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[HairOfTheDog]

...always associated muffins with the US - blueberry ones especially, and I thought that Eggs Benedict was French!

I don't know much about food origins, but I believe that England gets credit for the "English muffin" and the US gets credit for using the English muffin to create "eggs benedict" (named after one of two men with the surname "Benedict"; that's what I've read anyway).

I think Spain is the most visited country on the planet - it is just a shame that most of the visitors are uneducated idiot Brits and Germans and not cultured people like yourself. I would like to spend some time in Northern Spain and get into the culture and language - and food of course.

While I don't believe France owns the invention of eggs benedict, it does own the title of most visited country in the world. I think that the US, China and Italy are next in terms of most-visited, with Spain rounding out the top 5 (or Spain may have exceeded Italy in the last couple of years - it's pretty close between them, IIRC).

Exploring Northern Spain sounds like a dream. I hope you get to do it. I've always really wanted to visit Cuba, but US/Cuban relations make that dream impossible for me - someday, maybe. I have a few scuba-diving friends in Germany who've dived and explored Cuba for extended holidays; they love it (and love to rub it in too - bastards).