The deal-making usually begins not long after sunrise, almost certainly over coffee and perhaps a sunny-side-up egg winking up at the mayor in a local diner.

She put a plate of sunny-side-up eggs under Justin's nose and added a few pieces of bacon to it.

"Then," Lilo said, as she accepted the warm, steaming, sunny-side-up egg from the stove, plate included, "if we're invaded by sentient eggs we'll lose."

The flowers are often compared to sunny-side-up eggs, with the dark pistil in the center as a dot of pepper.

If you're ordering sunny-side-up eggs at a restaurant, ask if they're pasteurized, she suggests.

"I don't know that a raw egg is any less safe than those sunny-side-up eggs that people eat every morning," Ms. Rafer said.

He meticulously cut his sunny-side-up eggs into bite-size squares, then placed his knife and fork down on the edge of his plate without eating a single one.

A plate with two eggs sunny-side-up, biscuits, and hash browns with country gravy appeared without his having to order.

She talked with hearty animation, inhaling a platter of sunny-side-up eggs, bacon and toast, her regular jump-starter at Manatus, a West Village diner.