Andy wrote:I find this interesting. When I was growing up, all pancakes were fluffy. Yes, I’d heard of crepes, and very occasionally saw one, but they weren’t widely available. If someone was making or selling pancakes, it was always, without exception, the fluffy kind. Crepes didn’t start taking over until I was in my late teens, and I still don’t really think of them as pancakes. I like that crepes are more versatile (on Shrove Tuesdays in the recent past, I’ve enjoyed one with chicken supreme for dinner, followed by one with tinned cherries in syrup for dessert) where as pancakes are really only for sweet things (and bacon, but you still need the maple syrup). Is this an age thing, or a geography thing?Cosby wrote:The yanks have some troubling food habits but their style of fluffy pancakes beats the awful crepe style that we grew up with. Perfect with sweet and/or savoury accompaniment too.
Liveinadive wrote:@Andy
American style pancakes are also known as scotch and scottish pancakes so that may be the reasoning.
Americans also call them flapjacks, which is clearly wrong, a flapjack is oats bound together with butter and golden syrup.
Roujin wrote:Also I'm making soy boy vegan pancakes later, feeling so sigma guys.
tigerswiftly wrote:Anyone tries to put anything but lemon and sugar on pancakes and I throw their food and their fucking hearts in the bin.
Good luck at iHop then! Their pancakes aren't too big, but you sure get a lot there. Don't go for the crêpes, I thought they were a disappointment. Might have been my own fault for ordering the lemon butter ones and then squeezing out all the lemons they gave with it.regmcfly wrote:Portion size here has terrified me. No wonder I was a fat kid
Andy wrote:(on Shrove Tuesdays in the recent past, I’ve enjoyed one with chicken supreme for dinner, followed by one with tinned cherries in syrup for dessert)
tigerswiftly wrote:Anyone tries to put anything but lemon and sugar on pancakes and I throw their food and their fucking hearts in the bin.
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