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Plenty of American inventions have changed history. Our friends across the Atlantic can lay claim to introducing us to everything from the microwave oven and the email to the mobile phone and the light bulb.

But among all of the brilliant ideas that have shaped the modern world, there is one very important device that Americans have not yet cottoned on to.

Apparently, they have no clue what an egg cup is - and the internet is not happy about it.

Scottish games programmer @Innesmck made the shocking discovery, taking to Twitter to share his surprise.

"I've just been informed Americans do not have egg cups and I am so angry rn,” he wrote.

“This is almost as bad as when I found out you don't all have kettles, what the actual f***,” he added.

But the outrage didn’t stop there. The Twitter user continued his rant in a series of angry tweets, asking Americans to reveal "what their game is" when it comes to tucking into a soft boiled egg.

The best brunches in London - in pictures 25 show all The best brunches in London - in pictures 1/25 Kolamba Far from starting the weekend quietly, Kolamba kicks it off with a bang. “Big flavours from a small island”, says the Sri Lankan restaurant, and its menu doesn’t get any more timid at brunchtime. Its granola is toasted with kithul palm syrup and served with mango puree and turmeric coconut yoghurt, and kithul is used again to glaze the bacon served with its a bowl-shaped hopper pancake, finished with a fried egg at the centre. Alternatively, string hoppers (rice flour noodles) come in a turmeric gravy with egg hodhi and spicy pol sambol relish, and guests are encouraged to order sides of monkfish and parripu red lentil curries. 2/25 Eggbreak How do you like your eggs in the morning? At Notting Hill’s Eggbreak, you can get them in pretty much any way imaginable. Keep it traditional with an eggs Benedict topped with brown butter hollandaise and hardwood smoked bacon, get a little fancy with burrata and truffle scrambled eggs on top of challah bread with chives, or get a little filthy with the “Spicy piggy Bun”, which features a Gochujang-spiced pork patty, homemade chilli jam, a fried egg and American cheese, all squished into a potato brioche bun. Even better? The restaurant serves its egg-centric menu up until 3pm every day that they're open – in the evenings, the Notting Hill dining room transforms into a the new location for Indian restaurant Tandoor Chop House. 3/25 Barboun Levantine restaurant Barboun is bringing a bit of morning goodness to Shoreditch. Fruits and grains get care and attention, as coconut porridge is topped with orange and grapefruit, and banana pancakes are drizzled with tahini cream and scattered with almonds. Turkish eggs – a dish of poached eggs steeped in thick yoghurt and chilli butter – leads the way, while a menu of flatbreads come topped with the likes of pastirma ham, kasar cheese and iskender sauce, as well as whipped cod’s roe with black olive and dill. Leave room for burma baklava: walnuts are drenched in cinnamon syrup and rolled in filo pastry for an exhilaratingly sweet finale. 4/25 Jikoni Ravinder Bhogal’s cooking is clever, different and defiantly multicultural – and the brunch menu is no different. Tamarind and maple-glazed bacon is served with fenugreek waffles and fennel slaw, while a spicy fish cake is topped with a poached egg and curry hollandaise. More favourites from Jikoni are also on the menu at brunchtime, including the prawn toast scotch egg, which is served with banana ketchup and pickled cucumber. 5/25 Kudu One of the highlights of Peckham’s pickings, the brunch at South African-inspired Kudu is just as sprightly as the rest of its acclaimed menu. Sourdough waffles come with home cured bacon or trout, and a brioche roll is stuffed to breaking point with densely meaty, spiced boerewors sausage, fried egg, German mustard and crunchy frazzled onions. Even if you’re not one for a sweet brunch, leave room to share the babka after – served as French toast, the chocolate-swirled brioche is topped with hazelnuts, candied kumquats and lashings of miso-infused caramel. 6/25 Gloria The Italians are experts in luxurious and leisurely dining experiences – this popular trattoria may be run by two Frenchmen, but they’ve got the atmosphere on the nose for an indulgent Mediterranean brunch. Within the bounds of Gloria’s decadent Capri-inspired decor, weekend diners can tuck into a compact afternoon menu: the eggs alla Fiorentina tops warm brioche with poached eggs, spinach and hollandaise salsa, and allows diners to add 18-month Tuscan ham as an extra, while the “Big Boy French Toast” comes smothered with mascarpone whipped cream and raspberries. 7/25 Allegra This is brunch, elevated – and in more ways than one. Patrick Powell’s restaurant sits part-way up Manhattan Gardens in Stratford, at the point where the gravity-defying skyscraper appears to have had a chunk sliced out of it. As delicately balanced as both the building and the rest of Powell’s menus, brunch dishes include Cornish crab with potato latke, pickled fennel and sesame, and cod brandade with poached egg, pickled onion and light-as-a-feather potato chips. For something with a little more oomph, go for the drool-inducing black pudding burger with pickles and shallots – the ultimate fancy hangover food. 8/25 Granger & Co Queues out the door at all Granger & Co’s restaurants can be seen of a brunch time, as Londoners flock to try Bill Granger’s bright and breezy dishes – he is, after all, the man credited with the avocado toast's gobsmacking popularity. Tuck a Fresh Aussie, featuring jasmine tea hot smoked salmon, poached eggs, furikake and avocado, or for a sweet something, order the famed ricotta hotcakes, topped with slices of banana and a good drenching of honeycomb butter. 9/25 Honey & Smoke Middle Eastern cuisine has made a big impact on London’s brunch scene in recent years, and Israeli duo Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich do both brilliantly at their Fitzrovia grill house Honey & Smoke. Shakshuka is naturally on offer on the brunch menu, alongside sabich pittas filled with Italian aubergines and fried egg dressed with a chilli garlic dressing and tahini, as well as a grilled peach salad dressed with almond tahini, smoked almonds and thyme honey. Brunch cocktails are available too, including a “Honey & Smokarita” made with tequila and smoked honey, as well as a Ramallah mule with vodka, ginger beer and dried Persian lime. 10/25 Berber & Q Berber & Q fans will know the restaurant for its slow-cooked meats, but a largely vegetarian brunch menu shows a different side to the barbecue restaurants talents. There's just two items on the menu: Middle-Easter favourite shakshuka sees poached eggs swim in Spanish-influenced piperade sauce with feta and chilli, while The Full Israeli — for two to share — is an enlivening platter of hummus, honeyed feta, boiled eggs, avocado, roasted beetroot and much more. Those craving a meaty morning can add merguez sausages on the side, while the restaurant also offers its full lunch menu alongside. 11/25 The Good Egg The array of brightly flavoured dishes at these Middle Eastern-influenced restaurants – one in Soho and one up north in Stoke Newington – are sure to spark up a morning. The offering includes pita and challah for dipping in labneh, butterbean hummus and more. Unsurprisingly, eggs are also a major player: you'll find shakshuka with za'atar sourdough, and an egg and cheese bagel with chilli, chive and smoked cheddar. Bagel fans should head to the Stoke Newington branch where there is a whole menu dedicated to the Montreal version. 12/25 Milk If you know, you know – and a lot of south Londoners know about Milk. Balham’s neighbourhood brunch hero has built up a cult following over the years, with the resulting queues resulting in its diminutive, rustic quarters needing to spill out onto al fresco tables. Go green with the Gaia, which tops toast with avocado and bay carrot puree, along with pickled courgettes and pumpkin seed pesto, or get the full morning-after treatment with the Convict muffin, which comes topped with a Gloucester Old Spot pork patty, bacon, egg, Lincolnshire poacher cheese and “hangover sauce”. 13/25 Darcie & May Green Brunch is great, but brunch on a boat is even better. Aussie-inspired spot Darcie & May Green welcomes brunchers on board all week long, allowing them to dine in the unique surrounds of a barge decorated by legendary pop artist Sir Peter Blake. Fresh flavours come in the form of sweetcorn fritters and poached eggs served with veggies including smashed avocado and corn ribs, as well as Graceburn feta and a habanero and almond puree. Meat-craving diners can tuck into The Bondi, a fry-up featuring chilli and fennel sausage and activated charcoal sourdough toast. If you’re concerned about the sturdiness of your sea legs after last night’s escapades, don’t worry, the boat doesn’t move. 14/25 Chicama Peruvian bites and pretty pastel colours make Chelsea haunt Chicama a particularly pleasant brunch spot. Fish is the focus here, but expect more than the standard salmon and scrambled eggs. Breakfast-like dishes on the menu include sweetcorn pancakes with crab, ají amarillo hollandaise and pickled chilli, alongside a brioche bun filled with fish and red cabbage. If you're craving salmon, have it here in its ceviche form, with turmeric and chilli-marinated pineapple, fried leeks and avocado. A must-order is an opening snack of savoury tapioca marshmallows, that are flavoured with parmesan, fried and served with ocopa sauce. 15/25 Caravan What you eat at Caravan will depend on how virtuous you’re feeling. Fresh fruits and almond milk overnight oats rub shoulders with eggs, spreads or smashed avocado with soy pumpkin seeds. Alternatively, there’s fried jalapeno cornbread with fried egg and chorizo, the house fry-up or a stack of vanilla pancakes with date molasses and stewed apple. The restaurant also famously roasts its own coffee, so a cup of java or an Espresso Martini with your meal is a must. The brand boasts restaurants across the capital, and west Londoners can also check out sister digs Vardo in Chelsea. 16/25 Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings Brunch is the best time to be at Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings: light and bright industrial-chic surroundings are bedecked with tumbling cascades of greenery, making it an invigorating spot for refuelling (alongside a glass of prosecco or three). Brunch is a classic affair with contemporary twists: a "huevos benedictos" option is on offer alongside your average Benedict and Royale, topping poached eggs with chorizo, avocado, béarnaise sauce, pico de gallo, while courgette pancakes come with roasted tomato and a caper dressing. 17/25 Lantana Café This Antipodean cafe group serves up indulgent yet reasonably healthy brunches, with a menu spanning corn fritters with avocado, streaky bacon and fresh spinach to a duck hash made with sweet potato, edamame beans, kale and a plum ketchup. Vegetarians are also well served with wild mushrooms and poached egg on toast, served with sun-blushed tomato, white bean hummus and a shallot crumb. Add on bottomless prosecco or mimosas to any brunch option for an extra £30. 18/25 Pizza East Can’t decide between a fancy members club and McDonald’s for brunch? Pizza East has got you. The Shoreditch pizzeria from the Soho House team has recently revamped its brunch menus, which feature an Italian-American twist on some London breakfast favourites. The “Full PE” fry-up features datterini tomatoes, pancetta, Tuscan sausage, cannellini beans and focaccia, and the “PE muffin” comes neatly filled with a fennel sausage patty, a fried egg and chilli, in a manner that bears striking resemblance to a famed breakfast item sold by a certain fast food outlet… 19/25 Mac and Wild Brunch at Scottish restaurant Mac and Wild is no wee undertaking. Its passion for meat and game from north of the border is played out in the Full Scottish breakfast: consuming bacon, a homemade tattie scone, haggis, Lorne sausage, black pudding, bone marrow beans and more is a considerable endeavour. If you’re not quite full, however, Big Jim’s breakfast doubles up most of the meat on offer and adds two slices of venison toast for good measure. If you’re not quite up to Big Jim’s challenge, the mega brunch can also be ordered to share. The brunch menu is currently only available at its Devonshire Square restaurant. 20/25 Dirty Bones Do it NYC-style at Dirty Bones, which has reopened its Soho and Kensington restaurants and is ready to throw a brunch party. There’s no clean eating here: fried chicken thighs and fried eggs top waffles drenched in maple syrup; crumpets come with poached-egg and 12-hour-cooked short rib, and a buttermilk pancake stack comes with fresh clotted cream, blueberries and yet more maple syrup. For £14, diners can also enjoy a package of three brunch cocktails, with options including an espresso martini and a Hip Monkey, made with rum, red vermouth, and Ting grapefruit soda. 21/25 Dishoom - WEEKEND BREAKFAST If I told you 10 years ago that the most famous dish on a London Indian restaurant’s menu was a bacon sandwich, you wouldn’t have believed me. Dishoom changed all that, and showed Brits a thing or two about their cherished breakfast favourite. The restaurant’s version wraps bacon in a freshly baked naan with cream cheese, chilli sauce, coriander, and a fried egg if you so fancy. Its popular breakfast menu also includes kerijiwal, a dish of fried eggs atop the restaurant’s chilli cheese toast; akuri, which serves spiced scrambled eggs and tomato with house-baked soft bread buns. 22/25 The Wolseley - WEEKEND BREAKFAST The finest days – weekend ones or otherwise – begin at The Wolseley. The Piccadilly restaurant is the stuff of London breakfast legend: impeccable service, quietly superb food and an elegant room with an atmosphere that is at once grand and intimate, particular but unfussy. Among a menu of classics to suit all mornings, signature serves include omelette Arnold Bennett with haddock and hollandaise, and a rich portion of fried haggis with duck eggs and whisky sauce. Too much? If simpler starts call for caramelised pink grapefruit and a croissant, then that is exactly what you shall have. 23/25 Hide - WEEKEND BREAKFAST Ollie Dabbous's Michelin-starred restaurant used to dabble in brunch, but its currently catering for (slightly) earlier risers. The weekend breakfast menu at its more casual Ground dining room (head upstairs later in the day for tasting menus at Above) has all the usual suspects with some ingredient-led twists. Viennoiseries include a birch sap croissant and a Danish pastry flavoured with peach, almond milk and lemon verbena, while avocado on toast comes with Angelica seeds and chervil. There's a lot of luxury on offer too: the restaurant's signature croque monsieur comes with the option to add shaved black truffle, while Beluga caviar on toasted crystal bread is available for £240 per 30g. 24/25 Morito Hackney Road - WEEKEND BREAKFAST Cretan chef Marianna Leivaditaki heads up this Moro spin-off, with two sites in Exmouth Market and Hackney Road. The latter hosts relaxed weekend morning spreads packed with eastern Mediterranean treats. Leivaditaki’s breakfast menu takes the breakfast sandwich to the next level: sarnies come filled with the likes of tetilla cheese, Iberico lomo pork, summer truffle and quail’s eggs, or sujuk sausage with eggs and sweet peppers. Morning guests can also tuck into dishes of charred anthotyros cheese with fresh peaches and honey, or spicy Turkish menemen eggs. 25/25 Cafe Murano Bermondsey - WEEKEND BREAKFAST Angela Hartnett brought Cafe Murano – the charming casual offshoot to her Michelin-starred Italian restaurant – to Bermondsey late last year, and now she’s bringing breakfast with her too. On the weekend, tuck into lighter bites of roasted, thyme-laced mushrooms with focaccia, or cavolo nero and spring onion foccacia. Meaty treats include a chicken Milanese bun stuffed with slow-roasted tomatoes and spicy mayonnaise, and those looking to start with something sweet can enjoy chocolate croissants or a melon and strawberry fruit salad. 1/25 Kolamba Far from starting the weekend quietly, Kolamba kicks it off with a bang. “Big flavours from a small island”, says the Sri Lankan restaurant, and its menu doesn’t get any more timid at brunchtime. Its granola is toasted with kithul palm syrup and served with mango puree and turmeric coconut yoghurt, and kithul is used again to glaze the bacon served with its a bowl-shaped hopper pancake, finished with a fried egg at the centre. Alternatively, string hoppers (rice flour noodles) come in a turmeric gravy with egg hodhi and spicy pol sambol relish, and guests are encouraged to order sides of monkfish and parripu red lentil curries. 2/25 Eggbreak How do you like your eggs in the morning? At Notting Hill’s Eggbreak, you can get them in pretty much any way imaginable. Keep it traditional with an eggs Benedict topped with brown butter hollandaise and hardwood smoked bacon, get a little fancy with burrata and truffle scrambled eggs on top of challah bread with chives, or get a little filthy with the “Spicy piggy Bun”, which features a Gochujang-spiced pork patty, homemade chilli jam, a fried egg and American cheese, all squished into a potato brioche bun. Even better? The restaurant serves its egg-centric menu up until 3pm every day that they're open – in the evenings, the Notting Hill dining room transforms into a the new location for Indian restaurant Tandoor Chop House. 3/25 Barboun Levantine restaurant Barboun is bringing a bit of morning goodness to Shoreditch. Fruits and grains get care and attention, as coconut porridge is topped with orange and grapefruit, and banana pancakes are drizzled with tahini cream and scattered with almonds. Turkish eggs – a dish of poached eggs steeped in thick yoghurt and chilli butter – leads the way, while a menu of flatbreads come topped with the likes of pastirma ham, kasar cheese and iskender sauce, as well as whipped cod’s roe with black olive and dill. Leave room for burma baklava: walnuts are drenched in cinnamon syrup and rolled in filo pastry for an exhilaratingly sweet finale. 4/25 Jikoni Ravinder Bhogal’s cooking is clever, different and defiantly multicultural – and the brunch menu is no different. Tamarind and maple-glazed bacon is served with fenugreek waffles and fennel slaw, while a spicy fish cake is topped with a poached egg and curry hollandaise. More favourites from Jikoni are also on the menu at brunchtime, including the prawn toast scotch egg, which is served with banana ketchup and pickled cucumber. 5/25 Kudu One of the highlights of Peckham’s pickings, the brunch at South African-inspired Kudu is just as sprightly as the rest of its acclaimed menu. Sourdough waffles come with home cured bacon or trout, and a brioche roll is stuffed to breaking point with densely meaty, spiced boerewors sausage, fried egg, German mustard and crunchy frazzled onions. Even if you’re not one for a sweet brunch, leave room to share the babka after – served as French toast, the chocolate-swirled brioche is topped with hazelnuts, candied kumquats and lashings of miso-infused caramel. 6/25 Gloria The Italians are experts in luxurious and leisurely dining experiences – this popular trattoria may be run by two Frenchmen, but they’ve got the atmosphere on the nose for an indulgent Mediterranean brunch. Within the bounds of Gloria’s decadent Capri-inspired decor, weekend diners can tuck into a compact afternoon menu: the eggs alla Fiorentina tops warm brioche with poached eggs, spinach and hollandaise salsa, and allows diners to add 18-month Tuscan ham as an extra, while the “Big Boy French Toast” comes smothered with mascarpone whipped cream and raspberries. 7/25 Allegra This is brunch, elevated – and in more ways than one. Patrick Powell’s restaurant sits part-way up Manhattan Gardens in Stratford, at the point where the gravity-defying skyscraper appears to have had a chunk sliced out of it. As delicately balanced as both the building and the rest of Powell’s menus, brunch dishes include Cornish crab with potato latke, pickled fennel and sesame, and cod brandade with poached egg, pickled onion and light-as-a-feather potato chips. For something with a little more oomph, go for the drool-inducing black pudding burger with pickles and shallots – the ultimate fancy hangover food. 8/25 Granger & Co Queues out the door at all Granger & Co’s restaurants can be seen of a brunch time, as Londoners flock to try Bill Granger’s bright and breezy dishes – he is, after all, the man credited with the avocado toast's gobsmacking popularity. Tuck a Fresh Aussie, featuring jasmine tea hot smoked salmon, poached eggs, furikake and avocado, or for a sweet something, order the famed ricotta hotcakes, topped with slices of banana and a good drenching of honeycomb butter. 9/25 Honey & Smoke Middle Eastern cuisine has made a big impact on London’s brunch scene in recent years, and Israeli duo Sarit Packer and Itamar Srulovich do both brilliantly at their Fitzrovia grill house Honey & Smoke. Shakshuka is naturally on offer on the brunch menu, alongside sabich pittas filled with Italian aubergines and fried egg dressed with a chilli garlic dressing and tahini, as well as a grilled peach salad dressed with almond tahini, smoked almonds and thyme honey. Brunch cocktails are available too, including a “Honey & Smokarita” made with tequila and smoked honey, as well as a Ramallah mule with vodka, ginger beer and dried Persian lime. 10/25 Berber & Q Berber & Q fans will know the restaurant for its slow-cooked meats, but a largely vegetarian brunch menu shows a different side to the barbecue restaurants talents. There's just two items on the menu: Middle-Easter favourite shakshuka sees poached eggs swim in Spanish-influenced piperade sauce with feta and chilli, while The Full Israeli — for two to share — is an enlivening platter of hummus, honeyed feta, boiled eggs, avocado, roasted beetroot and much more. Those craving a meaty morning can add merguez sausages on the side, while the restaurant also offers its full lunch menu alongside. 11/25 The Good Egg The array of brightly flavoured dishes at these Middle Eastern-influenced restaurants – one in Soho and one up north in Stoke Newington – are sure to spark up a morning. The offering includes pita and challah for dipping in labneh, butterbean hummus and more. Unsurprisingly, eggs are also a major player: you'll find shakshuka with za'atar sourdough, and an egg and cheese bagel with chilli, chive and smoked cheddar. Bagel fans should head to the Stoke Newington branch where there is a whole menu dedicated to the Montreal version. 12/25 Milk If you know, you know – and a lot of south Londoners know about Milk. Balham’s neighbourhood brunch hero has built up a cult following over the years, with the resulting queues resulting in its diminutive, rustic quarters needing to spill out onto al fresco tables. Go green with the Gaia, which tops toast with avocado and bay carrot puree, along with pickled courgettes and pumpkin seed pesto, or get the full morning-after treatment with the Convict muffin, which comes topped with a Gloucester Old Spot pork patty, bacon, egg, Lincolnshire poacher cheese and “hangover sauce”. 13/25 Darcie & May Green Brunch is great, but brunch on a boat is even better. Aussie-inspired spot Darcie & May Green welcomes brunchers on board all week long, allowing them to dine in the unique surrounds of a barge decorated by legendary pop artist Sir Peter Blake. Fresh flavours come in the form of sweetcorn fritters and poached eggs served with veggies including smashed avocado and corn ribs, as well as Graceburn feta and a habanero and almond puree. Meat-craving diners can tuck into The Bondi, a fry-up featuring chilli and fennel sausage and activated charcoal sourdough toast. If you’re concerned about the sturdiness of your sea legs after last night’s escapades, don’t worry, the boat doesn’t move. 14/25 Chicama Peruvian bites and pretty pastel colours make Chelsea haunt Chicama a particularly pleasant brunch spot. Fish is the focus here, but expect more than the standard salmon and scrambled eggs. Breakfast-like dishes on the menu include sweetcorn pancakes with crab, ají amarillo hollandaise and pickled chilli, alongside a brioche bun filled with fish and red cabbage. If you're craving salmon, have it here in its ceviche form, with turmeric and chilli-marinated pineapple, fried leeks and avocado. A must-order is an opening snack of savoury tapioca marshmallows, that are flavoured with parmesan, fried and served with ocopa sauce. 15/25 Caravan What you eat at Caravan will depend on how virtuous you’re feeling. Fresh fruits and almond milk overnight oats rub shoulders with eggs, spreads or smashed avocado with soy pumpkin seeds. Alternatively, there’s fried jalapeno cornbread with fried egg and chorizo, the house fry-up or a stack of vanilla pancakes with date molasses and stewed apple. The restaurant also famously roasts its own coffee, so a cup of java or an Espresso Martini with your meal is a must. The brand boasts restaurants across the capital, and west Londoners can also check out sister digs Vardo in Chelsea. 16/25 Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings Brunch is the best time to be at Bourne & Hollingsworth Buildings: light and bright industrial-chic surroundings are bedecked with tumbling cascades of greenery, making it an invigorating spot for refuelling (alongside a glass of prosecco or three). Brunch is a classic affair with contemporary twists: a "huevos benedictos" option is on offer alongside your average Benedict and Royale, topping poached eggs with chorizo, avocado, béarnaise sauce, pico de gallo, while courgette pancakes come with roasted tomato and a caper dressing. 17/25 Lantana Café This Antipodean cafe group serves up indulgent yet reasonably healthy brunches, with a menu spanning corn fritters with avocado, streaky bacon and fresh spinach to a duck hash made with sweet potato, edamame beans, kale and a plum ketchup. Vegetarians are also well served with wild mushrooms and poached egg on toast, served with sun-blushed tomato, white bean hummus and a shallot crumb. Add on bottomless prosecco or mimosas to any brunch option for an extra £30. 18/25 Pizza East Can’t decide between a fancy members club and McDonald’s for brunch? Pizza East has got you. The Shoreditch pizzeria from the Soho House team has recently revamped its brunch menus, which feature an Italian-American twist on some London breakfast favourites. The “Full PE” fry-up features datterini tomatoes, pancetta, Tuscan sausage, cannellini beans and focaccia, and the “PE muffin” comes neatly filled with a fennel sausage patty, a fried egg and chilli, in a manner that bears striking resemblance to a famed breakfast item sold by a certain fast food outlet… 19/25 Mac and Wild Brunch at Scottish restaurant Mac and Wild is no wee undertaking. Its passion for meat and game from north of the border is played out in the Full Scottish breakfast: consuming bacon, a homemade tattie scone, haggis, Lorne sausage, black pudding, bone marrow beans and more is a considerable endeavour. If you’re not quite full, however, Big Jim’s breakfast doubles up most of the meat on offer and adds two slices of venison toast for good measure. If you’re not quite up to Big Jim’s challenge, the mega brunch can also be ordered to share. The brunch menu is currently only available at its Devonshire Square restaurant. 20/25 Dirty Bones Do it NYC-style at Dirty Bones, which has reopened its Soho and Kensington restaurants and is ready to throw a brunch party. There’s no clean eating here: fried chicken thighs and fried eggs top waffles drenched in maple syrup; crumpets come with poached-egg and 12-hour-cooked short rib, and a buttermilk pancake stack comes with fresh clotted cream, blueberries and yet more maple syrup. For £14, diners can also enjoy a package of three brunch cocktails, with options including an espresso martini and a Hip Monkey, made with rum, red vermouth, and Ting grapefruit soda. 21/25 Dishoom - WEEKEND BREAKFAST If I told you 10 years ago that the most famous dish on a London Indian restaurant’s menu was a bacon sandwich, you wouldn’t have believed me. Dishoom changed all that, and showed Brits a thing or two about their cherished breakfast favourite. The restaurant’s version wraps bacon in a freshly baked naan with cream cheese, chilli sauce, coriander, and a fried egg if you so fancy. Its popular breakfast menu also includes kerijiwal, a dish of fried eggs atop the restaurant’s chilli cheese toast; akuri, which serves spiced scrambled eggs and tomato with house-baked soft bread buns. 22/25 The Wolseley - WEEKEND BREAKFAST The finest days – weekend ones or otherwise – begin at The Wolseley. The Piccadilly restaurant is the stuff of London breakfast legend: impeccable service, quietly superb food and an elegant room with an atmosphere that is at once grand and intimate, particular but unfussy. Among a menu of classics to suit all mornings, signature serves include omelette Arnold Bennett with haddock and hollandaise, and a rich portion of fried haggis with duck eggs and whisky sauce. Too much? If simpler starts call for caramelised pink grapefruit and a croissant, then that is exactly what you shall have. 23/25 Hide - WEEKEND BREAKFAST Ollie Dabbous's Michelin-starred restaurant used to dabble in brunch, but its currently catering for (slightly) earlier risers. The weekend breakfast menu at its more casual Ground dining room (head upstairs later in the day for tasting menus at Above) has all the usual suspects with some ingredient-led twists. Viennoiseries include a birch sap croissant and a Danish pastry flavoured with peach, almond milk and lemon verbena, while avocado on toast comes with Angelica seeds and chervil. There's a lot of luxury on offer too: the restaurant's signature croque monsieur comes with the option to add shaved black truffle, while Beluga caviar on toasted crystal bread is available for £240 per 30g. 24/25 Morito Hackney Road - WEEKEND BREAKFAST Cretan chef Marianna Leivaditaki heads up this Moro spin-off, with two sites in Exmouth Market and Hackney Road. The latter hosts relaxed weekend morning spreads packed with eastern Mediterranean treats. Leivaditaki’s breakfast menu takes the breakfast sandwich to the next level: sarnies come filled with the likes of tetilla cheese, Iberico lomo pork, summer truffle and quail’s eggs, or sujuk sausage with eggs and sweet peppers. Morning guests can also tuck into dishes of charred anthotyros cheese with fresh peaches and honey, or spicy Turkish menemen eggs. 25/25 Cafe Murano Bermondsey - WEEKEND BREAKFAST Angela Hartnett brought Cafe Murano – the charming casual offshoot to her Michelin-starred Italian restaurant – to Bermondsey late last year, and now she’s bringing breakfast with her too. On the weekend, tuck into lighter bites of roasted, thyme-laced mushrooms with focaccia, or cavolo nero and spring onion foccacia. Meaty treats include a chicken Milanese bun stuffed with slow-roasted tomatoes and spicy mayonnaise, and those looking to start with something sweet can enjoy chocolate croissants or a melon and strawberry fruit salad.

Eventually, he concluded that, "We did not go through 300 million years of evolution to have an egg just roll around on a f****** plate."

Which is a fair point really. Every Brit knows an egg cup is an important tool for holding a dippy egg in place when you fancy chowing down on some yolky soldiers.

If you’re an American and you’re wondering what in the world we’re talking about, here’s one in action:

Thankfully, some American Twitter users were on hand to diffuse the situation, revealing that they actually don't really eat dippy eggs in America, but prefer to hard boil them so they don't require a cup.

Still, it sounds suspiciously a lot like they’re doing eggs all wrong.

Come on America, we're out here living in 2030.