I think they are cousins. The Pillsbury Dough Boy and the Muffin Man. Maybe the Gingerbread Man too.
Anyway. I have a story about one of them.
This happened before most houses had ovens in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Back then, street hawkers sold muffins door-to-door as snack bread.
Of course, this gave rise to the traditional song “Do You Know the Muffin Man?”
You all know the one. The one on Drury Lane.
That guy always looks so down and out.
I asked the muffin man why he looked sad. And he said it was feeling a little crumby.
Ugh.
I thought you should know.
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“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods.” — James Beard
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“Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.” — Dean Koontz
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“There is not a thing that is more positive than bread.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Nursery Rhyme: The Muffin Man
“Oh, do you know the Muffin Man,
The Muffin Man, the Muffin Man?
Oh, do you know the Muffin Man,
Who lives on Drury Lane?”
This traditional English nursery rhyme dates to the early 19th century and is one of the best-known children’s songs in the English-speaking world.
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