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A man hoping to show off his improvised egg cup has upset some people.

The diner bemoaned the price of Tesco's egg cup product (£5), so instead put his breakfast in a cheese grater and shared a photo of his breakfast on Reddit.

The man, whose username is 'panicky_in_the_uk', got some real stick for his cost-cutting measures. But more controversial was the way he'd buttered his toast.

It seems people were disappointed with the butter's distribution, and angry that he'd apparently used a spoon instead of a knife.

Also offensive was the fact the man had failed to cut his toast into soldiers.

The photo has had more than 6,000 upvotes, and had more than 600 comments. People really care about boiled eggs.

One commenter said: "Sorry! I’m distracted by the avant-garde butter distribution."

Another added: "And no knife to even cut it yourself with, just a spoon."

Jen wrote: "The planet’s wealth is distributed more evenly than that butter."

And one woman added: "This is wild. I didn't know cavemen had access to camera equipment."

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The egg man later replied: "I came here for moral support and, if I'm honest, some praise for my ingenuity but all I'm seeing is negativity.

"You won't be laughing when Duncan Bannatyne and Deborah Meaden are fighting over it.

"F*** the lot of you."

Etiquette expert William Hanson called it an "abomination".

"You would have thought that with enough years in the consciousness of humans the breakfast eater of the picture would have known better than to use a grater," he told Femail.