Very important question for Brits

[clemso]

Muffins and crumpet are completely different, but both are great toasted with lashings of butter and Peanut butter.

[PNGwynne]

I thought "English Muffins" were properly called "crumpets" in Britain? Because scones are more like our biscuits.

As for American processed cheese product, I think the description is oddly apt .

[Brazoo]

This is an important topic that requires some research ---

According to Wikipedia McMuffin's are made with a slice of ham - not back bacon or "Canadian bacon".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMuffin

Back bacon IS ham - of course - but it's a specific cut - it's pork loin AND pork belly combined.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Back_bacon

Back bacon is usually prepared by smoking it - like regular strip bacon - but when it's prepared in brine and (often) rolled in yellow corn meal it's called peameal bacon - which does originate from Canada - specifically Toronto. (Yay for us!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peameal_Bacon

[Brazoo]

I've never understood why you'd put your country name on the blandest cheese known to man. My family calls it processed cheese.

Mine too.

The first time I heard "American cheese" I thought it was really weird.

[cjefferys]

Back bacon is usually prepared by smoking it - like regular strip bacon - but when it's prepared in brine and (often) rolled in yellow corn meal it's called peameal bacon - which does originate from Canada - specifically Toronto. (Yay for us!)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peameal_Bacon

Yeah, the only kind of Canadian/back bacon I've ever tried was peameal bacon. I've only tried it once, when I was a kid my grandmother asked me if I wanted bacon for breakfast, and she gave me peameal bacon. I felt really ripped off, it certainly wasn't the kind of bacon I know and love, and I haven't eaten it since (but I've never been a big fan of ham either).

[Werewolf]

I've never understood why you'd put your country name on the blandest cheese known to man. My family calls it processed cheese.

Americans have a lot of issues with self loathing.