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.
The plastic utensils complete it.
I refuse to engage in the pancake wars, and love all the world’s pancakes equally.
Fluffy American pancakes are fantastic with maple syrup and butter on top. Crepes and Euro pancakes are more versatile, nice with just a little lemon and sugar, or even with a more savory topping. I haven’t tried those Japanese super-thick rice cooker pancakes, but I bet they’re good.
Agreed. I just want people know what I generally mean when I talked about “pancakes” in my pancake posts
just add
"amer*can"before “pancakes”, like"amer*can football"or"amer*can democracy"
“American pancakes”
Canadians: >:(
Sorry. North American pancakes.
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. =)
Austrian Kaiserschmarrn
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.” 😀
I’m skeptical that the Americans would plan to have a pancake specifically 2cm thick … or even have a tape measure with cm on it.
I took this picture myself after getting the pancakes from a genuine American establishment. This is the average for our restaurants. Someone with me mentioned they had a small tape measure, so I decided to capitalize on it.
Also, it’s not that uncommon for our tape measures to have metric.
They must’ve gone for the classic thirteen sixteenths of an inch!
Though an inch is of course defined as 25.4 mm, so Americans are basically always using metric, just with extra steps ;)
Ahh the industrial inch … if only there were some barleycorns we could really get down to the true height of these tēganitēs …
We actually use American football fields as our base unit.
Damn restaurant better be making their pancakes at 13/69,120ths of a standard Football field or I’m gonna be mad, they better be able to prove it with their 192/69,120 standard football field ruler too!
Our main units of measurement are freedoms per square hamburger and bullets per second
All measuring tapes I’ve seen here have metric on them, not sure why this is surprising
I’ve never been to a US hardware shop, so I don’t know what all of youses tapes look like. If I can be honest, when an American talks about minutes, I sometimes stop myself and think “do they use the same minutes as the rest of the world?”
Maybe that’s why it’s surprising.
I haven’t seen any measuring tool in this country without metric, its sorta a necessity as most Americans cant eyeball metric
i can verify that this is neither three feet 🦶🦶🦶 nor a meter 📏
that’s approximately how long the entire tape measure is. it’s a keychain thing
Pancakes in Berlin.
Wow, that’s new to me
Bit late to the party, but this is a German internal culture war. Basically each village has its own name for those. Some names make more sense then others… Berlin calls them essentially pancakes other places call them Berliner and no one is giving an inch on what to call them.
That’s a Berliner. Please, everybody, don’t be fooled by this untrustworthy person.
There is a reason why i specified “Pancake in Berlin”. I’d just call them Berliner or “Marmeladen-Döner”, when drunk or silly.
Das ist kein Pfannenkuchen, das ist ein Kräppel!
In Hessen ja, hier heißen die Berliner.
looks like diabetes
yes
we never said a man sized pancake was a healthfood
Also, yes.
Behold, Spanish Christmas Pan Cake
Beholding in progress.
delish!
this looks like Kaiserschmarrn ~ ~ <3
They’re just cut up into little pieces!!! There were two big fat pancakes that I cut up like this:
pizza is just crepe with tomatoes and other stuff
(don’t change my mind)
but the defining property of a pancake is that it’s cooked in a pan or on a similar surface. A pizza could be a pancake, but isn’t necessarily one
oooooooh i get it now, pan-cake lol i never thought about that before
well here in austria we call them palatschinken so there’s no “pan” in that word at all.
i think the austrian palatschinken has it’s name from a hungarian language, so still a chance, that there is a pan hiding in there.
Hey, what is all this crêpe?
Very flat French pancake thing
Flapjacks, silver dollars, thic crepes
You’ve convinced me. I think I would like European pancakes. Rolling without being to thin sounds like a great on the go food solution. I have tried folding American pancakes around sausage and they always end up breaking apart.
I love the pancake-posting but there is no reason to look down on crepe. We can have both.
Yes! I wasn’t looking down on them, just highlighting the difference
I think I will cook pancakes for tea time. These day, it feels like both Internet and my surroundings are conspiring to make me eat them…
for a moment pefore i read eny of the text i thought this was about kidney stones
