What to UK people call English muffins?

"MrDakka" (mrdakka) 07/22/2018 at 12:08 • Filed to: None

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Was eating some of these and thought to myself, they wouldn’t call them English muffins do they?

I like cars: Jim Spanfeller is one ugly motherfucker > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 12:17

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Google says they call them American Muffins...

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 12:21

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dunno what that is.... but it aint a muffin

4muddyfeet - bare knuckle with an EZ30 > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 12:22

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Muffins or English Muffins. Sometimes the distinction is necessary as 'Muffin' has become synonymous with the American sweet cake muffin.

farscythe - makin da cawfee! > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 12:24

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scones maybe?

tbh i think its just some shit you muricans made and are now trying to blame on us :p

promoted by the color red > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 12:28

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Banger in the mouth

MrDakka > promoted by the color red 07/22/2018 at 12:31

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I thought bangers were sausages. At least that's what I gathered from bangers and mash

Svend > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 12:34

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This was brought up a while back too.

We call them muffins or breakfast muffins, but nothing English about them as several of us only came about these muffins at McDonalds as we grew up with crumpets or rolls, breakfast rolls/baps. 

LOREM IPSUM > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 12:38

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Delicious. They call them delicious.

HammerheadFistpunch > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 12:47

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facw > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 13:06

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According to Wikipedia :

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English muffins are sold in all British supermarkets and many bakeries and are referred to as simply muffins . U.S.-style muffins may be referred to as American muffins for clarity or branding purposes, but most people have no problems distinguishing one from the other and use the same word for both. 

415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 13:13

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Crumpets

Svend > LOREM IPSUM 07/22/2018 at 13:27

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Nope, really don’t.

It’s one thing at a McDonalds breakfast because they don’t do burgers until 10:30am but they are too dry and ‘claggy’. 

ttyymmnn > promoted by the color red 07/22/2018 at 13:28

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Bang her... I hardly know her!

LOREM IPSUM > Svend 07/22/2018 at 13:33

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McDonald’s should never be used as a point of reference to determine whether one likes something or not.   

promoted by the color red > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 13:38

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It is, this is an Arrested Development reference.

Svend > LOREM IPSUM 07/22/2018 at 14:09

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That’s what I’m saying. Before McDonalds, I’d never seen a muffin like that, then to hear Americans call them English Muffins, ‘I’m like, nope, no they ar en’t ’.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 14:21

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My immediate  family calls them “Welsh Muffins”, but they’re not really British. They’re some kind of abomination based loosely on a crumpet.

LOREM IPSUM > Svend 07/22/2018 at 14:21

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I blame the Thomas' for their century of lies.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > farscythe - makin da cawfee! 07/22/2018 at 14:24

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Not even close to a scone. They’re probably related to a crumpet. Like some American housewife couldn’t make a crumpet properly from a recipe  and *bam* next thing you know all the Americans are calling them “English Muffins”.

Svend > LOREM IPSUM 07/22/2018 at 14:26

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‘the Thomas’?

There is a museum in the states and one of the exhibits it talks about mustard, and it says ‘ the British take regular mustard baths’ . Erm, nope.

LOREM IPSUM > Svend 07/22/2018 at 14:31

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These folks have been misleading us for upwards of 135 years, apparently.

Eric @ opposite-lock.com > 415s30 W123TSXWaggoIIIIIIo ( •_•))°) 07/22/2018 at 14:32

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They’re not crumpets.

Svend > LOREM IPSUM 07/22/2018 at 14:57

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We do have a muffin, but it’s not the same as what America says it is.

We would call them a barm or ‘oven bottom muffin’ and is more like a bread roll.

I think the U.K. muffin went to America, where the recipe changed over time but it somehow kept or gained the name English Muffin. 

LOREM IPSUM > Svend 07/22/2018 at 15:00

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But do they have the nooks and crannies? Without the nooks and crannies, I think it might just be bread. Or so we’ve been led to believe anyway.

Nooks and crannies. Nooks and crannies.... You say it enough, and it starts to lose all meaning.

Svend > LOREM IPSUM 07/22/2018 at 15:15

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Here, ‘nooks and crannies’ means like corners and crevices.

I suppose you could say the oven bottom muffins had crannies in the top.

Though, ‘the original nooks and crannies English muffins’ just sounds made up, to give some artificial history.

Strangely a U.S. English muffin, cut open looks like a crumpet. Though a crumpet is not sliced open.

MrDakka > Svend 07/22/2018 at 15:59

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So American crumpets?

Also do you eat them with tea?

MrDakka > LOREM IPSUM 07/22/2018 at 16:00

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They’ ve been supplying us with fake crumpets?

Svend > MrDakka 07/22/2018 at 20:04

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I don’t think it’s even a crumpet.

You have them toasted for breakfast with butter and/or jam. You can if you so desire top them with a couple of slices of bacon and a fried egg.

Crumpets can also be eaten as a snack, the same way you might make some toast or have a bowl of cereal.