Seconded. In England we do not have anything called English muffins. We have muffins and American muffins (although more and more people would think of American style muffins as the archetypal muffin these days). read more
Best Answer: Muffin (soft like bread) used by the English and derived from the French word "Moufflet". "English Muffins" with all its "nooks and crannies" is credited to a baker named Sam Thomas. He emigrated to the USA and set up shop in NY. read more
What North Americans call “English muffins”, as made by Thomas’s and their various competitors in the US and Canada, are a somewhat inferior (sorry, folks) variant of what British people simply call “muffins”. North American “English muffins” tend to have considerably more air incorporated into them. read more