Had the delicious chocolate muk muk cake at Prairie Grass on Saturday and got to wondering about the name--origin and meaning. Those we asked at the restaurant did not know. A Google search revealed only that muk is the Korean word for jelly and Muk Muk was the marmot mascot of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Canada. Hard to make a definitive connection there.
Hope I'm not displaying too much ignorance, but does anybody know the story?
"Life is a combination of magic and pasta." -- Federico Fellini
"You're not going to like it in Chicago. The wind comes howling in from the lake. And there's practically no opera season at all--and the Lord only knows whether they've ever heard of lobster Newburg." --Charles Foster Kane, Citizen Kane.