Dry, flavorless, foul-textured, nasty little things.
Discuss…
That was a thrilling OP.
There is nothing wrong with English muffins. Try those rice cakes some time.
Nay!
Slap some butter and honey on those things. They are sooooo good!
Toasted with butter dripping through the cracks and crevices.
Oh, yum.
A good English muffin is a fine breakfast. Toasted and with plenty of butter, as Lola indicates.
Of course, they vary in quality. Thomas’ are about the best. Locally, there are Freihofers, which are acceptable. But the store brand are gummy tasteless things, which probably is the reason for the OP. Get the good ones, and it’s a treat.
Not due to my nationality, but due to common decency and a higher sense of ethics, I must inform you that you’re utterly wrong.
Hold on a minute - do you mean the kind that Egg McMuffins come in, or some other object?
I also submit that a reasonable topping for an english muffin is the thinnest layer of cream cheese topped with apricot jam. Crunchy, hot, creamy, sweet- What quality is missing? It is not only an acceptable breakfast, it is an ideal breakfast!
Well, from a numerological standpoint, they do (usually) come six to a pack. So if you have three packs in your freezer, I guess I can understand the tenuous link to Satan.
Instructions:
Take 1 “Dry, flavorless, foul-textured, nasty little thing”
Slice
Toast
Add heaping amounts of butter (Quickly, while still piping hot)
Add layer of Peanut butter
Problem solved!
This verytopic came up in mu house last night, to consternation all round.
An American guest said he wanted English muffins because they were bound to be more authentic here (In Ireland - but I let that one go)
I told him that I didn’t know what one was.
Are they as my compatriot ex-pat comrade Jiimm says, the thing McDonalds put an egg on or are they something else?
Do resident English people know what they are?
Are they an American invention?
Do they exist, under another name in their alleged homeland?
curly, I have a sneaking suspicion that they are actually a misnomer for the hellspawn that we call “crumpets”.
Curly Chick , English Muffins in the States are actually supposed to be modelled on crumpets. Except for the fact that they’re nothing like crumpets either…and nothing like muffins…
Aha, I’m right, according to [url=http://imaginatorium.org/words/muffin.htm]this[./url]:
Therefore I retract my original statement: English Muffins are lovely, if they’re actually muffins from England. However, crumpets are horrid rubbery spongy things with holes in them, that leak melted butter like seives, and I heartily agree with your disdain. Now if you’ll only get your nomenclature correct, we’ll all get along.
How did that dot get in there?
This.
No, not like muffins…not like muffins at all…and ARE to, credit the OP, subject to some rather unfortunate meddlesome commercial bakers. McDonalds does in fact slap an Egg and a Mc on them and call them food. Those are not the good kind at all. Those are rubbery, slimy, dry and utterly inedible. I’ll back Thomas’ or my most recent fav “Whole Foods generic brand.”
They are totally inedible unless they have creamy peanut butter.
I know. I’m so useless today…
What’s really good- for you vegetarians out there- is to stick a toasted chick patty and lots of mustard (and maybe cheese and lettuce and stuff if your feeling fancy) in beteen the two halves of an English muffin and eat it for lunch.
Personally I prefer a bagel slathered with cream cheese.
Hm.
HATE peanut butter (more spawn…)
Honey is good in tea, and nowhere else.
Maybe it was the brand, or the fact that I’ve got a little stomach virus, and pretty much nothing’s gonna make me happy?
…except…
a BAGEL!
SURELY no one can dispute than the bagel is the superior food?
(dadgum no-bagel-selling company cafeteria)