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Is this a bad time to mention Scotch eggs are rare too?
the real travesty is that no one here eats beans for breakfast
Beans for breakfast? What in the world?
Thankfully have a place in Seattle that serves a (mostly) full English. Just missing the black pudding, thus only mostly full.
Black pudding is more Scottish breakfast right? Don’t see it most places for the English breakfast
I feel like that's because American beans are super weird. Served with brown sugar? The hell? Where's the tomato sauce?
I never knew people cared so much about hot water and eggs
They don't have hollow chocolate Easter eggs either!!
I’m scared now.
wait wait wait what is this claim you are making
I mean, what's more common is hollow easter *rabbits*
but the eggs are around, just less common
Like this? Perhaps I was misinformed, but these are /everywhere/ in the UK
But are they made of good chocolate or vomit chocolate?
Hershey makes Cadbury's chocolate here so even if it's labeled Cadbury it's still vomit chocolate. We do have good chocolate, just not those
Worse again Hershey's bough up Cadbury chocolate & are trying to mak all chocolate vomit chocolate. Only new products are "Oreos in it" 🙄🙄🙄🙄
no. thank god.
(except in american import stores)
Vomit chocolate.
Though the tiny non-hollow ones are better.
I thought he might be referring to Kinder eggs not being a thing in America because of the possible choking hazard.
They do have hollow chocolate bunnies but they make them from hersheys and its eww
Or Christmas crackers, unless you buy them at great expense from Williams Sonoma as a novelty.
They don't have Easter eggs or Christmas crackers?? Wtf are they okay?
So umm... I moved over to a metal stove top kettle these days. Sorry. Still got like a dozen types of tea to drink, but I like metal kettles
Still on the eggs thing?
about breakfast food in general, or eggs specifically?
I remember when I used to cook bacon that wasn't thinner than a school ruler and didn't break up in my mouth like glass.
Have you heard that Americans don't sell custard or know what it is? I found out 14 years ago am still upset.
Custard is a problem here in CH too! "Creme anglaise" exists but it's not really the same. Too runny.
What do they put in a trifle then?
My Murrican husband never had a Trifle or a Banoffee Pie until he came here 6 yrs ago
I'd never heard of banoffee pie before coming to London either. (From South Africa.)
the funny thing is the 1st time my hubby saw it was in an American frozen desserts section in the supermarket & he was like. NO ONE in
has any idea what this is.
Ha! I've also heard Brits refer to it as a South African thing and again... No. Really really no.
so......WHERE did banoffee pie come from then?
We all learned something today.
Maybe the REAL pie was the friends that we made along the way.
(wait, no, that doesn't sound right)
Indeed. I, for one, will remember this chat about eggs, kettles and custard for many days.
*covers @innesmck's ears*
DON'T MENTION EGGS!!!!
I've had it in SA ... made by my Very English Mum (who also makes the world's best trifle, so there's a theme here).
Fuck knows. Or on an apple crumble?
Well, ice cream is good on crumble, tbf.
Ice cream IS good on crumble, but custard is standard.
Presumably not in the US!
Beef sauteed with peas and onions?
(Honestly though I don't get the point of trifle myself.)
You're only saying that because you've never tried one made by me :P
whip cream. 😂I'm serious
*drinks*
Who in the world is going to drink 1200 bags of the same black tea before they go stale? I have over 56 teas and I rotate them regularly.
Also, loose leaf is the only proper way to drink tea.
Lipton recently changed how they construct their tea bags and that causes them to break apart in hot water, spilling leaves everywhere.
Bagged tea: you had one job.
Sorry to jump in on this, but you’ve got to get that Yorkshire tea, if you want the best cup!
Posh 😱 Yorkshire is the complete opposite of posh, we’re all working class in Yorkshire!
I think every country outside of England thinks we’re all more posh than we are 😂
Historically it's because you colonized just about every other country and told them how much more posh you were than them 😘
Hey that wasn’t me! Just the crazy people who used to run the country
And I apologize for the savages who ruined all that good tea in Boston Harbor!
Ordering tea in the US is so complicated. Hot black tea, with milk please, really hot, no, not lemon, just milk. No, not cream, just milk.
Oh and btw I'll use my own tea bag that I bought with me from England. Don't want that insipid Liptons stuff.
Lipton and Tetley are mostly the same - basic roasted black tea. I drink sencha
Interesting. Much like Innes, the only Lipton I've seen in the UK is bottled ice tea (which is fruit juice, let's be honest).
I'd go for Dilmah in Oz, extra strength. Or Twinnings, but overpriced. Lipton is the worst imo. @innesmck
i love you.
Oh hey, that's the same electric kettle I have! It's such a godsend.
my sister has this same one! I have one that automatically stays hot for an hour in case you want to go back for more
back for more? you mean "I forgot I boiled the kettle until an hour has passed", sounds great!
Eh? Surely if you do water at more than 100 degrees you don't have any water?
Oh... that's Fahrenheit.
im american n i grew up with egg cups n soft boiled eggs but i was also raised by immigrants so ?
Nor do they have hot water bottles, & don't even try asking. 'Bottles of ...hot water? All our water is at *room temperature* ma'am...'
Mostly true. Instead, we have functioning heating systems. ;-) (I lived in England and know whereof I speak on the cold and damp thing.)
Not in my relatives' house in Upstate NY! The heating hasn't worked in the room I sleep in since approximately Nixon 😫
How exceptionally unfortunate in Upstate New York. Perhaps they earn extra income serving as a mortuary?
There has literally been ice inside my window! You can see how my desperate hot water bottle quest was born.
I do get it. I brought a water bottle back from the U.K. and used to sit writing in my underheated Connecticut apt with it in my lap.
Well done on introducing the hot w bottle to the US! You need 2 though so they can breed- reverse grey squirrel situation
How about Canadians?
Just to add to the list: no Christmas crackers either. My brother & his wife had crackers on the tables at their 'British stuff' wedding...
It's the only wedding I've ever been to where one of the traditional speeches was detailed instructions on how to correctly pull a cracker!
This soliloquy has literally made my day already! I've had almost the exact conversation with my friend and his husband who live in NYC...
...on the plus side, whilst they still dont have an electric kettle I did manage to get them addicted to crumpets.
What fresh hell is this!? Someone send this man an eggcup while we determine a long-term solution & apt penalty for this flagrant barbarism.
(I've spoken to the embassy and they have suggested deploying your stiff upper lip and making do with a shot-glass in the meantime.)
I've never been more hungry for egg and soldiers in my life.
Strong words from a nation which until very very very recently was under the impression that Nescafé was coffee.
just asked some American friends. Only one of them eats soft-boiled eggs. Out of a bowl/plate. I am dying. No, he doesn't know what cups are
the others don't have kettles. they boil water in pots. it's 10:20am and I don't think my blood pressure should be measured right now
They don't have Christmas crackers either
Saw people use these when I was a kid in the 70s here (in America) but not really since then.
They microwave water too
It's quicker! Lol
kettles take like 2 minutes you boil, you monsters
Innes, take a breath goodness.
I'm concerned for you friend.
What can I do? Alas I am way over here and it's not quite 0500
/tries to unplug your connection via long distance telekinesis
USA is 110v UK is 240v, so boiling a kettle in USA takes forever. Trust me, I'm a Brit in the USA with a very slow kettle..
Voltage doesn't matter. Wattage does. Have electric kettle. Am American. Can attest my German made kettle is fast.
Where do you stand on toasters?
Don't get him started on that one!
Run your water through a coffee maker. Then it's there all the time and when you wake up in the morning.
Not soft boiled, over easy sprinkled with Ham bits
yep, about 12 min. with the electric kettle
in the microwave about 2 min.
Voltage is irrelevant, you just own a bad kettle ;)
Ive never even been around an egg cup much less used one 😂😂😂
I kinda love you. Canadian in U.S., and you will find both an electric kettle and egg cups in my house.
I like cheese scrambles with bacon bits.
Here you go. Hope this brings you some piece of mind.
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Canadians buy their milk in bags.
what the fuuuck?
Only easterners buy bagged milk. The west coast is far more enlightened.
Pull the udder one...
This whole thread has put me very much on edge. How is a country so much like ours so very wrong?
you put vinegar on chips
...which is awesome?
the defense rests
The Americans do, however, have nomenclature for serving fried eggs. We English do many things right, but they do have that.
I scrolled down this tweet thread and predicted every step and every single reaction.
Dude, we don't eat eggs off little cups like little hoes. Go f urself.
We actually boarded the mayflower all because of the way eggs are cooked
This thread just made my morning. Thank you @innesmck! Looking forward to a soft boiled egg when I travel to England.
This is like me when I found out about their Dorito flavours 😂
Typical ignorant foreigner that has no idea how big this country is. Yes we soft boil (esp. when sick). Yes we have tea kettles(smh dumbass)
we have egg cups you're hurting my brain. You either got this info from a really secluded American with no tradition or from a non American
Craig. Is that you?
to be fair to americans, their egg hygiene standards were very bad for a long time, so a lot associate raw/softboiled egg with salmonella.
completely with you on the kettle though. i have friends who boil their tea in the microwave. barbaric!
Was just gonna say this. Soft boiled eggs are arguably unsafe to eat in America for the same reason we can't enjoy raw cookie dough
This thread has literally saved my Monday. Apologies from uncultured America. *goes to buy kettle* *and egg cups, apparently* 😂
This was the best thing I've read in a while
but yesterday i had a deep fried deviled egg, so i think we get points for that?
So there's only one proper way to eat eggs? #autisticscreeching
Ok but have you ever had deviled eggs? They're fucking bomb! Also Canadians have egg cups and kettles so yes just be mad at the states. Lol
Fuckin microwave majority using bastards lol ovens are the superior food heater. Even a toaster oven!
Thank you, sir, having a shite Monday but this made me laugh out loud in public 👏🏽👏🏽
Scrambled eggs bitch do you speak it
You are testing my patience and I am 73,WTF
but if the yoke is soft we can't take it out, mash it up with some mayo and make deviled eggs. nor mash the whole thing for egg salad.
I thought you were going to bring up our lack of bidets next, honestly.
Americans don't have egg cups nor proper kettles. We do, however, have an abundance of tacos so I'm calling it a win for America.
How do they have the big end/little end argument? And did you know they don't have Shreddies either? It's a disgrace!!!
Is this a bad time to mention the whole tea issue?
Apparently they don't butter their sandwiches either.
Mayo we use mayo puto
Shut up you guys drink warm beer y'all are disgusting
What do you do with the egg whites then? How can you eat it if the eggshells are still on? I'm genuinely curious
Jokes on you. That sounds excruciatingly
pointless. Egg cup, really? Sounds to me like you fell for a gimmick my friend
i don't like egg yolks, especially runny ones. there. i said it.
this was actually really enlightening tbh. electric kettles are a whole new concept to me but I'm fully on board
They're awesome, and good for more than tea. Recipes that call for boiling water, cleaning, stem tent, more.
omg I'm american and my brother eats a soft boiled egg in an egg cup every day for breakfast like we definitely have them but i guess
they're less prevalent in america. we don't have an electric kettle, though, and i'm bout to try to get one on amazin
amazon
I usually eat over easy eggs or sunny side up eggs, I don't like hard boiled eggs :(
So the country with the worse cuisine is telling Americans how to cook? Lol
Give us time. We Americans are only 400 years old ya' know. It will take a few centuries to come up with delicacies like HAGGIS 🤢 LOL
What the fuck is wrong with you
To be fair, I thought Europeans had an obsession with cups for their eggs and never new why until today.
I don't know about everyone else, but growing up we had (and used) egg cups. AND I had 🥑 toast w/soft boiled 🍳 @James_Republic this wknd. 🇺🇸
Yea I think we all learned from our mistakes today. Never read a thread from a European. No one really gives a fuck about eggs.
You know there are things called bowls, right?
>British people telling us how to eat
definite pass
Get a grip. Different cultures eat eggs differently. Here in the US we like to eat our eggs as omelets or scrambled
We use shot glasses for our soft eggs-my brother-in-law thought he was being served a drink at breakfast 1st time he stayed over lol 😂
Shut the fuck up getting mad because we do stuff different is childish and stupid
I'm in my 30's, have never had a soft boiled egg & now I want to try cooking one! Lol
Cold hard boiled eggs are sold everywhere here- yuck.
This American has an electric kettle, had egg cups till another American saw them & thought "the cutest thing ever" I gave them to her.
if all of us Americans get egg cups, will our political situation improve? #Trumpistan Got a policy on egg coddlers? Thx for LOL
Sorry, we had other priorities than "where to put our eggs"....
Hey Egg Nazi,
Is freaking out about nothing a Scottish thing?
Stop generalizing.
Thanks,
All of America
P.S. Mind your own fucking business.
Can you recommend a good eggcup? Do you use egg cutters or a knife to get the top off?
This was the worst thread I've ever read, why is this even a Moment lmao bye af
hard boiled eggs can be good too just marinate them in vinegar x___X
also you can totally dip bread in sunny side up eggs too
Most Americans in my experience are terrified of undercooked eggs
yes, because we don't eat raw chicken period. We cook it first
wait until you hear that we eat them fried over easy down in the south
Fried over easy has a similar consistency to soft boiled. But the white is still sorta runny too. And its fried lol
I have to disagree. Over-easy is not similar to soft boiled egg. One is slightly warmed raw snotty cracked egg in a frying pan...
....the other is a hot in the shell solidified White with a liquid orange yoke. Quite hard to perfect for some 😋😋😋
that's not over easy that's just gross
🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢😀😁😂🤣
That's because you learnt all the important stuff about eggs before you could talk.
gotta have them toast soldiers, for sure. thank you for spreading wisdom to the unenlightened.
What you're saying, next GDC you're gonna have a class where you teach us americans whats up
Intriguing idea. I have eggs cups because I thought they were cute. Do you just not eat half the egg, or do you dig the rest out w/spoon?
Who boils eggs, they're better fried
Now look cutting the top off is crazy you get eggshell bits everywhere
Why would you try to shove bread into an egg cup? This a tiny English muffin? Sunny side up, sop the yolk off the plate with a normal slice.
Waiiit wait wait... BREAD? You know what a toaster is, right? What's wrong with toast? Bread has zero structural integrity.
Or toast. You can have toast soldiers instead.
I was raised with a mother that had a serious hatred for a runny yolk. It was either thoroughly fried or scrambled.
That's disgusting.
But i can see you're emotional, so if I may? Not just bread but toast cut into 2 centimetre strips and they should be called soldiers.
2cm are a little under and over an inch and half an inch I think. I don't think in 1950 numbers, sorry.
I was born in the 60's...Well the last 8 days at least.
This is perhaps the most disgusting way imaginable to prepare/eat an egg. Very okay with its lack of presence in N. America.
Bread?! BREAD?! It's toast soldiers or nothing!
How do you do shots when you havent got any shot glasses then? This is blowing my mind!!
So true! So very true.
You probably don't want to look at American bread too closely.
You forgot marmite!
honestly soft yolks are good on fried eggs, which is what I dip my toast in
I tried to try this when visiting the U.K. And they just hardboiled them on me...
They have never experienced the pain of mistiming a boiled egg and there's no yolk to dip 😱
Do you cut the top off with a knife? We bash the egg with a spoon and peel part of shell. Perhaps we should get this
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How do you get the soft boiled eggs back out of the electric kettle once they're cooked?
But when you cut the top off don't you run the chance of getting little pieces of shell in your egg? I hate crunching down on eggshells
Fuck you and your soft eggs buddy
There are many ways to enjoy eggs and it's all delicious in my books. 🥚
my American fiancé was flabbergasted when he saw the egg boiler at my German home. Makes perfectly soft boiled eggs
...and the bread cutting machine. #germanengineering
That is properly disgusting 😬
That's gross.
What the...? I think I just threw up a little in the back of my mouth.🤢
And a billion children in the world call those about to be dipped slivers of bread "soldiers".
This sounds fucking awful
And then what happens? Do you take it out of the cup and peel it to eat the hard white part? 🇺🇸Do you ever eat the top part?
Yes. That's a special little treat all by itself.
With lots of salt
>says they're not barbarians
>eats raw egg yolk
* toast
Toast soldiers to be exact
But most Americans may or may not be gluten intolerant, hence no dippy bread, hence no soft boily...
This American hates egg yolks & only eats egg whites. My dachshund appreciates the pickiness.
This seems doable, though perhaps elaborate, but where do you put the KETCHUP to dip the egss potatoes and toast in?!?
"cut the top off" how? Don't bits of shell get into part you'll eat? How much of top to cut off? How long to boil for runny yolk?
That actually sounds delicious. We fry eggs "over easy" and dip our toast in the runny yolk, but all over the plate.
That's what over-easy eggs are for ;)
Lol who boils their eggs?? That only happens at easter! Scrambled or fried please!
Egg and soldiers is the best.
I don't need a foreign tranny to tell me what I "need" to do with my eggs. Besides, your British way sounds fucking retarded.
Soft-boiled cut up on toast > dipping bread in egg cup
Ew you eat raw yolk!
Fucking disgusting. I'll take washed eggs in my fridge anyday over some nasty chicken ass mucus all over it. And they come in egg cartons
Also, we call it raw toast now.
That is fucking disgusting. You dip your bread in raw chicken period?
No, toast has to be toast, cut into soldiers
Toast soldiers surely?
I feel like that would give me straight diarrhea...😓 I'll eat poached, scrambled, over easy, & hard boiled. I know nothing about soft boiled
This sounds so gross to me ewwww. Runny egg yolk grosses me tf out. Nope nope nope.
I sooooooooo agree with you.
Say no more...sold
Do you also put your pinkie outward when you drink tea?
Why are you like this it's fucking eggs
Oh god...yuck!! I would not dip toast in the egg with the shell still on..what about little fragments of shell? The thought makes me sick :(
Everyone everywhere eats their eggs the way they like - why you trippin?
I've never eaten a soft boiled egg. I feel like a failure.
Yes, toasted bread, cut into triangles is how we do this.
Ewwwww..........I only eat hard boiled eggs
That sounds disgusting. Don't tell me what to do with my damn food.
If I'm eating a boiled egg, it better be boiled hard, but mostly boiled eggs for Easter, or to make deviled eggs
Dip bread in it?
In Pennsylvania we have "dippy eggs" it's like soft boiled eggs you put on toast, except they are sunny side up
Ameican eggs are smaller than British eggs. Soldieors have to be so narrow they fall apart. It's a bloody nightmare.
Ew, why would I dip bread in egg yolk? That's gross.
Do we have to extend our pinkies when holding the bread? 🤔
AMEN
Though you do also need a bit of salt and pepper or else you might as well give up
But I don't like them like that..... ☠️ there's different cultures for a reason....
This... sounds and looks so gross
/Canadian
Oh that's endearingly anachronistic, dear. This century, no one struggles with a shell anymore. I'll have mine runny on a bibimbap, thanks.
Holy shit you blew my mind. I'm trying this tmrw morning omg. I would usually just make them sunny side up and break the yolk with my break
Y'all can see the yolk while boiling eggs? We can't do that here in the US mate we're not magic
I just threw up a little in my mouth. 🤢
The more I learn about soft boiled eggs the grosser it sounds.
This is even more disgusting than the time i learned what beans on toast was
My husband had a traumatic egg-perience as a child, so we have no runny yolks in our house. Sorry for the disappointment. 😂
my ancestors taught me to make dippy eggs (aka eggs over easy) which have been adequate for dipping bread into sans egg cup :)
You need to explain that the bread is often toasted (I hope they have a toaster) and cut into strips (known as soldiers).
So wait, do you boil your eggs in a kettle?
We never would, we are all terrified of salmonella
this thread is amazing. Thanks for retweeting omg
The importance of eggs omg 😂😩
this is the most extra thing wtf juST EAT NORMAL EGGS OMg
When people who eat eggs (I don't unless deviled) want them runny with bread they make hole in ones (or egg in the basket)
That's what sunny side eggs are for and you're able to eat the whites of the egg too and you don't have to worry about a shell in the way
fun fact: in singapore we crack soft boiled eggs into a bowl and mix them with pepper + soy sauce. DELISH.
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this sounds really good?? I feel so uncultured now.
thats sunny sise up on a plate, cooked faster and yes we eat them with a fork and knife. #howdoyoulikeyoureggs
Careful there, don't start Gulliver's Travels-esque arguments over which end is the top/best to cut off D:
I usually eat my eggs over easy.
Egg cups are a waste of time and space. Place the over easy egg directly on the bread.
tbf, kettles here are awful and slow because 110 volts. Was horrendously disappointed when I moved here. Still own one on point of principle
and they save on electricity!
2 minutes huh. That is technically faster than my microwave. Also sounds dangerous.
Wait, you're calling microwaving water *less* dangerous? It's easier to supercrit water in a microwave than a kettle
mmm 3kW of power
I'm in UK but only use my kettle if I'm making several teas now because I got one of those instant hot water machines. It's real handy!
but what if i have a stove top kettle
Impossible to use on van power but maybe someday
Not having a kettle as standard in a place was one of the biggest eyeopeners from moving from UK to CAN. Hahaha. KETTLES, GET THEM.
And yet Americans would be just as confused British kitchens didn't have a percolating coffee maker. (Kettles = instant and French press.)
I've been told that because of the lower voltage in the US, electric kettles aren't nearly as fast or efficient.
And since we drink more coffee than tea here, it's a wasted small kitchen alliance. Most homes do have a stove top even if it isn't used
often. It's kinda like "a house isn't a home thing without it sitting in your stove". I personally drink both. I use a French Press for
brewing coffee and use my stove top tea kettle to boil water for that too. I even use loose leaf tea which is another issue I haven't seen
yet brought up but I have a feeling people of the U.K. would love to make fun of and that is that most use tea bags rather than strainers.
I have loose leaf, strainer/tea bag for over 20 years please and thank you. Also bought this Nessie stainerva couple of years ago😍
Electric kettles are getting pretty popular here, at least among foodie types. With good reason! I got one back in February and it's great.
Wow it's amazing how smug British people are being about this tweet.
Tea isn't as popular here and people don't like cluttering their kitchens with single-use tools. Hot water has many uses for culinary sorts.
People who drink a lot of tea get electric kettles, as do people who rehydrate stuff or whatever. Britons live to criticize I guess.
I'm sure most Americans own or use things Britons have never heard of, too. Remember, our cultures diverged over 200 years ago.
And at that time, tea was a relatively new thing. Green tea had just made its way from China in the early 1600's.
We have tea issues in the States. We had this party, people got shot, we switched to coffee. It was all rather complicated.
Less useful at 110 than 220 though. Slower.
Electricity is different in the US (half as many volts), so kettles take FOREVER. Faster to microwave or stove.
Why Europeans use electric kettles but Americans don't
It is related to the voltage available in American versus the UK.
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My electric kettle is a bit faster than my stovetop kettle, which I loved but which recently broke. Not 2 minutes fast but fast enough.
(American, I should have mentioned). Microwaving water isn't convenient bc I usually make a whole pot...& microwaved is just depressing.
I lived in NYC for six weeks. Kettles were too much for my budget. Had to make tea in a pan. Did you know they also call them water heaters?
What's tea?
how dare you
As an American, this is a kettle: i5.walmartimages.com/asr/2dad0e97-8… . This is a water heater: zojirushi.com/user/images/pr… (but latter is subset of former)
Now that's interesting. Is the latter huge? We only use those for mass catering I think.
Not too large. I have a 4 L model, it’s about 30 cm tall.
Smaller kettles are a pain when you have three children who all love tea and instant ramen :)
We do kettles in all shapes and sizes but the 'water heater' we only do in massive models
Makes sense
The only smaller kettle I have is the stovetop type that @innesmck hates :)
Stovetops are fine but electricity means you get tea faster.
This is true, and I'm German.
But since we use 110 voltage rather than 220, electric kettles don't boil nearly so fast in the US.
Nobody had kettles here because almost all 110 kettles suck and take 5-10+ minutes to boil a liter of water
I have one, yay!
take forever with US power, it's really feeble, you switch it on when you get up, shower etc & it might be at 70 degrees when you're dressed
Yoooo electric kettles don't boil quickly over there because of their shitty different power. I have investigated thoroughly.
Yes and that wedrink more coffee here. I thought we made our thoughts pretty clear on what we thought of British Imperial Colonization and
disgusting destruction of India via the British East India Tea Company when the Sons of Liberty dressed up like Native Americans in the
middle of the night and threw 342 chests of tea overboard in the Boston Harbor? That little thing called the Boston Tea Party and the
colonists fed up with the corruption of the British Empire? I mean we went to war with you in the Revolutionary War and then again in the
War of 1812. Pretty sure we made it clear we aren't your bitches anymore though, when you start trying to make fun of the US over things
like egg cups and electric tea kettles, you really ok like sore sorts on to of poking incredible stupid when you voted in Brexit to
kill your country. Idiots here voted for Trump for at max 4 years girlfriend, your idiots voted for life. youtube.com/embed/rXU9KQ3C…
Is the reenactment cheesy yes, but it's very historically accurate and informative and fun. If you are in Boston sometime, I highly
recommend it and you might learn something!
americans have lazy electricity and can't really boil a kettle off their mains
Mostly cause our country is so fucking huge
And the ants that carry your electric get tired?
the kettle thing is because American house voltages are so low it takes like 8 minutes to boil a kettle.
so basically,electricity, the temperature measurements, the writing of the date, and the refusal to believe in metric. 'merica is broken
They have weaksauce electricity (120v vs UK's 240v) so their electric kettles take longer than stovetop
I almost spit my tea out when a podcaster mentioned she made her tea in a microwave. WTAF!
In America tea isn't usually tea anyway, it's fruity or flavoured or green or chai...and they rarely remember to add milk. :/
American household voltage is about half that of the UK, so electric kettles aren't efficient here. Besides, microwaves work well.
I don't drink hot drinks at all and even I know it's essential to have a kettle in my kitchen.
I mean, even British *tanks* (as in, the army) have kettles in them
Apocryphal, but apparently in WW2 a tank crew was ambushed when they got out to brew up, so from then on kettles were placed inside
Armies have always marched on their stomachs. And stopping war for tea is clearly the only civilised thing to do.
Also starting war for tea.
Whaaaa?!
My aunt in Texas got an electric kettle from Canada after she became envious that even we, in South Africa, have electric kettles.
The only tea I want to hear about is at the bottom of the Atlantic
Electric kettles don't work well at American voltages, the poor bastards
Genuinely asked my American friend this and gave him a similar lecture on his response 😒
Inferior US 110V electricity means proper 2.4kW kettle, needed for reasonable boiling time, wd need 21.8amps & power leads thick as your leg
US current is 110V, which is why the electric kettles suck. People just microwave water in the US, and it works fine.
Electric kettles in the states have a bad rep because they used to take ages to boil due to lower voltage. Not a problem nowadays though.
We have them, they're called microwaves.
Just moved into a new place. Kettle was literally my first purchase #realhumanbean
We have both of those things.
Went to Spain in Jan, stayed in 3 airbnb, none of them had kettles. How can you live with out kettles???? It's impossible
Sadly, at 110 Volts and 15 Amps they take a lot longer than 2 minutes. Stove top is on a 220V supply and _much_, _much_ quicker, I'm afraid.
Of course we have electric kettles. And other kinds that one heats on the stove. We're not *complete* heathens.
What do you need boiled water for?
That's what frying pans are for.
A pot boils water in two minutes also... Don't hit me!
I have one of these and I use it to make tea... into cold sweet tea.
We have induction hob & stainless steel stove top kettle which cost <£20, boils water fast as electric (we tested) & has 25 YEAR GUARANTEE.
Electric kettles get really gross quickly if you have minerals in your water.
I would like to thank you for telling me about electric kettles. Legit didn't know those existed. Excited to get one.
PREACH! I'm in the states and us my electric kettle daily!
#EarlGrey & #kettle. If it wasn't for #ginormous @Starbucks mug you'd think you were in a #UK kitchen!
My kitchen doesn't even have a stove. I live in an efficiency apartment. We have an electric skillet & crock pots to cook in. It sucks.
I have an electric kettle! 1/2 is not bad.
I just came back from my sister's cabin which is quite literally in a forest. It doesn't even have a kitchen. But it has an electric kettle!
Many of us have electric coffee makers... fewer tea drinkers over here.
*raises hand shyly* we have no electric kettle because power cuts/limited worktop space and Rayburn.
I have an electric kettle 😏
When Hurricane Gustav killed power for 11 days, the gas still worked & I could boil water in my stovetop kettle. The eggcup thing is weird.
We have electric kettles but yours are better since they bring water to a boil SO much faster.
We do have electric kettles, but I think they are used mostly in offices and places without stoves. My office has one.
Our American family uses the Kurig! Most Americans now have instant coffee machines like the Kurig that you can use to heat tea water quick!
You just don't put coffee in the machine (Kurig) and stick your cup under like normal to get hot water for tea 😜It's very quick!
Actually we have Keurigs, many Americans do, that make hot water fast
I heard the electric kettles don't work the same here because of our electrical wattage. Otherwise, I would invest.
Tip: tho not civilized enough to put kettles in room to start, many hotels do have kettles theyre hiding and you can request to have in room
Electric kettles & 110v don't mix - it takes For - Ev - errrrrrr. BTW US tea bags have half the amount of tea hence weak for lemon or iced 🙃
ps: I'm a Brit who lived in NYC for 14yrs
Electric kettles are the wave but eggs should be kept fresh and we just have so many other ways to cook them egg cups didnt make the cut 😬
Some people have instant hots at their sinks here.
What do you do w/ your boiled water? I just boil water in a pan for pasta. 🤷🏻♀️
America's national electricity grid was not designed with tea in mind. US kettles are bad and boil tiny amounts of water slowly.
idk if this is true in Europe, but in US electric kettles are really crappy. I've been through a half dozen that broke in a few months
I have an electric kettle, but it takes five minutes because our electricity doesn't run hot enough. Y'all's was designed for kettles.
I have no excuse for the lack of egg cups, though. Sorry.
Why kettles boil slowly in the US
I saw a tweet recently that intrigued me:http://twitter.com/#!/yoz/status/191445005414567937The voltage of mains electricity varies from country to country: the majority of countries use betwe
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I have an electric kettle
I have a Smeg electric kettle that I love, but FYI it takes longer to boil here because your electricity is beefier.
Yeah but Americans have crap second-rate electricity and so electric kettles take an age to boil water there.
electric kettle changed my life
bought one on amazon like two years ago and i've never been the same
We use a coffee maker for tea, coffee, hot chocolate, and cup noodles. We live in an apartment so no room for 3 appliances when 1 works
Love my electric kettle. Got turned on to the idea when traveling i China. Also makes a great soft boiled egg!
who has time to wait 2 minutes? you need to know the power of zojirushi water boilers.
I have a water cooler/heater that keeps water at the perfect temp for brewing tea at all times. Spoiled? Of course.
Electric kettles are less practical in the US, where we only have 120v mains. But they do exist (I have one)
lmao, I'm an American with an electric kettle. they're readily available, but people apparently don't want them.
You can trust me! American with electric kettle. Then again, I'm addicted to @Escape_Country.
(No egg cups tho.)
Does a @Keurig count?
I did actually buy an electric kettle after this and I will say it's magical. But I also live in New York.
We have those. But not egg cups. We don't even soft boil eggs. I barely eat eggs at all. Yuck.
US does have kettles but they're slow because it's 110V, not 230V so they're only rated 1.5kW instead of 3kW.
Wait. Why does it have to be electric? I like my kettle and it boils water super fast — yes on the stove.
Come live on the wild side, Murica!!!!!!!!
I'm getting one now
They're pretty popular in American college dorms
I have an electric kettle in my bedroom b/c I'm the only one who drinks tea & I made a mini-kitchen in my room when kid+grandkid moved in.
I mean I barely eat eggs and I don't drink tea so all of it is irrelevant to me anyway.
If you can't add cheese to it, it isn't American. Srsly, Most people just ate scrambled before media/Julia Child/minimal cultural awareness.
Ok processed cheese isn't cheese, even Americans don't think so.
Here's one for you...they don't play Badminton with a 'shuttlecock', apprently it's a 'birdie'. Fuck off America, you're doing it wrong
A message from Texas
1. Cups are for drinking, not eggs
2. Best egg holder = tortilla
3. Tea should be iced and sweet
4. Feel sorry for you
That's hilarious! Tortilla, right on, man.
You sound *just like* an alien from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Not like an antagonist alien, but like an alien of the week alien.
You where the Enterprise-D has to go to a non-federation planet and stop a super Volcano or something.
They beam him up and and are like “here are your quarters” and he’s all like “where’s the blue widget” and the crew is like “WTF!?”
“We don’t have any blue widgets.”
“What? How do you make Fluppys!?”
“You can replicate some…”
“jfchkjhpoiupoiuewhkjhf…”
After the obligatory scene where they fail to deal with the super volcano and are in dire straights with only 30 minutes left in the episode
The alien shows them how to make fluppys.
There’s a poker scene where Data asks the other cast members about what they grew up eating.
Crusher’s grandmother used to make the best dumplings.
Worf’s adopted mother made great mince meat pie.
The episode ends with like everyone cooking something they love on the holodeck or something.
Lol wut. Why would you put an egg in a cup. Just put it in the fridge. What is soft boil? Is that that like scrambled?
I feel this strange, prolly petty, obligation to boil and eat eggs this way which offends you so dearly, just to torment you. 🙂
😂😂😂 never thought I'd meet a person as pissed off about eggs as I am about people LMAO
An "educator".
-Finds out Americans doesn't use egg cups*
wait what's wrong with that
I just heat water in the microwave for tea but I also only drink tea when I'm.sick
Same. Microwave my water.
Innes I never thought reaching the point where I imagined you might do me violence was going to be over *boiled eggs*
I've watched Utena! I know what an egg cup is!
Now THIS is the kind of Twitter meltdown I can appreciate. 😂
I am an American with an electric kettle!
...but my husband is British.
They don't know what they're missing out on.
Open a place with egg cups and kettles and it gonna be Starbucks all over again
Shit imagine soft boiled eggs and tea that you make on your own table, it will revolutionise American Breakfast
We did, it's called "Target," "Walmart," and "Bed, Bath, Beyond."
Innes, have you ever felt an American power plug?
Like, there's no way something that flimsy could cope with a kettle.
But America needs to feel bad about it's atrocious plugs
And the fact that apparently a non-negligible number of houses still lack earthing
It's better when they have the three prong dealos
we're still a young nation, please give us some time. We'll learn, we swear.
Like, what on earth is going on over there?
In what world is a house with 70+ year old wiring OK?
Anything before about 1945 you have to redo to bring it up to code. And "grounded" is the same as earthed.
i feel electric kettles are like using microwaves... i can't.
Once a brit went to an American uni, plugged in the kettle and shorted the dorms.
There's.....other kinds of kettles?
This is what happens when Americans encounter an electric kettle. THEY CANNOT BE TRUSTED
Nope, I have an electric kettle.
When I stayed in an Airbnb in LA, there was a mini stove-top with a kettle that made me wait 30mins for tea while it boiled 😭
Instant hot.
I don't think the owner would have been happy with me messing with their tiny sink 😂 Is it boiling from the tap or just hot?
Hot from tank. Then water replaces. A good number of homes and offices have this in NYC. Need a licensed electrician to install.
Oh, they have tankless instant hots also. 🤔
I'm in the UK, although I've seen them around. We rent, so can't do it anyway. But my kettle boils in one min, so I'm ok with that!
Thank you for this indignation. It is good and true.
I have an electric one. It's handy for brewing tea or French press coffee. (Btw your rant is hilarious. 😂)
The more pepper, the better! And I don't think it's anyone else's business how we boil our water. It's personal! LOL
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Their electricity is only 110v so an electric kettle would take more than twice as long to boil.
I have a stove top kettle! It's not optimum but it means I can live my life full of tea
Sure, I can genuinely get to Tesco and back quicker than the time it takes to boil... but tea!
And some of them have been known to put an electric one on the stovetop #TrueStory
Only the complete idiots.
"Put kettle on" not a phrase to be taken at face value 🤣
A lot of Americans don't have electric kettles because they take too long to boil, as the US have a lower level of voltage to the UK.
A home is not a home without a tea kettle on the stove. Sincerely, an American.
Proof, if it were needed, of a deeply neanderthal strain running through american "culture".
I guess we Americans will just have to suffer. But honestly I do eat soft boiled eggs and know what an electric kettle is and egg cup are.
Some people have instant hots installed inline with kitchen sink.
our electric kettles suck, too. Take way too long.
No, I meant electric, I plug mine into a wall. Stovetop kettles take too long.
I'm sorry, soft boiled eggs give me the wiggins, but I do have an electric kettle and it is nice.
Nope. Not a thing here. The notion of "taking the pot to the kettle" is entirely unknown.
#1 Americans drink coffee more asshat and there are tea drinkers but try getting American history, Boston Tea Party ring a bell and
reasons why it's not as popular due to an association with fucked up British Imperil Colonization and its horrible lasting impact on the
world. You think Americans are War mongers? Over 100,000,000 deaths are attributed directly to the British empire. Look at India today? They
have never recovered from the disgustingness of the British East India Tea Company. Ever thought to think most Americans have hearts and
are capable of noting historical reasons not to make a particular beverage with a horrorifc past (and yes, I get coffee beans and their
political environment isn't awesome either but most companies have ended policies that weren't great) Seriously, get a life if
that with all that's going on, you're content being petty and trying to hate America over lack of egg cups (they aren't outlawed, they are
here) or tea kettles. And for the record, the second biggest reason why we don't have an abundance of electric tea kettles after the fact
not a lot drink tea regularly, though most households do have a stove top kettle is the electricity issue and it takes more time to boil
water here with an electric kettle. Have a great week!
Why Europeans use electric kettles but Americans don't
It is related to the voltage available in American versus the UK.
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I legit had no idea anything other than stovetop kettles existed. Intrigued enough to buy electric kettle, but better than microwave? 🤔
We have an Electric kettle that takes about a week to boil. Oh how I pine for a rapid boil with integrated water filter sigh
Hey hey hey we don't have the same amps you do, man
I have an electric kettle and a teapot to brew my tea, my gma is from N.Ireland so we were raised right 👍🏼
I was once majorly trolled by a dude, because I wasn't aware you called "water cookers" kettles. And for me a kettle (ketel in Dutch)...
... belongs on a stove. So he managed to convince me for a few minutes that the thing you put the electric kettle on, is called a stove.
Nvm, you just should have been there :P
I literally didn't know that anything other than stove top kettles existed until I visited Scotland...
a stove top kettle on an electric stove, this was a blessedly small portion of my childhood
I have an electric kettle; after spending lots of time in Europe, I, too, thought not having one was silly. I also soft-boil eggs, ❤️ them.
However, if you want to really be upset, many Americans heat their water in the MICROWAVE- which I will never understand.
I think that's because of their lower mains voltage, an electric kettle would take too long to boil. Also why they use so many light bulbs.
tbf i eat my eggs over the sink as i peel them because i can't wait
Perhaps this is the origin story of the egg and spoon race?
...we use toast.
What a hateful, hateful place.
I just peel, rinse, chomp chomp
Nah, plenty of soft boiled eggs in the US, only the philistines don't eat them. Poached, fried, au plat - however you want 'em.
The refrigeration thing is maddening, though. I feel like I was robbed of 30 years of refrigerator space.
Can't make deviled eggs or egg salad with soft boiled tho I need the yolk to be mashied up
I think we make hard boiled eggs when we make deviled eggs. I've never just had a solid egg before.
Not if you stick a fork in them
Nah Dude. Over easy with runny yolk. You dip your toast in it! Bacon is also acceptable! #americaeggyea!
I am an American and I own egg cups. Each morning 3 minute eggs are on the menu. But that's because my grandparents were Ulster-born.
Hard boiled eggs make me want to vomit.
Egg cups are an anomaly in America.
I hard boil eggs occasionally, but after taking the egg out of the water I peel it and proceed to mash the eggs up together into egg salad
Nah, dude. Mostly scrambled.
Who in their right mind puts a hard boiled egg on a plate we just peel the shell and eat them
are you kidding that lunchbox food or easter egg hunts.
We cut them in half. They don't roll around anymore.
no but see we don't really hard boil them either
American is the land of the scrambled.
sometimes the omelet.
We cook them and call them "scrambled eggs"
thats what my dad did after I came out lmao
I would but I am a coward. I only eat soft boiled eggs if they're in ramen
But its 12 ._.
Valid excuse
this whole thread 💞 honestly don't understand why they are doing eggs wrong
that's a LOT of eggs just rolling the fuck around
Americans have eggs with almost literally everything at the few diners i went to in SF and florida.
also they do bacon wrong.
The protective coating stuff being taken off never made sense to me. Soft boiled eggs though - what do you do with the useless white?
I don't eat hard-boiled eggs unless they're ground up in some larger dish so maybe I'm just too broken to receive this wisdom
On a related note - ever had french fries in a burrito?
How did they survive after gaining Independence?
By gatherin' more guns 'n everyone else!!
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I am only just reading this now, & I too am agitated & need to go for a walk.
Yeah time to get off the cell phone big guy, there's a whole world in front of you, maybe live a little?
What are you blabbin on about???
Hope you fall in a ditch, because no one else insulted your culture. FUCK YOU (I'm not even american)
Seems someone has had an oeuf.
wait, that means they don't know the goodness that is... soldiers!!!
What with this and not having electric kettles, it's a wonder they've got as far as they have.
Well you know our eggs are filled with disease because we don't vaccinate our chickens because there is zero food regulation in USA
So y'know never eat anything in USA
We are only allowed to put things in the food that make it LESS healthy
Yeah, that little thing about having no food regulation... that's a blatant lie.
Yes we do! Sometimes. Def was a thing growing up.
naw they do but they dump it out directly onto the toast in a big goopy mess
classic eggly americans
I see what you did there 😂
This from a culture which ruins good toast with watery, anemic beans... Americans don't need no snooty egg pedestals.
#Freedom ✊️
I’m afraid I have to side with the Americans here. Runny yolks make me gip.
this is a tragedy of the highest proportions
I soft boil my eggs and just eat them by the handful like potato chips
We fry our eggs sunny-side up or over easy if we want runny yolks to dip bread in. No need for special egg-specific dishes that way!
Fried eggs have their place and only a monster fries their yolk hard, but they're no alternative to runny eggs and soldiers
Maybe having to fry eggs in oil and butter in order to be able to dip bread into their yolk is the root of the American obesity crisis.
It's not
Frying takes me 3 minutes, soft boiling takes 10. If I'm being that indulgent and brunchy I can serve the egg in an avocado
Truly, a cultural ravine
I'll keep the avocado, you can keep your black & white pudding, and we can agree to disagree on which constitutes "cultured breakfast food"
you guys have breakfast waffles and put syrup on bacon, you definitely win
..."breakfast waffles"? There are places where they eat waffles but do not eat them for breakfast?
Parks & Rec has misled me
No I mean my question is, what would it mean to not have breakfast waffles, but still know what waffles are?
When do you eat waffles? They're - not exclusively, but primarily - a breakfast food in the US.
Oh man i forgot about your insane electricity and 2 pin plugs as well
"Shall we make our electic fittings safer? Nah just half the voltage"
You're also vastly overestimating the number of eggs we eat! Culturally speaking fried and scrambled and MAYBE poached are the only way here
But speaking as an American, the very idea of soft boiling (an?) Egg, putting it in a cup, and eating it slowly enough to dip toast into it>
Is an absolutely unconscionable waste to time and energy. Scramble it and get it over with already. Got places to be.
An enduring and favourite part of my morning for decades.
if you don't know the sheer joy of egg n' fingers there is no hope for you as a culture. NONE.
I mean it's only literally the least efficient possible way to eat an egg :P
if you wanted eficient you wouldn't make waffles for breakfast. IT'S NOT A CIRCUS.
You know I don't actually remember the last time I had waffles... I've got a machine and everything, I should make some tomorrow morning.
we do poached eggs, does that count?
Same here. I have poached eggs on toast at least weekly.
Me, I can't get the hang of this whole egg cup thing to save my life
Over-easy eggs are a big thing around here, and you put them right on the toast for a similar effect.
From Wisconsin, can confirm.
fucking OUTRAGEOUS
Hang on: don't they have dippy eggs and toast soldiers?
Your missing the bigger picture here, they don't soft boil eggs or have egg cups in China...that is a lot more global egg foolery
I had the same bewildered conversation with my Chinese wife, she is now converted to egg cups...mainly because she thinks they are cute
I do, but it's finger food. You eat it in like three bites. I don't need a bourgeoisie cup and spoon for eggs.
Why are you stabbing that potato with a pickle?
Yes we do. Someone is jerking your chain.
Got fixated on yr problem. Kettle at Walmart $20. Egg cup, called Ramadan here, $1., or shot glass. Pic to follow.
Ramikins are tiny soufflé dishes. Egg cups are different.
They're missing out on soliders! #sillyUSA ;)
Right? 😂
It's #magical that thread. The horror.
I'll bite, what's a soldier?
There's more salmonella hysteria in the US & I'm still a little traumatized by the scare-mongering news stories w a 'cook eggs well' moral.
Now try asking for an egg over-easy in the UK. My friend once had a fry cook shout "You're not in New York, mate! Get OUT!"
I'm neither American nor a British, but we refrigerate the eggs after buying them, and hard boil them due to salmonella.
Getting an omelette or scrambled eggs cooked properly (ie v. soft) in UK is nigh on impossible courtesy of Edwina Curry.
lol no hat sounds gross. Like salmonella haha
I don't know what's wrong with us over here. Look at the dipshit we have for a president. We just can't get it together.
I def soft boil eggs! Two eggs over buttered toast with a bit of salt and pepper! One less item to wash...
When I ate eggs I preferred hard boiled but I still think a egg cup makes eating it a lot easier than having it roll around a plate.
Also I lived in Lanzarote for a while and people made tea in the microwave. 😷
Thanks to Japanese we know about soft boiled eggs
Wait, I love soft boiled eggs!
Wait, what??
Whaaaaaaat?!
I love soft boiled eggs. I open them up and drip the yolk on toast, then chop the whites over them and then a little salt and it's delicious
I passed! I have an electric kettle annnd soft boil eggs! Whew....
lol I have never seen an electric kettle in person so clearly I'm flawed & will seriously have to upgrade my life!
I have one mostly b/c I'm impatient & lazy, so I'm not bragging. Electric kettle is fantastic!
I'm forgetful at times so I really need this in my life lol I've found a few to choose from what do you think?
Nice! I had a metal one at first, then bought a ceramic kettle (yes cuz it was pretty).
Oh that's really cute!
Annnd it was in clearance!!!
oooo clearance is a huge score!
Justification for having 2. Lol
Most def always need back up on appliances.
Knock it if you want but it's super handy, & yes electric. Meh.
Mine's the one in the upper right.
@innesmck Eggs: Scrambled, poached or 7 min. boil (yolk soft but not runny), eaten on toast. I'm sorry.
I soft boil my eggs, unpeel them and slice them open on toast
Us Canadians use egg cups AND soft boil. Americans are philistines
I'm American & I prefer to soft boil my eggs. I dip toast in the yolk.
I soft boil my eggs all the time in the little cups that used to be my grandmas from Germany and the tiny little spoon!
More fucking fake news. You been watching #FauxNews again. Come see my kitchen with electric kettle, egg cups, brown sauce, vinegar etc.
Soft boil?!
Crazy Americans. *takes sip of cool canadian milk from a bag*
Umm, yeah, no, not soft boiled. *hard shudder*
I usually eat my hard boiled egg freshly peeled standing at the sink. It's the American way.
😂 "standing at the sink." Sir, I wish I could refute this last bit, but I've seen it too often. We are, in fact, eating our eggs over sinks.
Eggs and bacon buddy. Beats the shit out of a little egg cup. Wtf are u a queen? Not gay. Llike royalty.
I am shocked 😲 ... what is wrong with people? Soft boiled egg are the best how can they not ...
I do. I love a runny yolk.
Fucking hell
i want to puke, who the fuck wants to eat raw eggs? this is why i hate british people
Will it help or hurt to know that lacking egg cups, I crack soft boiled eggs right onto toast? Often rye. Restaurants usually oblige.
Weighing in: I do soft boil, but then I gently peel them in hand, nibble the top off, sprinkle salt and pepper in and then suck the yolk.
Quite savage, I know. Have heard of egg cups but don't have an egg cup drawer so where would I keep them? Plus hands are nature's egg cups.
I hard boil my eggs, peel them with my hands, slice it in half, add salt and eat. Deal with it. 😒
Ok, you better hold onto your hat! I HATE eggs. They are the most disgusting things ever and it doesn't matter how you make them! YUCK! 🤢
If that's the case we usually poach them meaning we break the shell first and then we fry or boil it
Did not learn that soft boiling was a thing until I was over 30.
Excuse me I love soft boiled egg, but I don't use an egg cup I mash it up and mix it up with lightly toasted bread yummmm
IVE NEVER EVER HEARD OF A SOFT BOIL
And electric kettles here take twice as long at which point you may as well boil it on the stove
It's just how we "Americans" like our eggs, just like how you probabaly like them soft boiled. Diffrent people diffrent tastes.
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My dad used to make me soft boiled eggs when I was little. & yes, we had crystal egg cups.
But dad ran off & took the egg cups with him. 💔😂
Is it actually funny?
I miss the egg cups. I used to dip little toast points in them.
As for Dear Old Dad... (1/2)
My biggest vice is that I permanently cut people out of my life if I feel wronged.
Those people are dead to me.
So it's easy to laugh at.
I don't know where ur getting ur info but we do have egg cups. I don't like mine super runny tho so I boil them til they are fairly viscous+
+then crack them and scoop onto toast or sometimes onto steamed broccoli and fresh tomatoes. They r still buttery and soft but not running.
what the fuck is soft boiling??
That is accurate. Many of us find the runny yolk to be....gross 😬 sorry. I poach my egg for a solid 8 minutes. I could bounce it.
Oh my god yes we do my roommate will only eat them that way or poached.
How do you softboil an egg?
Some one is lying to you.
I cannot imagine eating egg yolk that is not cooked all the way.
Yes, because Americans have their own culture. So surprising.
We have egg cups and kettles wtf also my eggs don't have to be refrigerated they go from my chickens to a basket.
We don't soft boil eggs here. I haven't seen an egg cup since my great-gran died 40 years ago.
Hahaha! We soft boil eggs. I crack open at top, scoop out with teaspoon onto toast.
Correct!
You got it. Generally speaking, no.
Sorry to report, if the yolk isn't firm, this American won't eat it. But, i do use Hungarian egg cups for hard boiled eggs (only)
We do we just eat more than one. What are we, skinny?
😱 that's the best way
It's true! They don't!! We have egg cups AND make dippy eggs for our kids. It's like our special secret (well that and marmite 😂)
We did in my family
Yep. I prefer my eggs solid :)
I soft boil eggs pour yolk into my mouth then eat the egg... with my hands.
What is this soft boil? I just crack them, add hot sauce and drink straight from the glass. Or like Cool Hand Luke, 50 hard boiled eggs
Not unless we're making egg salad. That faded hard in the last couple generations.
White Americans tend to have a weird thing about "undercooked" food
This is the second time I've heard this today. Of COURSE we have egg cups and OF COURSE we soft-boil eggs. Who is spreading this calumny?
What the actual fuck?
sunny side up, over easy, over hard, scramble ether plain or with goodies added, poached ... i guess we just consider more options.
Nonsense I soft boil and just hold the egg in my hand and eat by spooning the egg out. My hand is the egg cup
largely because there are no egg cups
Met my first soft boiled egg 3 years ago. Was so excited/astonished that my french host mom cried laughing and bought me egg cups
sure we softboil our eggs if we're making deviled eggs or cutting them up for a salad. but we don't just, like, eat eggs plain
i took nine eggs out of the fridge and am hard boiling them *right now* 😅
Where did you hear that? My American aunt always preferred her eggs soft-boiled.
Mr Moth. I am an American and can say we do have egg cups and we do eat soft boiled eggs. Maybe not everyone. I also have a kettle.
THE HELL?
DOES AMERICA EVEN HAVE DIPPY SOLDIERS?!
Dude you just gulp it. Like a tequila shot. Good for your health.
It just pours all over the plate and you kinda end up using it as a makeshift dipping sauce for potatoes n stuff.
Do Americans eat boiled eggs?
we have soft boiled eggs with toast in an egg cup, we wouldn't slice them, that would be hard boiled eggs
We thoroughly cook the shit out of our eggs so they aren't runny, or we fry them in bacon fat. It's patriotic that way.
What? You've never heard of egg mittens? 🙄
:D sorry, man x
Hahaha if it helps I am an American who grew up with both egg cups and kettles.
Americans who soft boil eggs have egg cups, and people who like making tea have kettles. It's a big country.
The refrigerated egg thing is dumb, though. The whole industrialized chicken thing is pretty messed up.
We poke a straw through the egg and sip it like a mai-tai 🍹#truestory
If you want runny yolks, you cook them 'sunny-side up' and put them on a plate and eat them with a fork and toast.
you hold the egg on your hand and you slurrrrrp it! 😂😂😂
If it is fried (with butter or bacon grease) the yolk is held in by the hardened whites.
Most of us do not eat soft boiled eggs.
We really don't eat eggs like that for the most part. Love this rant btw
Yo we hard boil them, then peel them, then cut them in half.
That's what toast is for. Sopping. Delicious. And BTW you may order egg cups online. With itsy bitsy spoon and salt shaker.
Bruh we eat eggs scrambled or over easy we don't got time to sit there with a spoon and delicately eat a damn egg
Why is the yolk runny? I'm confused. Cook your damn food!
It pours onto the English Muffin. Throw some ham on that bad boy too @McDonalds #McMuffin Delicious & you don't have to wash the egg cup.
The yolk spills out, man. That's what toast is for.
I never had a dippy egg till I moved to the UK in 2003. We just don't eat eggs like that in the states... Love eggs and soldiers :)
Would say so as I've stayed in the UK :) #DippyEggs
I'm on vacation in the US and I've been improvising with paper towel nests for my soft boiled eggs. #thestruggleisreal
i sop my yolk up w biscuits ... like DUH
We don't break it?
Been alive over 30 years and have never seen anyone eat eggs like that until I started watching Nigella. And I thought she was being quirky
Over easy or over medium on the plate. Then you dip your toast in it. Frankly the egg cup with the shell on creeps me out a bit.
We bake slices of bread until they're crispy, and mop up the spilled yolk with that bread. My plate is cleaner after breakfast than before.
Maybe soft boiled eggs are just things some people find disgusting. I prefer scrambled or in an omelet so why would I own egg cups?
I'm a master eating egg in a hole; no yolk drip.
It's usually served over toast. Here, most ppl like to see it run all over everything.
the yolk is solid.
You need to take a visit to @WaffleHouse my friend
it gets all over the place, like a breakfast food equivalent of a stag film
Runny yolk is repulsive. Fuck soft-boiled eggs and fuck your egg cups.
That's why we scramble them
innes they never had soft boiled eggs
they don't trust their eggs
even in Canada they don't put the freshness date, i'm mad
I haven't eaten a soft boiled egg in MONTHS
I eat soft boiled eggs often. On breads or in soups though. Do wish I had an egg cup.
I'd love too, but how do you know the egg is fresh enough without the date? I haven't found a brand with it yet
whaaaat mine always have a date on. D: I buy the one w/ a weird egg-in-baseball-cap mascot (free run variety, but don't think that matters)
Apparently American electricity isn't strong enough to boil a kettle
So funny 😂 is British humor, not so funny
We have softy boiled eggs on toast,yummy
Do not swear like that, grow up
Yes, we have soft boiled eggs, just cook 👨🍳 them differently, want to fight a 73 year old grannie
I basically never eat a hard boiled egg
If the cereal companies have won and you can't find an eggcup, a pop bottle top makes a wonderful alternative. #eggs
I use a shot glass.
My g'friends asked what I wanted for my b'day. I sent them on an egg cup hunt. Finally found two. Took about a yr.
Or they could have gone online and found egg cups, any where in the world, in 30 seconds. Free 2 day shipping even.
honestly this is the best tweet for a very very long time on this ridiculous website
Evolution, or more aptly stated - lack of evolution, is how we got Trump elected. He might be the poster child for lack of evolution.
You mean EggVolution?!? 😏😏
You're right. We didn't go through 300 million years of evolution to eat our eggs raw like some damn skunk
an American I know once had a twitter meltdown as you couldn't buy packs of boiled eggs here. Is it THAT difficult?
Christ! That is a new level of laziness 🙈
you can buy them in 6/12 packs there. Hard boiled to f**k
can confirm. Runny yolk makes my stomach churn (although grew up in household with no eggs as mother was allergic, so mileage may vary)
Whoa man! We usually fry, scramble and if we boil- we hard boil them, de-shell, cut in half & salt/pepper.
Hey! I'm a proud American egg cup owner. Thanks to @marimekkousa purveyors of egg cups to us heathens stateside!
We didn't go through 300 million years of evolution to let our eggs sit out in open growing salmonella🤢
WE SCRAMBLE OUR EGGS WE DONT HAVE A WHOLE ASS EGG ROLLING AROUND ON A PLATE
Harden the fuck up like a hard boiled egg. LOL
Lol the fact that an entire country can't make eggs and tea/coffee for breakfast properly explains #trump what else do they get up to?
You know about the butter thing, right ?
Oh. You don't know ?
They don't butter bread for sandwiches. Or toast. Or anything
How do they stop the bread from getting soggy in cucumber sandwiches?
They deserve everything the get. Soggy sandwiches n all
We don't eat cucumber sandwiches
....huh. at least here in Canada we butter our bread for those
I butter my bread...?
THE BUTTER THING. we keep it refridgerator. Lmaoo keeping it out is nasty af
But, that's what butter dishes are for..?
I use mine for a spoon rest while cooking 😂
Also the utter i buy isnt in sticks. Its in a tub that needs refridgeration
No no no, you cut in half & scoop out of the shell into a bowl! Or, like me, you poach them in the microwave *ducks flying egg cups*
That sounds more like how to eat a kiwi, not an egg!
Although there's no reason why you can't also use eggcups for kiwis. #versatile
I don't put the kiwi in a bowl, I scoop directly into my grateful maw 😂
1. But, don't you hard boil your Easter eggs?
2. Don't you hard boil the eggs for making deviled eggs?
Who eats Easter Eggs? I rebuke you Satan and ur nasty colored eggs.
I have a hard time taking culinary advice from someone whose culture thinks eating beans on toast is appropriate.
They dont roll!!! They lay flat. Sunny side up eggs over any other type. ANY DAY
Scrambled or fried stays on a plate, bimbo
porque te importa tanto
We don't keep our eggs on plates either. Why do you keep trying to set eggs in places outside the carton
Why would the egg roll around on a plate? After 300 years of evolution, thats the best you can come up with?
We don't eat eggs like that son. We fry the egg we don't eat it like a chocolate bar
Don't they just fry the bastards to death, on both sides. Yuk!!!!
That's why you put it in a bowl so it don't roll on a plate
I've never even seen an "egg cup" for sale. Pretty sure no American bride has ever registered for an egg cup set from Bed, Bath, and Beyond.
RSVP 8 Piece Egg Cup & Spoon Set
RSVP 8 Piece Egg Cup & Spoon Set
Egg Poachers: Kitchen & Dining
amazon.com
That doesn't count, amazon/online has everything. I'm talking about walking in to Macy's or Pottery Barn. But thanks!
We don't eat eggs like that dude tf?
I met an American lady once who told me their hand dryers blow cold air. I said, "You people put a man on the Moon, what happened?"
Fresh egg, softly boiled, in egg cup ... butter, salt, bliss.
300 Million Years of evolution and all the people care about in the U.K. is egg cups and electric tea kettles. I see why Brexit happened.
Surprised the EU didn't try to actually kick you out.
So, I always thought egg cups were fake. Thanks for showing me otherwise. #Murica
Teach us your ways! We'll all be moving back soon. 🙌😭
They just don't eat soft boiled eggs why are you losing your mind
I need this person to care about their blood pressure more
Truly
no we did it to learn how to cook an egg rather than get a little bowl to hold a raw one. My dog won't even it an egg unless it's scrambled
works for cadbury eggs, too
Nobody _wants_ to wash the eggs. Pesky laws.
BUT BIRD POOP. POOP! POOOOP!
Maybe not on a radiator though, eh?
wait, you can buy eggs with a coating on them? Even in england I see refrigerator-only ones
oh.. In that case I must be confused about which part of the egg is which
I assumed those had to be refrigerated.
America mandates power washing of eggs before they are sold, which makes them require refrigeration
Europe mandates NOT doing that
I don't like shit on my eggs, I have my own chickens and still wash the egss, y'all nasty folks.
In Germany we have two dates on the box. 1. date: when to put them in fridge, 2. date: best before if keept refridergarted from first date
Salmonella can't multiply in fridge conditions. But UK chickens are vaccinated, so only imported eggs are a risk.
I live on a farm, and we gather our own eggs. We still refrigerate them, because they last longer.
What's... Protective coating?
Huh, did not know. I thought you meant they add some kind of coating in the US at first :p
IIRC high pressure water jets also tend to push bacteria *in to* the egg because the shell is kinda permeable, thus higher salmonella rates.
But, you know, can't have the chance of any visible dirt on the eggs 🙃
My brother have chicken as a hobby, he told me if the egg is dirty, you have to wash it with water with a higher temp than the egg itself
He's right (as far as my knowledge extends). Basically don't wash unless really necessary, if so use warmer water.
What is the best way to wash and store my eggs? from My Pet Chicken
Backyard Chicken Help - What is the best way to wash and store my eggs?
mypetchicken.com
Otherwise the bacteria might penetrate the egg. Fun fact: no one has ever been registered sick from salmonella in Norwegian eggs or chicken
Wow, that's a pretty cool stat to have. I know UK rates are lower than US because we keep cleaner coops and don't wash the eggs.
I had to google it to make sure I was telling the truth. I could remember that it's safe to eat raw eggs here because of that.
Glad I learned something new today :)
Yeah, it's always interesting to have conversations outside of my normal topics. Thanks :)
The UK came up with laws that prevent salmonella being in the farms in the first place, the EU all use them now, so we don't need to wash
The natural coating off them and therefore they stay fresh for longer with or without the fridge
Washed eggs simply means that they live in shit, litterally. Not having to wash means better living conditions.
Wondering How to Wash Fresh Eggs? It's Safer Not To! - Countryside Network
While washing eggs is deemed unnecessary in some countries, it's still good to know how to wash fresh eggs to minimize the risk of bacterial contamination.
countrysidenetwork.com
It's called the bloom.
This surprised me my first time at Sainsbury's
THIS HAPPENS IN CANADA TOO
I HAVE TO KEEP MY EGGS IN THE FRIDGE?????????
???? EGGS GO IN A BOWL ON THE COUNTER???????????????
eggs go in a decorative bowl on the kitchen counter, that's just where they're meant to be
i think my mum had a bowl shaped like a chicken specifically for this purpose but i think that is going too far
They're chicken fruits. Unless they're duck eggs. Then they're duck fruits.
Farmer's know. It is city ppeps who don't know.
Totally didn't know about this. This is revelatory:
Here's why you have to refrigerate eggs in the U.S. but not in Europe
Europeans store their eggs at room temperature, while Americans refrigerate them. This is something that inspires some American tourists on their return home to adapt a more Continental attitude to the storage of eggs. Bad idea.
latimes.com
Our farmers know. It's the government that makes them wash and refrigerate.
Word?
Are your eggs freshers than ours? I'd leave mine out if they were fresh but store bought eggs are 2wks old by the time they're packaged.
LMFAO, dude, in US we pasteurize our eggs to lower risk of foodborne illness. Must then refrigerate. You're living in the Dark Ages.
Actually our focus is on making sure the disease isn't there in the first place. That's why UK Lion eggs are the highest standard on earth
It all came from an era when we had 3 epidemics from poor food, salmonella, foot & mouth and BSE. After that we regulated the shit out of
Our food and here we are
Certain bacteria like salmonella cannot be eliminated from chickens you sound really stupid right now
I guess that's why less than 1 in 10,000,000 have traces of salmonella in the UK without washing or refrigeration then. Dumbass 😂
Since U R too unintelligent to understand let me explain. Conversation veered towards why US refrigerates eggs, I explained why. Fuck off.
You have to buy pasteurized eggs special. I've never even seen them for sale here in NJ.
What protective coating?
What on earth are you going to do with the egg tray in the refrigerator then!
50s Robot Cosplay?
You can't very well put your butter on it because there is already a butter tray right next to it!
Alright, you know what, I could get behind a cheese shelf
They gave you a cheese shelf and you spat in their faces
On the shelves that are a free for all with the various sauces & salad dressings that rarely get touched and may have been expired for years
I'm afraid to ask where you have been putting your sauces and salad dressings
I did not realize it was still the dark ages over there...
The only thing hardboiled eggs are for is deviled eggs, and don't you dare speak ill of deviled eggs!
As I know it, egg salad is what people make after Easter because they have to repent for their sins if coloring hardboiled eggs
Because what else are you going to do with colored eggs
Even if the coating is washed off, eggs stay good in the fridge *months* after expiry date.
We know.
This man is seriously in his feels about eggs
No you need to tell our stupid government
Commercial eggs are washed as required by FDA then req refrigeration. Fresh can sit on counter uncleaned. Most Americans by commercial.
They come in a package so we leave them in there until we need them. Yes refrigerated eggs then we cook them if needed
Wait, even if it has been previously chilled in a store? I know fresh eggs you can leave out for 1.5-2 weeks basically, but once it has
Put in the fridge, it has to stay there because it starts the deterioration process of the egg itself? I like my eggs scrambled 💁🏻♂️ btw
Yeah, but that reqires the chickens to be kept in clean and comfortable conditions.
The things that make you say, "Hmmmm."
Protective coating?
Wait don't wash the eggs that aren't refrigerated? Then they'd be dirty so we put them in the fridge
American eggs are factory farmed, need refrigeration d/t salmonella risk. FDA regulations weak. #poison
fda.gov/food/resources…
considering that chickens lay their eggs out of their anus we think It's more sanitary to wash the eggs and refrigerate.
Eggs can't be sold unwashed in US. So, I bought my own chickens. Best eggs ever.
Our farmers know that, our markets don't
...And this is why we are all scared of salmonella 🙃
I went to school with a Sal Monella. Guy ruined everything.
Backyard chickens solve that problem. Straight from the chickens butt to my kitchen counter.
Wait, what?
your eggs don't?
ooh I see
Woah woah woah you don't refridge your eggs??? Now this is too far.
You don't need to if you don't remove the natural external membrane, which is washed off in America for some reason
They can be left outside for weeks if the membrane isn't removed
WAIT WHAT THE FUCK
yeah we wash off the stuff that makes them able to be sat on the counter
its bc we aren't required to keep the hen cages and stuff free from poop so they have to wash the poop off
what the fuck
america
Another intresting one: The US doesn;t vaccinate hens against salmonela.
I could never live somewhere eating cake mix is dangerous D:
Wait... We can just vaccinate that shit? God damnit America.
It's illegal to sell unwashed eggs there, but egg shells are permeable, washing them is how shit gets inside!
whoa, whoa, whoa. Some of us *have* egg cups and love their egg cups.
but I do have to keep my eggs in the fridge, got me there
?????? Innes, we need answers
You... Don't refrigerate your eggs?
That's a thing everywhere innes
Only America, Japan and, apparently, Scandinavia. Elsewhere they're shipped unrefrigerated.
Good old chemical washing!
Well we wouldn't want to vaccinate the chickens I heard vaccines cause autism
my parents refrigerate eggs, but i think that's just force of habit since the eggs we buy are just kept on a shelf in the shops
also i've never owned or used an egg cup. my family is, like, religiously against runny eggs
of COURSE i own a kettle. i'm not an ANIMAL, how could you even ask me that
and don’t even get me started on the fact british eggs have bird poop all over them.
This thread is super cute, but... how DO Americans eat boiled eggs.
please do this lotte
carefully. With a little spoon 👍
THIS CONVERSATION IS APPEARING IN MY FEED AS LIKED BY PEOPLE AND NOW I WANT EGGS. :C
It is adorable tho there are so many egg questions. 🥚✨
Some people collect egg cups
I like to make my eggs in shot glasses and chug those yolky mf's
Interesting. I think the dangers of salmonella are beaten into us so we don't eat runny eggs as much as y'all do.
wait, do you just dip toast in the yoke and ignore the egg white? if so, that's amazing. yolks are so good and whites are the grossest.
Wait, what?
Didn't grow up with them (we just brazenly spooned out soft-boiled eggs into small bowls) but did see them occasionally.
Someone helpfully bought us an egg cutter from one of those cutesy brands popular in Japan & it's completely useless with US-sized eggs.
I usually just put them into a bowl with soy sauce and maybe some kind of dashijiru. (Usually more onsen tamago texture than soft-boiled)
Wait what now i was agreeing with you until this point you DON’T keep the eggs on the freezer!?
LAURA THIS IS A STEP TOO FAR
WELL HOW DO YOU SAVAGES MAKE EGG ICE CREAM
The fridge I meant sorry I’m not awake yet we have this thing called sun down here too very annoying place feels like a sauna
that's actually a health thing. Different countries clean eggs differently.
they do????? I'm sure they don't actually NEED to be???? how is an American egg different from any other egg?????
I am german and I leave my eggs also in the fridge O.o
I'm feeling this EXCEPT most a lot of European countries refrigerate their eggs as well. And butter. Butter goes into the fridge.
Ok, I thought all your egg tweets were too cute way too funny except this one, not your treading on health and safety (((salmonella))) 😉🙃🤣
Omg I just went to Europe and I was shook about the eggs being on a shelf and not in a fridge
I just want to point out that eggs don't have to be refrigerated here. Most people just choose to refrigerate them.
You act like we don't
Let's rehash this.. we don't need egg cups. We fry them and undercook the yolk, then dip the bread. Also the whites are tasty too.
That egg cup thing looks insane. Why would anyone want an egg like that?
Because unless you get them right from the farm, they are not as fresh.
Well yeah, unless you happen to live in a rural area and have chickens or know where to get fresh eggs.
I'm British, & I don't have egg cups, simply because I'm not 5 years old.
The FSA recommends that you store eggs in the fridge.
That's because pur eggs are not loaded with preservatives...smh.
My brother in law from Japan couldn't understand eggs in fridges or that the Best Buy date was weeks away.
when you buy 3-4 dozen eggs at a time it's a good ideas to refrigerate them; they last longer.
They sell eggs on shelves in the middle of the aisle, no refrigeration. But also sell in smaller batches & shop more frequently.
Because we wash them
US requires all eggs to be washed, EU requires that they not be washed, in an attempt to keep chickens in cleaner accommodation.
When I was in Scotland it took me forever to find the eggs because I kept looking in the refrigerated section. Never knew that before.
How else do you dip your soldiers in them??
I just realised how full of innuendo my childhood was. 🥚💂🍆
I'm like, actually mad that Americans don't know how to eat eggs
I can't even right now, Jack. I can't EVEN
You misspelled “soft boiled with short slices of bread dipped into them” there, Jack.
That's too fancy we just mush them onto toast
This is classic Philly too.
Ps it's all about the dish.
The only reasonable explanation for uncooked yolks us that these people were, at some point, infused with lizard DNA. Likely Komodo Dragon.
wait.. you don't completely remove the shell before eating the egg?
fascinating.. I've never even thought of not removing the shell, and eating it with some bread or other food as a 'messy food'. Really neat!
How do you avoid getting spoonfuls of shell in your mouth?
I have to answer, because this makes me sad. You put the whole egg in the cup, you take a spoon or butter knife and tap >
the shell until it cracks. Then you gently peel the egg down to just above the rim of your cup. You take the top off the >
egg with your spoon and eat it, then either scoop the yolk with your spoon or dip thin slices of toast in. Then you scoop >
out the rest of the egg white. The shell is tougher after boiling, so as long as you don't bash it, it won't break
You are correct you tap the top lightly then cut it off then dip with toast points or ( linear cut toast) soldiers.
...this answers so many of my childhood questions. I mostly watched British TV and didn't understand why I never saw egg cups in US stores.
Somehow "you live in the US" never occurred to me.
I don't even remember why I started following you, but you're becoming one of my favourite person of the internet.
i can't speak for the heathen masses, but i generally aim for yolks which are just set,
i peel them and slice them in half lengthwise, and serve them on top of other food. if i ate them with liquid yolks more, i'd get egg cups.
I don't have one. I use a shot glass that's in the shape of a boot. It works exactly the same way.
I don't understand why one would want to do this...?
I read this and said "I'm with you Rocko, who needs 4 eggcups for 2 eggs". Then I read the thread and I'm simply horrified by your ignorance
I'm horribly dysfunctional in this confusing world. I don't even eat eggs. I've seen people eat these with their hands, but not with...these
This seems really messy. What if I soft boil, peel, then put in the egg cup?
It might be flimsy
I could have SWORN WE HAD SOME EGG CUPS IN THE CABINET but now I can't find them?????
Mom confirmed my belief that we had the egg cups and also can't figure out where they went. @ egg holders where are you ?????
#NotAllAmericans
I mean I don't have egg cups but I know what they are, probably because I watch a lot of UK TV
this image popped up on my timeline again and for the second time i thought the spoon handles were nangs on the table with eggs
oh!!! N2O bulbs, for whipping cream (or used recreationally like laughing gas)
Classic Karaoke fun times.
Why would you ever eat your eggs this way lol. Just peel it and eat it like a civilized nation :P
There's a lack of respect for b'fast in general in US. Scrawny bacon(&no middlecut bacon), Whipped butter, jelly, the boiled egg thing🤔🤷🏻♀️
We have this at my home but we're French American.
OF COURSE WE HAVE THOSE ARE YOU RETARDED
yassssssssss #Merica
This looks disgusting. Don't post this garbage
Yanks are thick,on a cruise one asked me what was that? Pointing at my fish knife,but claimed he'd got restaurants in new York, ha ha
Is a fish knife an offensive weapon??
Ewww...won’t you get shell in the egg?
No you peel the shell off before you cut it open
And then there's that pesky question; About what came first... and by the way, what does a brain on drugs look like? 🍳
Who eats an egg with a spoon that is just weird
I had two poached eggs on crumpets for my breakfast this morning!!
You are hilarious 😂😂😂 all this ranting about eggs love it
This sir, is my favorite way to eat eggs.
do you have eggcups ??
Oh cute. Confused about how you would cook and then eat in these cute little cups. Love, an American.
You boil the egg so the yolk is still soft. Put in the egg cup, slice the top off and dip bread 'soldiers' in the yolk then eat the white
With a spoon lol
my dads set he had from his Belgian mother broke, we COULD NOT find any replacements, ANYWHERE. The struggle is real to enjoy eggs
Gross. Why would you want shell fragments mixed in?
??? Why would they mix in unless you crushed them? An egg shell is not that fragile
Thought this would be fun to read. But you have limited vocabulary
What in the goofy hell is this?!?
I don't understand what is happening in this picture.
Huh?
There are no egg cups in the USA
Lol we DO all have kettles, but why the hell would we want an egg-cup? We cook our eggs in a skillet, and eat them on a plate
you just leave the shell on? how are you supposed to eat the white?
You eat them out of the shell? How do you not get bits of shell I your mouth? Yuck 😜
Are shells really flimsy in the US? You just peel a bit of the shell on top and eat the egg out of the shell.So how would the shell fall in?
I have one. 😋
How does this even work? I need a thorough explanation.
Wow I've never seen this thing in my life
So, this isn't an egg cup?
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What about the white part? You just throw that away?
You eat it too....O_o
Why would you eat a raw egg?
When I was a child, I was served eggs in a cup like this at my grandparents.
Anyone who thinks beans in weird red sauce are appropriate breakfast fare should NOT be lecturing others! #donttreadonme
Wtf is this
What in the actual fuck is that?
My grandparents had these. My parents didn't because they didn't eat them the same way.
They don’t have them here! This reminds my of my childhood…
Looks like a waste of egg and time to me. Fry it up over medium in some bacon fat and move on.
is the egg cup for your ketchup when you're dipping your fried egg sandwich?
Why do these egg cups upset you? I often use egg cups as a metaphor for the pelvic girdle in discussing tai chi anatomy and relaxation.
I knew these existed, kinda, but I have no idea WTF they are for... storage before cooking? Or as a tray/ bowlish thing for serving??? 🤔
Awww adorable little snack, yea give me a denver omelet, you can keep your stupid egg cup!
No disrespect but that looks like the worst way to eat an egg.
in our mouths, whole
Eggs go on bread
no no no. bread gets dipped IN the egg
It took me a while to realize you were talking about boiled eggs
I only ever fry mine 😂 usually in bacon grease
They can't just roll around the table. This seems extraordinarily unsafe. YOKE EVERYWHERE.
Where do they put them? 😱
But, that's just fucking mental. I bet they eat them with a knife and fork too!
I thought Europeans did that
In Omelettes. Or Scrambled, Fried, Poached, Benedict, Hollandaise, in a Sandwich, Egg-In-A-Hole, Deviled, Florentine, Egg Salad, Rancheros.
probably sold as "Egg Stabilisers"
All in one basket if the elections were anything to go by.
Fried,Poached or Scrambled,i haven't used an egg cup in over 30yrs,& i'm not teaching my kids to either,i just can't see the why i should!
In one basket, likely. But we do have egg cups - just most Americans are as extreme about eggs as about other things: hard boiled or runny.
We wrap it in a paper towel.
Most of us eat them fried, scrambled, or poached. I agree with you about refrigeration. #SorryWeAreWeird
Use a shot glass!
The first time I soft boiled my eggs, I had to find a makeshift egg cup... so, I used a shot glass. 🤷🏻♀️
America.
This makes me laugh as my husband is from England. We had to have his mum import them from England for us!!
We have Egg cartons 😂
We cook them first, so we don't need a little bowl hold them upright.
IN OUR MOUTHS!
For my grownup giant little brother, 1 boiled egg = 1 mouthful.
What, shell and all?
Lol. He's a bit of a savage, but I'm pretty sure he doesn't eat shells.
But who needs a bowl if the whole thing fits in your mouth, eh? 😉
If you're not eating the shell, you need to peel it. If you can peel it, it's not hot. If it's not hot with runny yolk, it's not delicious.
Seriously, if you're going to eat a boiled egg, don't mess around with boring peeled, luke-warm or cold hardboiled eggs.
Cook egg just enough so the yolk is still soft, place in egg cup, cut off top, dip buttered toast into soft yolk. Use teaspoon to finish.
Now, I like poached or scrambled eggs as much as the next person, but dipping toast into proper boiled eggs is also lovely.
There is a way have all that without an egg cup.
I was brought up on "Eggs-in-a-Hole" (aka eggs in a basket).
No cups for us savages. 😉
Yes, we have eggs-in-a-hole or eggs-in-bread too. The experience and taste is quite different. You're missing out!
Not missing out - had them lots (english inlaws)
I just personally don't like runny, gooey, or uncooked food. 🤢
Again, different strokes...
(Don't like eggs & meat unless they're thoroughly cooked, I mean.)
🥚
I see your logic but disagree w the goal. 😉 I like my food cooked.
🐔
To each their own. The world would be boring if we were all the same!
* I mean that if you're not eating the shell, you need to peel it IF you're going to eat it in one bite. Egg cup saves you from this folly.
I get it. =)
Shot glasses, bro.
Dual purpose.
This is America... We mostly eat fried stuff... Scrambled, over easy, sunny-side-up, omelettes.... All Fried!!! 🍳
Egg sandwiches. We serve liberty between slices.
most americans dont eat boiled eggs tbh
if we do its usually in the form of egg salad
On a plate like normal civilized people. Ha, egg cups? Some uppity shit, no?
I used shot glasses for many years!!!😱
When I was a poor student and didn't own any egg cups I had to either use shot glasses or blu-tack my eggs to the plate
We put our eggs in our belly after we cook them properly. We have egg cups here, we just prefer our eggs in a delicious form like an omelet
yeah i saw this moment but didnt click on it. Why the f do we need a cup just for an egg, its called a plate or a bowl.
i eat my eggs instead of putting them in dumb cups
In the fridge, of course. Right next to the axle grease stuff that we use as butter.
In a pan. Then we cook them. Maybe you folks are the weird ones.
The fridge
We are a bit fkkt about eggs. We can get egg cups but we don't boil much of anything, at least in Cali.
In Cali eggs are Huevos Rancheros! With COFFEE! We make tea in the sun and then drink it chilled!
We peel them and eat them! Sometimes whole!
In a tortilla, scrambled, with all kinds of toppings.
On the plate
In the frying pan you barbaric savage
On the plate
Omelettes, scrambled, on sandwiches, fried, hard boiled, in fried rice, on salads... And that's a norm Saturday
I use a sake cup most of the time; I don't often make eggs that way.
In our asses. With our heads. Where the fuck did you think?
In an omelette. How do you put good stuff like mushrooms and cheese in that thing? With a syringe? You're an animal.
in a egg tray that holds multiple eggs. egg cups are so 1700.
we probably think y'all are crazy for using an egg cup so🤷🏽♀️
on toast. you put it on toast
I scramble them and put them on a plate with toast.
I use a shot glass but I'm also in college so please understand
I did too, until I bought some....lol!
Ummm, we let them roll around on our plates aimlessly and heroically.
we put them on plates my dude
Fried in organic butter Between 2 slices of toast with xtra sharp cheddar and hot sauce(eggy sammiche)
Americans don't eat eggs because that's abortion.
Best. Comment. Ever. 😆🤣😂
In the fridge....like all Americans do
We usually don't boil our eggs. Ever heard of scrambled, over easy, or an omelet? You can't put an omelet in a fucking egg cup.
We fry or scramble them and put them on a plate like any other food.
Dippy egg is my favourite, I have it at least twice a week and I don't own an egg cup 😂 I just use the egg box haha. It feels kinda rustic.
in the fridge like this. We don't use an egg cup at all to eat one We chop um, scramble um or eat them sunny side up or other ways
But for serious what's an egg cup? I have literally no idea.
I mean I've lived in Arizona my whole life and I only started eating my eggs ways that aren't scrambled like a few months ago so...
Indian here. What are egg cups and why not just put eggs in the freezer instead? Or get a tiny bowl?
it's a metric measure of volume.
I'm not joking lmao wtf is it
WHY DO YOU NEED A CUP AND SILVERWARE TO EAT IT JUST USE YOUR HANDS LMAO
Their soft boiled so the yellow center is runny. You add butter and dip your toast in it. It's pretty good I used to eat them as a child.
You don't peel your eggs....?
I'm not. I google images it and they're precious af tho
HEY INNES WHAT THE HELL IS AN EGG CUP?
Ryan, pls no
Bryan? Ryan? Wait
True story: I didn't know people kept shelled eggs on their plate for eating until I was in 18. Always had them cracked, or scrambled
Unshelled it's still like a squishy bowling ball in a skate park. I cut mine in half & cut little dimples on the back so they stay put
Only works for hard boiled though. If you like them messy a cup is best. My grandma had them, but I don't like them messy myself
What the fuck
Its like when I found out that they don't have sausage rolls, or meat pies. OR CHICKEN SALT
Oh shiiit, must be an Australian/New Zealand thing. Do yourself a favour and find some, maybe under the Aussie section at a supermarket?
It will change your life. Over here we get offended if we are given normal salt haha
Oh right! Sorry for the oversight! I didn't know that there was chicken free chicken salt - so that's cool, I can tell my vego friends
I'll have to give it a try and see if it's similar :3
Right, because this is America and we kinda do everything to food that is all sorts of amazing do we kind have evolved beyond such things as
meat pies and chicken salt.
*timidly raises hand* I have egg cups and a kettle.
But do you have egg coddlers?
Hold on. Coddlers?
Dab of butter, crack egg into it, put them in a pot of simmering water. Soft boiled, no annoying shell!
Wait, you cook them into ceramic shells again? Whatever for?
Soft boiled eggs are nummy. Grew up dipping buttered toast strips into them.
So you don't have to fw the shell when eating.
I like that part. It's easy. If it's even easier, I probably shouldn't know...
I'm all about simple & easy. Food. I'm talking food.
Sally, no... But when I'm in my own tiny house, I will. There will be chickens and lots of egg eating. And the eggs won't be refrigerated!
I miss eating truly fresh free-range eggs. (Pic is me accidentally locked myself in the chicken coop my 1st day at Sis's 😂
This whole thread is glorious.
lol dude egg cups are weird. Like why clutter up your cupboards with small pointless things??? Haha
Have you ever counted how many pointless kitchen gadget s you have? Cups are great if you eat soft boiled eggs. If not you don't need them.
Even though I'm from the U.S. and I do not own an egg cup myself, I can tell it holds them for eating, as I remember seeing from media.
What is the use of an egg cup? Serious question. My eggs are either in the package, it cracked in a frying pan...
Ohmygod this is properly shocking
I had an egg cup for years that I thought was a shot glass.
Are those the quaint little things the older ladies eat from at breakfast on Keeping Up Appearances?
Ha im German American raised in both places & i def used the egg cups lolllll
I had to send some to a friend who moved to the US. Unbelievable 🙄
Why on earth do you need cups for your eggs
Sorry we live in the real world and not scotland. Dont u got a princess to save from a dragon
Okay but wtf is an egg cup..?
A small container that a lightly boiled egg sits in. The top of the egg is taken off & the contents of the shell eaten with buttered toast.
(No comment)
I have to ask: how do you survive without a kettle? It is the most used piece of equipment in the kitchen here!
Idk man lmao
If we want a cup of tea, we use a Keurig. If we want a lot o tea, we use a coffee maker to make the hot water. Or just use a hot water tap
The hell we don't!
I mean, my mom does, at least. Maybe it's imported from Canada.
so, i broke up with someone because they got angry at me i didn't like tea made in the microwave
(slight misstatement, they were outright abusive across many fronts, but i like this juxtaposition)
oh fuck, DM me sometime and i'll tell you stories of the worst relationship i ever had
oh christ almighty
(when are you free?! i'll be at @nonbinarytech but coffee sooner would be ace)
WHO THE FUCK MAKES TEA IN A MICROWAVE. PROBABLY SOMEONE WHO SERVES THE TEA WITH THE BAG STILL IN IT. SAVAGES.
People who make tea in mugs perplex me.
Who in the hell makes radioactive tea?? Ew.
Alfie I have such bad news for you
it's fine, you're not an abusive piece of shit who [redacted bc lol not talking about that publicly]
But I also put milk on it
there is a time and place for milky tea, and that is where and when i am not
WHAT THE HELL? EGG CUPS ARE USELESS YET ESSENTIAL THOUGH
we have a water cooler that dispenses very hot water!
It also dispenses cold water! 'A water dispenser' is the accurate name
Funny we call them taps.
The tap doesn't dispense water hot enough for tea! The bottled water dispenser does!
You need to check your boiler!
The big government nanny state says I can't heat my tap water up to the boiling point at the tap! Something about "scalding burns". Bah!
My parents had to a replace a plastic kettle twice in their holiday home because americans kept trying to use it on the stove
what. we totally have kettles.
so, as far as i can tell, kettle-ownership is a regional thing?!?
We do have them, but they are usually a little slower since most people only have 120 volt outlets.
Until I moved out on my own I've never lived in a place without stove top kettles. We definitely have them.
Yeah, most people don't drink enough tea here to warrant electric that I've lived with but I've also lived with old people
Stovetop heats up faster than electric tho
My grandma used hers for instant coffee. My sis has a stovetop kettle bc electric doesn't heat the temp she wants for tea.
For the glory of science - whether it's a stove top, or 230V or 120V, water still boils at 100C.
used my electric this morning ❤ it. But I am the only non-coffee drinker I know. My Mom's doing ... or maybe I should start saying Mum.
I had an electric kettle but it leaked and I haven't found a replacement yet. (No I will not buy one sight-unseen off "teh interwebz" tyvm.)
have always wondered, are all kettles black?
This one is actually true we do have those at least but we usually have electric ones nowasay
ok the kettle thing is cause 110v kettles take like 10 minutes to boil
the rest is whack though
Wait, Watt?
(Seriously, though, voltage shouldn't matter, should it?)
idk my hair straightener wouldn't heat up even with an adapter, isn't that similar
I don't know? I'm sure no zapological scientist, but it makes no sense to me.
my knowledge of electricity mostly comes from "can i touch it without dying"
Yes. Most sockets are limited to 10-15A in a household, at 230V that's twice the power as a 110V device.
Higher current requires really thick wires or they become a fire hazard due to resistive heating. Even 13A is quite taxing.
Well, I'm now slightly less mad at whoever decided we should have a deadly voltage.
230V is rarely deadly anyway. I've shocked myself on it plenty of times, just gave me a dead arm for an hour. 400V+ is where it gets scary.
Once you hit industrial supplies / three phase lines, you're in the "oh there goes a good portion of my limb" territory.
Hmm, I might just take your word for that and continue not sticking forks into power sockets.
Protip: don't disassemble CRT screens or microwaves without unplugging and discharging them first.
Learned that the hard way (arrhythmia)
Is there a reason they've got the same amperage limits as us?
grandfathering; NA was one of the first places to have mains power and a lot of houses have VERY old wiring
example: a bunch of houses in San Francisco don't even have grounded plugs
They have even lower current limits than us in many cases due to old wiring codes and wooden housing.
i have a kettle!!! #notallamericans
AS SOMEONE WHO HAS USED EGG CUPS DAILY SINCE BEFORE THE AGE OF TWO I AM OUTRAGED!!!!
I can confirm you can buy a kettle tho - just far fewer variety and a lot of ppl I know *do not have them at all* it's so odd
Like for boiling water? We have those, albeit rarely.
(Ok so boring Mink is boring but I know why this is. USA electricity is so weak it takes as long a kettle as on the stove top)
I just discovered this thread. I... just... why don't they have egg cups? Do you just pour your egg on your toast? And no kettles!? Well...
I actually have an electric kettle at my place and it's life changing.
Ha. Thanks. Roommates family is also English.
I, erm, don't own a kettle (but I do have a coffee machine), i don't own an egg cup and I put eggs in the fridge.
Don't kill me please!
Eggs in fridge here too. But I have a kettle AND espresso machine so HAH KEEF HAH!
My ex-wife kept the kettle in the divorce.
No, really.
Monster.
I know, right!
I have an electric kettle and I use it at least twice a year.
Don't you use it for cooking even if you don't have tea?
Not really. I don't cook a wide variety of things though so I guess it hasn't really come up as an option?
my fav part is americans think kettles can only be used on stovetops.
"it takes so long to get water boiling on the stove" WHAT YEAR IS THIS MY ELECTRIC KETTLE HAS A TEMPERATURE CHOICE!!!
Electric kettles are AVAILABLE to any American near a Walmart (which is all), even if probably less than 50% of homes have one.
I'm not saying you're wrong, there's just potential for everyone here to catch up to modern times with a little education.
Yeah you can get the best ones from amazon without issue. Which confuses me even more that americans are so clueless about em.
I almost guarantee all the Americans saying "we have kettles!!" are talking stovetop kettles. Horrifying.
It’s the same in Canada. I’m in Toronto right now, I bought my own kettle, but IT WON’T FUCKING WORK! I’m having to PERCOLATE my Earl Grey.
Sweet Jesus. I am so sorry. That's treason in Britain.
Canada is a commonwealth nation FFS. NOTHING should get in the way of Earl Grey. Suddenly Trudeau is diminished in my eyes.
I bet they put milk in it too. Heathens.
Britons are advised to use milk in tea for health reasons. It does something to the tannic acid, I believe.
Not Earl Grey though. Lemon and if you NEED it sweeter, a drop of honey. I do put milk in my everyday tea.
Not treason, but definitely a heinous crime worthy of transportation.
I checked with @BelgianBoolean and he did indeed know what eggs cups were prior. V. glad I haven't been serving him puzzling breakfasts.
Some of us in the colonies know how to eat eggs
naw when i want my eggs to be served dippy in a ceramic cat, he gets me, man, he gets me.
naw, too busy breaking up over differences in cooking measurements
INNES IN CANADA AND THE US IT'S ALL CUPS
NO SCALES, NO GRAMS
CUPS
NO SCALES BECAUSE WE DECIDED IT'S 2017 AND NOT SOME VICTORIAN ERA NOVEL
SCALES ARE DIGITAL, BEN, THEY'RE DIGITAL
LIKE WHAT DRUG DEALERS USE
now you're speaking my language
This thread is a joy
Ya'll are witnesses to this breakup. Now me and Mr George Washington are gonna establish our independence and eat eggs off each other's abs.
Are you going to smoke crack together?
how do you think he got wooden teeth. smokin' crack i sold him
Your crack grows wooden teeth? That is particularly impressive.
OK I HAVE MADE A MISTAKE ABANDON THREAD
I always raise the bar in all conversations I get into
I think there's a standard but the actual amount of stuff in a cup varies depending on how loose you fill it. I made some v bad pancakes.
We're supposed to be using grams but I TOTALLY refuse to.
That's also true. I"m not even sure they sell "electric kettles" here.
Do they have bean warmers tho?
Uh oh...
Today is a rollercoaster.
beans on toast are common here but I’ve never seen one of these things here.
I wonder if it throws the beans up in the air like it does the toast? Done now! *Bean fling* CATCH THE BEANS. I'M FINE. It's ok.
Now that is a thing of beauty. Thanks @TefalUK. Next up: The Tea'n'Eggs-Benedict Made? Please?
o hell no those breakfast beans are disgusting u lost me their. We have delicious things like Grits.
I got you fam. ✌🏿 We probably drink tea 4-5 times a day. I hope we're not missing anything else though. :X
Yes...exactly 😓!
*Slowly creeps away before egg eating habits come up*
Ignoring the whole egg cup thing, Americans do have kettles. Why do so many people think we don't?
You blatantly don't
I'm an American and I have a kettle. My parents had a kettle growing up. Most people I know have kettles. They're like $15 at Walmart.
My entire "in case you missed it" section is your egg rant. Not even mad
Americans tend not to have electric kettles (or "tea-kettles" as they wrongly say) because with 110V electricity they heat water too slowly.
Wait wait wait! Seriously? :o :o :o :o :o :o
But... how...?
Innes, look... they have those cinnamon poptart things. Clearly they're not completely lost. They just need some guidance.
I was told US lacks electric kettles bc while UK & EU tends to be 250 volts (= fast boil) US electric is only 125 volts (lower = slower)?
What? Of course we have egg cups. Stop talking to red-state barbarians. We have elec kettles, too. No-one has years to boil a kettle dry.
Wait until you find out that they don't have beans on toast.
Please. Just don't look. It's too much to bear.
That’s amazing from a country obsessed with Mac ’n’ cheese.
They're eating Heinz beans to be fair. Which are shit. Also they should have Marmite on the toast.
And Henderson's Relish on top.
O_O that’s just evil.
I eat (HP) beans on Marmite on toast for my lunch pretty much every day.
There’s probably therapy that can help you with that ;)
That sounds delish! Will totally try that
Correction: Branston beans.
Oh yeah, they're nice. And they're on special offer half the time.
I DON'T NEED YOUR APPROVAL, AMERICA
Bloody hell. Did they throw the whole concept of a civilized breakfast into Boston Harbour?
I love this tweet. Well done.
Thank you.
Or salad cream.
The struggle is real.
Yeah, that's so weird
Wait til you see how hard it is to find toilet roll which isn't 1-Ply. 1-PLY!
What!??
Americans don't have kettles??? *reads thread* ok, still not *all* Americans have kettles!!???
They microwave a cup of water to make tea. It’s abhorrent and the tea is awful.
I'm American and I don't know a single person that does this.
How do you make tea?
Electric water boiler. We don't really call them kettles. :)
Are you sure about that? They’re called Kettles on Amazon. amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss…
Apparently people microwave their water too.. It's a big country
Yes, that’s why I said people in America, the ones without kettles, microwave their water for tea. Glad you finally agree. :)
I never disagreed. Just said I've never seen anyone do it. Just use a pot...
We have kettles. We even have things that are like kettles; we call them coffee pots, but they make tea just fine.
And I'm pretty sure I have an actual iron kettle lying around here somewhere...
as Michael Bywater once wrote "America has stupidly high pressure water & stupidly low voltage electricity. (cont)
If you don't drown filling the kettle you die of old age waiting for it to boil"
I have a thread a while back about how my wife keeps "boiling" water in the microwave when MY KETTLE IS RIGHT THERE.
She once made a bunch of single serve fruit jelly in prep for a surgery and hotted the water IN MICROWAVE.
She asked me first how long I thought she should do for boil and I simply gestured wildly at my 2LTR ELECTRIC KETTLE.
She sighed at me and used the microwave anyhow. I made tea twice whilst she did so, just to be a jerk. Because GODDAMN KETTLE IS RIGHT HERE!
You've probably been told this a billion times now, but US electricity is half strength, so electric kettles boil slowly, so less useful.
you are gonna be livid when you find out it's cos they have pathetic electricity + plugs that literally flop out of their sockets at random.
one of the big London holiday let companies says it has a common problem with US tourists putting plastic plug-in kettles on the hob
The kettles point is easy: their domestic electricity runs on 110v not 240v like Europe. Kettles on stoves are more efficient in USA.
Hot tea isn't much of a thing here (I drink it & use a french press for coffee, so I do have an electric kettle)...
How the heck do they make pot noodles?!?
uh in a pot on the stove
You know what a pot noodle is right?
probably not honestly
You're just meant to add boiled water and it's done, meant to be quick + easy don't know if you get them in America which is another crime 😆
i don’t think we do have them here and if we did we would make those in a pot on the stove
...but here in the Southern US people do drink a ton of tea but we drink it iced so a kettle/pot is easier cause we make it by the pitcher
(So we have two kettles, one for iced tea, one for hot)
I have a kettle and an egg cup, but the egg cup is from a Titanic museum so I have probably made this situation infinitely worse.
I just throw the cup in the microwave like a heathen
this house has a kettle (it's black and whistles loud as hell) but no egg cups. we soft boil though; we're West Indians living in America.
They also don't have fortnight as a word
Shut up man?! What do they call two weeks then? 😳😳
Not only do we have kettles we also know to only brew tea in China Tea pots sent to us from England. ( As per Princess Anne)
Why do we need kettles when we have instant hot water?
I am American. I have an electric kettle and egg cups and soft boil my eggs so I hope I have restored your faith in humanity a little.
um my family has a kettle??
Just spent 10 days in Florida and hotel did not have kettle on the whole property! I was also shocked. And no vinegar for fries! #wtf
Because we don't live in the 1700's
who the hell said we don't have kettles? (No one but old grannies have egg cups, tho. If they even still have them/)
What do you mean no kettles?
Not true! But we call them teakettles ☺️
I have a kettle, too, and use it for my coffee instead of a machine😊
We actually do have kettles and use them more often than egg cups. It's not uncommon to see one, I think electric ones are more common tho
Like, we have electric kettles lmao. I plan on buying my own soon, tbh. Eggs, can't stomach them, so would this way be better?
In Canada we have actual, stove top kettles and only old ppl eat soft boiled eggs. Fries eggs 4 life son ✊🏻
WHAT??? HOW DO THEY NOT HAVE KETTLES??? HOW DO THEY BOIL WATER?????
I have a kettle. I use it for hot drinks & other stuff.
My ex who was American tried to make tea in the microwave,I was like what the hell are you doing?I had to TEACH him how to make tea. Wtf
You're hilarious. ......
From an American this is Hilarious! 😂😂 i like my eggs Scrambled w/ lots of cheese 😍
Whoever told you that we don’t have kettles in America is lying. Not sure where you lot are getting your info from????
The kettle thing is because they have bullshit voltage in their houses. Pity them and their inferior plugs too
Who needs kettles, we are coffee drinkers
Considering myself lucky to have been raised by a British/Irish Grandmother. Egg cups & kettles for life!! 😁
It's fucked up is what it is!!!
a growing number of us have electric kettles and even bidets! 👌
We have those too, I bought my latest at Target.
Hahahaha. I have a kettle, but it's absolutely true that most of us don't.
Calm down; remember, the Yanks threw all their tea into Boston harbour.
other americans don't have kettles? TF is wrong with us?
Dude it's 2017,we aren't using kettles anymore? Lmao they use* to exist here a long time ago when ur grandma was growing up.
But I think kettles are used in old rich white womens houses!
They don't have a high enough voltage to make electric kettles a practical way to boil water. That is the reason.
we have kettles also. I have 2 of them. most people just use the microwave it's faster, easier and uses less energy.
I'll take my food tips from literally anyone else than someone that lives in the uk lmao. Your food is literal trash
I'm American and have both a kettle AND egg cups. But my grandda was Scottish so maybe I don't count.
It's ok. We just heat up the water in the ol microwave. Presto!
I have a kettle but what the hell is an egg cup?
I have a kettle AND a tea cabinet. Not the typical American perhaps :p
What the hell??? No kettles????
Terrible American here. I have an electric kettle, but it's in storage. I use my Keurig machine (sans k-cup) to heat up water.
Also, WHO DOESN'T OWN A KETTLE?
You have been misinformed on both counts.
how do you eat a boiled egg without a bloody egg cup
no dippy egg and soldiers? Wtf is wrong with you america
this is true. i was only taught how to make them by a british emigre couple and have to improvise egg cups (shot glasses work ok)
also don't fucking melt kettles
I'd rather be the voice of raisins but I'll take it
im British and have never done this so...
They are getting hard to find in Canada now too. Last set I had to get at IKEA.
WHAT INSANE KIND OF PEOPLE DONT DO SOFT BOILED EGGS???
with your hands (Like savages)
Egg whats?
I had to search to see what an egg cup is. Have never seen one before.
Usually in a regular bowl!
It's a bit tricky to eat, yeah. Wonder why cups aren't common here because they actually do look useful.
Going out on a limb here but I'm guessing our problems didn't originate from mishandling food.
This whole thread has made me laugh out loud.
Can't believe egg cups aren't everywhere 😂😂😂
Don't forget the travesty they call cheese *shudders*
Or what they dare call "beer"....
Or bread; or chocolate; or bacon...
This brought to you by the people who don't like peanut butter...haven't ever had a proper avocado...let's not even talk about your "coffee"
Oh dear! You are not ready to find out about the origin of "Caffee Americano". Your dissing of espresso is all we need to know. Disqualified
*Caffè Americano
*record scratch* HAAAAAAANG ON A MINUTE. Not all American beer is macrobrew lager swill.
And I'm pretty sure there are some Americans who managed to find exotic egg cup shops. 😉
I was at breakfast with an American once and I pointed at this bowl of white stuff and said 'what's that ?' 'Butter' was the confused reply
what the fuck are powdered eggs
mother of god, what fresh hell
FFS don't tell him about Eggo (not actually egg at all)
What is a powdered egg? I'm an American but have never heard of this phenomenon
Ew. I hate those weird "add water" things. Doesn't seem like real food
Powdered eggs? Are they still on post war rations?
What manner of shitshow uni serves powedered eggs?
I once watched an Englishman eat cold hash out of a can.
Every single American problem comes down to some of you opening presents on Christmas Eve. I'm deadly serious.
You'd think lads who love an oul bit of warmongering like the Americans do would be all for boiled egg n soldiers.
We got that from the Germans.
Let's not rule it out entirely though.
YOU LITERALLY DUMPED CRATES OF TEA INTO BOSTON HARBOUR
Sorry for all caps but this egg thing has me really rattled
You make a good point there.
Don't be so sure. Really.
Asking Americans if they never have had soldiers is a wee ironic, through. 😉
Yes. Photo evidence. These are just two of a huge collection plus cute antique ones. Check EBay & William Sonoma. We use Soldiers too.
OMG! Hilarious
your people invented a breakfast burger cooker, so like you skipped inventing the wheel & went straight to the truck
Hamilton Beach 25475A Breakfast Sandwich Maker
Electric Sandwich Makers: Kitchen & Dining
amazon.com
DUDE Look in William Sonoma. They are commonly sold here.
Y'ALL
WE HAVE THESE THINGS HONESTLY
amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no…
Like a barbarian..???
Judging from this tread and replies that seems to be the case.
I can't wrap my head around this. One guy said he eats eggs with his hands?? tf are you doing america
To be fair soft boiled eggs aren't very popular here, as far as I know. Eggs over easy in a frying pan much more so.
Eating with hands sounds like hard boiled eggs.
I don't understand why not. I just don't.
Soft boiled + salt + bread > anything else
That's fair. I also like them that way, it's just not common here.
WHAT IS WRONG WITH YOU
Many things, apparently.
This is very hard to believe.
I like mine impaled on a stick like a corn dog
Book sliders is a typo obvs but I like it so it's staying.
Yeah
More book sliders in games
HOW DO THEY EAT BOILED EGGS? DO THEY KNOW THAT YOU CAN BOIL AN EGG?
With... our hands?
but then you'll get eggy hands...
Ain't no other way my guy, I in fact lick it off afterwards like a toddler eating spaghetti and I revel in that fact like a barbarian prince
Ah, now it makes a lot more sense..!
See I just don't want to support imperialism with my breakfast, that's more of a lunch or dinner affair. /joke
Gov't told us to hard boil many years ago because of salmonella risk(seriously).
Well, yeah. I mean, when we do softies it tends to be more of a you eat it on the plate and cut it like sunny side up. Hard boiled? Hands.
wait, they don't? Thats on another level of WRONG.
Disclaimer: 'Wrong' in the 'thats messed up' sense and not in the 'your facts are incorrect' tone. :D
My family had them growing up!! We loved doing that biz with soft-boiled eggs
Last time I ate from an egg cup, I don't think computers even existed yet.
1822? Blimey, you're looking good.
What? How? What? How do they eat their soft boiled eggs?
At least 1 for eveybody in the house
And who lets a nurgling anywhere near food anyway
If this thread is anything to go by - as many as you can stockpile! If Amazon go out of business - no more egg cups!
Just asked @garber_andrew and he says he 'wouldn't know what to do if he was given one'?!?!?!
it would be like that bit in Temple of Doom with the Chilled Monkey Brains
What kind of person peels and bites into a boiled egg? Is it not too hot? Do you eat all your eggs cold? I'm having a panic at the thought
My gf found it very odd when she found me using a shot glass for my chucky eggs
whaaaaat? *looks around* things I did not know were missing from this culture
(aussie/USian recently moved back to US)
There were egg cups in this Australian's household growing up.
We most definitely had them in Australia, I just hadn't noticed the lack of them in the US yet
super strange o_0
You can't unsee it now.
The absence of egg cups will forever hunt me
But hey niche market! >_> Maybe I should import them
That, and Vegemite.
i never knew what an egg cup was. I thought it was a cup and i use to do shots out of them 😂😂😂 i thought what a weird cup?
Soft-boiled eggs aren't really part of the American egg vocabulary. Breakfast eggs here are typically fried, scrambled, or in omelette form.
(I only recently learned how to soft-boil an egg because they're amazing in ramen, never had a use for them before that.)
Americans stopped eating tinned baked beans because we got off wartime rationing a decade or so sooner than the UK.
Who said anything about breakfast? A nice egg and soldiers is an ideal Sunday supper.
Gross lol
It's true
my folks have egg cups but i don't really know where to buy them for myself..
.......how to they eat soft boiled eggs then?
Really? Huh. That's odd. So just scrambled for breakfast then, I guess? I mean that's how I like my eggs but I know there's other options.
No, plenty of egg options: sunny side up, over easy/medium/hard, poached, omelet, hard boiled, and of course, scrambled
that one is probably for the best. We all know what some idiot would end up doing with that.
BECAUSE THEY'RE GROSS
My ghast is flabbered.
Let me join with the emotion: #MyGhastIsFlabbered
it makes us stronger and wiser, for when the real hardships come
#MyGhastisFlabbered has to be the best hashtag ever.
I KNOW I ASKED @ghostsampler AND I HONESTLY SUSPECT THE WHOLE NATION MAY BE BEYOND FUCKED
The only eggs we commonly eat are hardboiled & sliced (like on a salad) or scrambled/omelets. Poached eggs are common for eggs benedict tho
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
Dude I gotta know what you thought they were for
Seconded. 😐
Thirdededed
Odd British shot glasses?
fourthded
If I may interject - we used Turkish coffee cups for egg cups in our Libyan American home. That's all I have to say.
Americans order fried eggs over easy when they want to dip bread in runny yolk. Sad!
From a physics pov I believe the US runs at 120v rather than 240v in the UK making classic plug in kettles less useful
Yup, I have to take a dual voltage kettle with me to the US to make tea, because tea isn't a cup of warm water with a 'tea' bag beside it
I have no idea what tea is then.
Yeah same. What do you mean... the tea goes IN the water????
😱Water on the tea,preferably in a Tea pot? I need a lie down🤦🏻♀️
Haha I was kidding :)
Don't do that to me, naughty 😈
So, you poor the hot water over loose tea leaves? I thought you used tea bags...
Maybe that is what the strainer is for. Pour out the water with the leaves and strain them?
Yes,depends how you like it & the Tea
There is a tea where a flower unfurls when you add the hot water.Not tried it yet looks pretty .
Looks like I need a carbon water filter. Thanks for the info. Now I know and Knowing is half the battle!
Is the tea in a bag or what? Being from Boston, MA, i have a lot if interest in this matter.
Ok Tea party 😂please we take it seriously over here 😉
Mines both 😉
Me neither
hf don't get my (English) mother started on that one. Same conversation w/ the waitress EVERY gd time we go to a restaurant.
I live in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA and have had an electric kettle for years. 🤔
While our voltage is lower, we do have electric kettles and they do function just fine. Readily available in target, Walmart, etc.
Fair enough I stand corrected
Because world must burn + submit to North America.
I only use mine to cover hot coils after I'm done cooking hahaha
I have no idea. We've had electric kettles in Canada for years. Get thee to Canadian Tire immediately.
Well, it depends on how you define ages. I just tested the one in the kitchen at work, and it was 3.5 minutes to boil 750ml of water.
I'm sorry to hear that. Canadian Tire or Wal-Mart are your best bets.
No matter what, that's far faster (and more energy efficient) than the stove-top ones.
I have an electric kettle (for hotel stays), just checked. The electric kettle was maybe a second faster than the (standard gas) stovetop.
Not enough faster to excuse away the extra counter space it takes up.
It's been vaguely in my mind to do that for literally years, I had the suitcase where it lives out anyway :)
See, we always just kept the kettle on the stove top anyway, plugged into the stove outlet.
Depends on the stove. Most modern ones don't have that
It's handy for either a kettle or electric frying pan.
I love that the kettle convo continues unabated hours later. #TeaLife
Oh there'll be more, believe me. I started following you because of this and I'm probably not the only one.
I wonder if the Americans have had the pleasure of toasted and buttered bread soldiers dipping into a runny boiled egg... Maybe too porno.
Toast & egg, sometimes dipped, but it wouldn't be called "soldiers." I kinda hate eggs, so I'm not a good source on this.
Their loss. That's what got me through having my wisdom teeth out. Though I do like the egg smushed up in a glass, too.
What about boiling eggs in a kettle? Has that come up yet?
That's just silly. The spout's too small.
If people insist on making tea in the microwave, it seems reasonable to use the kettle for something else, no?
Yeah that's totally absurd. Can't make tea in a microwave...
I don't know any more. I'm just confused about the lack of egg cup awareness.
HOW IS THAT POSSIBLE???
Has she really been "living" tho. No.
I once hard-boiled some eggs for 9 hours with some onion skins. I think my recipe book was trolling me. They tasted like normal eggs.
But were they pretty?
They were pretty brown.
Hey, topical! I sometimes throw some spent tea leaves in when hard-boiling a bunch of eggs for later so I can tell which are cooked.
No, my mom had one. Refused to make fried chicken without it.
Holds the oil at temperature, doesn't require such close attention. Which,I guess if you've got kids or irrational fear of a kitchen fire...
Looks like this. It's deep enough for frying chicken, but also good for scrambled eggs, bacon, etc. Has a lid for slow cooking.
We got an electric hot dog maker as a gift when I was a kid. Dad threw it away bc electrified heated skewers were too dangerous.
Hold up. What the very devil is an "electric frying pan"?!
But.. but...you could just use a frying pan. On a hob. Why would you need such a thing unless you didn't have an oven?
I think my mother got it as a gift & used it when she didn't want to heat up the whole house with the oven.
Pretty much sounds like my mom. It was great for all those classic old foods like Beef Stroganoff. Fry and then simmer in one pan.
That's the other thing she used it for! I bet the recipe was either in the booklet or some kitchen magazine.
Probably! Also, I think it's more energy efficient than using the burner on the stove, to answer Matt's question. Don't quote me on that tho
It's also bigger than regular frying pans.
But there's a whole lot of USAian consumerist/material culture that pretty much boils down to "it exists so I must have it."
You're not wrong. I just use my calphalon nonstick for pretty much everything
Yeh, I confess to not understanding that one at all.As the old saying goes "2 great countries separated only by our egg-cups, kettle & pans"
We actually did have (& use) egg cups when I was a kid. Dunno if Mom still uses them.
I've never heard "what the very devil" before. That's amazing
But the newer ones don't have them as much.
Well to be fair, everything's faster with gas cooking. Fire is as hot as it's gonna get where electric coils take time to reach desired temp
I stayed at an Airbnb in Boston that had this scary looking contraption as a kettle. Only electric one I saw in 3 months in US
Electric kettles don't get to the best temperature for tea. Stove boiled kettles do. It needs to be poured over slowly, straight from the ..
boil. Of course you have to warm the pot beforehand. And then you leave it for 5 minutes. The smoke from a kettle heated on the fire...
that just adds to the flavour. Enjoy with a scone or one of my delicious date and walnut tea loaves, only £17.99 from B&Q.
Actually I'm not selling it anywhere before anyone tries - I will be happy to share the recipe if anyone is interested.
Although you will get blisters from cutting dates, unless you're 3rd dan in food processor-fu. Dates and walnuts should be chunky.
There are no hard boiled eggs involved but there may be kettle actions 😜
Canadian here, who cherishes her electric kettle above all other appliances. Can confirm. Available at every major dept/hardware store.
Why is it clear!?!?!
I had that same kettle! Beware, the handle can detach spontaneously while pouring boiling water.
I have a Keurig. We don't have much space so we use that for coffee, tea, instant potatoes, instant soups, etc.
Voltage doesn't affect the speed at which you can boil water. More to do with amperage and wattage.
Technically we still have 240v outlets, we just reserve them for appliances :D
You mean DELICIOUS
Hey now, sunny side eggs broken up over French toast and smothered in maple syrup is amazing. Esp with good bacon.
Im pretty sure fried eggs over easy is "fried eggs over light". Ive never heard that term, but easy is the lightest fry you can do
Very interesting. To me, if any part of over easy yolk is solid, they're doing it wrong.
Order them sunny side up in the South & the yolk should be completely runny.
Sunny side up just means they don't get flipped. Over easy should have a runny yolk as well
In the states, at least, over easy is the lightest way to have eggs cooked when they're flipped.
Don't need a special cup! If you're gonna use bread the mop up the yoke, then let it spill into the grits! Damned good eating!
But that assumes I'd eat grits. Blegh :P Oatmeal > Grits
You itching for a religious debate?! 😜
Let's do it! Grits are breakfast sand
LOL Oatmeal is mushy, grits rock!
They are only sand if you don't cook them right.
Hahaha. You just need to cook them for the right amount of time and add butter. Come over. I'll make you some. Convert you.
I remain doubtful! A lot of my friends and my parents love grits and I just can't do it. Oatmeal for life.
Oh yea, eggs over easy and grits. The best!
It's definitely bad when this tweet could easily have come from the POTUS' twitter account.
Or poached! MAKE EGGS GREAT AGAIN!
I prefer my eggs sunny side up, although soft boiled is great with salt & pepper & broken-up toast--in a bowl, not a cup.
Please tell me how overeasy egg fried in olive oil and butter with grilled sourdough to dip in yolk is sad. But bland ass soft egg cup good🙄
Goddamn that sounds amazing right now
What the fuck are any of you talking about?
I don't understand what that phrase. Do you mean runny/soft yolk egg? :)
I just ate this
Nothing sad about eggs over easy.
U called yourself a American then called Americans sad. We dont want u, ur shitty eggs, or bullshit egg cups here. Liberal scavenger
What??? Take this shit elsewhere. This is about food.
Justin eat the dick that made u... im speaking to the jihad wearing POS. Who calls herself a American then talks shit about Americans
Wearing a jihad? How does one wear a holy war?
Lmao holy war??
That's what jihad means.....
No... no it dont.
Uh... Hahaha yes it does. What did you think it means?
What u got limited data on ur phone?? I hate your type... know everything yet they broke af... step ur data plan up justin
What in the hell are you talking about?
Im saying stop desperately trying to be a smart ass and google it. Apply to my statement and realize... ur just a stubby liberal dick.
LOLOLOLOL! What a fool! He wouldn't know a holy war if it hit his momma in the stomach on the way out the womb.
Typical Patriots fan. Probably orders Tommy's semen by the gallon and uses it to gel his hair.
Bahahahaha accurate
Ur creativity is unrivaled. What u copy and pasted someone's gif.... and u dont have 200 followers who the fuck u talkin to?? Lmao VA 🤡
Obviously we eat our delicious eggs barehanded. Like Patriots.
BUT WHY WOULD WE WANT TO DIP BREAD IN A YOLK!?!? THATS FRICKEN WEIRD!!!
No it's literally amazing. I have over easy eggs on bagel sandwiches and mop the drippings with the last few bites.
I have never even thought an egg could be used this way. I will remain skeptical until I can try this for myself
And it's sooooooo good. Especially if made on a flattop grill. Lol
OR, like my grandma used to make them. Fried in bacon grease in a cast iron pan. Yum.
We LIKE hard-boiled eggs. We eat the cooked-eggs whites as a source of high-protein. Delicious cold, too..!! Don't judge. You don't like it.
Don't forget deviled eggs!! Oh god do that even know what deviled eggs are? UK people, please report
If that's "sad" for you get the fuck out of the country you don't love, bitch.
Dude really? Why is that necessary?
Fried eggs are delicious and do not require one to tear/scrunch bread tiny to get at the yolk. ❤️🍳
American who lives in the UK. Over easy is lazy soft boiled eggs. No extra cup that I use once every six months needed.
1) Dippy eggs (the better name for "over easy") are amazing.
2) My Hungarian brother in law uses shot glasses as egg cups
Can't put a soft boiled egg in a breakfast sandwich. Perfectly fried, on toast, with ham or bacon, add cheese. Yum!
True story
This fun lighthearted exchange about the egg consumption differences between Americans & Brits has resulted in inexplicable Trumpkin rage.
Those Soros eggs are a little too left for some people’s tastes!
Are you saying you don't like a runny yolk....?
Oh that's the only way I enjoy them. :)
Ok that's the correct answer
You get let's of people triggered..it is amusing.😄
I think they're especially tense because Don Jr stepped in it by admitting they lied about contact with Russians during the campaign. Bless.
I think they're still upset that Twitter got rid of their beloved egg icon. Any mention sends them into paroxysms of rage.
Don Jr eats egg white omelets with turkey.
Cant imagine the dms u get. 😁
You could say they have egg on their face! :o)
Foghorn
*bows* :o)
I couldn't find egg cups in my sister-in-law's kitchen yesterday, so I used FC Barcelona shot glasses. Gooooooaalllll!
Maybe they could do a Colorado Cofefe. Anyway...
dope.
I tried it, obviously, was tasty. Also liked that @moosecoffee donate money to very worthy causes from that dish!
That is a brilliant menu
Donnie Jr likes runny scrambled eggs. Tell them.
Wow, so many have lost their sense of humor nowadays. I thought it was funny. 😂
But eggs on burgers are cool, right?
Noooooooooo
But it's practically an egg cup only it's made of meat, is flat, and can't really hold an egg. Other than that it's the exact same thing
and do I need to point vessel in which the egg is residing ;-)
Bullcrap. Your just pissed cause he stands against Islam
See, this is why we can't have nice things...
Holy crap! 😲
For the record, I'm a big over easy fan.
Ughhhhh. Sorry you have to deal with that crap.
lol it's all good.
On the other hand, a little disappointed you didn't comment about how quickly that egg-scalated (I know; but at least I own egg cups).
Would eggs-gay-lated be a step too far?
So stupid! I hope they have headaches from this ignorance
What a time to be alive!
Do you throw gays off buildings before or after you order your eggs though?
But what is your opinion on the "fried slice," and how un-American is it?
They'll rage at anything. Pretty pathetic. Also you're right about the fried eggs!
Heaven help us.
Personally, I like an egg cup.
Is it the heat, the humidity, the stupidity, or the hate that motors this ...
It can't be the heat or humidity, those are just conspiracies made up by China. You're comfortable and not sweaty at all. :)
When you only have one emotion...
So ... things that aren't jokes (attacking reporters) are treated as funny, while lighthearted things (runny eggs) are grievous insults.
You sure know how to push their buttons! Clearly, tons of them hate-follow you just for the opportunity to bitch at your cleverest tweets!
Ok so who is working on a Twitter alternative that isn't vile, abusive and soul destroying at its core? Anyone? Hello? Bueller?
These kids need a hobby.
Good grief! Ridiculous. Very sad
literally this is why we can't have nice things.
Bot-inskis, perhaps? An egg ticks them off? Momma's calling the kid up from the basement for lunch... fried egg sando, if karma rules. ;-)
Some people are incapable of joking.
I think the second guy got confused about the egg drop projects we did in middle school.
Trump supporters can literally take anything as an offence, especially when a woman or minority says it.
One has to remember a simple maxim. All America or Americans do is good and right. Everyone else is wrong and need reeducated
Sounds like a Russian bot to me. Or the right is getting more unhinged as Trump unravels.
runny yolk is boss level stuff, though...
Runny yolk is the only yolk worth consuming.
plotting a heist to steal an ostrich egg for massive yolk consumption.
You can have all of the runny yolk. I was very unmpressed when I finally tried it. Of course I'll have yolk in lemon curd instead ;).
see, that's something i haven't had.
now i'm curious.
Which came first, the demented trumpians or the egg?
You and your filthy liberal egg cups, how very dare you x
There's almost literally nothing that doesn't offend them.
This is literal insanity. We're talking about egg cups and this is what people respond with? Lord have mercy.
It's amazing how many trumpkins suddenly discovered deep love 4 the LGBTQ community & women's rights--smtg makes me doubt their sincerity...
And you didn't even have to mention "sharia" or "jihad"!
I wish we could always talk breakfast even if gets war like and political. Eggs are breakfast, no? We should talk coffee and see whogets mad
That is - bonkers. Wow.
Oof! (or should I say "oeuf"!)
well at least dude is brave enough to have a ball sac as his avi. oh .. is that not a ball sac?
Humorless, defensive, self-righteous, shrill. I am old enough to remember when guys like him thought feminists behaved like this.
This constant bullshit affects you whether you want it too or not. I had two new Muslim students and the IDIOTIC intrusive thoughts I had :(
and studying psychology and knowing why it happens does not make me any less disgusted with myself
I'd throw runny eggs off the highest point. Come at me, Trumpkins!
Goodness, that escalated quickly, didn't it?
I love how right-wingers are suddenly so concerned for the plight of gay people when they're bashing Muslims. Taking their jobs?
I guess he was thinking about Humpty Dumpty!
🍳
yolk's on him
TIL that Russian eggs are fairly hard boiled and also don't have cups.
Russian Eggs
Not the kind you get in help-yourself salad bars and cafes - this is the real thing. Eggs, boiled - not hard, but with a bit of squidge at the centre - anointed with a shimmering, golden emulsion laced with a little garlic. I have to admit, this is probably my most favourite starter, I like to serve it with sliced cornichons or pickled cucmbers, tiny black Provencal olives and anchovies. You can watch how to make Homemade Mayonnaise in our Cookery School video lesson - 'Separate Ways with Eggs Part 1' below.
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Was eating quails eggs with champagne in Ukraine 2 weeks ago
[sighs]
Egg preferences are literally what the Lilliputians went to war about.
I feel like he jumped in too early. I saw nothing about deviled eggs and the pickle relish/no pickle relish war that tears families apart.
How could you defile delicious simplicity of mayo/mustard/egg ONLY deviled eggs! OH THE HUMANITY! #TeamMaybeASprinkleOfPaprikaDeviledEggs
Whatttt the hell? I have seen ppl post that crazypepe ppl are out in force today, though..
Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'll have you know my overeasy eggs come out quite yolky, miss. Quite yolky indeed.
Actually Americans have the cutest egg holders, but they are not aware of the asset, and use them for Easter only.
We like to eat the entire egg on a plate & dip our bread in the yolk...No wasting good egg-white protein...What's the difference...??🍳 Snob.
Canadian here. 1 - OF COURSE electric kettles! 2 - Poach or soft cook eggs for runny yolks and joy 3 - Shakshouka with runny yolks = life
What's so sad about that?
Hang on one second, over easy eggs are DELICIOUS. Especially on toast with cheese and bacon.
Saute garlic, rosemary, and a bit of finely chopped onion in butter, salt, pepper. Add eggs, cook to just past over easy. Get back to me.
Omg done
Shot glasses are also ok, at a pinch, if your shots are large and your eggs are medium. I searched for egg cups for 10 years in the USA.
I had egg cups growing up here in the US. But maybe that's because my mom was born & raised in Germany & she brought them over from there
No. We don't do that either. You crack the egg when its raw. Throw it in a pan and it cooks in like... I dunno... 20 seconds? Then eat it.
shot glasses from the night before 👀
No pepper?! Savage! 😀
Americans aren't big on soft boiled eggs. An we don't really drink tea, so we don't have kettles or tea at home, an get our coffee elsewhere
just cultural preferences.
Speak for yourself.
what the fuck is an egg cup
Egg cups here in my home, Miami, FL US.^^
10/10 best twitter thread.
I peel it & eat it in two bites. Zero rolling and zero plate (cup 😂) involved.
Lmao egg cups tf, UK people think they're royalty
I mean technically some of them are
I thought only the queen and the family
Will buy an egg cup immediately. Growing up in an Asian American home, we usually had sunny side up or over easy eggs with our food.
Ate a hard boiled egg out of a ziploc bag for breakfast this morning. The thought of uncooked yolks makes me want to vomit.
That is the worst. This American house does have egg cups and occasionally uses them for soft boiled eggs & toast.
do you have little soldiers made out of toast to dip in the egg?...#NewZealand does soldiers & egg cups, no plate rolling eggs 'round here 🥚
This international perspective on egg cups has been truly eye opening honestly.
Clear proof again that Islam brings civilisation cf Arabic numerals, astronomy, chess, universities, vaccines etc
I believe Williams Sonoma stocks egg cups, for the desperate and wealthy (Aussie ex-expat here).
That's so sad. Here's my egg cup collection. I live on my own so they are all mine and I choose which to use.
I use sake cups-- they work well. 👍✌️
Do you need some egg cups sent over?
Clearly you're from a country with a civilised approach to food.
Perfect solution! Yet more proof of the ingenuity of immigrants! 😉👍🏼😀
Eggs who cares.
I'm sure we had egg cups in Canada when I was a kid. And we definitely have electric kettles. So how have the americans missed these things?
So you've never experienced dippy egg and toasted soldiers? Ye gads!
Two words:
Fried eggs.
ok remain calm I have both an electric kettle and a set of egg cups and I have occasionally soft boiled eggs
Sliced. HE SAID SLICED!
What about fried
Fried beans??? For breakfast???? We have beans with mexican food and like... stew. Oh and we have "baked beans" with bacon and stuff w/ bbq
Eggs...
OH SORRY I responded to 2 parts of this convo at the same time and got mixed up. Yeah we have fried eggs, I usually make a sandwich w/ them
For a min I thought ppl outside the South didn't fry eggs and I was confused haha
I'm so confused haha
Huevos Rancheros (black beans with sunnyside up eggs on top) pleeeasse and yum, one of my favorite breakfasts
I love huevos rancheros so much
can I also say that scrambled eggs over here = basically an omelette. Fluffy they are not.
(Me: Welsh Woman in US Constantly Shocked at Lack of Tea.)
That might be fair but it also depends on how you make them. I'm sure some people end up with fluffy instead of solid.
I'm talking in cafes/diners etc. Maybe I've been frequenting the wrong places ;)
Could be! My experience with food places and eggs is usually subpar (I live in Va) but I also prefer them fully cooked and not mushy masses
If I may interject- a bit of evaporated milk and thorough whisking makes the best, super fluffy, scrambled eggs.😉
Gotta cook those babies at home if you want 'em done right !
Please tell me you put salt and pepper in them though
We commonly eat all types of eggs except soft boiled.
Does this mean you don't even know about coddling eggs? 😱
Thats disgusting. Only eggs i eat (if i ever eat) is are sunny side rgg
Don't forget sunnyside up and over easy (2 of my faves)! Take heart, I've recently mastered soft-boiling eggs for my ramen nights.
And fried. We eat more fried than any other way. So many that we have varieties of ways to fry them.
I asked for poached eggs on a benedict in the states, was asked 'what's that?' I said broken into water' they said 'weird' and gave me fried
UMM boycott whatever that was. Good lord
For info it was the Bob Evans restaurant near Opryland in Nashville TN...
Also you shouldn't have to specify poached eggs for eggs bennie, it's the standard way to make the dish
Hell yes! I wondered if it was the waitress being daft at first and the chef would sort it but nope, greasy fried egg on eggs benny eugh!
I remember egg cups, toast strips, etc as kid. Must have been a vast conspiracy mid-70s to strip the US of yummy soft-boiled eggs. Also:
Americans may know them as Hot Pots i.e. what you used to boil water for ramen in college 🍲
I grew up in New York with special double sided egg cups that were glass. Loved soft boiled eggs-Haven't had one since Kennedy was president
Trump wasn't a big enough clue.
With all due respect, we've got bigger problems than egg cups and kettles to deal with right now
...to be fair, moth dad, it doesn't take Egg Cup Gate to know we're fucked to infinity and beyond.
OMG ! YES!!! PREACH IT!! WE ARE FUCKED EVEN WITH NO EGG CUPS!!! WE WERE DOING GOOD UNTIL 45 TOOK OVER AND STARTED TAKING US DOWN.
Eh, I mean, we weren't doing that great before that either :P.
Between this and Trump they are screwed. This is how the terrorists win. #eggcupsforamerica
I think egg cups are super cute, but I've only seen them in British period dramas. Didn't know ppl still used them. Kind of want one.
It is a delicacy that has been lost. My great grandmother had them. I don't know where they are now. They were painted like tea cups.
Mister Mitchel is a mole planted to mislead.
Do egg coddlers count? Lol
this is like when I found out that 'quite' means 'very' over there.
Any other meaning just makes it sound like you're using English as a foreign language ;)
Yes, what else COULD it mean?
In the UK it means "fairly" so if you ask for something quite well cooked, you'd expect it to be medium-well done
Good grief, I'd never noticed.
This is my first time realising it doesn't mean "fairly" everywhere else so we're in the same boat!
Yeah but I've lived in the UK 11 years now and now I'm trying to work out what I may have parsed as ironic understatement was more literal…
I love it when people realise this because they then have to re-evaluate every trans-atlantic conversation they've ever had.
The worst bit is I seem to have gone from "Are you Canadian?" to "America? Huh, I guess I can hear that, yeah!"
People will just think I'm dense, is all!
I learned the word "thong" (leather strip) from Robinson Crusoe a few years before the thong bikini made it a term for underwear in the US.
I used to get eyerolls from people who thought I was making it up until I showed them a dictionary.
Currently having a good chuckle to myself imagining american folk telling their Brit friends that their baby is "quite cute" etc.!
Those brits probably replying: that's nice, thank you aka 😡😡😡 wtf my baby is super cute!
See, I feel like in tone that makes more sense. In conclusion, language is a land of contrasts and children are our future.
Wait what does it mean in Britain??
'slightly', 'fairly' or 'kinda'.
Huh! Seems we've kept the original meaning while you have watered it down. etymonline.com/index.php?term…
How do they eat runny boiled eggs?
The entire chain is a realization from Innes that they don't. It's like reading a Lovecraft novela...
What even IS America?
A place where they use egg slicers more than egg cups I guess. I don't eat them so wouldn't know.
Fried eggs = best eggs.
Look, I'm not saying fried eggs aren't amazing too, but dippy eggs and toast soldiers absolutely smash fried eggs out of the discussion.
I just felt part of my soul die.
They really don't get it. You have to get poached eggs and mop them up with toast.
WHAT IS FUCKING EVEN GOING ON RIGHT NOW.
For the record, sunny-side up/over easy eggs allow this to happen too. Plus, they're flat, so no special dishes needed to prevent rolling.
The point is that dipping toast soldiers is great. Here's a handy diagram
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But do you eat the egg whites afterwards? Seems like our way, the egg-whites would taste better, even if it is less refined.
yes, you scoop them out with the teaspoon provided
You mean an egg-spoon of course.
Do you sometimes get shell in your mouth? I'm all about the yolk train but I don't want she'll in my mouth
*shell, goddamn it I'm not helping my countrymen
You do need to break the shell yourself and there are debates about how best to do this (tap with a spoon? slice with a knife? etc)
Obv tap with a spoon is the right answer, but just get an egg cup, and figure it out Ameri-friends!
well, then there is the Lilliputian/Blesfuscunian endianness debate - pointy or round end?
No!! Slice with a knife :-)
Don't even start THAT!
If you're grading on the epicurean curve that is British cuisine ;)
No way is that the same! The yolk splurges everywhere
CORRECT
And the flat egg fits nicely on a slice of toast, allowing me to pick up the whole damn thing and eat it. Efficient and delicious.
Nothing against your preference of eggs, but you have CHOICES.
Sounds like Laura made the best one tbh.
Can't get the runny egg experience with a fried egg compared to boiled.
And eggs need to be flat for the red &/or green chile (sauce) 🙄😉😀 #HuevosRancheros
... and now I'm having poaches eggs on toast for lunch.
Runny boiled eggs “may cause foodborne diseases”, so they prefer them over easy.
Oh wait.
Egg cups are brilliant precisely because of that as they keep the yolk in the egg!
But but but the shell! Shells, BAAAD
I’m actually surprised the british hit “peeled banana wrapped in plastic” isn’t popular here too
Well if you don't have an egg cup you couldn't. Like trying to drink coffee without a mug.
They are clearly monsters.
We do, we put them on toast
Uhhh... we don't eat runny BOILED eggs we eat runny FRIED eggs it pools in the middle of the sloughed white, we dip toast and sausage
Only our fried eggs can be made runny.
I always thought egg cups were something made up that nobody actually used
We totally do?
I THOUGHT WE ALL KNEW, I AM CONFUSED
Wha?? Hahah I have some Marmite egg cups here! (Not my photo)s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/81/39/3e/…
Had to bring them with me from the UK tho : <
I think I saw an egg cup in a period piece once.
Brazil reporting in.
I eat soft eggs with the help of a regular cup, or spread over rice or something.
But we do have kettles.
I've heard of that egg on rice thing once (in Australia), but it is very rarely done here.
Egg cups are like rice cookers: I have limited cupboard space and don't need to waste it on single-purpose shit
especially when I have other implements that do nearly or exactly the same job
From what I've read, rice cookers have multiple uses. Such as making huge pancakes. funfoodsyt.com/recipe/make-gi…
Do duty as eye-baths too not exactly huge and bulky items!
How do they cup their eggs ??
Of course we have egg cups. We also have kettles (both stove-top and electric).
The vast majority of Americans don't seem to cook. Srsly, basics like poaching an egg or chiffonading herbs is beyond them.
I seriously saw chiffonade listed as a Gordon Ramsey cooking "hack" yesterday & lost my shit.
*whispers* But that is not the worst! From what I hear, some Americans make their tea in the microwave. 😱😱😱
FFS! This cannot be!
*voice drops even lower* I have seen proof. It's terrible...
Americans love microwavea. And yes, they will heat water that way.
It's a sad state of affairs, but some of us do! I keep a kettle @ home & one in my classroom. I also have egg cups. Lived in UK for 2.5 yrs.
I don't have egg cups because I prefer poached to boiled eggs. I also have a stovetop kettle. Most Americans prefer coffee to tea.
And while we may be hopeless with eggs, we do at least have the good sense to know that beans are not a breakfast food. 😉
The coffee thing is key. Ppl are always amazed/horrified that I don't have a coffee pot.
I've seen egg cups, but never actually heard the term. I know, I'm ignorant. :(
Is it too soon to bring up strawberry forks?
You can keep your Victorian cutlery.
I shld note, my BFF collects that stuff, LOL! Lettuce forks & olive spoons & oyster forks, etc.
When I once saw a full Victorian table setting my jaw dropped! They had too much time and way too many rules.
The elderly use electric kettles when they are so senile their stoves get unplugged by their children.
American here: I soft boil an egg but still don't leave it runny. Just vaguely solid. Cut it in half. Put it on plate. Salt. Eat.
OR I just eat the egg whole.
If it's not funny its not soft boiled. How do you eat on a plate
Our definition is soft boiled is different! It's just *barely* not runny. You..cut it?
Never heard of them before today.
Because fried eggs, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, omelettes etc are all totally different.
It's hard to explain just how wrong you are smh
I use shot glassed instead. about the right size
I am a brit living in the US and consider this a suitable life hack. Also I have an electric kettle like sane ppl.
See? can be used anywhere people are not civilized enough for egg cups (aka the colonies)
Hey, it's only some colonies. In Australia we are a right-thinking, electric-kettle-and-egg-cups nation
and have metric.
Likewise in Canada — egg cups, kettles, and metric. Don't be trying to make this a colonial thing.
South Africa too. Egg cups and kettles. It's only proper. 🤷🏻♀️😂
To be fair though, the only countries that aren't on metric are Liberia, Myanmar, and the US
But officially the Uk is metric, though imperial still in practice. Fahrenheit is where the US really stands alone. And eggcups.
But #Brexit is taking us back to Imperial nonsense.
Look, we need to all make a stand. Pro egg cups, electric kettles, and metric. It's the only thing to be done.
And I'm willing to bet Liberia has eggcups...
I'm an evil Canadian. When me mum is annoying I boil her tea...in the microwave. I've been burned a time or two. #worthit.
lol "the colonies."
Bonus points for using a Unity shot glass.
It's part of my slightly ludicrous collection of Unity swag. I have so much unity branded gear it's sort of insane I never worked there.
I must object: as a Brit in the US, your collection is hereby deemed 'eccentric'. May it shield you from their tealess, eggcupless ways.
I mean, at the very least, it gives me something to hold my eggs in.
Hey, back up!!! We have egg cups in Australia, & electric kettles & proper tea 😋
Prove it! I bet all you've got is photos of them!
Permission to copy this response and over use it in future please.
🤔👍🏼
I mean, I staged this in my kitchen specifically for the photo (i.e. took an egg and a shot glass out and put them next to my kettle..)
Not sure how I prove that it's actually my kitchen without inviting you over.. though @unity3d shot glasses aren't super common in the wild
In Canada we also have all of those. 😂
So it's just the USA that's backwards, as usual?
Those "colonies" still won the war! We'll eat our eggs how we like! 😂
Settle down now....antipodean colonies all over egg cups: in the home and at hipster cafes with excellent coffee. Kindly cease & desist
Not sure whether to be happy or sad that this is probably my most successful tweet of all time :/
Which would be great except they take twice as long to boil.
Useful life hack for students..multipurpose shot glasses 😎 patent it ;)
Well done.
It still shouldn't be a lifehack. Egg cups should just exist.
Same! Works much better than having to use an egg cup as a shot glass, just FYI
My friend across the pond was just using an egg cup to drink sake lol
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
oh also in case you needed more foundation shocking info: nobody knows what bob's your uncle means
I, a Canadian, have egg cups & call toast soldiers & soft-boiled eggs are "Humpty Dumpty eggs"
Fellow Canadian who grew up with egg cups & marmite soldiers; my Dad is first gen Canadian, raised by British Nanny as his Mum was busy.
Oh, the Canadian thing was just to add a detail to the British/American aspect of the first posts. I know my experiences aren't universal 👍
I'm Canadian and own egg cups. I prefer fried to soft boiled. When my kids were small I made "butter eggs"; soft boiled, mashed up w butter
....my daughter still asks for them when she's not feeling well (now 21). I have an issue with British cold toast though 😒
I can understand eating toast cold. I cannot understand waiting to top the toast until it gets cold. That's crazy talk XD
Eating toast cold means you weren't able to coordinate all the aspects of your breakfast so that everything got done at the same time.
I truly don't get it. Toast should be hot with all the butter melted into it.
I HATE that! It's as bad as finding butter in the jam jar! And then there are those (my son) who put on jam WITHOUT ANY BUTTER! Savages.
And scraping the excess butter back onto the butter dish! Excess butter with crumbs in it! My SIL would scoop it up and give it back 😏
I did that for my kids, too. With salt and butter.
Canada's huge and different parts have almost nothing in common. Electric kettles as ubiquitous as a stove or a fridge in Newfoundland.
I'm from Montreal, living in UK. We had egg cups, don't recall toast soldiers but we dipped. Never heard of 'Humpty Dumpty eggs'.
I'm from Toronto and Edmonton. Everyone I knew had egg cups. Toronto had toast soldiers. Edmonton did not.
The soldiers go with the Humpty Dumpty eggs since all the king's soldiers & all the king's men couldn't put him back together again --
So a bit gruesome but dipping the soldiers is "trying to help put Humpty Dumpty back together" & getting delicious egg on 'em instead
And Fannys your aunt. Bet you darent even go there.
Bob is my uncle. He passed away a few years ago though...
That can't be true surely.
Let's not get on to slang we'll be here all day, there's to much regional slang here to try to teach other nations as well
I actually learned that from an older american gentleman. Maybe its a (cont) tl.gd/nnuarc
Please enlighten me: are toast soldiers the guys who couldn't put Humpty Dumpty together again?
Wait what are either of those things??? I need to know!
I've seen them but never eaten them. Dont like the texture of runny yolk
They call them 'Singed Bread SWAT' over here. Most confusing.
They're probably called something daft like Broiled Bread Marines. Making America great is going to be a bigger task than people appreciate
...the fuck are toast soldiers?
I've never used an egg cup, but I know exactly what a toast soldier is.
I'm terrified of the answer, but I must ask... what do they do to tea?
...microwave? Please tell me they microwave the water and then add the teabag?
Seen some who don't even bother and put the bag right in but most are at least THAT intelligent to only heat the water(no electric kettle!)😁
I've never heard of that lmao, tea in the south is cold and very sugary but the hot kind is usually boiled on the stove
the correct way to make tea is to put teabag in cup, pour over boiling water, leave it a couple of minutes, stir and squeeze the bag
remove the bag, then add milk and sugar to taste. It should be a medium brown colour.
weak tea is colloquially known as "gnat's piss"
Not boiling water unless you truly are drinking powdered gumboots...and who takes the bag out? Leave it in there and drink up
Anybody who says you shouldn't boil the water when using black tea needs to be sent to the camps for Re-Education. 100 C is a requirement.
Leaving the bag in is just wrong...nil points
I likes it strong and I ain't pissing around squeezing bags 😝
Stewed tea though? Is this the 1970's and are you my nan? :)
Best tea is made in a teapot. Always tastes better imo.
The correct way is in a teapot, milk first etc etc
Ah lol I see. I suppose it's because we don't drink tea like that. It's mostly coffee
You should try it - it's what keeps Britain 🇬🇧 going.
I've been told to never squeeze the bag...is that wrong? Doesn't matter, I don't really like tea. *ducks and runs away*
Lmao. I can see this is quite the serious endeavor
In America the proper way to make tea is called coffee.
I think you'll find everyone has a different taste in things, so I'd say there is no one right way to do anything lmao
Tea pot, surely?
only if you're planning to have more than one cup
I have a tiny teapot for one cup, but only use it on a Sunday morning. There's something lovely about the sound of tea pouring into the cup.
You owe me a sip of BEER! :-D *gets cloth*
The stories brits tell each other whilst camping to scare the children 😂😱😱😭
I don't like tea, but I know how to make it
Oh good God!! #Abomination
stop it before I lose my shit!
This is honestly the worst part.
Microwave a mug of water 1 minute. Put in a tea bag. Maybe add sugar and/or milk to taste. (I don't.) Drink the brown fluid.
see, I was always confused by the concept of egg cups because what do you do with the shell bits
most americans I know have eggs on a plate like fried or sunny side up or over easy. or scrambled. no cup needed
They hang out in the cup! I had eggs with toast soldiers in England!
we don't even have toast soldiers in america! we do triangles!
but then when you've bitten off all the corners, it won't fit inside the egg for dipping anymore?
We brought egg cups from Canada 20 yrs ago. Never occurred to me they couldn't be replaced. Now they'll need guarding like shroud of turin!
Get some extra small espresso or Turkish coffee cups. Then you have a handle too?
No soft boiled eggs means no asparagus wrapped in bacon, dipped in egg.
Who are you people?!
They don't have bacon. They have something one step away from a frazzle. And they don't know what a frazzle is.
American bacon is horrid. It's just oily and sweet gristle.
That sounds delicious
The serving sizes are too big here for egg cups to be useful. Plus nobody has the time to eat an egg at a time like that!
Soft boiled eggs do sound good though. I'll have to try one.
I have multiple egg cups. They just don't get used. One word: fried
okay but have you considered: there's literally thousands of ways to make eggs and egg cups are only useful for the single worst one
This is the best thread. My friend @dairymanNZ is in the US right now. He had an egg served in a jar with mash. It prompted me to do this...
It was actually pretty great but I will never question again how lucky I am to know the simple joy of egg cups. Thank you. 😌
Chelle! It's egg in a cup. This is what my SiL does! Drives me mad when she uses my fav mug to mash up eggs! Did u add butter?
I didn't mash it. I poached it in the jar and dipped my toast in. I just broke the yoke to show how perfectly cooked it was. 😂
😂😂😂 apparently it was quite the delicacy for himself and the fan growing up. Have to admit makes my stomach churn
It sounds a bit disgusting. Definitely not what was going on with my egg. Mine was a real cross between egg in a cup and a poached egg.
I think I'm just making it worse because what you think of as egg in a cup appears to be different to me. 😂 Soft boiled egg, I should say.
It's basically any soft egg. Fried or poached or boiled that she will use. Mashed up with butter and salt and then spread on toast
I can't cope cos food has to be aesthetically pleasing or I can't eat it
How about doing it completely American: crack up egg into a cup, then microwave the poor thing 😵
Actually not bad if you're in a hurry, but 2 warnings: don't explode the egg, and beware the eggy cup residue is dishwasher-proof
I am American and I have egg cups, probably only because my parents are Italian though.
due to having three brothers, the term 'egg cup' will never not make me want to barf :p
I do not. I am sorry. I make a damn fine poached egg though. No cup required. Electric kettle is must have though. National shame that.
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.
I made custard for my in-laws over Christmas (for bread & butter pudding)
they were like oooh pudding when they saw it
I said no... custard
Custard is a gross lie perpetrated by British people.
It's real. Custard is real I tell you. Real.
And so is bread and butter pudding, Matt, no!
home made is best! store bought just can't compare!
We can buy tinned or powdered custard mix at grocery stores with an international foods section. Also, Amazon. I've never made it fresh.
What's caster sugar
Superfine sugar. Usually not quite as smooth as powdered sugar but more refined than regular white sugar.
try calling it "creme anglaise"?
And then I'm certain the relatives were disappointed "can't believe it is not pudding" =margarine
I've made custard before. But our idea of custard typically has the consistency of ice cream, though, not pudding.
What the hell is custard???
You can get custard here. It's just not particularly popular.
They don't have clotted cream either. Savages.
I know. Life without custard 😨 US guy I met said "what's this yellow stuff? It's amazing." I was sad for his lost years.
They don't have CUSTARD!
What I don't get is how do you make eggnog & fail to get all the way to custard? That's just slack.
No offense, but the English lecturing others on cuisine is a bit much, come visit 🇺🇸 & yr egg cup mindsets will be blown
Yes we do...
SOMEONE TOLD ME YOU GUYS DIDN'T :O I FEEL SO LIED TOO RIGHT NOW
Yeah... We have it, and most people have had it, it's just not super-common.
We have custard and junket. New England has all this normal stuff. Maybe the rest of the USA is the problem.
We have baked and pouring custard though we call the latter crème anglaise cos we fancy AF.
Custard? You mean Custard Ice cream
I went to Dunkin' Donuts on Friday for the first time and I asked for custard donuts? They said what custard? I said the yellow thing 😒
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Born in Scotland, raised in US. I hear what you're saying. Custard. Egg cups. Electric kettle. Also keep in mind: tea&biscuits not a thing.
We call biscuits cookies here. Biscuits are considered little knobby dinner breads or crap white breadstuff baked out of a tube.
...We have custard.
we do have custard?
We have custard,,
Haha I'm in my 30s and I literally don't know what custard is. Never seen it in my life. Also shocked at what passes as 'pudding' over there
Over in the US? What do they call proper pudding then?
We'll I'm in Canada, but yes basically. Only pudding I ever knew was chocolate goo that you eat with a spoon. Or rice pudding too I guess
Oh, you mean what we call pudding. Gotcha. We've been calling pudding pudding for a long, long, loooong time so we're ok with it.
Not sure why, but this fake incredulous thread is pissing me off.
We have custard, electric kettles, and definitely can soft boil an egg. But we are fat here, we need a bowl for eggs so we can have four lol
Wasn't Custard a general or something?
Grateful that we have all of that in 🇨🇦 (can't imagine no egg cups & custard??? Omg 🤦🏼♀️).
we have frozen custard. well my city does, it's not really a thing anywhere else in the US i don't believe.
I had to look this up to understand what you were speaking about, but I've definitely seen this before
All cultures are different. Is that a problem for you, bigot?
Calm down. This is clearly a light hearted jape thread.
Hakuna matata, buddy.
Lol, ok Post malone.
I don't even know what custard is....
Going to use this this weekend. Thank you!
You can use cream in place if the milk or half of each
What the hell is, custard???
Us Americans aren't used to getting food shamed by Great Britain. How far we've fallen. #humbling
we have custard shops all over the place, someone lied to you.
We 100% have custard in the Midwest. Whoever said we don't is sitting on a thrown of lies
Yeah... even Canada has to import that. Which is sad because it's amazing. :(
Custard is gross ew
Custard?
I don't know what custard is.
We do so have custard! It's one of my favorite types of desserts. What are egg cups? And we don't have haggis, either. 😰
They also have breakfast gravy. Breakfast. Gravy.
Are you saying thats a bad thing?
Or gravy, I mean how do they have a Sunday roast?
We not only have custard, but Sunday roast too! My mother's family was from England and retained a lot of the traditions.
High fives Staci! Do you have scones for tea too? 🎉
They must have gravy. Certainly on poutine etc, and I'm sure I've seen it with those savoury biscuit things they like.
It's not proper gravy though it's packet mix and like brown glue. I lived there for three years my Ma used to send me Bisto
Now, now! I grew up on custard. There are people here who make custard. You can even get Birds, which isn't really custard.
Of all the things going on in the world that need solving, this 🇺🇸 egg cup crisis is high on most political agendas. That includes 🇪🇬
They have frozen custard, 🙄
What do they eat their jelly with?
Peanut butter.
As a Wisconsinite I take offense to the not having custard. It's definitely here
IF YOU WANT IT FROZEN!
Weird I've had it both ways 💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻
I often make custard from scratch and I live in New Jersey.
Uhh I'm pretty sure we have custard
We def have custard here. Although, I grew up in saint louis, where we freeze it.
frozen custard?! Frozen. Omg. Sacrilege.
You may think so but I bet the heat wave with frozen custard would have been better.
We have frozen custard too, except we generally call that vanilla ice cream
Frozen custard is actually really good, if it's made properly. I don't trust Americans & their lack of experience with custard with it tho.
Fair enough.
they don't have tea. Proper tea. A proper brew. Tea is hideous in USA.
I'm a socialist, we don't believe in proper tea.
for real though, I stick to the sun tea mostly when i drink tea
Lol we have custard! I make it all the time. I sometimes even put it into an ice cream maker.
How do y'all Europeans only have ONE major sports league. We have FOUR!
Is custard like ice cream? I'm in the south, I've heard of custard but never had it. We eat deep fried breakfast here
Are you nuts? OF COURSE we have custard!
We just freeze it. en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frozen_cu…
Nope I'm sorry, that's just ice cream here in the uk! Custard is delicious creamy and warm and best on crumble or apple pie or other hot pud
Well, our labeling rules say ice cream is at most 1.4% egg yolk.
Maybe we can all come together to agree that "frozen dairy dessert" that's more than half air is an abomination.
My mom makes custard. Made it all the time when I was little. I guess it was handed down from those English ancestors of ours. :)
in the US custard means ice cream
custard is soft serve and ice cream is what you store in your freezer but they're essentially the same thing just stored at different temps
We have custard.
What the heck do you think is inside a Boston Creme donut?
no custard either omg I hope this isn't true😱😱
Horribly true
Oh my god, they are missing out so bad. I'm sad for them 😢😢 what do they have with pudding tho???
what? How can you even exist without custard?
We most certainly do have custard!!
Custard as in like ice cream type stuff? Because AT LEAST ILLINOIS HAS IT
Yes we do.
Don't have custard? Then how do they eat fish fingers and custard?!
It is America we're talking about here. The country where Kinder Surprise eggs are banned
Noooooo! :'(
Frozen custard
I need to ask an embarrassing question. Is America a real country? Or is it like a Ricky Gervais / Christopher Guest creation?
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Kettles: electrity is 110 not 220 so water would not boil as fast. But my family had egg cups.
US ovens often use 220V on a special circuit . You have to get a special 220 spur and then you can run a 3000 watt kettle properly
Seems a lot of trouble for boiling water.
If you boil the kettle 4+ times a day that's about 24 hours or three 8 hour working days each year you get back in time #ymmv
I am able to do more than one thing at a time.
Witchcraft! 😮
Personally I enjoy the ritual.
Also, personally I only use a kettle as part of process of cooking rice. Thus not even once a day. Less tea drunk in US, more coffee.
Only 4 times a day? Seriously, I reckon 10 x daily.
Why not just throw a pot of water on the stove?
A decent hob produces about 7,000BTUs an hour whilst a 3000W Kettle is about 10,000BTUs.
You need better stoves. Mine's 12000BTUs with one burner at 17000, and it's a cheap standard stove.
Sorry just have to query 4+ ... do people really only boil the Kettle 4 times a day? There's only 2 of us here - but it's probably 20+
To make tea correctly? Worth it.
Canada here. I run an extension cord from my elec kettle to the outlet in my stove; no risk of tripping the other, weaker circuits.
We had 220VAC in the house we built here in NY in 1979 for our German appliances. Electric motors and clocks run differently on 60Hz though!
I have bought egg cups in the U.S. - there's no problem getting them!
I have all of the egg cups here in San Francisco if you need to borrow one
Move north of the 49th parallel, and all these problems will be solved.
Soft-boiled eggs everyday here in U.S. Small bowl instead of cup, because we like to remove shell first. Break open, dip toast.
If you really want to start a transatlantic war: Toast racks. Americans wrap toast in a napkin to keep it warm
haha. I can't really defend toast racks. Who keeps toast warm at all? Just eat it straight from the toaster FFS
The toast rack is the silliest implement. Cold, hard toast cannot be defended & makes poor soldiers.
Properly deployed, it might function as a weapon though
I have a ceramic toast rack that you fill with hot water fibre minutes before toast service & it keeps the toast warm
OMG I want one of those in my life
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We'll have to disagree on the toast rack, heated or not. I'll continue to stack mine, not that it lasts long enough to do so....
Yeah I mean I generally just easy it straight from the toaster, but if I have visitors the rack comes out (f'narr f'narr)
Toast racks keep your toast crunchy. Allows the heat to dissplace properly and prevents your toast from going soggy.
The toast rack or the cold toast?
Cold toast. Shatters into lethal shards. Deadly in the wrong hands
I sometimes quite like cold toast when it no longer melts the butter. I call it "hotel toast" & find it makes awesome sodjers
I will meditate for you, Sir. 😩🍞
But when the butter melts it makes floppy sodjers. Cold toast stays firm.
How thin do you slice your bread? And what kind of bread? Whole grain stands up to butter, and, if thick, no issues. Now, time for brekkies!
So a cup for an egg is good, a rack for toast is ridiculous...no wonder we're confused.
There needs to be some mechanism for buttering it on the way up
If you wrap hot toast in a napkin in would go soggy. There is an optimum time for toast to be in the toast rack so it's hot and crunchy.
Apparently if you put the toast flat and squash it with your hand so the steam escapes it doesn't go soggy so quickly
But as no toast ever survives more than 30 seconds in this house before being buttered and eaten, I've never tested this.
In other news, I now really really want some toast
No, SERIOUSLY, what the FUCK do the English have against WARM BREAD. That's the WHOLE REASON YOU TOASTED IT!
Jeez you weren't joking were you? Had nothing but toast rack tweets all morning
Aieee! What have I wrought?
Sorry!
Ha! I ended up having toast for lunch, so it's not all bad
They don't have fortnights either.
WHAT????
Wait... what?????
S'true.
I can't even...
We have fortnights. It's not very frequently used, but you definitely hear it.
That was my face after discovering the whole lack of egg cups thing.
Until today I thought they were something you see in old books. Kinda like the word "fortnight".
Mike, would you like some egg cups? I have vowed to do my philanthropical bit by introducing Americans to dippy egg.
Let's table that decision. ;)
They could use shot glasses...
That's my breakfast sorted
Once the idea was in there it wasn't going away until I made it 😂
Just checked the shelf for baked beans. None left. Pretty upset.
I know what they are had a Victorian raised granny... Americans don't do soft boiled eggs
Failed state, right there.
But TBH, calling slices of toast soldiers then dunking them in runny eggs is Chinese Empire weird level.
wait till u hear they don’t have kettles
just clicked thru - those poor creatures!
But how do they slice cheese (and peel potatoes) then?
With a potato peeler? 🤔 They probably just eat string cheese? 😱😱😱
I love peeling potatoes with the cheese slicer..so much quicker. String cheese? bleugh!
I just use a very sharp knife to slice it
Knife?!?! 😱😱😱 Hooligan! 🙈🙈🙈
Side of a grater can also mandolin cheese...
Doesn't work on crumbly cheese but that cuts thinner than my hamfisted attempts with a knife...
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IKEA! NOW! RUN!!! 😱😱😱
staaahp already of course we have cheese slicers.
Most Americans don't seem to?! 🤔
I used to use a grater or a knife & then I discovered the beauty of the peeler 😍
*slicer. Peelers are for potatoes.
Technically it is a peeler that I use ;)
😱😱😱 Go, find an IKEA! Now!! 🙈
I know..I feel appropriate levels of shame 🙈it's dangerous to go in ikea tho 😳will have to wait until safe to go and not spend £££
Harsh! Sending a trump tweet..not the being wrong 😭
I felt like it was time for "the hard gloves", as we say... 😁
And don't come back until you've made a proper ski slope!
My parents have those. No egg cups, though.
Where did you get the impression we don't have cheese slicers?
People have told me so?
Your intel appears to be unreliable.
My friend in Sweden had never had a fried egg sandwich until I went and stayed out there for a week...
This is why Americans always seem angry, they don’t even realise they’re missing egg and soldiers
Eggs are from a cloaca- basically a vagina-rectum combo. #EnjoyBreakfast
I'm sure someone somewhere finds this fact incredibly sexy and appealing...ewww
I've spotted 2 "human cloaca" references in Japanese cinema and literature (I wasn't looking for them, btw).
I don't really want to know what this fact entails, but it seems related.
If only they were, my friend, if only they were.
I'm not surprised, Japanese are Kinda wacky. You should make this odd knowledge onto something profitable. . . research or dissertation.
"Becoming Animal In Japan: The Human Cloaca Theme and The Phenomenology of Human Subjectivity."
It makes a sound, if that's what you mean.
They never ask the chicken first. smh.
So wrong...
This is true.
Have to ask... what is it about soft boiled eggs that could scare anyone?
Are soft boiled eggs the reason for the right to bear arms?
I even had little knitted hats for mine to keep them warm when I was a kid. Feeling very privileged 🤗
they have such funky designs & great egg cosies. Smoothies, charitable causes and warm eggs..what's not to like?
They are all lovely, I'd be proud to egg and soldier with all of those. I had ones that looked like chicks, probably made by mum 😊
Nothing beats homemade by mum tho ❤️ they sound gorgeous
Everything had a knitted or crocheted cover - teapots, toilet rolls, and i had dozens of hats. Mums are the best.
Yeah Ive never quite got toilet roll dolls. Something happened in last gen & ppl didn't care that other ppl knew they used toilet roll.
I think the toilet brush got a do-over too 😬
I think it was 'all the rage' and gladly has passed. Loved my eggy warmers though xx
👏🏽👏🏽 feeling proud of my Canadian mum. We had eggs cups, egg hats, and an electric kettle. Had no idea we were so civilized 🇨🇦
We had chicken-shaped ones!
When we boil eggs, we hard boil them....runny yolks are for fried eggs....which is still kinda 🤢....no kettles, just keurigs!
😂😂😂😂😂 is this true @tiresapoe ??
We also love egg salad...hard boiled egg chopped up and mixed with mayonnaise! 😱
We might use them if eggshells had little perforations that made them easy to open in a tidy way
tbh I also am crap at opening cooked eggshells, this is why I'm trying to get good at poaching
Just slice the top off and leave the egg in its shell.
but I want it on toast!
It will be on toast, once you've cut that toast into soldiers and dipped it in the egg :)
Who the hell eats an egg from an egg cup... Scramble it, throw salsa on there, wrap in pita bread, presto breakfast burrito!
Please note that Canada has egg cups. In case you're keeping score or whatnot. Also many (but not all) have electric kettles.
Only a complete crazy boils an egg in an electric kettle, though.
It's just so complicated. instructables.com/id/How-to-hard…
Caught kids' friend cooking noodles in ours. Grrrrrrrrrr
Bloody savages
FFS if they don't have egg cups, they probably don't have egg clackers, right?
If it makes you feel any better, a lot of the young ones have apparently never heard of Stalin or the entire 20th c., either
H-How do they eat boiled eggs?
I'm actually asking.
the dont have electric kettles either :)
Egg cup. Purchased in US by my American mother for my English husband. Before that we used egg coddlers w/o the top.
Hi. I'm american. Wtf is this? Why are you eating an under cooked egg? I'm so confused #help
Honestly once go dippy you will never go back. It's a tiny gooey pocket of heaven! Don't you even do poached eggs either?
Honestly, there was a huge period in my life where I wouldn't eat eggs so I've really only had like scrambled or hard boiled. I think I had
Eggs benedict once. But we're always told that consuming undercooked eggs could give you salmonella and I got that as a small child so I've
Always been a little scared of eggs lol
To be fair I totally get this because it was a pregnancy thing with me where they say no eggs and although they changed it I was still
Scared enough to never eat eggs with any of my pregnancies. But if you get legit eggs (here we have red lion stamp = no salmonella) I would
Say stick a soft boiled or poached runny egg on your bucket list it is something you just have to taste! It's ultimate comfort food, it's a
Go to if you are feeling poorly. And I missed them that much it was the first thing I ate when I got home from having my son! Delicious!
They must have been Texans. Real Americans have egg cups.
Ok given reaction to egg cups and electric kettles, don't ask about toasters (which are not toastie ovens) 😱😱😱
This is why their country is broken af.
*reads thread*
Right, I'm off for boiled egg & soldiers. And tea. Made with a kettle.
As for yer overcooked eggs in a bowl (a bowl!) - this
Well that served me right- run out of white sliced. And I couldn't find the bloody egg cups. BUT I FOUND A WAY with shot glasses & baguette
I hope you're aware that they don't have cordial drinks!
what!? no squash?
Exactly! I couldn't live...
How do they make the water taste drinkable then?
Maybe they just drink coke always.
this can't be true. I have to check this...
Do you mean like Robinson's fruit juice? I believe they do, I remember seeing some when I was on holiday in the States.
Hopefully it becomes popular there.
"biscuits" are a strange kind of savoury scone eaten with dinner, like one would a Yorkshire pudding.
I would like to sample a not cherry cordial
They also don't put butter on their sandwiches, the monsters!
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we have eggs and we have cups but in like 250 years we haven't figured out how to put the two back together
egg cups= those small thingies u put eggs in after theyve been boiled?
Lmao ikr!! I'm at work DYING reading these aloud to my confused America coworker!
So you boil the eggs in the kettle, right...? Just kidding, I'm British, not a clueless monster.
But...where do they put their eggs??
what? we have egg cups. I grew up with them even.
Oh my god I've just seen this thread how can millions of people not even know what egg cups are fucking hell
no i'm sorry i have to intervene we have egg cups i have had many egg cups. they are not so common anymore u mostly get them at thrift shops
I am an American with an egg cup and a kettle. I am not a fucking savage!
This is seriously the best twitter convo ever!
I've actually had the best soft boiled egg ever - on a Caesar Salad in the USA. Actually it may have been poached. I'm no longer 100% sure
It was poached. Americans put everything they can think of on the Caesar salad. Steak? Why yes! Chicken? Must have! Shrimp? Why not!
Dude. We did not fight the War of Independence with the intention of retaining foppish gewgaws. We are like our boiled eggs. HARD.
But why? Soft boiled eggs are amazing !!!!
Yet somehow the US DID keep British impirial measurements (inch,feet,yard...)🤔😁
Aaaaand the way we say/write dates on 4th of July xD (weirdly)
Presumably you include proper tea in your heading of foppish gewgaws, yes?
COFFEE, BABY!
But coffee makes me ill. :( and tea presented as a cup of hot water and a teabag on a plate makes me sad.
Tea is for sick days and old ladies. Coffee.
Unless you're in the South- in which case "tea" is for everyone, every day and is served over ice with a pound of sugar in it.😉
Coffee gives me sick days. Tea.
And we haven't used saucers in three generations. Not in real life. No cup on a plate in the USA.
All proper tea is theft!
I have a cup of tea every night. A tea bag in water that I microwaved. Pretty sure that Brits wouldn't approve. But I have tea in one minute
I thought there was a Tea Party involved...?
With whiskey. And guns!
My people have been here since the 17thC and I have egg cups (Williams-Sonoma). Breville kettle. Y'all need more cultured US friends.
That's absolutely not true. I have egg cups.
Eggs in burritos : yes
Eggs on pizza: yep
Egg casserole: sure
Egg Cups: Nope
'Cause if it doesn't add calories it ain't American!
Happened me when visiting a friend in Maryland 6 years ago. I actually had to shell the egg and eat it with a fork and knife. #disgusted
The kettle thing is real, and their toilets are terrifying. Why does the water come up so high?
and toilet cubicles have walls and doors that NEVER reach the floor
Dear Lord. Now I understand how Trump became president.
How the hell do you get from the lightening rod to the IPhone and not think of the egg cup in between?
This is like how in Harry Potter they just decide to eschew lots of useful technology. Would have saved a lot of effort.
This thread @RosieHare 🤣
That is hilarious. EGG RAGE! 🍳🍳
They also don't understand beans on toast. American beta readers are like, 'What? Is this a thing?' No feedback has ever shocked me so much.
That was my breakfast this morning. Lovely stuff!
Americans have proven they don't know shit all about breakfast. Case in point bacon with zero pork in it & confusion over what crumpets are.
I found "English style crumpets" in Canada and they looked like they'd been sat on
You mean you guys don't sit on your crumpets? Weird...
:( poor crumpets
I had them with Marmite and cheese (the best crump) but the cheese was SO OILY :( :( :(
Loving your attempt to maintain the illusion of civilised life over there. And that is the best crump top.
Crumpets are basically just butter sponges made of stale bread, it's no loss to skip them tbh
it's a griddle cake you heathen.
You call that a griddle cake? You gotta cook it on both sides, you amateurs
No don't burn them 😉
Why on earth did you have Marmite on them. Jam & butter is best :-)
hey hey - leave us 🇨🇦 out of this, eh. At least we have egg cups!
I'm thrilled you bothered to post a photograph of them.
I needed evidence for the court case I'm building
That's the spirit.
Hang on... 'English Style Crumpets'? What the hell other types of crumpet are there? It's like muffins all over again (wanders off ranting)
You were honestly lucky to even find those. :(
we went to several shops! WE EVEN HAD TO ASK A SALES LADY AND AS A BRITISH HUMAN I NEVER TALK TO SALES LADIES IN CASE THEY HATE ME
When I do find crumpets they've usually had something added to them by the manufacturer. I just want plain crumpets. D:
Yeah but in Canada they have pancakes, maple syrup and Canadian bacon. Don't knock it til you've tried it. Beyond heaven, it is.
hate to break it to you but America is very much taking ownership of that
Those are pikelets, then.
I still haven't forgiven them for the whole biscuit scenario.
I have a selection of pictures on my phone to explain to @holymotherboard what biscuits, cookies, flapjacks and so on are. American is odd
What the heck is an egg cup tho?
WAIT... BACON with no BACON?? What the heck, America??
streaky bacon 'cooked' to a shard. I like my bacon crispy, but shouldn't bust a tooth on it!
To be fair, mushy peas is an abomination
I'll give you the sans pork bacon. But the way to eat eggs is to over easy them and place them on top of toast. Also you guys eat baked
Beans for breakfast. That's not a breakfast food!
Not in my house, spaghetti hoops or riot
Woman if you think the rest of us are eating turkey bacon you are mad. Like I didn't think I could get this pissed about breakfast.
Hahahaha turkey bacon what. No, I'm taking about bacon with actual MEAT on it.
Streaky bacon is our normal. Eckrich is tradition in my family. We also microwave. It's crispy, not burnt. With fried eggs and toast to dip.
microwave D:
It's okay. I tried oven and stovetop, just prefer microwave. The normal bacon in UK tastes like US ham to me.
Hey now some of us eat actual bacon from pigs! Though unless you want to pay an arm and a leg, it's going to be mostly fat, not much meat😭😢🐖
"Crumpets!? You gotta know what cricket is to know about crumpets!!!!"
Nigga you eat mushy peas😤
What do you think our bacon is made of???
We do have egg cups.
No idea what a crumpet is.
As far as I can tell, shards of fat versus actual meat
Kinda 50/50.
Probs partial capitalism on our part. Other groceries have been sneakily shrinking without lowering prices too.
Let's not get started on what constitutes a muffin.
We have all varieties. #Bountiful
1776 never forget.
They also put syrup on their bacon which is just wrong.
Someone has mislead you about bacon. BTW, beans aren't a breakfast food.
We can get them but we aren't big on soft boiled eggs.
Shot glasses could be an effective replacement.
We have Piers Morgan. We will learn to make egg cups if you take his sorry hind end back.
He might have some you can borrow.
Wouldn't touch 'M. But thanks. I'll take a two sided shot glass anytime.
Is this real? They don't have egg cups? I don't understand.
The British don't have electric frypans, or garages that can fit a car, even in a brand new house!
Because a garage is supposed to contain 9 bikes (assorted sizes) , 2 broken radios, dried up paint tins & stack of mouldy boxes. Obviously.
No thats the garden shed. UK Garages cannot fit a modern car even if the garage is empty
Only one place I've ever lived in had a garage. It could have had a car in, but the above compulsory items set up shop instead.
You can fit a modern car in a UK garage but you cannot open the doors. Designed for bubble cars, Austin sevens and horse carts. #traditions
Modern cars often are quite small. Ours is, 3 door and compact.
The new MINI and FIAT 500 are twice the size of the old ones they are styled from.
Nope..swap "often" with "almost never". Any "small" cars are still "wide" cars, ergo garage thing is very much a thing
Modern is too grand a word for our car, anyway. We hardly ever drive and it's entertaining its third decade
Only In UK can a garage be a "double" when it has two std. doors with a strip of wood in between = Two cars whose doors cannot be opened!
But cars are waterproof anyway so <shrug>
My grandad had a garage his Morris 1000 fit in. Here it'd be called a "barn". @aminorjourney @BBCStreeter @Haddocks_Beard @umstree0
Garages add overhead to the whole getting in the car and going somewhere thing.
Cars outside - also get less spiders.
I see you've been in my garage then.
You clearly just have a proper, normal garage.
I just bought a car, and a friend asked when I was clearing out my garage to put it in. A garage is for junk, the road is for the car ffs!
They also still have faucets with separate hot and cold, so after you scald your hands under one you can freeze them under the other.
Why do USA toilets in Govt and commercial and public buildings have peep gaps all around the doors?
Strange, considering the amount of American Twitter eggs. 🤔
I bet the Americans may have egg cups, the European Americans who came over should have brought some over the last several 100's of years!
My mother's childhood egg cup. Born & raised in US. End egg cup culture war now. #notallAmericans
Agree about the refrigerated egg absurdity, though. So very wrong.
.....am I the only one seeing a Pokemon here?! Could your mother see the future?!
No, you're not, and yes, she could.
My bloke is American. Between this and the kettle situation I wonder why I keep him around sometimes..
No need for cups because I find runny eggs vile. I was aghast at how all the eggs were wet when I was in London. Couldn't eat them.
For future reference, you can just ask for them hard
We do but generally only our children eat soft-boiled eggs
U.S. stores Sears, Macy's, Walmart, Crate & Barrel, and Bed Bath & Beyond all sell them on their websites, so somebody must use them!
I just bought egg cups at the Museum of Danish America about a week ago! I'm doing the best I can but I can't do it all by myself!
i don't even like boiled eggs but still have plenty of egg cups, you just never know when you might need one.
you wait til an american sees a double egg cup.
If they don't have egg cups that means they don't have soldiers either! What kind of nasty business is this?
fuck is an egck up?
oh yeah I have those
BUT DIPPY EGG AND SOLDIERS 😮
I only like eggs that are scrambled and dry. And they need to be mixed well so you can't see the white parts.
How do they eat boiled eggs?
IS THIS SHIT TRUE?! I WILL BRING YOU EGG CUPS THIS WEEKEND HOLY FUCK.
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I'm visiting US later in the year. Should I take my own egg cup & kettle? What else should I take to maintain usual levels of civilisation?
Take tea.
If only it were possible to take decent butter & cheese too.
If you take milk in your tea ask for black tea with milk!
Absolutely not true.I'm born and bred in NY.moved to UK 17 years ago.always had an egg cup growing up.I can't eat a soft boiled egg without!
...we have egg cups in the US. I have some in my cupboard. Don't use them often, but my son likes soft boiled eggs, so.
Also, I depend on my electric kettle, but those have only been readily available here for 10-20 years. Different voltage, tho. Not as fast.
Also, fish knives.
Do Americans not hard boil eggs because they wash the coating off and soft boiled would be more risk of food poisoning? Weirdos, regardless.
Maybe their hens aren't yet bred to lay eggs the right size to fit them?
I had to change my breakfast plans and have boiled eggs in an egg cup this morning, just to make the world a little bit righter.
First no kettles, now this? How are they a country.
I don't even know how they manage day to day without kettles let alone egg cups !!
BUT HOW DO THEY HOLD THEIR EGGS?????
Apparently they only hard boil them. THEY DO NOT KNOW THE LOVE THAT IS A SOFT BOILED EGG
Those poor souls.. 😪
Thank God my Grandmother immigrated from the UK...
We dipped our toast and "french fries" in the yolk...the best part was tapping the egg open
be careful out there!
Also took ages to find out (since seeing on Buffy) WTF a "Ricer" was...
In Germany we make soft boiled eggs with kettles.
But your tea would then have chicken bum in it.
The first time my American friend saw my electric kettle she stroked the handle and asked "what's this?" I was dumbstruck! 😵
Guys, you know where to find Egg Cups around in #Dubai?
At Pylones in The Dubai Mall + Ibn Battuta Mall! @PylonesFrance @PylonesUK #EggCups
We use sherry glasses as egg cups in our house because who the hell drinks sherry
Is that a Dorset Nob?
God no! But close, farley's rusk😂
Wait until you see how eggs are made and you'll get angrier
We eat our eggs like a man, in McGriddles form.
Don't eat eggs. They're fucking gross. There, problem solved.
I know Americans that have egg cups. Perhaps they're migrants though.
A spoonie can refer to any individual who suffers from a chronic illness.
Ah sorry to hear, psoriatic arthritis for me!
Yup, same with me. Joints, skin, and nails. Guess it's all just immune system attacking various parts of the body so likely to go together.
After a trip to England 2 years ago I bought an electric kettle. Much slower as it's a 110-volt model by necessity but reasonably quick.
Parents had egg-cups but they were both from Eastern Europe. Then with the cholesterol scare they stopped eating eggs.
In college we used shot glasses. As grown-ups we own egg cups. Odd that you cannot find them. 🤷🏽♀️
Hi are there any Americans on this thread that can help me. When I've been in the US and ordered scrambled eggs I get omelette?!? WHHYYY. D:
That is odd. They are two very different things here, & the omelette is often stuffed full with any number of things. Curious to confuse.
When I say omelette I mean one without filling, but the eggs are flat and often over cooked. Drives me nuts!
Yes, our scrambled eggs are often dry and flat. You're confusing the masses in ordering a plain om, they'd have no idea why you'd want that
Oh no sorry if I confused you, I don't order plain omelettes, I order scrambled eggs but they are more like a shit plain omelette.
This is hilarious! Yes, most scrambled eggs will come looking like a shit plain omelette, non existent in the US. Order runny scrambled.
LOL Ok, that's helpful advice! So if I say runny scrambled then I'll generally get fluffy tasty scrambled eggs?
Let's hope so! You may get a few curious stares, if all else fails go with poached. It's our best egg.
I always get stares when I ask for tea lol, so I'm used to it. Even bad tea is better than no tea for me. Poached, good advice! I will try
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