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Fox News Egg Plate refers to a series of jokes and memes based on a plate of sunnyside up eggs featured onscreen in a Fox News interview. Many mocked the order, which consisted of 10 eggs, for what some perceived as being extravagant.

Origin

On May 8th, 2019, Twitter ^[1] user @revrrlewis posted a screenshot from an interview from Fox News. In the screenshot, a man in a Donald Trump hat sits in front of a plate of about 10 eggs. The post received more than 275 retweets and 1,800 likes in 24 hours (shown below, left).

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That morning, Vox journalist Aaron Rupar shared the whole video, adding the caption, "Holy crap! Check out how many eggs this Trump fan had on his plate during an interview with Fox & Friends at a Milwaukee diner" (shown below).

Holy crap! Check out how many eggs this Trump fan had on his plate during an interview with Fox & Friends at a Milwaukee diner pic.twitter.com/X8OFusIv6z

— Aaron Rupar (@atrupar) May 8, 2019

That morning, Twitter^[2] user @arlenparsa tweeted, "Fox News is interviewing a man who is eating ten eggs this morning." The tweet received more than 2,100 retweets and 14,000 likes in 24 hours (shown below, left). Twitter user @IAmSpilly tweeted, "Sorry, I can’t stop laughing at the 27 goddamn eggs on his plate."

That morning, @revrrlewis tweeted^[3] another photograph from the report that featured more diner patrons with a plate of 10 eggs. They captioned the post, "fox nation's most compelling television to-date has been an extra sighting of the ten egg breakfast from this morning." The post received more than 115 retweets and 1,000 likes in 24 hours (shown below, right).

Twitter^[4] user @arleparsa tweeted a photoshop of the interview screenshot, replacing the patron with Gaston from the 1991 animated film Beauty and the Beast. The post received more than 220 retweets and 1,600 likes in 24 hours (shown below).

That morning, Splinter News^[5] published a report on the eggs positing the possibility that the eggs were a prop used by Fox News as table dressing. In their report, the site notes several pieces of information, including a follow-up shot of the original patron in which his table is clear of eggs and a gif by Fox News' interview Todd Piro in which the eggs are visible (shown below).

This boomerang symbolizes the food at a diner. I am at a diner. In Milwaukee. The Amy Klobuchar Town Hall on foxnews</a> is in Milwaukee tonight. We are talking to folks here about that and the topics of the day. Join us on <a href="https://twitter.com/foxandfriends?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">foxandfriends. #breakfastwithfriends @amyklobuchar pic.twitter.com/tgoTpXCbeC

— Todd Piro (@ToddPiro) May 8, 2019

Splinter News spoke with Kathy Vassallo one of the diner's owners. They wrote, "t the staff “cooked up the food” and then let employees eat it after filming concluded. Kathy said that a 10-egg plate is an integral part of “The King” challenge at Johnny V’s, which is an eating challenge comprised of: 10 eggs, 8 pancakes, 1 pound of hash browns, 3 sausages, 3 pieces of bacon, 1 piece of ham, Texas Toast (unspecified amount)." They continued:

Kathy surmised that the diner staff was going to try and have someone attempt the King for the segment, but that there weren’t enough people there (Fox & Friends tapes pretty early and the diner opened at 5 a.m. to accommodate).

Several media outlets covered the breakfast, including Uproxx,^[6] The Daily Dot, ^[7] LAD Bible,^[8] Grub Street^[9] and more.

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