crumpet and muffin shop (in ED in the forties)

[stoney]

Hi my family had a crumpet and muffin shop in the fourties i wonder if any of the more senior members remember it ?

[James]

Shame it's not there any more, I do like a bit of crumpet

[GSJ57]

Where was it?

[woofmarkthedog]

I love a good muffin with a bit of crumpet on the side.

What....she started it?

W**F

[HonaloochieB]

Stoney, Stoney, Stoney. Muffin in our face? Crumpet to be sampled?

I accuse you of being a cipher to an Italian suppository. Yes, innuendo! There, I've said it!

Lovely bit of? Care for a? Butter with that? I'll take those through the tradesman's entrance? (this is an innocent remark by a retail establishment that wishes to take on crumpet wholesale, but you can see how a jealous rival clinging to a muffin trade might misrepresent the situation).

And of course there is the one about Muffin The Mule being an archaic sexual offence.

This is where you were leading us, wasn't it Stoney? Thank the stars we never succumbed.

[chichirara]

Was it on Upland Road if it was I know someone who does. She went to St Johns school and on the way home would buy a crumpet.

She is in her 60s would this be right?

[Muley]

Oi! Leave it...

[computedshorty]

?

[reetpetite]

As a small child in the fifties when I lived in Denmark Hill,I can remember the muffin man who came round on his bike ringing his bell usually on a Sunday. We had them for tea toasted on a long fork over an open fire ,wonderful.