wednesday, 8:19am

[lagilman]

A mug of sweet, strong black coffee, and sharp cheddar on a toasted english muffin, while the rain comes down outside.

Sometimes it's important to just stop and appreciate the moment.



Right. Moment's over. Back to work.







and no, I don't know why it's called an 'english' muffin. I never saw one at any time while in england. but they're very good. crunchy. nooks and crannies were a marvelous invention and must be praised)

Comments

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

I think the gentleman who invented this style of muffin was either from england and owned a bakery shop in the states or his last name was English - I believe Joy of Cooking has a note about it. Or one of my bread baking books....

I might read cookbooks over breakfast. Its hard to keep them apart.

I prefer english muffins with butter and honey. And hot tea. Yum. Oh great. Now I have a craving.

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

If I'm not mistaken, as happens often, English muffin = crumpet. My guess is some American marketing firm decided fewer guys would buy Little Miss Muffet's crumpets and came up with the new name so as to not offend the manliness. But I am just the teeniest cynical that way....

"English" muffin...

[0eris0.livejournal.com]

It's an "english" muffin because...we're American...if you want a better explanation, that's just to bad i'nt it. We should all consider ourselves lucky that it wasn't renamed a "freedom" muffin in lieu of Blair leaving.

[nycdeb.livejournal.com]

j'adore English muffins. my mother and have been known to get quite stroppy with each other if there happens to be only one left in the house.

The origin of the delectable food stuff seems to be a matter of some debate (if my recollection is correct). There's the whole "Oh, it was Mr. Thomas" argument and there is the "a mistake made by an assistant cook who didn't know how to make a crumpet" theory. Possibly I shall delve deeper into it later today. Surely, it is a question for the ages.

edited to add: ah ha! History Of The English Muffin. Sure, there are a couple of other sites that have slightly different versions but this one seems to ring a bell with me. Interesting to me was the fact that “nooks and crannies” as a phrase was created as part of Thomas’s advertising campaign in the 1970s. I would have thought nooks and crannies were timeless.

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

Well, wasn't that interesting!

[lagilman]

Honey, mmm. But protein is needful in the morning, hence the cheddar.

Re: "English" muffin...

[lagilman]

Hush, you. Troublemaker.

[lagilman]

I remember that ad campaign, as well as the one they did about a decade later. Which was why I had the memory of an English baker named Thomas, but I am also jaded enough to assume that was the creation of an advertising flack.

The ex used to work for Thomas' parent company, and once did a stint in the bakery during a strike*, hauling trays of muffins. You appreciate them even more, once you know how much damn WORK it is.




*he was management, which meant he had no choice about crossing picket lines. If I remember correctly, his dad the UAW guy gave him much shit about that. *grin*

[smoemeth.livejournal.com]

Mmmmm. Good thing we've got 2 English muffins left, right here.

[hilleviw.livejournal.com]

Except of course, that a crumpet is entirely different from an English muffin, having in common only the nooks and crannies. The texture, shape, flavor...all decidedly unsimilar.

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

True. Very true.

Of course, I used to also eat them with butter and peanut butter on them. But then you need milk, instead of tea. And thats just not right for chilly winter mornings.

Wait. It was 50 degrees this morning. This weather is just so odd.

[lagilman]

nah, peanut butter goes on the celery. Cheddar for english muffins.

[libwitch.livejournal.com]

Ok, if you eat pb on celery, then I must try cheddar cheese on english muffins.

[logrusboy.livejournal.com]

Live and learn. Does spoil my whole marketing scam theory though. Oh well.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

In England and have no idea. A quick canvass among the speaking members of the household reveals 'I think it's a New York thing.' Here, they're just called muffins, but we never eat them, out of a purely personal preference: we have crumpets instead, with marmite*

(*a whole other issue, as you know.)

[fakefrenchie.livejournal.com]

eeeeeeuuuuuw! Marmite! eeeeeeuuuuuuuw.

[mevennen.livejournal.com]

Marmite: once described by someone at the Milford SF workshop as 'scrapings from the devil's butt crack.' A quite wrong and misguided view, of course.