to think that muffins are stupid

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they are too big, too dry and too messy.

Who in their right mind eats muffins?

YABVU.They are delicious. You're obviously eating bad muffins if you think they're dry.

that depends...do you mean the choc/sweet type or the flatish breaded type?

You should make your own. When they are fresh they are grand, not messey and not dry. When they are a day old they are indeed, stupid.

And that way, you can make smaller ones.

They are also easy enough for a 2-year-old to make.

actually either way UABU, lovely moist choc chip muffins or delish toasted muffins, both divine

I brought 4 for £1 at Sainsburys. They are vile - I've never had them before and thought they were all like it.

Yabu.

English muffins are delicious toasted and spread with cream cheese.
American muffins are miniature cakes, all to yourself. What could be better?

You just got crap muffins today.

YABU

If you make your own they are less faff than cupcakes and taste much better than shop bought.

They really are very easy to make too.

I buy the sainsburys make your own and they're yummy.

If you make your own though you don't get that lovely big top on the muffin and that's the best part.

where i come from a muffin is a bap and ideally comes with chips and gravy on.

I see cupcakes and fairycakes as two different things,and muffins are very different.

Muffins are larger, have a different texture from fairy cakes,and when making fairycakes you beat the butter and sugar together and mix well, with muffins you tend to melt the butter and lightly stir in the ingredients as you want a lumpy mixture, not a smooth mixture as with fairy cakes.

And muffins usually contain fruit or chocolate,or are flavoured with either.

I always thought muffins were seriously over-rated excuses for a decent bun until I ate the home-made versions that are supplied to a small cafe I frequent. If you haven't eaten a "Buttercup Muffin", then, respectfully, you are simply not qualified to dismiss them out of hand.

Yes, I suspect that if you invited them to do an IQ test, they would demur, fearing their results would be embarrassingly low.

I like chocolate muffins.

HTH

muffins: big, spongey, fluffy things in various flavours with nothing on top..

...but with extraordinary amounts of chemial additivrs in them if you get the shop ones. I suppose they have to get all puffy and moisty somehow, but, yuk all the same

Muffins are a sort of round sweetish dense bread thing you toast and put syrup on, aren't they? We always have them for tea on Sundays.

DDG - I think they are a different thing, and someone on this thrad calls them "English" muffins. "Stupid" muffins are the oversize boring fairy cake things in cellophane packets.

It's cupcakes I object to. They simply don't deliver.

This is exactly the clip you need to see...
I don't like muffins

Ah. Difficult to tell which type OP is referring to though.