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Egg harbor sign


There's a street in Julian, California named Hardscramble Trail and both a city in Wisconsin and a township in New Jersey called Egg Harbor. If you wanted to name a place after eggs, what would you call that place? Why?


Egg name sign
  • Because boiling makes eggs tough and rubbery, you could call a tough place hard-boiled. This name might be good for a place that's very rocky. Boiling also makes big bubbles that break at the top of the water in a pan. A place that has crashing ocean waves could be called hard-boiled, too. Hard-Boiled Harbor could be a port where it's tough to sail because of rocks and crashing waves.
  • Poaching is one way to cook eggs but the word poaching has another meaning. A person who hunts on property that doesn't belong to him is poaching. So, a place where people are allowed to hunt could be called Poacher's Paradise.
  • Scrambled eggs are beaten until the whites and yolks are all mixed up. Sometimes people say something is scrambled when it's mixed up, too. For example, if a television or radio program is coded so it can't be picked up by mistake, the program signals are said to be scrambled. A place where television and radio programs don't come in clearly could be called Scramble City.
  • Egg whites are mostly protein and water. When you beat the whites, air gets caught in the protein molecules. When you cook the beaten egg whites, the air expands and the recipe puffs up tall with all the hot air. That's what makes meringues and soufflés light and airy. A place with tall mounds of white rocks could be called the Meringue Hills or the Meringue Mountains. A place where the air is usually hot could be called Souffleville.
  • When you fry eggs too long or fry them over heat that's too high, the edges of the eggs get brown and crinkly and dry up. This overcooking destroys the protein. A place where it's so hot and there's so little rain that ordinary plants dry up could be the Fried Desert. An area of woodland where a fire has occurred could be called the Fried Forest.

  What's your idea for an eggy place name?



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