British Twitter finds out that eggcups don't exist in the US

Swearing, anger and confusion abound over a transatlantic divide

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They say that the UK and the US are "two countries separated by a common language," but the differences run much deeper - as British Twitter discovered today, when users realised that their American cousins live their lives without the assistance of a seemingly essential invention - the egg cup.

The first person to stumble on this disconcerting truth was Scottish video game engineer who goes by the name 'moth dad', who shared the upsetting news on Twitter:

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