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Muffins?
I'm not sure I've ever seen an advert for a muffin
Just in case it's not obvious, they mean an English muffin, a kind of flat bread roll. In the UK that's what they sell for breakfast at McDonald's (sausage and egg, bacon and egg etc).
You know, this is the first time I've witnessed a country refer to something we call [country] [thing] as just [thing]
A sausage and egg McMuffin does not look like a muffin. It actually does look like an English muffin because that's what it is.
Oh course the McMuffin is served on a muffin. But when I just hear “muffin” by itself I don’t think of the sandwich including sausage and egg and cheese and whatnot. You have to actually say “McMuffin” to conjure that image. Otherwise I just think of a plain English muffin.
It would be like if they said they were banning advertisements for buns. While a hamburger is typically served on a bun, just saying bun alone doesn’t really include the entire sandwich. I could serve a hamburger in a lettuce wrap, or on sliced sourdough or something other than a bun. If McDonald’s served their sausage and egg on a lettuce wrap, would that circumvent this ad ban?
Reading this comment thread has made Muffin lose all meaning. Isn't it such a funny word when you think about it
Muffin...
Yes. I agree 🤭
Football.
That's just the rest of you calling it American, not ir being actually called American football /s
Oooh right of course. I've not had a maccies breakfast in a while and kinda forgot. Most breakfast places I've ever been to just sell "baps", "rolls" or "butties" even if they end up serving it on a muffin roll
Lol. Most English people don't even know what an English Muffin is, they are less common there then they are in the US.
Citation needed
They are an American invention and are way more popular here than in England. They exist in England, they are marketed as "muffins", but they aren't terribly popular.
(Finding English muffin sales data is harder then I had expected.)
I'm English, I assure you people here eat them all the time!
Are you sure they were invented in America? That seems very unlikely to be true so I googled it, wikipedia says recipes for muffins appeared as early as 1747 in English cookbooks...
You know, after further research I am now second guessing myself. It's something I have always been told, and half of it is from family who were living in England saying that almost nobody eats them.
Now I am wondering if my assertion is only based on half facts and anecdotal evidence.
As for the invention itself, I can only find evidence of vague recipes that don't seem to representative of the English muffin we know today.
I think the sourdough variety had a popular brand started in San Francisco in the early to mid 1900s, I think sometimes that gets mixed up with being the first instead of being a popular version that wasn't really available elsewhere to Americans last century.
Deep lore of B server
Like a mcdonalds mcmuffin maybe?