To think we should organise egg-cup aid to egg-cupless American MNers

[SerfTerf]

https://www.buzzfeed.com/stephaniemcneal/egg-cup?bfsource=bbfenuk&amp%3Butmmterm=.kej2VQ0Ed&utmterm=.meRLLk8aBb#.dxrddl4nEY

I have so many egg cups I'm happy to post some out as a matter of urgency.

I cant believe the whole of the US has been managing without them

Is that why mac 'n' cheese in a packet is a thing over there? Because dippy soldiers isn't an option?

Please.

Signed, this US transplant MNer!!

(It's not that they're impossible to find, they just went out of fashion in the 50's and 60's so they're scarce.)

How have you been managing @gwenneh ?

PM me your address and I'll pop four in the post for you

I've been unable to sleep last night for the sadness of this whole egg cup thing.

Is it really a childhood without dippy toast soldiers?

Can we also arrange decent chocolate and cheese not to mention tea pots
and cosies

We could do airdrops @MissCherryCakeyBun

So how do people in America eat dippy eggs?

I don't think they do eat them @ScarlettDarling

I now have images of little egg cups on parachutes

I still have my Crate and Barrel egg cups I bought when I lived in the US!

@TheWildRumpyPumpus , Is crate and barrel posh?

Are egg cups in America the same as fish knives here? This is confusing.

I now have images of little egg cups on parachutes

That's just rubbish! I'm British, live in the US and you can buy egg cups here, particularly around Easter time.

Off topic but I have just discovered that the hobby of collecting egg cups is poccilovy. So serf is an unintentional pocillovist.

Serf I would consider it an act of immense kindness! :D My children are deprived of their egg & soldiers and have had to make do with hard boiled eggs and toast since we left the UK.

Not particularly! Just a furniture/homeware store - we bought almost everything from there as we moved over there with practically nothing.

Hahaha @MissCherryCakeyBun 😂

It was on the news this morning that Mac N Cheese has some weird harmful chemicals in.

I'm in mourning

FFS. Nothing better to do with your life than talk about fucking egg cups?!

If by "dippy eggs" you mean poached or soft-boiled, of course we eat them. Do you all not eat eggs Benedict? There's a poached egg in that, and it's an American recipe.

And of course they sell egg cups here. Bed Bath and Beyond sell them, Pottery Barn, Crate and Barrel, even Walmart. I usually cook them out of the shell, and just put them on a place.

plate

@steff13 A dippy egg is a soft boiled egg, served in the shell with it's top cut off so that you can dip your toast 'soldiers' into it!

You can also dip toast in a soft boiled egg if you put the egg on a plate. But yes, of course we have them and egg cups.

I had no idea what a dippy egg was until I read this post, they sound horrible. I've never used an egg cup either. Am I banned now

I'm glad others have pointed out that you can buy egg cups in the US because having grown up there and swearing that we had egg cups, I thought I was going a bit bonkers and had maybe conjured up the egg cups through my imagination!

Oh dear, I didn't know it would cause a rift.

@SerfTerf

There's a thread in chat about this very topic - and it's much more lighthearted!!