The great ketchup or catsup debate 🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[FloorCandy]

english muffins are still english or breakfast muffins. A muffin is the same as a bap or bun.. (although a bun in the uk is usually sweet) and an american muffin is a cup cake.

We have kind of a loose distinction between our muffins and cupcakes. You would eat a muffin as a breakfast food, it may have just as many or more calories than a cupcake, but doesn’t have icing on top. You can have the same sugary cake like item, and if you put icing on it, it is now a dessert and is not a breakfast food. If you call what we consider muffins to be cupcakes, what do you call the sugary icing on top versions that we call cupcakes? It used to be that muffins were healthier, such as a bran or corn muffin instead of toast with breakfast, but they got fancier and often larger over time, then when I was a teen or so, those Otis spunkmeyer (sp) muffins became popular, and they were like 1200 calories, gigantic, with chocolate chips and fudge, not healthy at all.

 

[FloorCandy]

In the uk we have cream eggs . But they are entirely diffrent. A gooey fondant covered in chocolate

Is that like the Cadbury eggs? We have those here, usually at Easter.

 

[Xouie]

Beignets???

This one is best fielded by @Ursuline Chick . I’m not even sure what we get in San Francisco area would be up to NOLA standards of a beignet.

So what are cupcakes in the UK?

Swipe off 90% of the frosting and it’s a fairy cake.

 

[AntiqueB]

I suspect no other country piles on the icing quite like the US!

 

[Ursuline Chick]

This one is best fielded by @Ursuline Chick . I’m not even sure what we get in San Francisco area would be up to NOLA standards of a beignet.

Swipe off 90% of the frosting and it’s a fairy cake.

@Xouie. Some kind of fry bread like funnel cake.

 

[LostBoi73]

Is that like the Cadbury eggs? We have those here, usually at Easter.

Yes cadburys cream eggs they used to be just easter but xo popular now all rear round

 

[LostBoi73]

Slightly off topic i know but im going to the great Yorkshire show tomorow. My nephew is there with some cows , he usually takes his own sheep and has won the championship with them but hes getting payed to show cows this year and with covid restrictions it would have been a real hastle to show both. I of course am going for the chicken show tomorrow. Its possably the biggest in the uk and the lady i got my ayam cemani's off is showing there, hopefully next year i can take somthing

 

[Weeg]

english muffins are still english or breakfast muffins. A muffin is the same as a bap or bun.. (although a bun in the uk is usually sweet) and an american muffin is a cup cake.

Thank you! I love American muffins.

 

[Weeg]

I’m loving that an American muffin is a cup cake.

Me to! Thats awesome!