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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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.
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.