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America, this Scottish person wants you to stop eating eggs wrong

"Never f*cking test my patience like this again..."

Sam Haysom

on July 10, 2017

America, this Scottish person wants you to stop eating eggs wrong

This is an egg cup. It holds your boiled egg so you can eat it with a spoon. Credit: Mito Images/REX/Shutterstock

The USA and the UK have a fair bit in common -- we both speak essentially the same language; we both like dogs and cats; we both enjoy eating pizza and watching TV.

When it comes to certain topics, though, there's a cultural gulf between our two fair nations twice the size of the ocean that separates us.

Today's topic of contention? Eggs.

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Or, more specifically, egg cups.

On Sunday night, a Scottish video games programmer embarked on an impressively sweary rant about the fact people in America don't use egg cups (those little containers that you can use to hold a boiled egg while you eat it with a spoon).

Here's the full 18-tweet rant, in all its glory...