Talk:Egg sandwich

I respect Joy Stovall's idea for redirecting, but I don't think it's appropriate here. The original author of this stub is correct; an egg sandwich is not the same as an egg salad sandwich. An egg sandwich involves an egg, simply prepared (I've seen fried, not boiled), as one of its layers. So I'm reverting back to the stub. I'm also removing the PROD tag and adding the Sandwiches category, because I think this article could eventually be as good as the other good sandwich articles on Wikipedia. --Allen 00:41, 8 February 2006 (UTC)

There's a series of posts here about fried egg sandwiches http://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums/viewtopic/t=20713/highlight=%22egg+banjo%22.html

Egg McMuffin
I've pondered this a bit, but I can't formulate a strong enough argument for or against this: should Egg McMuffin be split back out into its own article? Many other trademarked food items that had great impact are presented in this manner. --Takeel 14:38, 25 May 2006 (UTC)


 * Right now the section is so short, even if you do split it it is at best a stub. I'd rather have someone expand the information first before deciding on its proper location in Wikipedia. 24.19.184.243 14:32, 29 June 2006 (UTC)

References in popular culture
I'm moving these here, because it seems to me that they are not important in the works in which they occur--just passing references. This is underlined by the fact that they are not referenced. And they do not illustrate anything important about any cultural role of egg sandwiches. Dpbsmith (talk) 18:38, 31 December 2007 (UTC)


 * In the Red Dwarf episode "Thanks for the Memory", Arnold Rimmer is given a party celebrating his death day. Once back on the ship, Dave Lister wishes he could have a '...triple fried egg butty with chili sauce and chutney.'  Soon after, Rimmer in his drunken state wishes for the same thing.  Holly produces one for Rimmer and after taking a bite he exclaims 'I feel like I'm having a baby!' The scene continues on for several minutes.


 * In the Biz Markiesong "Dinner Date," Markie expresses his desire to eat an egg sandwich off of a woman's rear end.

Frank's Egg Palace
I'm moving this here because I don't think it's sufficiently notable or relevant, and the "jism" details read like a crude joke. I notice that we have no article on Gregory Frank. I notice that http://gregfrank.com (and http://www.gregfrank.com) is the website for a realtor, not a restaurant. Therefore, even if a restaurant's own website were a reliable source for the restaurant's importance... which it isn't... the contents of the cited source don't support the content. Dpbsmith (talk) 23:51, 9 May 2008 (UTC)
 * Chef Gregory Frank owns a world reknowned restaurant named "Franks Egg Palace" where he serves egg sandwiches is a library-type setting. The setting has been rumored to be based off of his childhood, when he ate egg sandwiches with jism topping in the school library. Greg loves eating them in the library with jism, and the restaurant portrays his love. A special style is the egg sandwich with jism and a sliced footlong black sausage, which Greg engorged at the opening. Go to [gregfrank.com] to get more details.

WikiProject Food and drink Tagging
This article talk page was automatically added with WikiProject Food and drink banner as it falls under Category:Food or one of its subcategories. If you find this addition an error, Kindly undo the changes and update the inappropriate categories if needed. The bot was instructed to tagg these articles upon consenus from WikiProject Food and drink. You can find the related request for tagging here. If you have concerns, please inform on the project talk page -- TinucherianBot (talk) 10:07, 3 July 2008 (UTC)

Cress as a filler
In the United Kingdom, which is where I live, cress is a popular accompaniment to egg sandwiches, just how cucumber is popular with tuna sandwiches (there is a famous sandwich here called the "BLT", "bacon, lettuce and tomato" again showing how certain protein fillings are associated with certain salad vegetable fillings). I think that it would be good if some one could do some research into how egg sandwiches came to be associated with cress, put in the references and leave comments on this page. Many thanks, ACEOREVIVED (talk) 18:52, 26 June 2009 (UTC)

File:Egg sandwich.jpg Nominated for Deletion
Ludicrously, the only other illustration captioned "egg sandwich" is plainly a) either a hamburger with egg and cheese or b) a "Sausage Egg McMuffin" and therefore soft advertising - and equally misleading. An egg sandwich it is not. An even better candidate for deletion. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 124.168.212.28 (talk) 02:03, 29 December 2013 (UTC)

Notice of discussion at list of sandwiches
A discussion pertaining to this topic is underway at Talk:List of sandwiches. Ibadibam (talk) 17:42, 21 May 2014 (UTC)

Images
I swapped in a better lead image. The previous one was an egg mcsomething -- an America-centric, promotional, mass-produced thing. Plus, it was an egg and mystery meat sandwich. The lead image should just be egg, and maybe a topping. Feel free to restore the mcsomething elsewhere in the article.

I also removed the Swedish sandwich. It didn't seem related to any text, and had a commercial product in the shot. It was also badly placed.

We could use some more egg sandwich images at commons to choose from. These are fair game. I can try to download them in a few days, but right now, Flickr downloading is blocked whrere I am:


 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/59247791@N08/7553892208
 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/oskarlin/6254782283
 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/annethelibrarian/6113599513
 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/breville/8736292712
 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/breville/8735174457
 * https://www.flickr.com/photos/kekka/447068720

Anna Frodesiak (talk) 08:12, 11 June 2014 (UTC)

Egg banjo
Sources: Can we get a full quotation from the Partridge Dictionary? Also, while the following sites discuss the issue, they are not reliable sources: Ibadibam (talk) 21:06, 9 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Quora - fails WP:USERGENERATED and WP:RSOPINION
 * Urban Dictionary - fails WP:USERGENERATED
 * Arrsepedia - non-WikiMedia wikis generally fail WP:USERGENERATED, as this one does
 * h2g2 - while this online community was formerly hosted by the BBC (hence this page, it's not up to the journalistic standards of, say, BBC News. It's essentially a wiki (fails WP:USERGENERATED), and one intended to be humorous and not 100% factual.
 * Coldstreamers Message Board - any forum, ever, fails WP:USERGENERATED.
 * I see your concerns. Arsepedia though is the oracle of the British army, even though unofficial and there is ample anecdotal evidence there to support the fact that the term "Egg Banjo" was used by soldiers from 1945.  I have posted a direct BBC link as well which also supports the claim.  I am also a former British soldier of many years and I believe that gives me "special knowledge".  In my searches for l;inks yesterday I certainly found many references to this in dictionaries.  I will do the search again later and put in another link.  SonofSetanta (talk) 13:46, 10 January 2015 (UTC)
 * See if any of these links suit your perception of what's needed. http://aussietaste.recipes/sandwiches-and-wraps/egg-sandwich/, , [ https://josefblack.wordpress.com/british-military-slang/] ,   [ https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=OSc94Qnk-kgC&pg=PA9&lpg=PA9&dq=egg+banjo+military+slang&source=bl&ots=jxxfN2TiJ8&sig=rmfxJLtlsQ2Aud7N_K9vYva6yb4&hl=en&sa=X&ei=PzWxVPW3DI7kaNKVgTA&ved=0CCAQ6AEwADgU#v=onepage&q=egg%20banjo%20military%20slang&f=false],    [ http://www.aboutlanguageschools.com/slang/royal-marines-slang.asp],    [ http://www.scribd.com/doc/7202328/Arbor-Field-Mil-Slang#scribd] This one is interesting, it's an advisory for British Army Cadets on an official forum  [ http://armycadetforce.com/gloslist.php].
 * The quote from Partridge you want is: "Banjo noun 1 a generously proportioned sandwich or filled roll. In military use in forms such as an "egg banjo" or a "chip banjo".
 * Ibadibam, I'm disappointed you've not replied. Are you still in the discussion? SonofSetanta (talk) 14:13, 11 January 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry for the long silence. This page fell to the bottom of my watchlist! Thanks so much for the quotation from Partridge. I've incorporated it into the article. As it didn't have anything to do with the etymology, I moved it to a passage it does support. Here's my evaluation of the last batch of linked sources:
 * AussieTaste: Article is lifted directly from Wikipedia. Not usable (see WP:CIRCULAR).
 * JosefBlack: dead link, not available from the Wayback Machine, so unable to evaluate
 * British Infantryman in the Far East: Doesn't support anything currently in the article, but a great bit of history that demonstrates that the sandwich followed British troops around the globe. Ought to be worked in somehow.
 * Language Schools/Royal Marines Slang: Unclear where they did their research. Only supports the definition of the term, which isn't disputed.
 * Arbor Field: same as previous
 * ArmyCadetForce: Contains the proposed etymology, but again, no indication of any research. This at least demonstrates the popularity of the etymology also contained in ARRSE, but doesn't give any weight to that etymology's veracity.
 * As for the ARRSE Guide, I get the significance, but as the entire work is meant to be at least partly humorous and a collection of rumors, legends and other orally transmitted information, it can't be taken seriously as a source of factual information as concerns this term. I think we can include the whole spilled-egg thing so long as it's identified as a possible false etymology and not necessarily the authentic origin of the phrase. We'll have to wait for some lexicographer to take interest in the term before we can include anything more definitive. Ibadibam (talk) 02:29, 30 April 2015 (UTC)
 * I'm happy with the section as it stands, until some further, solid material can be found on the history of the sandwich in the forces. SonofSetanta (talk) 14:50, 30 April 2015 (UTC)