Skillet-style egg dish with fried oysters, bacon, potatoes, and sauce on a restaurant table.

Hangtown fry

United States · North America

Short description
This rich egg dish combines oysters and bacon in an omelet-like fry.
Ingredients
Eggs cooked with oysters and bacon, sometimes with the oysters lightly coated before frying.
Cultural note
Its old mining-camp reputation comes from combining expensive oysters with everyday eggs and bacon.
Common misconception
It is not a seafood-only plate; the eggs and bacon are just as central as the oysters.
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image credit

Hangtown Fry

creator:
Kate Hopkins
source:
Flickr
license:
CC BY 2.0
modified:
Copied from Flickr and re-encoded for Gochizu.

audio credit

voice:
marin (gpt-4o-mini-tts)
source:
OpenAI API Text to Speech
modified:
AI-generated voice audio.