Apple Spice Muffins (Vons)

People love to eat. Americans are people. Therefore, Americans love to eat. But nobody eats like the people of America do.

The office treat this morning was the ridiculously unhealthy pastry often referred to as a muffin. With enough salt / sugar / butter for it to last 10 days in the fridge, you could easily give yourself some chest discomfort with one of these things, as I am feeling right now.

A quick dive into The Google showed me that 941,127,600 dollars in muffins made it to store shelves in 2007. Assuming that each muffin cost an average of $1.50, and if we round up to estimate that there were 300 million Americans, one can come up with a rough calculation that Americans eat an average of two muffins per year.

Curiously enough, the muffin is not on the list of pastries that made it across the Pacific Ocean into Asia, with other items including Belgian waffles, pastries, and even Krispy Kreme bacon cheddar cheeseburgers.