Pies, puddings, biscuits and tarts + rolls, buns, muffins, ...

[joywitch_m_curmudgeon]

bboy:
> > Now we come to the muffin. A muffin is like a cup cake. 

eloise:

> Yep. As I think I indicated, we're very familiar with these over 
> here now. In fact I have a packet of blueberry muffins in the
> kitchen as I speak.

Just to confuse matters, we Americans also eat these things 
called "English Muffins" which are totally unlike the cupcake looking 
things that are every other kind of muffin.  English muffins are 
round and flattish, not sweet, and when you slice them in half they 
have a lot of holes and look (and taste) a little bit like a crumpet 
(which we DON'T have here, but I had one once in some Ye Olde English 
Pub type place.)  Toasted English muffins are yummy with butter on 
them because you get pools of hot butter in the little holes.  I'm 
not much of a bread eater, but there are times when I HAVE to have an 
English muffin with butter and jam.  Oh, and only the kind made by 
Thomas are any good -- the other brands are just not the same.  
Thomas's commercials show this Dickensian scene of London, with Mr. 
Thomas making his famous muffins, but knowing how advertising works 
they could just as easy come from Tuscaloosa and be completely 
foreign to England.  Please enlighten me.

--Joywitch