Crumpets.

[twistedAM]

Back up your position with evidence/blather or forever be ridiculed on the internets!

I prefer muffins as well but usually make them as toasted sandwiches with ham and cheese or egg and bacon.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Back up your position with evidence/blather or forever be ridiculed on the internets!

It isn't obvious?

Firstly, roughly 47-52% of a typical crumpet consists of nothing more than air-filled holes. You are basically paying around half of your crumpet acquisition fees for air-filled holes. And to add insult to injury, hot, molten butter tends to leak through these air-filled holes and run down your chin every time you bite. You're being ludicrously-overcharged for a shoddily-designed and poorly-constructed product that's more bizarre practical joke than food.

Don't even get me started on the rubbery, remarkably sponge-like consistency, the pale, off-putting texture or the bottoms that go from raw to burned without bothering to stop at 'cooked' in between.

 

[quimcunx]

Even if we assume we agree on your crumpet critique, none of this explains why you think muffins are good.

 

[Hi-ASL]

I prefer muffins as well but usually make them as toasted sandwiches with ham and cheese or egg and bacon.

^

Now this is a person who knows their foods and who won't lie down and let themselves be ripped off by one of the greatest scams the British bread industry has ever seen.

 

[twistedAM]

the bottoms that go from raw to burned without bothering to stop at 'cooked' in between.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Even if we assume we agree on your crumpet critique, none of this explains why you think muffins are good.

They are self-evidently delicious. Exactly what else do you need.

No holes.

 

[twistedAM]

^

Now this is a person who knows their foods and who won't lie down and let themselves be ripped off by one of the greatest scams the British bread industry has ever seen.

Not just the British; the French know how to rip of the breakfast eater in search of baked goods with the air-filled croissant.

 

[liquidlunch]

Most important is butter,not margarine
with vegemite then cheese melted on top in microwave for 15 secs on high.
A fried egg(runny)with worechester sauce.
Plain old tomato sauce

 

[bigbry]

I have been too busy eating scotch pancakes to find the time to try other things. Scotch pancakes make other toastable bready treats unnecessary.

My flatmate had just left a pack of crumpets on the side.

Crumpet on the side - that takes me back to ................. well that's another story.

 

[Guineveretoo]

I have just had two hot crumpets with butter and raspberry jam.

Yum. Holes full of melted butter and jam.

 

[Hi-ASL]

deleted.

 

[Strumpet]

I had crumpets with lots of butter for breakfast *mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm*

 

[quimcunx]

Don't even bother deleting, Hi-ASL. I've seen it.

The holes are little pockets of melted butter goodness. Muffins don't have that.

What should I try next? What's with pikelets?


(and of course there will be welsh cakes in Brighton...)

 

[Hi-ASL]

Crumpets are dizgusting and you know it.

 

[Maggot]

I applaud your intrepid explorations in the tricky and dangerous area of mutant bread hybrids but you are quite wrong in this. Muffins are a clearly superior concoction in every way.

So Muffin tops crumpet?

 

[Strumpet]

Don't even bother deleting, Hi-ASL. I've seen it.

I saw wot he writ too. There was an "mmmm" in there somewhere

 

[quimcunx]

I am an impartial judge, Hi.

Crumpets are 'interesting'. This is what has gained them extra points above muffins. I'm trying new things. Muffins don't feel very new. They're main advantage is being round, making them ideal for not having empty corners when eating other round things like fried eggs. Not to disparage this quality. It is a very worthwhile one. But it is crumpets' very sponginess and holes and slightly odd taste that get them points on this thread.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Try ciabatta next, or focaccia, or barm cakes.

LOL, fancy having not even tried barm cakes.

 

[quimcunx]

I've had ciabatta and focaccia. Barm cakes I haven't had. But then I'm not, um, northern?

 

[Xanadu]

I'd love some crumpets right now

 

[Hi-ASL]

Have a barm cake then with a meat and potato pie in it. They're absolutely spiffing.

 

[quimcunx]

So a bready (I'm guessing) product with a pastry and potato product inside it? I do like your thinking, Hi. I'll give you that.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Carbs, innit. You should always stock up on your carbs. If the engine falls out of the plane in the middle of the desert, who'll live longest? It's the ones who've just eaten meat 'n' potato pie barm cakes, that's who.

 

[Xanadu]

I've had ciabatta and focaccia. Barm cakes I haven't had. But then I'm not, um, northern?

Yeah you are. Proper northern, not like these Yorkshire southerns that call themselves northerns.

 

[quimcunx]

Yeah you are. Proper northern, not like these Yorkshire southerns that call themselves northerns.

They look like a bunch of soft southern bastards from where I stand.

 

[Hi-ASL]

There are almost no pictures of barm cakes on the interweb at all and certainly none with pies in. Thank God and England for the Corrie blog site:

Very close bready cousin, as you can see. Probably not the exotic mouthfest you're looking for.

 

[quimcunx]

So a barm cake is......... a bread roll.

I've eaten a number of bread rolls in my life.

 

[Strumpet]

I was thinking that too. Bloody bread roll.

 

[Hi-ASL]

Er.. no. It is significantly stouter and more circular than a bread roll. Roll eyes.

That picture doesn't do it justice. An aerial view is needed.

 

[Maggot]

They look like a bunch of soft southern bastards from where I stand.

In Brixton?