To think if you don't give your kids pancakes

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Tomorrow that is really mean!

Unless you never partake in pancake /shrove Tuesday,

If you do, and just 'can't be bothered' you're a mean mum/dad..

Have seen people who can perfectly afford it saying nah won't be bothered making kids any pancakes or giving them something sweet.

I loved having these little rituals as a kid and really looked forward to pancake day, silly as it may be. Mine will be having some. Everyone will be having them with Nutella, the heathens, I'll have lemon and sugar like a normal person.
Yanbu.

Everyday would be pancake day for DD if she had her way! We will be having them tomorrow though! Courtesy of my dear old mum as I forgot to buy flour!

Yes! I’ve bought a new pan for maximum flippage.

We will have a pancake station. Nutella, fruit, marshmallows, ice cream. We go completely overboard.

Kids love it and so do we!

Even if it was a day my kids had after school club and had already eaten I would still do pancakes before bed for them. Or before breakfast club or that really is a hassle.

Bully for your kids. Im sure mine will live

I’m an atheist. I don’t like sweet foods.
Maybe my DD might get one off her grandparents. Maybe she won’t. I don’t give a fuck

DH has been practicing making pancakes all week! We have also taught the kids the pancake day song from Maid Marion.

Howeve, I think pancake day is kind of fun but not something unmissable. It's not like people get time off work for it like Easter or Christmas.

I love pancake day and have a drop-in pancake party every year after school/work. I made 62 last year - we had a sticker chart to keep count 🤣

However my children have never had an elf on the shelf or Christmas Eve hamper and I’ve never taken them trick or treating because I don’t like Halloween.

Every family has its own traditions, yes?

Awww mine at v similar ages love a trail through the house with clues for the eggs the "bunny" hides

My two hate pancakes so I don't bother just for me and my husband. I have a feeling they'll be making them at guides though and just won't eat them.
Totally forgotten it was Shrove Tuesday tomorrow but I doubt we'll be having anything sweet. Couldn't care less if others think that makes, me a bad parent.

I grew up in a religious household so it was a tradition we observed, and I’ve continued it with my kids. They’re now gangly teenage atheists but would consider it the height of cruelty if I didn’t supply them with more pancakes than anyone should reasonably consume. We have them with bacon and maple syrup (except my heathen partner who douses them in Nutella). It’s only once a year, which is just as well given the price of maple syrup, not to mention the calories.

Pancake Day is meaningless. We never celebrate it. We’re not keen on them. We literally don’t care a hoot about tomorrow.

I’m working tomorrow, out the house 6.30am until 9pm so not we won’t be doing it, however we did it Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday last week and can probably do it at the weekend aswell

All the pancakes here. Always have and always will. Atheist but will happily steal any traditions involving food - pancakes, easter eggs, etc.

It's a fun tradition and it's sad that fun traditions die out because of people who can't be arsed.

I'm Irish too they have pancakes in school, money raised for charity. Spent about an hour today burning loads and will do it again tomorrow evening, great craic with them shoving fillings on.

Girl in work today asked what I was doing, told her burning pancakes she said she didn't realise today was pancake Tuesday the big ejit

I used to love it when I was a child. My mum used to make a double batch so we could have a few each and there was usually a few friends about.
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I used to make them for my kids and often made the small ones for after school especially when I was a child minder. Will make some tomorrow but no one else here😕

it may technically be religious but I think it's a bit pagan agrarian too - to have a period of 40 days just when the calves are being born, the chickens are feeling broody etc, when traditionally we don't consume eggs, milk or meat, giving all the farm animals a breathing space to raise their young for a bit. I suspect there was something very similar to pancake day before the Christians came to this island.

But whose tradition is it @onionface if I didn't grow up doing it, and neither did my DH, and so we don't do it in our house? It's not a tradition for us, so it's not sad that it's apparently lost. It's a sodding pancake, it's not really up there with presents under the tree is it?

Are you serious? It's a bit of eggs, flour and milk, if children aren't given them it's hardly a major deprevation. Their parents are not depriving them of some sort of life enhancing experience.

My mother used to make them when I was a child, I never ate them they're horrrible.

And the only way they're sweet is if they're smothered in sugar.

I don't think that we will be doing pancakes tomorrow

But I am hoping that we will be doing Shrove Tuesday Swedish style with Semlor --- big cream buns!

Ah, now those, Lunde I can really see the point of. They look amazing.

Way better than nasty old pancakes.

I often do pancakes at the weekend. Blueberry ones with orange zest in the batter, then topped with sliced banana and golden syrup is a fav.

DC want plain ones with Nutella spread on them then topped with sliced strawberries for tomorrow as well as lemon zest batter with squeezed lemon and sugar so I’ll be making a few different batters!

Only do thick American style ones as they’re much easier to get right. Also use organic flour and milk so healthyish.

They’re cheap as chips to make (depending on toppings) so parents who cba when the kids have probably been talking about it all day at school really are miserable arses and deserve their DC going NC as soon as they reach adulthood .

"Why? We are not a religious household. Why should we observe a feast day which has its origins in religion? "

Clue's in the word 'origins' isn't it? It's cultural now as well as religious. Same way most people celebrate Christmas.

It would be a blood bath tomorrow in our house if we didn't have pancakes, and my DC are pretty much grown up! I don't like pancakes very much myself but I will eat a couple of savoury ones as we very rarely have them.

My child doesn't like sweet foods for breakfast, not even cereal or jam. Much prefers a bacon sandwich, or scrambled egg or beans or cheese on toast. Give him vindaloo for breakfast and he'll think it's Christmas.

For anyone shite at making them this is the best recipe!!
50g of flour to 1 egg and 150ml of milk and a pinch of salt!
I usually do 150g flour, 3 eggs, 450ml milk, a pinch of salt and cook them in clover, usually makes about 9/10, use a smallish NON STICK frying pan with a fish slice thing and you should be able to stick the fish slice under a half cooked pancake and flip the whole thing over with it.
Enjoy pancake day