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Breakfast's way of proving that a sauce can fix anything, even poached egg anxiety.
means A brunch dish of toasted English muffins topped with ham or bacon, poached eggs, and hollandaise sauce.
from American in origin, likely from the late 1800s, though the exact story is tangled in competing legends. One version credits a Delmonico's chef inventing it for a regular customer named Mrs. LeGrand Benedict; another credits Wall Street broker Lemuel Benedict, who claimed he ordered the components separately at the Waldorf Hotel to cure a hangover, and the maître d' turned it into a menu item. Neither claim can be fully verified — the dish's actual birth is genuinely murky, and 'Benedict' may simply be the one true fact everyone agrees on.
- origin story
- Wall Street broker allegedly invented it curing a hangover, 1894.
- real mvp
- Hollandaise, basically butter and yolks pretending to be fancy.
- fragility factor
- Poached egg collapse rate quietly judged by everyone at brunch.
- not actually
- Named after Pope Benedict, despite sounding suspiciously holy.