The internet is full of fabulous facts about everything from current events to the history basket weaving and muffin fun facts. As we research for our daily content on food trucks, food carts and street food, we stumble upon some items of knowledge that we just did not know.

We have decided when these fun facts pop up, that we would share them with our readers in our section titled “Did You Know?”

For today’s Did You Know we will look at Muffin fun facts.

Muffin Fun Facts: Muffin n. a small, cup-shaped bread, often sweetened and usually served hot. The derivation of the word muffin comes from the French word moufflet which is often times applied to bread and means soft.

  • December 19 is National Oatmeal Muffin Day.
  • July 11th is National Blueberry Muffin Day.
  • English muffins which are yeast raised and cooked on a griddle, may date back to the 10th or 11th century in Wales.
  • American muffins are ‘quick breads’ made in individual molds. Quick breads were not developed until the end of the 18th century.
  • The McDonald’s Egg McMuffin was introduced in 1972, it consists of American cheese, Canadian bacon, an English muffin and an egg.
  • Do you know the Muffin Man? The Muffin Man, the Muffin Man. Do you know the Muffin Man, Who lives in Drury Lane? The muffin man went door to door delivering English muffins along Drury Lane. Many of the households on Drury Lane would have their food delivered to them. The rhyme was first published around 1820.
  • Four U.S. states have adopted a State Muffin. (Massachusetts – Corn, Minnesota – Blueberry, New York – Apple and Washington – Blueberry).

Muffin Fun Facts We Missed

Let us know if we may have missed any muffin fun facts in the comment section below. If we can verify that the facts is just that, a fact, we will give the reader credit in the article.

Reference: Wikipedia: Fun Facts about Muffins.