# Do McDonald's in England sell Egg McMuffins?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Tags:** food-cooking
**Created:** [August 18, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892 "2022-08-18T13:38:45Z")
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### Author:  [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 1:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/1 "2022-08-18T13:38:45Z")
And, if so, what description of their make up is used in promoting/advertising them? More specifically, do they say they’re made with “English Muffins”?
Just a random subject that came up at dinner the other day. One person insists they must use scones instead, but I don’t think scones are structurally strong enough to serve as the buns. Anther person thought maybe they say they use “American Muffins,” but that brings to mind the sweet cakey things like blueberry muffins.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/2 "2022-08-18T13:48:28Z")
They make them with English muffins, which they refer to as “English muffins.”
[Egg & Cheese McMuffin® - Free-Range Egg](https://www.mcdonalds.com/gb/en-gb/product/egg-cheese-mcmuffin.html)
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### Author:  [@Limmin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Limmin)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/3 "2022-08-18T13:50:48Z")
And to these English customers, are these “English Muffins” something that only appears in a McDonalds, which may excuse the weirdness of the terminology?
I’m guessing the equivalent item (if it exists) would not be found at, say, a Tesco in the UK, at least, not called “English Muffin.”
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/4 "2022-08-18T13:53:25Z")
Tesco calls them “English muffins.”
> **[Tesco English Muffins 4 Pack - Tesco Groceries](https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/299999454)**
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> 4 White English muffins.
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/5 "2022-08-18T13:55:39Z")
Believe it or not, Americans actually call American cheese, American cheese.
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### Author:  [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 2:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/6 "2022-08-18T14:02:03Z")
> [@Acsenray](#):
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> They make them with English muffins, which they refer to as “English muffins.”
Thank you, that seems a very definitive answer.
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### Author:  [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/7 "2022-08-18T14:33:25Z")
Wouldn’t any muffins they serve be English Muffins?
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### Author:  [@Great\_Antibob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Great_Antibob)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/8 "2022-08-18T14:36:31Z")
About as much as any cheese we serve would be American Cheese
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### Author:  [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/9 "2022-08-18T14:41:24Z")
No offence to our American friends, but to me this is just symptomatic of the creeping Americanisation of British English. Surely over here they should just be ‘muffins’?!
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/10 "2022-08-18T14:42:35Z")
A crumpet actually. A muffin in England (and in the US) is a totally different thing.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/11 "2022-08-18T14:44:06Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> A crumpet actually.
Crumpets and English muffins are not the same thing.
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/12 "2022-08-18T15:04:20Z")
Surely, this isn’t “creeping Americanisation” so much as it is a very practical matter of dispelling the ambiguity of the term “muffin.”
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### Author:  [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/13 "2022-08-18T15:07:00Z")
> [@Acsenray](#):
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> Crumpets and English muffins are not the same thing.
Based on the name, I’ve always imagined crumpets as being something like [cream horns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_horn). And/or [Bugles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugles_(snack)).
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/14 "2022-08-18T15:11:46Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#):
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> Based on the name, I’ve always imagined crumpets as being something like [cream horns](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cream_horn). And/or [Bugles](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugles_(snack)).
They’re actually disc-shaped, like English muffins, but have a very different texture. More like a waffle without the indentations, and there are air bubbles all the way through. Quite tasty, but less bread-like than English muffins. Not as easy to slice in half.
> **[Crumpet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crumpet)**
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> A crumpet (/ˈkrʌmpɪt/ ⓘ) is a small griddle bread made from an unsweetened batter of water or milk, flour, and yeast, popular in the United Kingdom, Canada, New Zealand, South Africa and Australia.
> Crumpets are regionally known as pikelets, a name also applied to a thinner, more pancake-like griddle bread; a type of the latter is referred to as a crumpet in Scotland.
> Crumpets have been variously described as originating in Wales or as part of the Anglo-Saxon diet, based on proposed etymologies ...
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### Author:  [@iamatractorboy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iamatractorboy)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/15 "2022-08-18T15:12:04Z")
Not really, growing up they were always known as muffins. The other, sweeter version were American muffins. I totally understand why it would be the other way round in the US.
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### Author:  [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)
#### Post date: [August 18, 2022, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/16 "2022-08-18T15:12:41Z")
Yeah, a crumpet is almost more of a pancake than an English muffin. At least around here in Chicago, you can often find both English muffins and British-style crumpets in the grocery store refrigerated section to compare.
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### Author:  [@China\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/China_Guy)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2022, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/17 "2022-08-19T01:09:59Z")
And a “crumpet” also has a [slang meaning.](https://wordhistories.net/2019/05/17/crumpet-sexual-meanings/)
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### Author:  [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2022, 12:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/18 "2022-08-19T12:33:26Z")
When I was a child (70s) there was no ambiguity, because we didn’t have American style muffins. And really, there’s no ambiguity because like many things it’s all about context. If I go into Starbucks, I know I’m coming out with a cake thing called a muffin. If my wife asks me to pick up some muffins from [Sainsbury’s](https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/sainsburys-white-muffins-x6) for breakfast, I know I’m buying the English variety. Tesco are just trying to piss us all off.
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### Author:  [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2022, 12:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/19 "2022-08-19T12:38:25Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#):
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> Believe it or not, Americans actually call American cheese, American cheese.
And you won’t believe what Buffalo wings are called in Buffalo!
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### Author:  [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)
#### Post date: [August 19, 2022, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-mcdonalds-in-england-sell-egg-mcmuffins/969892/20 "2022-08-19T15:25:26Z")
> [@SanVito](#):
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> Tesco are just trying to piss us all off.
Clearly there’s no business case for pissing off customers. Their market research must show that using the more specific term is practical.
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