Green’s Dictionary of Slang

(orig. US short order) two poached or fried eggs (but note 1891); thus adam and eve on a raft, two poached eggs on toast; adam and eve on a raft and wreck ’em, two scrambled eggs on toast.

1891		Sun. World Herald (NE) 22 Mar. 6: Ham and eggs is one of the most common orders, and in calling this to the kitchen the ‘hasher’ screams ‘Adam and Eve’.
1892		Nat. Tribune (Wash., DC) 24 Nov. 12/5: ‘Give me two poached eggs on toast and have the yolks of the eggs broken.’ Waiter [...] yells down to the kitchen: ‘Adam and Eve on a raft —wreck ’em’.
1898		Arizona Reporter 8 Feb. 5/3: A sickly looking customer at one of the Phoenix restaurants ordered a couple of eggs on toast. The waiter [...] transferred the order in the loud voice, after this fashion: ‘Bring Adam and Eve in a sloop.’ [...] He countermanded the order in favor of scrambled eggs. [...] ‘All right,’ said the waiter again [...] ‘Put your foot on the sloop and shipwreck Adam and Eve.’.
1899		Atlanta Constitution 17 July 5/4: An order for eggs on toast went to the kitchen as, ‘Adam and Eve on a raft.’.
1901		Times (Wash., DC) 28 Apr. 4/6: Soft boiled eggs: ‘Adam and Eve coming out of a well, easy.’ Hard boiled eggs: ‘Adam and Eve coming out of a well hard.’ Hard scrambled eggs: ‘Adam and Eve in a shipwreck’.
1905		Ladies’ Home Journal Sept. 8: Mr. Brown gave his order: ‘Waiter, bring me a couple of poached eggs on toast and the yolks broken.’ The waiter shouted down to the cook: ‘Adam and Eve on a raft and wreck ’em.’.
1910		Ocala Eve. Star (FL) 20 June 1/5: ‘Two fried eggs; don’t fry ’em too hard,’ says a customer. ‘Adam and Eve in the garden! Leave their eyes open’, shouts the waiter.
1912		Tacoma Times (WA) 2 Nov. 3/5: ‘Adam and Eve’ of course means two eggs [...] ‘close their eyes’ means pouring water [...] with fried eggs it means turned over.
1912		Tacoma Times (WA) 2 Nov. 3/5: ‘Shipwrecked’ eggs are scrambled.
1913		Ranch (Seattle, WA) 1 Nov. 15/3: The classic definitions of ‘Adam and Eve on a raft’ and ‘Shipwreck ’em!’.
1922		‘J.H. Ross’ Mint (1955) 161: There were Zepps in a cloud (sausages and mashed) and Adam and Eve on a raft (Hoxtonian for fried eggs on toast) as main dishes.
1925		(con. WWI) Fraser & Gibbons Soldier and Sailor Words 3: Adam and Eve Wrecked: Scrambled Eggs.
1939		Picture Post Mar. n.p.: [used in J. Lyons' Corner Houses] Adam and Eve on a raft: fried eggs on toast.
1931		Soda Fountain July 28/1: In the old days, Western restaurants of log-cabin type, had similar slang. An order for a couple of eggs, sunny side up, was shouted to the kitchen: ‘Adam & Eve on a raft’. When the diner would change his mind quickly and decide to have them scrambled, then the burly waiter would quickly shout: ‘Wreck ’em’.
1940		Waukesha (WI) Freeman 24 Jan. 3/3: ‘Adam and Eve on a raft’ – Poached eggs on toast. [...] ‘Adam on a raft’ – one egg, same style.
1949		Monteleone Criminal Sl. (rev. edn) 9: adam and eve Two eggs. adam and eve on a raft Two eggs served with toast. [Ibid.] 255: wrecked adam and eve Two scrambled eggs wrecked adam and eve on a raft Two scrambled eggs on toast.
1950		J.T. Farrell ‘Milly and the Porker’ Amer. Dream Girl (1950) 195: ‘Adam ’n Eve on a raft. Wreck ’em ... an’ a Combinashun!’ Milly, the shapely waitress, shouted in a coarse voice.
1954		Ames (IA) Daily Trib. 11 Dec. 1/1: Don’t think the waitress is sermonizing if she yells ‘Adam and Eve on a raft.’ You guessed it. Those are poached eggs.
1966		Newark (OH) Advocate 21 May 3/3–4: Adam and Eve on a raft – poached eggs on toast [...] wreck an Adam and Eve on a raft – scrambled eggs on toast.
1972		B. Rodgers Queens’ Vernacular 51: Adam and Eve on a raft – wreck ’em (camp, fr lunch counter sl) two scrambled eggs on toast.
1982		N. Keesing Lily on the Dustbin 123: Adam and Eve on a raft are two fried eggs on toast, and wreck ’em (break the yolks).
1986		P. O’Farrell Tell me, Sean O’Farrell 18: We always called two poached eggs on toast ‘Adam and Eve on a Raft’ – a bare, sparse sort of meal.
2001		D. Looser Boobslang [U. Canterbury D.Phil. thesis] 5/2: Adam and Eve on a raft two eggs on toast. [US tramps’ and waiters’ slang from c. 1930].
2018		T. Pluck ‘Hot Rod Heart’ in Life During Wartime 116: [He] ordered eggs on toast. ‘Adam and Eve on a raft,’ the waitress called into the kitchen. ‘You want those scrambled, honey?’ Bobby [...] nodded. ‘Wreck ’em,’ she hollered.