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Hot, freshly buttered nooks and crannies. Salty spread turning to liquid gold. Farina powder the only sane thing holding this hot mess together.
You reach for a second but quickly hold yourself back. Be honest: you were going to devour both halves smushed together in two and a half bites. Then wash it down with a tall glass of milk. You’re starving. Your intermittent-fasting, paleo-eating, cheat-day self deserves this. But you decide to be an adult for once. You have an assortment of preserves in the fridge and some gravlax. Let’s fucking do this. [1]
In the beginning, there was Thomas
Supposedly Samuel Bath Thomas really did invent the English muffin. Interestingly, they were invented in New York City, and the English were supposedly unaware of their existence until the 1990s, though some dispute this.
Even funnier, according to once source they are marketed in the UK as “American muffins!”
Although apparently (and perhaps obviously) the ancestor to Thomas’ genius…
