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AIBU?

to think people who serve up American pancakes on Pancake day and crepes for breakfast should be shot?

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ethelb · 12/02/2013 19:03

Well am I?

I have to add a disclaimer that one of my parents is American and the other English so the only time I got crepes/thin pancakes was on Shrove Tuesday and American pancakes were a frequent breakfast treat (which I really don't like).

I would be soooo disappointed (and have been in the past) to get them served at the wrong time.

AIBU?

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PiggyPlumPie · 12/02/2013 19:38

Proper thin pancakes on Pancake day with lemon and sugar only - nothing else is right IMO!

Fat/American pancakes can be had at any other time of year with whatever sauce takes your fancy.

giraffesCantFlipPancakes · 12/02/2013 19:41

I made drop scones - where do they come in to it?

CarlingBlackMabel · 12/02/2013 19:42

I agree with SpoonyFuckers classifications.

And do Scotch pancakes, or drop Scones, count?

Lemon and sugar, or orange juice and golden syrup.

My mother used to put raspberry vinegar on.

Nutella is a newfangled topping, and better deployed on crepes, IMO.

SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker · 12/02/2013 19:43

I'm meant to be fasting until lunch and this is not helping.

Piggy, what if you have the lemon and sugar version first, is it allowed to indulge further with different ones after that?

(patiently waiting with nutella in hand -- only 20 minutes until lunch)

HeadfirstForHalos · 12/02/2013 19:43

Meh, I made American pancakes today, simply because the dc like them! So shoot me.

ThreeBeeOneGee · 12/02/2013 19:44

I made pancakes for the children today. Some turned out like crepes, others turned out like American pancakes...

MrsDmitriTippensKrushnic · 12/02/2013 19:45

We're having pancakes tomorrow. Two and half hours in a dentist chair has not put me in the mood to slave over the stove this evening. Luckily the DC are understanding

witchface · 12/02/2013 19:53

Yeah i am pretty sure that scottish pancakes were exported to america and are just coming back.

GlaikitFizzog · 12/02/2013 19:57

Dh calls Scottish pancakes bannocks!

WitchOfEndor · 12/02/2013 19:59

I make dropped scones aka Scotch Pancakes as per my old BeRo cookery book, I make them using a whisk instead of a spoon and they are thick and fluffy and lovely and I make them the size of American Pancakes

Thin pancakes are horrible.

PhilMcAverty · 12/02/2013 20:05

DH made the pancakes tonight. I ate them smothered in nutella, while making the right sounds.

I didn't have it in me to point out that pancakes shouldn't be CRUNCHY.

LauraPashley · 12/02/2013 20:09

Feeling slightly more enlightened!

Yy to whoever said Scottish pancakes went to America.. I make pancakes with a raising agent but they are little sized, they are just "pancakes" to me as I am Scottish! Cooked in butter, in a frying pan.

In my house we have lunch pancake followed by pudding pancake! (Cheese, then Nutella )
Where do you make Crepes then?

thebody · 12/02/2013 20:11

Yeuk, pancakes are vile anyway.

GalaxyDefender · 12/02/2013 20:11

I made pancakes with apple sauce for me and DS today. Yummmmmy.

I think all this faff about American pancakes and crepes is bollocks. A pancake is a pancake, whether it's thick or thin. Thick ones are better though!

YABabitU for judging people on their pancake day eatings. I think that's a bit weird.

SelfconfessedSpoonyFucker · 12/02/2013 20:11

Laura, if you really want pudding pancake you should make this...

riascollection.blogspot.com/2012/05/30-layered-nutella-crepe-cake-for-my.html

(well not that specific one, I haven't tried her recipe but have done a pancake cake with nutella that went down very well with the family)

CarlingBlackMabel · 12/02/2013 20:13

OMG!
The Be-Ro cookery book! Is it a little narrow pamphlet?
My Mum had one of those and she swore by it.
I wish I had a Be-Ro cookery book.

BitOutOfPractice · 12/02/2013 20:14

Crikey OP did you get out of bed on the wrong side

What I thought was a light hearted thread has actually made me cross. I am sorry that "some people" keep getting it so "wrong"

Sheesh!

Hassled · 12/02/2013 20:14

I'm with GalaxyDefender - a pancake is a pancake. You make the batter (in my case, identical to my Yorkshire Pudding batter) and you fry some. You bin the first attempt because it's always a dud. Whatever else emerges is a pancake.

ethelb · 12/02/2013 20:17

@threebeeonegee those were neither a crepe or American pancake. They sound like a culinary disaster.

You DO NOT decide whether a pancake is one or the other as it comes out of the pan.

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ethelb · 12/02/2013 20:18

@galaxy it is not bollocks.

That attitude is why I never accept pancakes of Brits (except myself).

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ThreeBeeOneGee · 12/02/2013 20:19

ethelb: you are so right! They tasted good though!

skullcandy · 12/02/2013 20:20

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FellatioNels0n · 12/02/2013 20:23

YANBU. I despair of people sometimes, I really do. Have they no sense of tradition? No shame? No standards?

HeadfirstForHalos · 12/02/2013 20:24

Don't worry, I don't think any of us will be offering you pancakes anytime soon anyway ethelb.

I cook for appreciative polite people.

HeadfirstForHalos · 12/02/2013 20:25

My pancakes may have been American/Scottish, but they were damn good. DH is working away and is pining for my pancakes

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