Lincoln Hui Jul 31, 2015:

I think there might be some difficulty in finding a Floridarian who hasn't been exposed to McDonalds, even in the 90s.

Sheila Wilson Jul 31, 2015:

@Lincoln I suppose the "Mc" prefix means it's something produced by the burger chain that seems to be everywhere except where I live, and even we have one 50 km away. But I'm sure there are some other McDonald's-free zones around the world.

Charles Davis Jul 31, 2015:

We were first The first recorded instance of "moofin", in a list of "local words" sent to John Ray by a Mr Thoresby, of Leeds (Yorkshire) in 1703, defines it as "a wheat cake, baked upon a bake-stone over the fire, as oat-cakes".
https://archive.org/stream/correspondenceof48rayj#page/424/m...

Charles Davis Jul 31, 2015:

They don't know the muffin man who lives on Drury Lane.

Lincoln Hui Jul 31, 2015:

No need to explain. Just say it's the bun used for McMuffins.

Jack Doughty Jul 31, 2015:

With Sheila I was on holiday in Florida in the early nineties when I first came across the "English muffin". I tried to explain what an English muffin really was bu saying it was like a crumpet, only thicker. But they have never heard of crumpets over there, so I had to go int a more detailed explanation.

Sheila Wilson Jul 31, 2015:

Sad to see that not-so-English muffin Until I saw the image, the 'vertical' made some sense. I used to toast English muffins over the fire and split them before smothering in butter etc. They were (are?) the same shape as the ubiquitous burger bun. Fashion now dictates vast amounts of food stacked in them, secured with what seems to me to be a hat pin. But it really doesn't work with an American muffin.

Ivan Niu (asker) Jul 31, 2015:

thanks a lot, Tony! I don't have the picture for this specific sentence, but there're a few other topics with pictures and I checked all of them. Your guess is right - Horizontal = landscape, and vertical = portrait
Please feel free to make an "answer" entry for points. :)

Alison MacG Jul 31, 2015:

Tony's hunch is correct Click on the View More Related Media under the image in your reference. This takes you to a slideshow of 10 images. Yours are images 9 and 10 - one is marked vertical and the other horizontal.

Tony M Jul 31, 2015:

Can't really see any sense in it Given the errors in your source text, you may have to assume this is another one!

Your ref. correctly gives 'Scotch egg' in the body text, but the photo caption, like your source text here, incorrectly uses 'Scottish egg'

In the photo in your ref,, there is nothing I can see that is in any way even vaguely horizontal — apart from the fact that the Scotch egg is alongside the 'muffin' (how incongruous is that American word in an English-inspired dish?!); I find it difficult to imagine that 'vertical' might be intended to mean that the Scotch egg was piled up on top of the muffin!

I'm wondering if the 'horizontal' / 'vertical' aren't simply graphics instructions about the format of the picture (IOW landscape / portrait) which simply got left in the text by mistake? The picture in your ref. certainly is 'landscape' (= horizontal) format — do you have the photo that goes with your source text, if so, that might confirm (or not) my hunch?