The Great Muffin Poll

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(DGCL @ May 22 2007, 10:41 PM) [snapback]447896[/snapback]</div>

The bakery was way on the other side of town from my apartment, making it about 5 miles each way. So the round trip was about 1/5 gallon of gas. But since I usually only went there if I was in that part of town anyway, I seldom burned any extra gas to buy my bakery bread. Or if I went there after work, an extra 1/10 gallon. Seems extravagant now. Escuincle doesn't burn any gas at all.

I moved to Spokane from Fargo in the fall of 2005. I couldn't take the cold any more

 

I like all muffins...I just don't like raisins in 'em.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(livelychick @ May 24 2007, 01:37 PM) [snapback]449323[/snapback]</div>

A muffin must have raisins in it, unless it has chocolate chips.

 

Daniel, no offense, but who ever heard of putting raisins in muffins? Cookies yes, but not in muffins. Have muffins become the official Prius mascot? Wonder if any of the dealerships have started offering free muffins with a test drive.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AuntBee @ May 26 2007, 12:44 AM) [snapback]450249[/snapback]</div>

Auntie, Auntie, Auntie. You are obviously a person of taste and discretion, but here I fear you err. How on earth else could anyone bear a bran muffin if it wasn't holding the raisins together?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AuntBee @ May 25 2007, 09:44 PM) [snapback]450249[/snapback]</div>

I repeat: An article that does not have raisins in it is not a muffin. Unless it has chocolate chips, in which case it can be a muffin.

A muffin without raisins (unless it has chocolate chips) is as meaningless and as impossible as heaven without a beer volcano.

 

Okay, you guys win. Bake them with raisins if you must. (I'll just have to pick them out. But then it will still leave behind that brown, raisiny remnant icky goo. I hate raisins! What a horrible waste of a grape.)

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AuntBee @ May 26 2007, 09:19 PM) [snapback]450669[/snapback]</div>

That reminds me of a bad poem I wrote about a prison guard picking the raisins out of the raisin bran. I hate bran flakes. We got raisin bran for breakfast almost the entire time I was in disicplinary segregation at Sandstone FCI. That was bad enough. But the day it came and there were no raisins in it, I wrote a poem in which I described the guard picking the raisins out, and wished horrible torments on the inventor of bran flakes.

 

Oh, Daniel, what a sad story. You can have my raisins. Have you tried "craisins?" The dried cranberries? I do like those.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AuntBee @ May 27 2007, 09:36 PM) [snapback]450890[/snapback]</div>

I cringe at the very thought of bran flakes ever since then.

On the other hand, they occasionally gave us two-thirds of a dixie cup of tomato juice, which always left me unsatisfied. The first thing I did when I got out was to stop at a convenience store and drink an entire quart of tomato juice. I still do that from time to time.

I had not heard the term "crasins" but I have had dried cranberries, and I don't much care for them. BTW, raisins and cinnamon in oatmeal are really good. I used to make oatmeal when I was on the breakfast shift when I worked as a volunteer at a homeless shelter, and it got me the nickname of Oatmeal Dan. The homeless guys really liked it. A lot of the workers made pancakes, but I've never liked pancakes.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AuntBee @ May 27 2007, 12:19 AM) [snapback]450669[/snapback]</div>

No, AuntBee, we must fight the raisin-lover. Those people are responsible for the ruination of bread pudding, rice pudding, carrot cake, oatmeal cookies, AND muffins.

There is no excuse for raisins in anything except Raisinettes and A-1 sauce, which strangely, I love. There are lots o' muffins that don't call for raisins of any sort: lemon poppyseed, orange, corn, the list continues. However, I don't like 'em in bran muffins, banana muffins, spice muffins, carrot muffins, or any other muffin. Blech.

Down with raisins! They stick to your teeth and are, scientifically spoken, oogie. Next, ya'll are gonna be calling for the addition of prunes to muffins. Double blech.

Chocolate chips are tolerable in banana and pumpkin muffins, but that's about it, IMHO.

I also hate black walnuts. English are okay, but down with black walnuts!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(livelychick @ May 28 2007, 01:52 PM) [snapback]451040[/snapback]</div>

Viva La Revolution! Lead the Resistance! We shall no longer cower in fear of the Raisinettes!

 

My favorite are the maple sugar topping muffins you get at Costco. They are really good. The chocolate ones come a close second. I really don't want to know how many calories each muffin has, but I'm sure it's more than my pant size can stand.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(jkash @ May 28 2007, 05:05 PM) [snapback]451084[/snapback]</div>

Oh, my! Costco has Maple Sugar topped muffins? I would pay to join just for that. They sound amazing.


And Lively Chick, thanks for your moral support on the Anti-Raisin front. I no longer feel outnumbered and intimidated by the raisin lovers. As the Tom Petty song says, "I Won't Back Down."

 

If raisins were not good for you, and tasty too, god would never have permitted them to be invented. Did you know that Noah and his family lived entirely on raisins during the 40 days of the flood? No other food packs enough calories to survive that long in the small space that was avialable for food after they crammed all those animals into that tiny boat.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(AuntBee @ May 28 2007, 12:36 AM) [snapback]450890[/snapback]</div>

I've made oatmeal cookies with craisins and white chocolate chips (the recipe is on the craisins bag). Those are pretty good. I'll bet you could make a good muffin with craisins.

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ May 26 2007, 10:07 PM) [snapback]450610[/snapback]</div>

What do you call a blueberry muffin then (arguably the most popular muffin)- a donut?

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(livelychick @ May 28 2007, 01:52 PM) [snapback]451040[/snapback]</div>

I'm not fond of dark raisins, although I'll eat them if I'm hungry. I do like golden raisins, though. I put them in a lot of things, like salads.


<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(daniel @ May 30 2007, 09:44 AM) [snapback]452030[/snapback]</div>

I thought they ate MREs!