# Do you ever put jam on your eggs? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 1, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259 "2018-06-01T14:30:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/1 "2018-06-01T14:30:47Z")
When I was growing up in California my mother would occasionally make us scrambled eggs for breakfast. (I say occasionally because I grew up during a time when eggs and butter were considered the worst things you could eat because of cholesterol. Fortunately, times have changed.) After plating the eggs mom would then take out some jam, usually strawberry but it doesn’t really matter which kind, and put a blob on her eggs. We all thought it was a little odd at first, but she said that that’s how her father would eat them. I tried it once, loved it and have done it ever since. BTW, I don’t put jam on any other style of eggs than scrambled. My wife thinks I’m crazy and won’t even consider trying it. She says it’s disgusting and will sometimes leave the room when I am eating my breakfast. I should mention that my grandfather was born and raised in England at the turn of the last century and perhaps this is something that English people from that generation enjoyed… I have no idea. So do you ever put jam on your scrambled eggs, and is this some kind of UK tradition? I rarely if ever see anyone else doing this. Just curious. ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/2 "2018-06-01T14:33:55Z")
No, but I would try it. I was always grossed out by people who put grape jelly on sausage. ---
**Author:** ![Alpha\_Twit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alpha_twit/32/265_2.png) [@Alpha\_Twit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alpha_Twit)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/3 "2018-06-01T14:36:51Z")
Never just on eggs but I have been known to squirt a pack of jam onto my drive-thru breakfast sandwich. ---
**Author:** ![dolphinboy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dolphinboy/32/330_2.png) [@dolphinboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dolphinboy)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/4 "2018-06-01T14:47:12Z")
Wow, this must just be an odd family tradition. I make my own jellies and jams and scrambled eggs with homemade wild raspberry jelly is hands down my favorite breakfast food. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/5 "2018-06-01T15:32:12Z")
Never tried that. For me, eggs cry out to be topped with salsa, hot-sauce, savory chutney, and the like. ---
**Author:** ![sitchensis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sitchensis/32/4892_2.png) [@sitchensis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sitchensis)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/6 "2018-06-01T15:39:28Z")
I put a fried eggs and bacon or sausage on pancakes and waffles and douse the whole pile in syrup. Scrambled eggs call for cheese or hot sauce. ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Mapp](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miss_mapp/32/369_2.png) [@Miss\_Mapp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Mapp)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/7 "2018-06-01T16:03:25Z")
In one of Dorothy Sayer’s mysteries, a person is poisoned via a “sweet” omelet with hot jam filling. Several times after reading this story, I wanted to try that (without the arsenic). The omelet tastes okay, but it’s just too messy. Jam when hot and folded into the middle of an omelet just becomes liquid, runs out of its eggy casing and pools on the plate. ---
**Author:** ![betonbill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/b782af/32.png) [@betonbill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betonbill)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/8 "2018-06-01T16:06:27Z")
ketchup yes. Salsa, hot sauce, cheese, ham/bacon yes. Jam no. ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/9 "2018-06-01T16:07:16Z")
I like marmalade with my fried egg and bacon on toast. Does that count? ---
**Author:** ![DCnDC](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dcndc/32/2842_2.png) [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 4:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/10 "2018-06-01T16:09:39Z")
No. Scrambled eggs are not something I want to be sweet. Occasionally the maple syrup on my sausages will creep over to the egg side of the plate, but I that is as much of that sort of thing as I will tolerate. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/11 "2018-06-01T16:30:37Z")
Negative. But Mrs. L.A. sometimes does. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 5:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/12 "2018-06-01T17:04:40Z")
To this day I get an overwhelming craving for a fried egg with a piece of white bread buttered toast, with grape or strawberry jelly on it. (the toast). One of my few happy childhood memories, Sunday breakfast, bacon, the smell of coffee, and the radio on tuned to The Polish Hour. … Jam on eggs sounds English, they love their jam over there, so I have heard. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 5:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/13 "2018-06-01T17:12:27Z")
Once. It was an accident. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/14 "2018-06-01T17:57:27Z")
Nah. There are Savory Breakfast People, and there are Sweet Breakfast People. Pouring maple syrup on sausages or dabbing jam on scrambled eggs is simply insane. ---
**Author:** ![leahcim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b4bc9f/32.png) [@leahcim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leahcim)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 5:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/15 "2018-06-01T17:59:50Z")
I used to when I was a kid. (And put the whole thing in an english muffin). My sister called it a “yuck sandwich”. ---
**Author:** ![Rushgeekgirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rushgeekgirl/32/3715_2.png) [@Rushgeekgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rushgeekgirl)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/16 "2018-06-01T18:02:44Z")
I love biscuits or toast loaded with raspberry preserves, filled with eggs and maybe bacon and cheese. It’s a wonderfully sweet-salty combination. I can see mixing jam with eggs, especially if they’re the creamy scrambled kind. Ooh maybe with a little cream cheese mixed in too. That sounds deliciously decadent. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/17 "2018-06-01T18:03:40Z")
> [@Alpha\_Twit](#): > > Never just on eggs but I have been known to squirt a pack of jam onto my drive-thru breakfast sandwich. Same. > [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > Nah. There are Savory Breakfast People, and there are Sweet Breakfast People. Pouring maple syrup on sausages or dabbing jam on scrambled eggs is simply insane. So insane they sell maple bacon, maple sausage, maple glazed ham… ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/18 "2018-06-01T18:07:02Z")
Hell, no. [sub]feel free to do as you please[/sub] ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 6:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/19 "2018-06-01T18:11:53Z")
> [@Grrr](#): > > So insane they sell maple bacon, maple sausage, maple glazed ham… Rogue Brewing and Voodoo Doughnut collaborated on a[Bacon Maple Ale](https://www.ratebeer.com/beer/rogue-voodoo-doughnut-bacon-maple-ale/152611/) that was delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [June 1, 2018, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259/20 "2018-06-01T19:39:27Z")
I think I’ve had syrup on matza brei at some point. But not jelly on regular eggs. (talking about “jelly” and “eggs” makes me think of [frogs](https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http%3A%2F%2F3.bp.blogspot.com%2F_CmRKsR_vP2I%2FS83K2WVSIhI%2FAAAAAAAAAH4%2FswwJJLo21og%2Fs1600%2Ffrog-eggs-15-04-1-large.jpg&imgrefurl=http%3A%2F%2Fmastadpoles.blogspot.com%2F2010%2F04%2Ffrog-eggs-and-toad-eggs.html&docid=RZjyFRJPEru2eM&tbnid=a1oB_5-d6iweFM%3A&vet=1&w=1008&h=912&hl=en&bih=946&biw=1920&ved=0ahUKEwiMx6uvm7PbAhWts1kKHYm_BzkQMwiLAig4MDg&iact=c&ictx=1)) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-you-ever-put-jam-on-your-eggs/815259.md?page=2)