This photo of an egg and toast breakfast looks perfectly average - but thousands have spotted several things that are very wrong with this traditional British meal.

It was shared on Reddit by a man who jokingly boasted about how he had saved himself £5 by using a cheese grater instead of buying a new eggcup.

But it's certainly not the only thing wrong with this meal, as thousands of British breakfast lovers have pointed out.

So can you spot what else is wrong with this traditional dish?

Panicky_in_the_uk shared the photo of his very unconventional egg and soldiers breakfast - but can you tell the four things that are wrong with it? 1. Using a cheese grater as an egg cup. 2. A spoon instead of a knife. 3. Butter spread unevenly. 4. Toast not cut into soldiers or slices

Using a cheese grater instead of an eggcup was the first mistake this diner made, according to Reddit users on the subreddit: r/casualuk.

But more were aghast at the 'avant-garde' way in which the man - who goes by the username panicky_in_the_uk - had spread the butter on his toast.

Instead of an even spread, the man had spread butter thickly over some parts of the bread, while leaving other parts lightly covered or completely dry.

Others were more upset about how the man had given himself a spoon and not a knife with which to spread the egg onto the toast and crack into the egg.

A few pointed out that the toast should also be in traditional 'soldiers' - ie strips of toast - instead of in one large slice as it would be too wide to dip the toast into the egg.

Etiquette expert William Hanson reveals the proper way to eat egg and soldiers Etiquette expert William Hanson weighed in to reveal how not to eat a boiled egg with toast - and how you should enjoy the traditional British dish. He said: 'Humans have been eating eggs in many forms since the Roman age and the boiled egg was one of the most popular and earliest forms. 'Today, usually with a boiled egg an egg cup would be used - again, a gift to society by the Romans. '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. 'The toast is an abomination too. Correctly, halves of toast would be served in a toast rack - halves cut diagonally, rather than width ways. 'When and if you are applying butter you do not slather the whole of the piece of bread. Instead you break off a small piece of bread and butter it as you go.' Advertisement

Reddit users lightheartedly mocked the man's breakfast for its uneven butter distribution, for having a spoon instead of a knife, and for not cutting his toast into slices or soldiers

The man shared the image of his boiled egg in a cheese grater on Reddit with the tongue-in-cheek caption: 'My local Tesco want 5 English pounds for an eggcup.

'£5! Do I look like Bill Gates? **** that. I'll improvise.'

The photo has now received more than 6,000 upvotes and more than 600 people have commented to mock the lackluster breakfast.

But his fellow Reddit users were more upset by the very uneven butter distribution on the toast and lack of knife to accompany the meal.

He replied to many of his critics to jokingly admonish them for failing to praise his 'creativity'.

The next day, he shared an image of his eggs sitting in a torn off piece of an egg box - but the cheese grater was still on the plate 'in case things go **** up'.

William Hanson has weighed in to give his verdict on the etiquette of eating such a breakfast exclusively for FEMAIL.

His verdict? 'An abomination'.