Seems pretty basic to me and only good if you butter them.
Please don’t ascribe preference to other cultures. I’m british, and I had to google what you even meant by that. It’s a breakfast muffin, and they’re okay. I have one from time to time, no complaints, but I tend to order a breakfast wrap from McDonalds instead of a McMuffin.
The fact that it’s not a traditional part of a full English should tell you something.
“It’s ok” is the most accurate description possible I think.
Disclaimer: I’m not British (hello from the other side of the north sea), but I’ve spent enough time all over the UK to have eaten them.
I’d put it in the category of foods that some in a region probably enjoy, while being hard to find elsewhere. Like the deep fried Mars bar and cornish pasty: “It’s OK”
You take that back about cornish pasties! I don’t live in Cornwall anymore and that’s the one thing I miss the most from there food wise. I can get them where I am now but they are not the same.
I’m not taking it back. It is my firm opinion that they’re OK. I was just never very fond of meat + pastry/batter. I can see why some like them, but that combo was never part of my diet growing up, and as such, it ends up in the same category as Pie or Beef Wellington for me.
Sometime in the last 5-10 years, McD’s changed their English muffins. They used to be good, now they have a weird, too fluffy texture even if you get then extra toasted.
I’m British, and if you offered most British people “a muffin” they would assume you meant the American style sugar and oil affair. Some people do enjoy an “English muffin” but they’re not very popular, much less loved than crumpets, which themselves are probably below scones. The main use I see of them is as the base of Eggs Benedict, which works because they are basic and go well with butter. A white chocolate & blueberry muffin is a much more controversial paring for poached eggs and hollandaise.
Scones 👍
Did you pronounce that as ‘scone’ or ‘scone’?
Yes
I think it’s pronounced “scones”
scajones
Scones with strawberry jam and cream. Fuck yes.
As an Englishman I don’t even know what they are, I’ve only ever heard them mentioned on US television
You call them muffins, we call them english muffins. Because what we call muffins you apparently call buns.
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What we call an English Muffin. Which people from England have informed me they call a muffin.
What we call a Muffin. Which people from England have informed me they call a bun. Which yes is not eaten with butter, or jam, or anything else that you might spread on an English muffin.
You really don’t need to resort to personal attacks.
Those people were the weird ones, then. This is a bun.
If you do weird things, like mistaking muffins for bread rolls, I’m gonna call you weird. It’s not a personal attack, it’s an accurate description based on what I can see. You seem to have been misinformed, but are also trying to explain my own culture to me incorrectly, so I downvoted you. I think that’s fair.
My last message to you is that acting like that is a personal attack and you shouldn’t do that IRL or online.
You’re here trying to explain my own culture to me, and you’re not even right about it, and you’re upset I’m upset about it? Is the phrase “personal attack” just your way of demonising the consequences of your own actions?
Sigh, ok one more message. If you said “I think you are incorrect, we call this …” that would be fine and polite manners. But you didn’t do that. You went for a personal attack. Yes calling people weird is a personal attack. Ok I’m out.
Now you’re just making stuff up and putting words in other people’s months.
If something is called “[Nationality] [Food]” or similar, it’s probably not related to that nationality.
New York Fries isn’t from New York.
Boston Pizza is not from Boston.
Hawaiian pizza is not Hawaiian.
French fries aren’t French.
It’s just bread my dude. Nothing novel about it. It’s just bread in a round shape.
Do you like bread? Yes? Ok then eat it. Otherwise maybe you don’t like bread.
butter them
Too spicy!
That’s the plan.
And do they just call them muffins?
IMO they’re one of the better handles for Jimmy Dean microwave sandwiches because they hold together better. The croissants are also good. The biscuit disintegrates.
I use them for sandwiches. I’m American btw.
I eat 'em toasted with peanut butter for breakfast most days. Just got finished with one. I don’t know what the deal is, so I’m going to invent one: a medieval French chef sold his soul for the recipe and the English adopted them as a reminder that all French bakers should go to the devil!
The British call them crumpets. Yes that’s what a crumpet is, it’s an English muffin.
We have muffins and crumpets. Muffins are like little bready patty cake things, kinda dusty on the outside. Crumpets are the ones with all the holes in that kinda feel rubbery to the touch. Both are stinkin delicious.
This is a common misconception but they are not the same. Among other differences, their basic ingredients differ. Crumpets are made with milk and baking soda, while English muffins are made with dough and yeast or sourdough.
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