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I call this an English muffin. What would you call it?

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DoubleNegativePanda · 02/05/2011 23:20

[http://j-walkblog.com/images2/thomasengmuff.jpg English Muffin]]

I needed something very easy and fast for dinner, and decided on "English Muffin Pizzas" which is something I (American) have grown up eating. At the store waiting in line it suddenly occurred to me that it was likely that English people wouldn't call them English muffins.

Btw, they are absolutely delicious with a little pizza sauce, a piece of pepperoni and a slice of mozzarella. Baked until it's got brown bits on the cheese.

So what do you call these little bready things?

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HRHDuchessLauraNorder · 02/05/2011 23:22

Couldn't get the website to work.

OldLadyKnowsNothing · 02/05/2011 23:24

That would be a crumpet. Never thought of them as pizza bases though. Grin

ViolaTricolor · 02/05/2011 23:26

Yep, definitely a crumpet. I would only ever use it as a vehicle for lots of salty butter. Mmmm.

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DoubleNegativePanda · 02/05/2011 23:27

Crumpet pizzas then Grin Try it sometime. It's sooooo goooood!

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ilovetomandjerry · 02/05/2011 23:28

Agree it's a crumpet - butter and grated cheese on - yum!!!

cece · 02/05/2011 23:29

English muffin

crumpet

seeker · 02/05/2011 23:31

A crumpet is the ideal base for a poached egg.

sharbie · 02/05/2011 23:33

or jam (jelly) Smile

dearprudence · 02/05/2011 23:34

Surely an English Muffin is a muffin (as per cece's pic). I can imagine that it makes a nice pizza.

Pizza toppings on a crumpet would be horrible.

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DoubleNegativePanda · 02/05/2011 23:34

Butter, yes. Lots of butter. Cheese, maybe.... Eggs, I just can't do eggs. DH would love it :)

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DoubleNegativePanda · 02/05/2011 23:36

Well it looks like what I call an english muffin is a Crumpet. And pizza toppings are yummy on it. IMHO Wink

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DoubleNegativePanda · 02/05/2011 23:39

Jam and jelly are different things, but neither is a gelatin dessert :)

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sharbie · 02/05/2011 23:42

so you call jelly what we call jam right?

jennifersofia · 02/05/2011 23:42

Well, I am american, and what we always called an English Muffin (in America) is a muffin (in Britain). Eg. on the outside there is a light dusting of cornmeal, and then you do that thing with the fork (going outside the circumference) to split it into two. A crumpet is more spongy, and does not require splitting and has lots of holes one one surface. A muffin is slightly drier than a crumpet. Both are delicious with butter! (and of course marmite!)

HellNoSayItAintSo · 02/05/2011 23:43

crumpets and muffins are entirely different things, and the english muffins are fairly widely known in the US, as english muffins.

Weird that you have them transposed. Confused

spiderlight · 02/05/2011 23:52

Muffins and crumpets are totally different. There are two types of muffin - the big fat sweet ones with blueberries or chocolate chips or whatever, and these, which are much thinner, more bready and do indeed make fab mini-pizza bases. Apparently the latter are Oven Bottom Muffins.

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DoubleNegativePanda · 03/05/2011 00:25

I'm all confused about muffins vs. Crumpets. All I know is my dinner was quite tasty. And just for dearprudence I took pictures. Yes, I am a nerd. It's ok, I know I am.

before baking

browned and yummy

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ViolaTricolor · 03/05/2011 07:51

Actually, closer inspection of the Thomas's website suggests that it is is a muffin after all, but just a weird photo which makes it look uncannily like a crumpet.

debka · 03/05/2011 08:05

I agree with viola. Having held laptop very close to my face, I think they are in fact muffins.

Meglet · 03/05/2011 08:29

I call them bread muffins. I make mini pizzas for the dc's with them.

Crumpets are holey and rubbery - in a nice way. Soaks up more butter and marmite that way.

TheChewyToffeeMum · 03/05/2011 08:33

viola it looks like a crumpet in that photo because it is shown with the inside toasted (which is just wrong!)

HellNoSayItAintSo · 03/05/2011 10:02

No, that photo shows packets of english muffins, and crumpets on the plate. The nearest packet to the plate though is entitled "nooks and crannies", so I think they have appropriated crumpets and passed them off as a variety of english muffins. Which is just wrong!

Easy way to know what you had OP, did you have to split them in half before you used them? If yes, muffins, if no, crumpets.

Xiaoxiong · 03/05/2011 10:46

At Waitrose they call English muffins "white muffins". Sainsbo's calls them "butter muffins" or just "muffins" and Warburton's calls them "toasting muffins".

Crumpets are far denser and spongier than muffins and I don't think would take well to being made into a pizza. I've never seen them in the States and my American relatives find them exceedingly strange. If I go one further and put Marmite on them they are very unhappy!

(Side note - thou shalt never use a knife to cut a muffin. 'Tis sacrilege to use anything other than a fork, to maximize craggy butter-soaking surface area once toasted!!)

secondcity · 03/05/2011 16:37

That is definately a sliced muffin, (nooks and crannies is that brand's name, everyone else just calls them English muffins) you can also get crumpets in the US. they are called crumpets! OP they look like muffins in your photo, did you have to split them?

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DoubleNegativePanda · 03/05/2011 21:49

They were split a little, but you have to pry them open with a fork! Sp split AND fork, what do we make of that?

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