Tiny-me called over easy eggs donkey eggs. Confused ESL friends mom.

When I was very very young, before I started school, my family called eggs over easy “dunky eggs” because you’d dunk the toast in the runny yolk. Makes enough sense. But I thought they were saying donkey eggs and that’s what called them. As kids in the early 90s did, I’d often wonder over to a neighbor kids house, Filipe, for breakfast. Also note, I couldn’t properly say “Filipe” and called him “sleepy/sleepay.” Filipes mom didn’t speak English very well. One day she offered to make me eggs and wanted to know how I liked them. I excitedly said donkey eggs! Boy I loved donkey eggs. I remember her trying to figure out what I was talking about but we got there eventually. I also got to hit my first piñata at Filipes little sisters birthday party and had those cubes of caramel for the first time and fell in love with them and made my grandma get me some as my treat. They moved out not long after. I still occasionally think about my first friend, Sleepy, and wonder what became of him and his family. I hope they are well.