Apparently Americans don’t have egg cups and it’s confusing/enraging British people

The differences between the United Kingdom and United States are often vast, frequently interesting and often perplexing.

For Americans, guns and baseball are a way of life. For Britons, it's tea, scones and fighting in pubs. In America, you can drive for hours and never see another living soul. In Britain, you're lucky if you can turn a corner without running into someone you went to school with and very dearly hoped you'd never see again. We share a culture with the United States, but we are also divided by it. We have our way of doing things, they have theirs. We eat with the fork in our left hand and the knife in our right. They wrap all of their food in the Stars and Stripes, lather the parcel in hog fat and launch it out of a cannon into space. One perhaps surprising culinary difference between our two nations has recently come to light: apparently Americans don't have egg cups, as revealed by Twitter user @innesmck. https://twitter.com/innesmck/status/884173802149728260 If you're an American and are wondering what the heck these darn egg cups are all about, here is an example of one in action. This is what we call 'Egg and Soliders' or 'Dippy Egg'. It's a soft-boiled egg with strips of toasted bread (the aforementioned Soldiers) which are dunked in the runny egg. The egg cup holds the egg in place so you can dip your toast without scalding your hands on the hot egg or getting yolk everywhere. But it seems that this is not a thing in America, or at least not a very widely known thing, as the replies to @innesmck's tweet suggest.

Some confirmed that yes, egg cups are foreign to American minds.

https://twitter.com/GracefulNatalie/status/884335500579938305 https://twitter.com/rigarium/status/884174161656020993 https://twitter.com/kirstyhambrick/status/884210034510614528 https://twitter.com/ASwampWolf/status/884173948845527041  

Others claimed the contrary.

https://twitter.com/IsobelCarr/status/884202169406070785 https://twitter.com/emilybuckshot/status/884196190417330176 https://twitter.com/beccahallstedt/status/884176044479176704  

Further light was shone on the matter.

https://twitter.com/jmitchell1628/status/884193740172255232 https://twitter.com/rootsworks/status/884181817984638976  

In general, people just couldn't believe it.

https://twitter.com/hot_pengu/status/884201718015283201 https://twitter.com/cubed2D/status/884176759620612096 https://twitter.com/DrMelon/status/884174667908608000 https://twitter.com/ravenbait/status/884189873137229824 https://twitter.com/JonnBlanchard/status/884326576636166144  

And then people started listing other things Americans don't have/do.

https://twitter.com/wardlejon/status/884340038137372672 https://twitter.com/TomChabbs/status/884339692921135105 https://twitter.com/grumpyboy/status/884332899620749312 https://twitter.com/ChellaRamanan/status/884307472525271040 https://twitter.com/DunDoTweets/status/884324978207883264 It's a strange old world, but at least we've got egg cups in ours.