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Pancakes for tea - AIBU or DH?!

277 replies

glitterazi · 26/02/2017 23:51

It's Pancake Day on Tuesday! Bloody love Pancake Day.
Although, who's BU?
I think stacks of pancakes for tea on Pancake Day (dinner to the Southerner lot) with loads of different toppings, fruit and fillings is perfectly adequate.
DH thinks that's not a substantial tea, and they're perfectly good as a starter but it's not a main meal for the kids.
Am I unreasonable to think "Shurrup, it's Pancake Day!" and continue to fill us all with pancakes or do you do something else as well?

OP posts:
228agreenend · 27/02/2017 08:18

We always have a small 'main' such as jacket potato, pizza etc, and then pancakes as a desert.

SaucyJack · 27/02/2017 08:20

YANBU, although we always start with sweet corn fritters and salsa, before moving on to blueberry- and then I finally let them go in for the traditional lemon and sugar combo.

Original poster
glitterazi · 27/02/2017 08:20

OMG, Findus Crispy pancakes! Genius. That's mains sorted then. In your face dh, there's mains right there. Grin

OP posts:
MrsPringles · 27/02/2017 08:23

Your husband is a fool Grin

Pancakes are an adequate dinner, I've just been to m&s and raided the pancake aisle though, I pretty much bought it all.
Maple sugar anyone? Yuuuuuuuum

WhoKn0wsWhereTheTimeG0es · 27/02/2017 08:23

Well, I was a huge fan of Findus Crispy Pancakes back in the 70s or whenever, but I bought some last year in Iceland abd they were just awful. I think they were meant to be chicken and ham, they tasted of neither, just floury white sauce and greasy tasting pancake, never again.

pinkhorse · 27/02/2017 08:25

Am I the only person that hates pancakes?

JustBeingJobless · 27/02/2017 08:28

We will have a bacon and cheese one followed by sweet ones. I love one spread thinly with jam and wrapped around a banana, ds prefers golden syrup and lemon juice together.

MrsPringles · 27/02/2017 08:41

Pinkhorse

My DH doesn't like them either. He's cooking his own dinner tomorrow.

How can you not like them?! Shock

Serialweightwatcher · 27/02/2017 08:42

I always make them as a dessert on pancake day with lemon and a little sprinkling of sugar - don't think I'd fancy them as the whole dinner though

banivani · 27/02/2017 08:46

In Sweden we often have pancakes for dinner. Not weird at all. It's tradition to eat pea soup followed by pancakes on Thursdays all year round, but apart from that people often have pancakes for dinner just as is. And I don't think savoury pancakes are at all as common as sweet ones, unless they're "pork pancakes" which is either thin pancakes or thick oven pancakes (bit like a yorkshire pudding i suppose) with bits of fried bacon in them. Served with lingonberry jam of course.

Bluntness100 · 27/02/2017 08:47

I'm also in the camp of making them for pudding and not serving as a main, don't do it anymore as daughter is 19 and at uni, but always did when she was growing up. It's a nice treat, but I never gave her them as dinner.

As others said, you can though do a savoury version.

5moreminutes · 27/02/2017 08:50

My DH thinks sweet pancakes are a desert, but the kids are very happy with only sweet - its perfectly fine assuming they had a savoury lunch!

Do a spicy chicken or spinach and bacon or pulled pork filling option and anyone saying that isn't a proper meal is being an arse.

I sometimes bake the first 6 filled very full with the savoury filling, with cheese over the top, while cooking the rest to put out for people to do with as they please, and filled, baked pancakes are no different to a pasta bake nutritionally. only the adults plus one of my kids will eat them that way, so the other two have nutella and jam and sugar and lemon juice

diddl · 27/02/2017 08:53

We'll be having them for lunch as our main meal.

Just plain with lemon/lime/orange/nutella.

I only cook once a dayGrin

diddl · 27/02/2017 08:55

"We always have a small 'main' such as jacket potato, pizza etc, and then pancakes as a desert."

That sounds like far too much to me!

kiwigeekmum · 27/02/2017 08:57

"Shurrup, it's Pancake Day!"

Grin Grin Grin

YANBU.

Totally confused by the idea of savoury pancakes though. Might have to try them out sometime - live dangerously and all that. Grin

BertrandRussell · 27/02/2017 08:57

"My kids like them with a squeeze of lemon and just a tiny sprinkle of sugar, so it's not too bad really"
I just had to laugh at the "just a tiny sprinkle of sugar"! So very mumsnet. Sorry Blush whoever posted that!

willitbe · 27/02/2017 08:59

You might like to point out the origins of "pancake day" or Shrove Tuesday......

"Shrove Tuesday was the last opportunity to use up eggs and fats before embarking on the Lenten fast and pancakes are the perfect way of using up these ingredients." this is the day to get ready for fasting, so if he is hungry after this meal then he will not be able to fast properly, he will be even hungrier tomorrow!!!!!!! Then you can ask him if you are being unreasonable making him fast the following day! Grin

Boosiehs · 27/02/2017 08:59

We will be having cheese and ham savoury pancakes followed by sweet ones with lemon and sugar/nutella and banana.

I might even do them for breakfast as well (american style with yoghurt and fruit) as the kids are off nursery tomorrow....

IWantATardis · 27/02/2017 09:00

We do savoury pancakes for dinner and sweet pancakes for pudding on pancake day.

RedHelenB · 27/02/2017 09:01

YANBU - pancake day you stuff your face with them, nothing else needed!!!

5moreminutes · 27/02/2017 09:04

We have pancakes quite often, not specifically on pancake day (as below with both savoury and sweet fillings). However they are a pretty rubbish way of using up eggs aren't they willitbe - how many eggs per person in a traditional pancake batter? Less than one in the recipe I use...

That has always mystified me a bit - pancakes with lemon juice and sugar are a rubbish way of using up eggs and fats, if that was your aim - good way of using up flour but that isn't the traditional aim (luckily it isn't remotely my aim so I don't care, but I often vaguely wonder)!

JoandMax · 27/02/2017 09:04

We just have pancakes - savoury to start and sweet to follow! Always just put a load of stuff on table and everyone helps themselves, DCs love a sausage rolled in a pancake. Sweet they only really like sugar not chocolate or anything, I love melted chocolate and strawberries........

outabout · 27/02/2017 09:08

Unless I have the occasion incorrect I thought the idea of pancakes was to provide a basis for eating up the 'odds and ends' in your larder before lent. Therefore you put whatever you want on them although perhaps not 2 week old lettuice!
Some Americans have bacon, sausage, maple syrup and whatever on theirs.
On the basis that fasting can be good for you, if DH doesn't want any, tell him go without any food for a couple of days, it won't hurt.

Zampa · 27/02/2017 09:09

As willitbe pointed out, it's not Pancake Day. It's SHROVE TUESDAY!

You are all BU for calling it Pancake Day.

However, eat as many as you want and don't bother with anything else.

Kiroro · 27/02/2017 09:10

Need to have savory pancakes first!
Pancakes + chilli or bolognese or ham and cheese

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