What does "fried egg" mean to you?
Years and years ago when I first started working in kitchens I learned to cook eggs over hard for egg sandwiches unless people specifically asked for it to be done otherwise.
The term "fried egg", to me, meant fried in fat and cooked. As opposed to poached or basted. A fried egg could be over easy, over medium, over well, hard, up...
I'm working at a place now where someone told me that fried egg specifically means cooked sunny side up. Then another person said it's over medium, and yet another said it's over hard. There's no agreement.
I googled it, and found that different resources define it differently. Some say it's sunny side up, some say it can be anything as long as it's "fried".
So when you see fried egg on a menu, what does it mean to you?