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Re: OT: Two countries separated by a common language

From:Steg Belsky <draqonfayir@...>
Date:Wednesday, May 21, 2003, 5:04
On Sat, 17 May 2003 09:10:02 -0400 "Mark J. Reed" <markjreed@...>
writes:
> On Sat, May 17, 2003 at 09:57:31PM +1200, Wesley Parish wrote: > > I find this too irresistable a topic - for me:
> > muffins are light cake-like things, often sold with chocolate or > fruit or > > cheese mixed in, generally baked in flat trays with > cup-cake-sized > > indentations;
> That is true here, too, for the unadorned term "muffin". However, > "English muffins" are an entirely different beast from "muffins". > I have no idea where English muffins got the name, but they're not > muffinlike at all.
- www.muffinfilms.com -Stephen (Steg) "m"