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The Muffin Man of Drury Lane: Fact or Folklore?

Nov 12, 2025
27 mins

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Lindsay and Madison discuss the popular nursery rhyme “The Muffin Man,” as well as how to lure children in the 16th century, that you should never trust a door-to-door pastry salesman, and how to start an urban legend.

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