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We still ate it, spooned over toasted English muffins with poached eggs, but I couldn’t get past the texture.

I got into English muffins because their griddled tops hid any number of sins.

“Morning, Nichole! I brought you and Calvin breakfast. I didn’t know if y’all were biscuit types or English muffin types, so I got a little bit of everything. You sleep okay?”

“Has anyone seen the toaster?” my dad asked at breakfast, helplessly holding two floppy halves of an English muffin.

We ended up eating there two mornings of our trip, lured back by the spectacular gluten-free cake doughnuts, thick-cut bacon and housemade English muffins.