"John Kulp" wrote in message
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> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:55:03 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>
>>John Kulp wrote:
>>
>>> On Tue, 11 Sep 2007 14:42:24 +0100, d4g4h4@yahoo.co.uk (David Horne,
>>> _the_ chancellor (*)) wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> >> >>3) why the Russian salad is called Salad Olivier in Russia?
>>> >>
>>> >> For the same reason English muffins are American not English?
>>> >
>>> >Not true, actually. They're often called English muffins here, and US
>>> >muffins are called American style, or somesuch.
>>>
>>> Are they the same thing or are you just saying that the English have a
>>> muffin called and English muffin? I have never seen what we call an
>>> English muffin (for whatever reason) in England.
>>
>>You can buy things called "English Muffins" in shops here.
>
> Yup I knew that. I was just talking about that peculiar muffin, which
> to my knowledge is only sold in the US, that we call an English muffin
> for reasons totally unknown. Until I first travelled to the UK, I had
> always thought that they originated there (logical right?). Then I
> never found an Englishman that had a clue what I was talking about
> when I asked for them.
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JohnT
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