But “Little Miss Muffet” is one of those rare exceptions. The short verse, about a young girl and a scary spider, includes words like “tuffet” and “curds and whey.” So, what the heck ...

HUMPTY Dumpty was put back together again at the weekend as villagers in Ambrosden beavered away making nursery-themed scarecrows. Little Miss Muffet was sat on her tuffet and Jack and Jill ...

Meanwhile, the line in Little Miss Muffet which tells of a girl being ‘frightened away’ by a spider has been changed to say it ‘brightened Miss Muffet’s day!’ Miss Muffet has also become ...

Who knew that Little Miss Muffet, when she sat on her tuffet, was eating the curds and whey that were supposed to be fed to the livestock? That and other interesting facts about the making of ...

Last week, I lived a nursery rhyme — with an Occam’s razor twist. I was a lot like Little Miss Muffet sans tuffet. In full disclosure, I had to look up tuffet just to be sure. (In case you ...

They are two kinds of milk proteins, which separate when you add rennin to them. Little Miss Muffet, sat on her tuffet, eating her curds and whey. Along came a spider-- Wait a second! Eating her ...