Hey, if it makes you feel any better, I didn't know what a "muffin top" was until you explained it just now. And, frankly, when have low-rise jeans ever fitted well? I remember when they were popular the first time and I couldn't wear them then because I kept trying to pull them up all the time. Talk about your wedgies ....

Hey, don't feel so bad, FW! What is even worse is the fact that my good old DAD had to explain to me what a 'muffin top' was and I am only 34! AND this was only a month ago.......

Maybe we can start a "clueless muffin tops" support group for losers who are so out of the loop they never heard the expression. Wow, so I don't have love handles anymore, I have muffin tops... with or without the low-rise jeans! Arrgh!!!

Oui - muffin tops - are muffin tops. I even have a pan someone gave me from Williams Sonona to bake muffins just deep enough that the whole thing is a muffin top. Muffin tops have something to do with pants? Who'd thunk!

Oui - muffin tops has something to do with pants? Who'd thunk. At my house muffin tops are made in special pans from Williams Sonoma in which the muffins are baked only deep enough to be the tops - not deep enough to be the whole muffin. hmmmmm....maybe there is a correlation after all:)

I never understood those muffin top baking pans. Using one won't give you a muffin top. You'll just get something that "looks" like a muffin top, but it will still have a stump, although a short one. I love muffin tops, not for the shape, but for the fact that they don't have a bottom crust.

Muffin tops are great. Both kinds.

Wow. As soon as you said "muffin top", I started laughing uncontrollably, but not in a "make-you-feel-unhip" sort of way. More in a "this-blog-is-so-very-enjoyable" sort of way.
If you thought muffin top was confusing, imagine how I felt when I encountered the phrase "moose knuckle"!
Trust me. You don't wanna know.
Can you be unhip at 26?
Sometimes I think I define it.
Good stuff. This is what keeps me reading you!

I thought of Elaine too, when you said "muffin top". sigh. But I can text!!!

I first heard this term used by my son. He said, "Look at the muffin tops on that girl" I thought he was talking about her boobs at first. We used to call them love handles. I've got muffin tops and I don't even wear low jeans.

dont feel bad at all! I'm 21 so I should be "with it" and "hip" but the entire time I was reading I was hoping that you were going to tell us what muffin tops are! The baked good muffin top is quite good though :)

Being part of a pregnancy/post-pregnancy forum, I am familiar with the term muffin top (and I even sport one, low rise jeans or not)
Moose knuckle? Not sure, but I can guess. Is it the same thing as camel toe?

I made up a song about "my muffin top" to the tune of that "my milkshake makes all the boys come round" song and sing it often to my kids. To their, uh, joy?

Just a quick note to "kate"....I suspect that a 'moose knuckle' is the same thing as a 'camel toe'....I was wondering exactly the same thing. Again, proving how out of the loop I am, I have never heard of the term 'moose knuckle'.....but I do know what a 'camel toe' is (yuck....I hate that term.....it's almost as bad as the 'C' word)!

Haha..
Ok, just to bring this back around to food-related...Am I the only one who likes the bottom of the muffin better than the top?

Consider it a compliment on you, that you don't normally associate with people who talk like that.

I'd also never heard the term before this post.

Kate, *finally*, something to do with all those stumps!

41 here and I've never heard the term either. I can't understand why ANYONE would wear those low-rise jeans without having a body that warrants it. Double-edged sword though. If someone wears them and hangs over the top, people go "ewww"; if someone with a great body wears them people with a bit of padding say "skinny b!tch".
And yes, camel toe = moose knuckle.
There was a roadhouse bar nearby that was named Moose Knuckles. I nearly drove off the road when I saw that. It has since gone out of business.

One of the reasons I am not fond of the low-rise trend! After 6 kids, its hard to imagine jeans without muffin tops, but franky I'd rather have the whole muffin!

How about this one I heard for the first time the other day: 'The drapes don't match the carpet'. It was referring to a woman with dyed blonde hair.
If you're still thinking about it, the drapes would be her hair, the carpet, uh, somewhat related to the cameltoe part of the anatomy.
I'm way out of the loop of pop culture. Have other people heard this expression?

At 48 have known about muffin tops for several years... thanks to my 20 something daughters. One "oh mom" from them and I've learned my cultural lesson! Still won't listen to a lot of their music, but the lingo I'm pretty on top of. Thanks for the humor and lessons learned, but especially for the lessons learned with humor! You're sooooo groovy=:)

I'm w/you Sherry,,,,my girls (21 &23) keep me fairly up to date on the lingo, but after reading all these posts I'm a bit timid to ask them about a knuckle-toe, or whatever the term is. Please someone post the answer.

Actually, among the truly hip, a muffin top is a brazilian wax with a large patch (as opposed to a landing strip) left on the front. You'll spot a real Californian-style hipster by the fact that we turn beet red from trying not to laugh whenever someone uses the term 'muffintop'.

When in doubt, ask the Google (the new oracle)
http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+camel+toe

oh, that clears that up

Honey, do I have to tell you what "a bad case of biscuit poisoning" means? Heard it first in Nashville. You do the math.

The reason for so many body-part muffin tops may be the eating of the baked-good muffin tops. Don't even go there for the California folks...