# I jsut bought muffin tops

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-jsut-bought-muffin-tops/318530>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 25, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-jsut-bought-muffin-tops/318530 "2005-08-25T03:28:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-jsut-bought-muffin-tops/318530/1 "2005-08-25T03:28:32Z")

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Seriously. The grocery store near me has a bakery section…and they make muffin tops. They do not, however, make them the proper way. They make the top a a unit, instead of making a whole muffin and popping the top.

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-jsut-bought-muffin-tops/318530/2 "2005-08-25T03:37:51Z")

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They have special [pans](http://www.paragongifts.com/partsedit.asp?action=lookup&partno=1170&prefix=WW&psource=sku&pvar=1170&sourcecode=P4W0LSG) for that. They have to…do you have any idea how wasteful it would be to do it your way? Why, we could feed the starving children of the Sudan with just the decrowned muffins of one Manhattan office building. Oh, the humanity! Won’t somebody think of the children?

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**Author:** ![Exploding\_Kitchen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c89c15/32.png) [@Exploding\_Kitchen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exploding_Kitchen)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 8:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-jsut-bought-muffin-tops/318530/3 "2005-08-25T08:12:44Z")

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You could always bring in Newman to deal with the waste.

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**Author:** ![bouv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bc8723/32.png) [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 12:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-jsut-bought-muffin-tops/318530/4 "2005-08-25T12:24:00Z")

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> [@silenus](#):
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> They have special [pans](http://www.paragongifts.com/partsedit.asp?action=lookup&partno=1170&prefix=WW&psource=sku&pvar=1170&sourcecode=P4W0LSG) for that. They have to…do you have any idea how wasteful it would be to do it your way? Why, we could feed the starving children of the Sudan with just the decrowned muffins of one Manhattan office building. Oh, the humanity! Won’t somebody think of the children?

Well…that’s a good thing! They could pop the top, and ship the rest to…I dunno…Egypt, or something. 😛

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**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-jsut-bought-muffin-tops/318530/5 "2005-08-25T14:29:19Z")

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You could open a strip joint/eatery and call it Muffin Bottoms. Enforce a three-bottom minimum.

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**Author:** ![gotpasswords](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/c57346/32.png) [@gotpasswords](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gotpasswords)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2005, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-jsut-bought-muffin-tops/318530/6 "2005-08-25T17:18:28Z")

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Amazingly, we just had a thread on the horrors of orphaned and abandoned [muffin stumps](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=328867&highlight=muffin+stump)