• webghost0101@sopuli.xyz
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    2 months ago

    This is a visiual version of an old joke i heard.

    Something about a native family son asking their father how he got his name.

    So the father explained something like.

    Well first we had you sister, when she was born we saw fast eagle in the sky. So we named her Fast Eagle.

    Then when your mother was pregnant of your older brother she would sometimes listen to howls of distant wolves, so we named him Howling Wolf

    Do you know understand how you got your name Bursted Condom?

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    2 months ago

    In the UK they’re just muffins. But so are the cake like muffins that I think come from America originally. It’s surprisingly not too confusing.

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      2 months ago

      It’s usually clear from context whether you’re being offered a piece of round bread or a gluey calorie bomb that makes you feel brain-dead for eight hours

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      No, they’re much older than that, and in England they just call them "muffins " I thought maybe they coined the term “English muffin,” but apparently not:

      References to English muffins appear in U.S. newspapers starting in 1859, and detailed descriptions of them and recipes were published as early as 1870.

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    2 months ago

    Too far of a reach, for me. There’s no way a baker finished inseminating his bakewife and was struck with an epiphany: “what if this…but a pastry?!”

    The others are (debatable) etymologies and then you flip the order to make a horny baked good. Goon appropriately; be better.

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      There’s no way a baker finished inseminating his bakewife and was struck with an epiphany: “what if this…but a pastry?!”

      That is just a lack of imagination on your behalf mate.