>>>>Those were English, easy to confuse the accent. They eat crumpets, we eat doughnuts.
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>>>We eat crumpets?
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>>Sure, they don't mess up the bowler hats like powered doughnuts do.
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>>>We imported the practice of eating "English Muffins" from over there.
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>>I thought you were kidding, you know taking the p_ss until, but...
>>"Despite the name, English muffins are not as popular in England as they are in North America"
>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_muffin
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>>McDonald's commerical here. Scene starts with two guys eating a McDonald's breakfast. One eating a blueberry muffin, the 2nd guy is eating an Egg McMuffin.
>>One: Why do they call that a muffin, this is a muffin?
>>Two: It is an English muffin.
>>One: If I go to England and ask for a muffin, they'll give me one of those?
>>Two: Yeah
>>One: What if what one of these (American) muffins.
>>Two: Don't go to England.
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>Not to mention Yorkshire Pudding. I mean, jeez! Those guys have some funny idea of what pudding is. Pudding is what comes in a small cup or bowl and is usually stuck in a kid's lunchbox. What it never is, is a bun.

That's a "dessert" or "sweet" or "afters". Pudding can also be savoury, as in steak & kidney pudding - like a pie but with soft, squidgy pastry round it, pease pudding (as in the nursey rhyme).