Have you ever wondered why English Muffins...

Have you ever wondered how and/or why the texture and flavor of a English muffin changes when you eat it different ways? Well I do, I mean I am wondering that right now. I just got back from Trader Joe's, a local Grocery store in Chicago, where I bought a number of bread, and bread-like items, including your standard, everyday English muffin. Ok, so normally when I eat English muffins I toast them and just eat them with a little bit of butter, plain and simple. The texture is great, you have the somewhat crunchy outer part of the muffin after it's toasted, and then the butter makes the top kind of smooth, but when you bite into it, it has this amazing juxtaposition of spongy fluffiness and outer crunch that is just wonderful. It's so hard to explain..anyway, back to the point. Today, I got some strawberry preserves and was aching to try them. So, I toasted an English muffin, buttered it, then added a generous amount of preserves and proceeded to eat it, it was crazy...everything was softer, the textures, the flavors, even the brightness of the strawberry was mellowed and refined. It wasn't as though I was eating just another English muffin with strawberry preserves, which it happened to be. I was eating something with no connection to either of the two main ingredients but a melding of them to make something completely different and new.