The packaging of Thomas’s English Muffins, with their “nooks
and crannies” feature shout-out on the label, always made me think of a joke
product called: “Hitchcock’s Knife-Split English McGuffins”* that would be filled with
“crooks and grannies” (or “crooks and nannies”: Hitchcock’s early English movies always seemed to have so many criminals and old ladies and suspicious, sketchy servants). I don’t know why I always think of it, except that it rhymes (maybe that’s it).
* BTW: A McGuffin, MacGuffan, etc., is a thing that serves as a plot device, especially in Alfred Hitchcock movies. It's basically the thing that everybody wants, and so it makes the story move forward. In Notorious, the uranium samples, or whatever radioactive stuff it was supposed to be, is the McGuffin. And in Psycho, it's the stolen money (and I guess also the Janet Leigh character).
* BTW: A McGuffin, MacGuffan, etc., is a thing that serves as a plot device, especially in Alfred Hitchcock movies. It's basically the thing that everybody wants, and so it makes the story move forward. In Notorious, the uranium samples, or whatever radioactive stuff it was supposed to be, is the McGuffin. And in Psycho, it's the stolen money (and I guess also the Janet Leigh character).
