they are such an icon of the totally wrong thing to eat though... bread, designed to soak up the maximum possible sugar, doubleplusgood diabetesfood 

 well, if you flood them with butter i guess that's not so bad 

 Is there any other way to eat a crumpet? 

 that's just the base... it could only be good if you stacked a double beef patty between them, and an egg for good measure, like teh picture