edit: I love how Europeans still struggle to believe that these are what America sees as pancakes. For context, these buttermilk pancakes were so big that I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one. If you went to our “International House of Pancakes(IHOP)” and ordered pancakes, this is what you’d get. America really is on another level.
I see where your confusion comes from. You think you have a pancake there =) To me that looks more like a Austrian Kaiserschmarrn. Delicious, but how are you supposed to put a spread on that and roll it up?
Though your point stands that pancakes are just close approximations of proper crêpe. =)
You have to use the proper translation, otherwise Americans won’t understand you:
You don’t roll up American pancakes, you cut them up into pieces. I used a piece from the center to better demonstrate just how thick they are.
I thought you were going to write, “I used a piece from the center as the foundation slab for my house.” 😀