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Spilled Milk

Episode 117: English Muffins

Spilled Milk

Molly Wizenberg and Matthew Amster-Burton

Food, Comedy, Arts

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2014

⏱️ 23 minutes

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0:00.0

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0:07.0

For a free trial and 10% off, go to Squarespace.com and use the offer code cookie. I'm Molly and I'm Matthew.

0:17.0

And this is spilled milk,

0:21.0

the show where we cook something delicious, eat it all, and you can't have any.

0:26.0

And today we are talking about English muffins.

0:30.2

Purchased right here in our American supermarket.

0:33.0

Not in England.

0:34.0

I was so pleased to learn recently that I asked someone from England,

0:37.5

do you have English muffins in England?

0:39.5

Because I honestly wasn't sure whether it was some American thing.

0:42.0

Yes, they do. Oh, are they the same thing that we think

0:44.1

of as English muffins? I believe so. If I'm wrong I know we will hear about it. You know what we need to be sure to

0:49.4

discuss today? The difference between English muffins and crumpets.

0:53.3

Oh, you know what? I had that same thought this morning and I was saying, wait,

0:55.8

should we mention crumpets on our English muffin episode?

0:58.6

We just broke the crumpets.

1:00.4

So yes, we did.

1:01.8

The difference between English muffins and crumpets well crumets are so

1:04.2

smooth and and like the the holes that the butter drips down into is the whole point of

1:09.4

a crumpet right mhm mhm but English muffins it's more about the craggy crunchiness.

1:15.0

Well, you'd also never split a crumpet.

1:17.0

Oh, I would never, I would never split crumpets.

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