Oh, how the British Empire has fallen. What was once the most powerful nation on earth has been reduced to a small island full of people who seem to exist solely to produce comedy shows for us to rip off. And now, it turns out, the British people have to suffer the further indignity of having us know that they can't do simple tasks such as boiling an egg properly. The U.K.'s Lion Quality Eggs has been developing eggs that even the slowest-witted Britons can use: eggs with labels that appear on them when they're done being cooked. Simply choose how you like your eggs boiled (hard, medium, or soft), then put 'em in boiling water and wait for the label to magically tell you when to take them out. Unfortunately, there's no egg in development that'll fry or scramble itself, so it looks like our friends across the pond are stuck with boiled eggs until they finally take the time to learn to cook. Don't feel too bad, Brits. We Americans need our cell phones to tell us what to eat, so we aren't exactly geniuses. — Adam Frucci

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