An obscure invention by an even more obscure man by the name of Charles de Gaulle, the egg cup has transformed breakfast from a painstaking and primitive ritual into the modern institution we know today. Proponents of the slippery slope theory argue that without egg cups, corporate America could no longer consider breakfast the "most important meal of the day." The drop in egg sales and cholesterol levels would topple capitalism, result in a new world of workers' councils, an alarming increase of people named "Woody," and Jefferson Airplane on the radio at all times. Not that that's a bad thing.