and vegetables masquerading as dessert (I’m looking at you sweet potatoes.). But that’s an entirely different post.

104 thoughts on “I will not eat eggs and Mrs. Butterworth.”

  1. ACK! Eggs deserve cheese or salsa. They never asked to be drowned in syrup. *cringe*

    (OK, I do like the hollandaise, but only on occasion. And maybe ketchup. Or eggs mixed in with refried beans…)

    Am thinking I should not be mocking the syrup on re-reading my comment.

    Even so, ewwww!

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  2. On the other side of the coin, I just hate syrup. I’m surprised that Marilyn is the only other person who’s said the same. Sure I ate it as a kid, but some number of years ago I quit, and I’m so much happier for it. No sticky plates, no errant oozing, no need to segregate pancake knives and butter knives or throw away otherwise perfectly good bacon…

    As for the eggs, I don’t mind the taste of runny eggs, but I can’t stand the sight. That’s just gross.

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  7. all breakfast foods may touch. what wouldn’t be better with a little boysenberry syrup from ihop.

    although that is totally uncool eating like that in front of a vomitous woman.

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  9. I’ll allow eggs and syrup in the same MEAL, but on the same PLATE? Gag.

    Syrup sucks anyhow. Although I have been known to take a little nip here and there from the syrup bottle when there’s nothing else sweet in the house. . .

    Desperate times call for desperate measures.

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  11. No touching!! The only time when food is allowed to touch is at Thanksgiving. You can’t help it – there’s too much food and too little plate! In our house eggs may be accessorized with salt, pepper, cheese, maybe salsa – that’s it. Syrup is reserved for pancakes, waffles and sometimes grits. 🙂

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  20. I’m guilty as charged. Love syrup on scrambled (and only scrambled)eggs. The rest of the eggs can’t have syrup. Tim thinks it’s crazy and won’t even eat pancakes/french toast in the same meal as eggs.

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  25. Oh my god I’m not pregnant but that story about the eggs and syrup at IHOP made me a little nauseas reading it.

    so very gross.

    I can eat eggs and syrup in the same meal but not touching. blech

    now syrup and sausage, mmmmmm

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  28. It’s pretty disgusting to think of topping eggs with syrup, but a little run-off from my pancakes isn’t too bad. In fact, when camping, I love how everything is cooked together on the camping stove – eggs, pancakes, bacon, sausage, hashbrowns – and the wonderful plate of bliss that results! Mmmmmm!

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  32. eggs and syrup rarely find their way to the same plate when i am eating them. if i am having the two at the same meal i either get two plates or eat the eggs before dumping the syrup. i can’t believe cody’s little trick didn’t make you vomit. i’m not sick or pregnant and i almost did just reading about it.

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  34. People are obviously very passionate about this. At my house: I don’t mind if the syrup (maple syrup! real maple syrup! not ‘table syrup’) touches my scrambled eggs; Pynchon eats all the eggs first before the syrup comes near his plate.

    Ah … but what about ketchup grazing your pancakes?

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  35. I think it’s funny that so many people have piped up on this particular post…is syrup really that distressing? 😉

    I’m with you, though: pepper and salt are enough on my eggs, thank you very much.

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  39. eggs and syrup?! i have never even heard of that nonsense! that is so foul.
    how about people who eat cheese on their fruit? or ketchup on their eggs?! eww. i just recently got used to eating bacon and eggs and if syrup were anywhere near them both i may puke!

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  43. That is just nasty.
    Now… Bacon dipped in Syrup, that’s another tonguesmically yummy story all in and of itself.
    Had I been you… there would have been syrup and eggs dripping down his pants at that particular act of pregnant woman torture. I’m just sayin’.

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  46. I too think it’s hilarious that there are so many comments about eggs and syrup.
    And last night, I got to thinking about this subject when I watched my mother in law eat scrambled eggs with jelly toast, and she scooped up all the jelly all over her eggs and ate it. Gross.
    It made me think about Elf. (with Will Ferrel ~ one of my favorite movies) He puts syrup on spaghetti (and everything else – he carries it around with him). Now THAT is something to be disgusted about!

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  48. Must have the pancakes and anything else deemed “sweet” on a completely different plate.
    Although,I do dip my bacon and sausage in the syrup.

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