Americans don’t have egg cups – and people can’t get their heads round it

First came the revelation that Americans don’t use electric kettles. Now it turns out they don’t have egg cups either.

I'VE JUST BEEN INFORMED AMERICANS DO NOT HAVE EGG CUPS AND I AM SO ANGRY RN

— moth dad (@innesmck) July 9, 2017

We can’t take much more of this.

ok ok seriously though we did not go through 300 MILLION YEARS OF EVOLUTION to have an egg just roll around on a fucking plate

— moth dad (@innesmck) July 9, 2017

AND HOW DO YOU KEEP THE YOLK IN? does it just pour everywhere or do you have to hold the egg upright, or…? what is your game there?

— moth dad (@innesmck) July 9, 2017

Here’s what the Americans had to say for themselves.

The only eggs we commonly eat are hardboiled & sliced (like on a salad) or scrambled/omelets. Poached eggs are common for eggs benedict tho

— Justin Mitchell (@jmitchell1628) July 9, 2017

I just don't know anything different I guess, hence our lack of need 4 egg cups, though I had seen them b4, I just didnt know what they did

— Justin Mitchell (@jmitchell1628) July 9, 2017

I had to search to see what an egg cup is. Have never seen one before.

— Ryan Warnick (@rigarium) July 9, 2017

Egg whats?

— Viet-King Kong (@ASwampWolf) July 9, 2017

Begging all sorts of questions, obviously.

How do they eat runny boiled eggs?

— Ash McAllan (@acegiak) July 9, 2017

they DONT

— moth dad (@innesmck) July 9, 2017

Soft-boiled eggs aren't really part of the American egg vocabulary. Breakfast eggs here are typically fried, scrambled, or in omelette form.

— root (@rootsworks) July 9, 2017

Americans order fried eggs over easy when they want to dip bread in runny yolk. Sad!

— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) July 10, 2017

It’s no, er, yolk.

Hi. I'm american. Wtf is this? Why are you eating an under cooked egg? I'm so confused #help

— NatalieGraceGalloway (@GracefulNatalie) July 10, 2017

my mums british, and i am the only american person i know who owns egg cups and nobody knows what i mean when i talk about toast soldiers

— curse tea seventeen (@kirstyhambrick) July 10, 2017

If I may interject – we used Turkish coffee cups for egg cups in our Libyan American home. That's all I have to say.

— Hend Amry (@LibyaLiberty) July 10, 2017

Some of our friends on the other side of the Atlantic said they DID have egg cups – spoilsports – but they were very much in the minority.

Of course we have egg cups. We also have kettles (both stove-top and electric).

— Isobel Carr (@IsobelCarr) July 10, 2017

Im glad some of you are safe but I am still receiving messages from far too many people who have never heard of egg cups right now

— moth dad (@innesmck) July 10, 2017

This is why Americans always seem angry, they don’t even realise they’re missing egg and soldiers

— Johnny Blanchard (@JonnBlanchard) July 10, 2017

This thread just made me do this…… pic.twitter.com/rRiVRzXUGn

— Gemmajoobjoob (@gemmajoobjoob) July 10, 2017

That’s not all, it turns out.

I've asked & it's really true. The most horrifying thing is they seem fine about it. It's chilling, but then they don't have custard either.

— Chella Ramanan (@ChellaRamanan) July 10, 2017

don't… have… custard?? D:

— moth dad (@innesmck) July 10, 2017

We’re off for a lie down.

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