Food Network calls this episode “Little Big Lunch: Eggs Benedict”. The refrigerator title reads simply “Little Big Lunch”.

Alton: The history of food is fat with names we all know: Clarence Birdseye, Milton Hershey, Dr. Salisbury. But for each of the famous, a thousand unsung heroes languish in relative obscurity.

Alton: So, then it's off to blast the peasants... ah, sorry, pheasants... pheasants...
Guy Barrington: Quite.

Guy Barrington: Instead of England's early Sunday dinner, a post-church ordeal of heavy meats and savory pies, why not a new meal, served around non, beginning with tea or coffee. By eliminating the need to get up early on Sunday, “brunch” would make life brighter for Saturday night carousing.

Alton: The English muffin is actually kin to the girddle-baked crumpet, and was invented in 1880 by one baker named Samuel Thomas, in Chelsea. Not, not London, actually, but rather... New York City.

(After a yeast puppet belches in his face.)
Alton: You know, this persistent releasing of gas is only funny to small children and men with names like Beavis.

Alton: For that we'll need three egg yolks – those are already out – a half a pount of unsalted butter. Hey, I said it was good. I didn't say it was low fat.

Alton: We also, of course, need eight thin slices of Canadian bacon – that's a smoked back bacon or loin, which Canadians no more refer to as Canadian bacon in Canada than the English call English muffins “English muffins” in England! Yeah... that's right.

Alton asserts that a recipe entitled “Eggs à la Benedick” appeared in the 1894 edition of Charles Ranhofer's cookbook, The Epicurean. Later editions do contain the recipe. The 1894 edition may be viewed online (for example, here). The new edition of the book is still in print and available for purchase as of this writing.

Samuel Thomas first sold his English Muffins from a bakery in New York. After his death in 1919 his family incorporated that business, and it exists to this day: Thomas English Muffins can be found on many store shelves.

Chastising a “yeast” that has “belched” in his face (demonstrating that yeast produce carbon dioxide and help breads rise), Alton comments that only children and people named Beavis find that funny. Alton refers here to a character from animator Mike Judge's inaugural cartoon, Beavis and Butt-Head, which ran on MTV in the 1990s. Its two title characters were noteworthy for many examples of unrefined behavior. Beavis was the blond haired, and generally stupider, member of the pair, usually depicted wearing a Metallica or Death Rock tee shirt and shorts.

The episode name “Little Big Lunch” may be a take on The Little Bighorn. The Little Bighorn was the site of a famous battle between the United States Cavalry (7th Regiment), led by George Armstrong Custer, and various American Indians from the Lakota Sioux, Cheyenne and Arapaho peoples, led by Sitting Bull. The cavalry took heavy losses and Custer himself died, leading to the battle's other popular name: Custer's Land Stand.