Top of the Muffin to You!
While I was spending some quality time with my Tivo this weekend catching on my Saturday morning cartoon guilty pleasures, I came across a rather remarkable commercial. The advertisement was pushing Kellogg’s latest contribution to the breakfast scene: Eggo Muffin Tops.
Any Seinfeld fan can appreciate why this is such a hilarious product. The classic episode, “The Muffin Tops”, features Elaine going into business with Mr. Lippman in a muffin top business. Eggo’s new product begs the same question that Elaine solved: is a muffin top a quality treat if it never was attached to a muffin bottom? I am in dire need of a trip to the grocery store, so when I go I will definitely check these out to see if they live up to the hype.
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{Not-To-Scale} said
on May 12 2008 @ 5:31 pm
Euwww….no, indeed you are correct: something cannot be a “top” unless it has come with a matching bottom. Perhaps there are bakeries at the Ecco-plex where elves harvest the muffin tops off of the full-baked muffins, and then the tops grow back, and the process is repeated, but I highly doubt it-more than likely, these hydrogenated oil-soaked disaster-cakes are baked in tin-molds, in the SHAPE of a muffin top. The only difference between them and a full muffin being that they just have a heavier, more fatty density…in which case its really a scone, right?