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I was about to ask for an implication from fried egg to sunny side up egg, but then I noticed that I couldn't really find a difference between the two tags. Are there any posts where a fried egg is not a sunny side up egg? scrambled eggs and other types of "fried" eggs have their own tags.
Even the wikis are confusing and are kind of referring to the same thing (the yolk being in one piece).
If the yolk isn't intact when it is fried, then it becomes scrambled eggs. Saying the yolk is intact is to say that it was fried and not stirred/mixed.
One problem with trying to differentiate a sunny side up fried egg and over easy/medium/well, is that if you're tagging it while it is in the middle of being cooking than they're all going to start out looking like sunny side up eggs until the egg is flipped. On the other hand, drawing a sunny side up egg is a lot easier than the alternatives, and their media frequently depicts their characters liking runny egg yolks so I wouldn't be surprised with them favoring sunny side up where the yolk is the most runny.
You can have images of a fried egg like post #4219954, which you wouldn't be able to tell if it is "sunny side up" but again it was in the middle of being cooked so we don't know what type of fried egg it was going to end up as in the end.
What americans call sunny side up egg is a fried egg in the rest of the world. That might be the reason why there is no difference.
From turbo-autist point of view, implication from sunny side up egg to fried egg would be more accurate since the former one is a way how you fry your eggs. But we probably do not need two tags referring nearly the same concept.
So aliasing sunny side up egg -> fried egg makes more sense to me. Also "sunny side up" sounds dumb.
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