I think the muffins and crumpets you have in the USA must be different to ours, they don't even look alike apart from both being round and they sure taste very different indeed.

Whatever they taste ooh so good, having crumpets for lunch today,my daughter is a very fussy eater, that is one thing she simply loves, ate four of them for afternoon tea yesterday, and i am sure she would have eaten the whole packet had i let her lol.however she is not a muffin fan, so they obviously taste real different.

The English have some wonderful eating customs, that we in NZ seemed to have adopted, mainly because most of us all came from there originally anyhow, when our ancestors emigrated,apart from our Maori people who have their own cultures and food.,one being Maori bread, now that is yumm, fattening but yummy.