Not to sperg or anything too hard; but a lot of Americans, especially the younger generations have no idea how to cook. I don't mean you need to be a Gordon Ramsay 3+ course meal either, I mean simple shit. Personal anecdote, when I was trying to date, would do speed dating every now and then; would ask a girl how many ways she knows how to cook an egg, they only knew "scrambled." I don't want to say there's some malicious hand making us retarded nigger cattle... but when I see the pre-wrapped hard-boiled eggs, I can't feel any other way.
(which by the way 9-12 minutes at a rolling boil for hard-boil, 6-8 minutes for a soft-boil)