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Escobarhippo t1_ixdbtlx wrote

It’s DIPPY eggs, silly.

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Lululover412 t1_ixdi5ab wrote

I didn’t know this was a Pittsburgh thing until I mentioned it to friends from NY and TX and they looked at me like I was growing a third eye on my forehead haha

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Alfonze423 t1_ixeblld wrote

It's a NEPA thing, too.

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zorionek0 t1_ixf9ptq wrote

Yeah I was confused for a second. “Have I just imagined that’s what I call them?”

I find all PA’s local shibboleths endlessly fascinating, n’at.

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momlin t1_ixed590 wrote

"Dippy eggs? WTF?????????" (Said in my native NY accent) lol.

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ILikeMyGrassBlue t1_ixfypki wrote

It’s not. It’s PA Dutchie thing as well. It’s common all over the state.

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Golden_Bee_Moth OP t1_ixdc1dy wrote

Seriously lived in pa my whole life only ever heard them called that when I visit Lancaster

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Dredly t1_ixddin6 wrote

I didn't know what Sunny-side eggs were until I was in my 20s... it was always Dippy eggs

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I'm from Monroe County

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Golden_Bee_Moth OP t1_ixddvcc wrote

Huh feels kinda weird I mainly grew up in a rural area between dillsburg and Mechanicsburg

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harrimsa t1_ixdiu3q wrote

We must be neighbors. I went to Northern and now my kids go to Northern. I live a mile from the Yellow Breeches.

Didn’t you go to any local diners growing up? At Wolf’s Diner and Bakers they call them Dippy Eggs.

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Golden_Bee_Moth OP t1_ixdj14w wrote

Didn't really have local dinner if we drove a few miles we could go to the pickel nickel

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shewy92 t1_ixdua42 wrote

How long has Baker's been open? It's right across the street basically

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just_an_ordinary_guy t1_ixeazsk wrote

At least since I graduated high school. I used to work at the summer camp and we went to Baker's a bunch of times. So it's been 17 years.

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girlgonegreen t1_ixf3u2k wrote

I also went to Northern and many of my friends have kids currently at Northern.

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C4bl3Fl4m3 t1_ixdiyms wrote

You grew up in my neck of the woods! Cumberland County represent! I grew up between Boiling Springs and Mount Holly Springs.

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shewy92 t1_ixdu5a7 wrote

I'm surprised you've never heard of dippy eggs then. I'm basically your neighbor (a little south of the Dillsburg Sheetz) but grew up in Chambersburg and that's what we called it

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beautifulsouth00 t1_ixdm0uk wrote

Can confirm. Am from Pittsburgh. My aunt asked for "dippy" eggs at Eat n Park just last month.

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WookieeSteakIsChewie t1_ixdhil8 wrote

Anywhere west of Harrisburg calls them dippy eggs.

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Brightcab t1_ixdtyr5 wrote

I'm basically in valley forge and I've always said dippy eggs. I have had people who didn't know what tf I was talking about before, though.

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p4nd3mic_27 t1_ixe2z34 wrote

I'm from Pittsburgh, never heard of a dippy egg until moving to the Wilkes Barre/Scranton area

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rivershimmer t1_ixeyr11 wrote

Huh. Grew up in Pittsburgh calling them dippy eggs, at home and in restaurants.

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Redlar t1_ixdenti wrote

>only ever heard them called that when I visit Lancaster

My mother always called them that but she grew up just across the border from Lancaster Co, down in MD

I grew up in the same area, that's all I've ever called them because I can never remember the proper term

While we're at it, what's your opinion on Scrapple? Growing up across the border from Lancaster, I've always had scrapple and love it.

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Golden_Bee_Moth OP t1_ixdevlj wrote

Oh scrapple is great first time I had it was cause a restaurant messed up our delivery order I think it was pepper mill me and my sister are the only ones in our family that enjoy it

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Trill_McNeal t1_ixe2slc wrote

Never heard that either. I grew up in south jersey and then central jersey, lived in the Lehigh Valley and now Chester county and work in Lancaster. I’m gonna have to ask at work about this.

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rivershimmer t1_ixeyn52 wrote

Grew up outside of Pittsburgh, and they were always called dippy eggs.

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Ancient_Boner_Forest t1_ixddlsz wrote

I’ve heard dippy eggs used to refer to just a fried egg over medium/soft though?

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GawkieBird t1_ixe1qtf wrote

All right, I typed a whole thing in your defense and then wikipediaed before posting, and apparently a good portion of SEPA calls sunny side up "dippy" and over easy is something different.

I grew up in western suburbs of Philly and my family called over easy/medium "dippy" while sunny side eggs were something fancy that we didn't do at all.

I feel like a stranger.

But now both you and I know. I'm not sure why you were downvoted when someone could have just updated you but whatever, reddit.

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ILikeMyGrassBlue t1_ixfyxgp wrote

I have never heard anyone in SEPA say dippy for sunny side up. I’m an hour outside of Philly, and dippy has always meant over easy/medium in my area too. Where are all the people in SEPA who say dippy for sunny side? Maybe wiki is wrong lmao.

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nalgene_wilder t1_ixeadv8 wrote

Over easy is flipped so that the egg white becomes a little case around the yolk. Sunny side up leaves the yolk exposed

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GawkieBird t1_ixeh2vi wrote

Yes. I now realize i had that explanation in the post i wrote but erased, but didn't rewrite it for the text i ended up posting. Thanks for the further clarification.

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