to think that making American pancakes today is wrong?

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Disclaimer: I am a Brit who grew up in the UK with an American father. We had American pancakes with bacon and maple syrup most weekends, long before that became a 'thing'. And long, long before it became a hipster thing.

I like them. They are ok. But they aren't the be all and end all. Even for a child. And the one day of the whole fucking year, when I could have proper, English, crepe-like (iyswim) pancakes was on Shrove Tuesday. I loved them, still love them, think they are fab.

And yet, my social media is awash with pictures of stacks of American pancakes (which are only really eaten like that in cartoons) covered in maple syrup. Yummy, but why today of fucking all days.

Not only are people doing it wrong but they seem to think there is something, edgy, clever and almost cosmopolitan from making the wrong pancakes today. Why do people do this?

I really don’t understand the logic of ‘we have American pancakes all the time but only have English pancakes on shrove Tuesday because we love them’. Surely if you love them you’d want to eat them more often.

Thin pancakes today. We have a random mix of things to stick on or in them, like raspberries, melted marshmallow, chocolate spread, lemon and sugar.

Thick pancakes with bacon and maples syrup are a lazy tea in my house. 😀

Surely if you love them you’d want to eat them more often.

No because then they wouldn't be a novelty. I don't LOVE them, they are just Shrove Tuesday to me.

Yeah, how dare I, a Scot living in Scotland, eat Scotch pancakes instead of French ones, thus upsetting someone on the internet who is weirdly overinvested in what other people eat?

American pancakes with blueberries, apple or nutella as a breakfast treat. English style thin pancakes with golden syrup every Shrove Tuesday.

American ones are easier to make and keep warm. You can do four or five at the same time in the one pan, so more communal than the English ones which are done one at a time and I just seem to have hordes of hungry kids waiting for their next one. But you do get to toss them!

I love the English ones. I just don't love cooking them! Happy to make Shrove Tuesday an exception for them.

I like American pancakes, the children want crepes...now I'm going to need a recipe for crepes.

I couldn't personally give a toss (see what I did there) what anyone else thinks. What is this "inviting people round for pancakes" thing you speak of...who has spares?

Mind you I'm not sad enough to put photos of what I'm eating on social media as if anyone cares.

People are far too patriotic over food

American-style pancakes are closer to a cake than a crepe. I don't like them as much because I associate them with the sort you get in stacks in a supermarket in a plastic tub, which are claggy and not that great.

The dcs prefer the English pancakes or French crepes.

American pancakes in our family!

My pancakes will be thin - almost lacey - some will have lemon and sugar, some will have maple syrup and there will be lots and lots of them.

There will be nothing else to eat, just pancakes......

BUT it will be on Thursday as no other bugger is at home tonight and I’m out (at the theatre no less) tomorrow so we have a delay....

The only pancakes eaten in this house will be thin, golden, lacy and drizzled with lemon juice and sugar.
Happy tossing! May your pancakes always land in the pan

Crepes every Shrove Tuesday using up whatever's in the fridge for filling, and then more of them with lemon juice and sugar. Best dinner ever! (Brought up Catholic, does it show?)

I do agree with you op and much prefer English flat pancake myself. But...I've just done the american ones for dd age 3 as.she doesn't like the others!

DS2 requested maple pancakes with maple syrup, YABU.

Scotch pancakes, done on a griddle, like my granny and great aunties made them.

They’d have laughed in your face if you’d suggested they were American.

I'm making waffles and I don't care who thinks this is wrong.

I only like American pancakes - with maple syrup and bacon.

For me it has to be thin Shrove Tuesday ones cooked in butter so they are crispy with lemon and sugar or butter and sugar although my kids like banana and syrup or chocolate spread.
We have the American style ones about once a month and always the first day of a school holiday.
Crepes are never crisp enough for me they taste too eggy.

I am Scottish. For me pancakes are about the size of my palm and thick and yummy. To me the other kind are crepes. Also nice. When I was doing my postgraduate invited a bunch of my classmates around for pancake day. Only then discovered once they got to mine that they expected crepes and some of then we're quite rude about it (mixture of rest of UK in class). It doesn't really matter though does it? Just an excuse to indulge in some pancake crepe panscone yummyness

My kids prefer American to proper lemon and sugar pancakes.

Where did I go wrong?

Traditional pancakes for the main, and American pancakes for dessert! Problem solved!

Scotch pancakes all the way

I like using an American pancake mix, because it's thicker and I can therefore cook them very easily in a sandwich toaster.......

Mix???? Can't do a mix but that's a whole other thread!

Yanbu - I cam have both but my husband loathes the ‘fat beastly American pancakes’ as he calls them. I don’t care either way - we have the thin ones at home. I just want to eat pancakes with golden syrup. And dark chocolate sauce. Mmmm