Isn't this one of those cultural things though? Hard to find a translation for scrambled eggs if they're generally not cooked that way here (I live in Ankara).

Like the Turkish word "tost" actually means toasted sandwich, but toast is "kızarmış ekmek" (I hope!) which translates back into English as fried bread. Although it isn't actually fried. *sigh*

Just one of those "when in Rome" things. You can fight it (surely pointless) or give in. Anyway - when you look at the mindboggling irregularity of English, you can forgive Turkish anything...

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In France they use only one egg to make an omlette because in France "one egg is un Å“uf". Sorry, couldn't resist this little bi-lingual pun.

Scrambled eggs are scrambled before cooking and stirred during cooking. Omlettes are scrambled before cooking and left alone during cooking (often covered to make them fluffy).

With respect to the language of food and food preparation, I would like to speculate that the word(s) in Turkish for toasted bread expresses the process of caramelization of the sugars in the bread. Caramalizing the sugars on the surface of a food, whether by toasting, frying, or roasting, brings about a change in color. In English we refer to this change in color as "browning". I am guessing that in Turkish, the process which brings about this change in color, is referred to as "reddening". Hence the word "kızarmış", from the word meaning red, "kırmızı", refers to the process of caramelization.

This topic turned out to be an interesting discussion about food, language, culture, and translation. How lovely! My thanks to you all.

Hey Bod! When there is menemen, what do you need all the other words about eggs? You should order that. It's delicious!

OK, I'll let up about the menemen, but isn't it lovely to see a discussion on the merits of various egg dishes when the spectre of kuş gribi still looms? Well done us for refusing to be panic-mongered.

*patpatpat*



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