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Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:As anyone seen the muffin man?

The one on Drury Lane?!

Cheesecat wrote:I thought they were called crumpets.

Nah, this is a crumpet


They are mostly holey and have a spongey texture whereas muffins have no holes and have a bread like interior.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:I thought they were called crumpets.

Nah, this is a crumpet


They are mostly holey and have a spongey texture whereas muffins have no holes and have a bread like interior.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

Oh, thanks.

corpsesarefun wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:I thought they were called crumpets.

Nah, this is a crumpet


They are mostly holey and have a spongey texture whereas muffins have no holes and have a bread like interior.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

The first picture appears to be what we in America call an " English Muffin"...but then again so does the second. one.


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alarmingrick wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:As anyone seen the muffin man?

The one on Drury Lane?!

...Damn...choked on coffee..

AWW Crumpets aka as pikelets
yum yum

No good sir, pikelets are pancakes of the same holey nature as crumpets whereas crumpets are thick

I quickly googled it, pikelet is also a word for crumpet so my bad.

FITZZ wrote:

corpsesarefun wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:I thought they were called crumpets.

Nah, this is a crumpet


They are mostly holey and have a spongey texture whereas muffins have no holes and have a bread like interior.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

The first picture appears to be what we in America call an " English Muffin"...but then again so does the second. one.

Yeah, was going to point out the same thing.

They're delicious no matter how you slice it, though.

Oh and when I say crumpets are like sponge I do not mean the cake, I mean a literal sea sponge

The article pointed out that the $16 muffins were likely someone playing with their expense statement, milking their per dium for meals.

"In fact, it's obvious that someone quite carefully calculated the amount they were allowed to spend and then gave the hotel a budget. The hotel agreed, but for some reason decided to divide up the charges into just a few categories instead of writing a detailed invoice for every single piece of food they provided."

Starbucks charges $4 for their muffins, I think. I haven't had one. Most I've paid is probably $3.

corpsesarefun wrote:No good sir, pikelets are pancakes of the same holey nature as crumpets whereas crumpets are thick

You have lost me there
From what I can make out there are regional variations. Pikelets were slightly different but we called crumpets pikelets so that is what they are.
You are saying a carp is not a fish because it isn't a pike.


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corpsesarefun wrote:

Cheesecat wrote:I thought they were called crumpets.

Nah, this is a crumpet


They are mostly holey and have a spongey texture whereas muffins have no holes and have a bread like interior.

That is what we call an English Muffin over here. they are quite tasty with butter and jelly, odd for british fare

they are quite tasty with butter and jelly

We would never put this


on a crumpet especially not with butter

That would be silly

So how do americans differentiate between preserves and jam?

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

they are quite tasty with butter and jelly

We would never put this


on a crumpet especially not with butter

That would be silly

That is what we call Jell-o. yes, a brand name has become common useage term for an object.


Jelly and Jam basically refer to preserved fruits. Jell-o refers to flavored Gelatin deserts.



But now that you mention it, jell-o might taste darn good on a toasted bagel

Preserves is just a more generic term that I've heard used to describe jam or jelly.

Jam has chunks, jelly does not.

What Chibi linked is jello or flavored gelatin (really, everyone just calls it jello, hooray for trademark dilution!)

Oh jam always has pieces of fruit in it here, unless its really low quality.

mattyrm wrote: This story is amusing. Its nice to see that everyone takes the piss out of the tax payer. In the UK, the NHS getc charged £8 for a lightbulb, and in the US, they paid ...

Usually these things happen when you have a minimum order charge, if someone bought 20 lightbulbs it would have been £10, but someone hasn't appreciated that before making an order with the registered supplier. They don't pay £8 for every lightbulb.

But as for a muffin, I think I've paid £1.50 tops.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

they are quite tasty with butter and jelly

We would never put this


on a crumpet especially not with butter

That would be silly

That looks like Jello not jelly.
Edit: already zoinked.

Another rule:
jelly- you bought it at the store. Home made djelly is when you went out with your mom and picked the berries yourself and its good even when its not.
Preserves-your grandmother made it, and its eight times more awesome. Its so awesome and sweet your eyeballs threaten to pop out if you eat more than a teaspoon of it. WARNING: if you eat preserves - specifically PBand J- and "sweet tea" at the same time you WiLL have a diabetic attack. Just accept it.

Frazzled wrote:

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:

they are quite tasty with butter and jelly

We would never put this


on a crumpet especially not with butter

That would be silly

That looks like Jello not jelly.

He's from England, lets cut him some slack

Wibble wobble
Wibble wobble
Jelly on a plate








or my man boobs when going over a speed bump.

feth me but this is complicated.

My nanna always called crumpets pikelets. I presume they are the same thing. Muffins are the bready things, and the muffins im talking about here we call American muffins.

Basically it seems like English language is very tribal, and the names of things change hugely if you live an hour away from someone, let alone another country.

And Jelly in America is Jam. Peanut butter and Jelly is peanut butter and Jam. And we do indeed put it on crumpets and muffins and such like, have you never had a scone with jam and butter?

Regardless. You are all wrong because I am from Middlesbrough and we speak the proper English like what I does.

English is a living language and as such there will NEVER be a proper way to speak it.

Only a dead language can have hard and fast rules that won't change.


And American English is the dominant form of English and as such will become the main way to speak it. Indeed, English shall be the language that continues to the end of time. I don't know if I should laugh or weep?

mattyrm wrote: feth me but this is complicated.

My nanna always called crumpets pikelets. I presume they are the same thing. Muffins are the bready things, and the muffins im talking about here we call American muffins.

Basically it seems like English language is very tribal, and the names of things change hugely if you live an hour away from someone, let alone another country.

And Jelly in America is Jam. Peanut butter and Jelly is peanut butter and Jam. And we do indeed put it on crumpets and muffins and such like, have you never had a scone with jam and butter?

Regardless. You are all wrong because I am from Middlesbrough and we speak the proper English like what I does.

now be aware dern ferrener that in the states jam, and jelly are different things. Hence the phrase "must be jelly 'cause jam don't shake like that."

I know the world's economy is rather shakey ATM but it's taking things too far if you economise to the extent of using the same name for two different things.

mattyrm wrote:
Regardless. You are all wrong because I am from Middlesbrough and we speak the proper English like what I does.

I'm pretty jelly.

I had a 5$ muffin from a local place. It was as big as 2 of my fists and super moist, though, so it was totally worth it.

Chibi Bodge-Battle wrote:English muffins are totally different Melissa
they are more like teacakes and eaten with savouries, often at breakfast

We get the American Muffins too but they are not as large as the one you posted.
No wonder obesity is an issue if muffins are that big.

We call those biscuits.

For reference:



The American biscuit is on the left, although from my experience it usually has a domed top, but it's irrelevant. The right is, of course, the English biscuit.

No, no, no.

Your biscuits are like our scones.


Breakfast muffins have a flluffy white interior much like freshly baked bread.

I guess it depends on where in the US they're made then, as biscuits here can basically be described as "tiny breads" Then again, even our bread is probably different...

No buscuits are not muffins
Buscuits are buscuits
Scones are cakes

Muffins are as Corpses describes like a bread
here seen served with eggs benedict