The UK government is banning daytime TV adverts for sugary foods like granola and muffins in its battle against child obesity, branding such popular items as junk food.
They are an American invention and are way more popular here than in England. They exist in England, they are marketed as “muffins”, but they aren’t terribly popular.
(Finding English muffin sales data is harder then I had expected.)
I’m English, I assure you people here eat them all the time!
Are you sure they were invented in America? That seems very unlikely to be true so I googled it, wikipedia says recipes for muffins appeared as early as 1747 in English cookbooks…
I think the sourdough variety had a popular brand started in San Francisco in the early to mid 1900s, I think sometimes that gets mixed up with being the first instead of being a popular version that wasn’t really available elsewhere to Americans last century.
You know, after further research I am now second guessing myself. It’s something I have always been told, and half of it is from family who were living in England saying that almost nobody eats them.
Now I am wondering if my assertion is only based on half facts and anecdotal evidence.
As for the invention itself, I can only find evidence of vague recipes that don’t seem to representative of the English muffin we know today.
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They are an American invention and are way more popular here than in England. They exist in England, they are marketed as “muffins”, but they aren’t terribly popular.
(Finding English muffin sales data is harder then I had expected.)
I’m English, I assure you people here eat them all the time!
Are you sure they were invented in America? That seems very unlikely to be true so I googled it, wikipedia says recipes for muffins appeared as early as 1747 in English cookbooks…
I think the sourdough variety had a popular brand started in San Francisco in the early to mid 1900s, I think sometimes that gets mixed up with being the first instead of being a popular version that wasn’t really available elsewhere to Americans last century.
You know, after further research I am now second guessing myself. It’s something I have always been told, and half of it is from family who were living in England saying that almost nobody eats them.
Now I am wondering if my assertion is only based on half facts and anecdotal evidence.
As for the invention itself, I can only find evidence of vague recipes that don’t seem to representative of the English muffin we know today.