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To think if you don't give your kids pancakes

402 replies

peettaleetta · 24/02/2020 21:38

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.

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PhilCornwall1 · 25/02/2020 05:25

I'm away for work, but I'm sure my wife will make them for the boys this evening and they will embellish them with all sorts of crap (like they do every meal!!).

I've only had them once when I was little, I can't stand them.

Juliette20 · 25/02/2020 05:25

Also I wonder what people cook for their dinner normally if pancakes are seen as tricky or a bother to make. Last night I made a curry, for example, which was an easy and typical weekday meal, but there were a lot more processes and ingredients for that than making pancakes.

Juliette20 · 25/02/2020 05:30

Just yuck, not suitable for dinner, etc Hmm

To think if you don't give your kids pancakes
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Ryantrain · 25/02/2020 05:35

Ridiculous Confused

ifigoup · 25/02/2020 05:40

I like food rituals/traditions, so we’re having them (made on Sunday and frozen till last night, as we, too, are a full-time-working household). I like the feeling of connectedness with my mum’s own patterns - she died 7 years ago. So we have:

  • pancakes on Shrove Tuesday
  • simnel cake on Mothering Sunday
  • hot cross buns on Good Friday
  • Easter eggs and roast lamb on Easter Day
QuiteForgetful · 25/02/2020 05:53

I would if anybody liked them, but we rarely have them, every few years, Although once I made them at 12 am, after reading a thread here about pancakes gave me a craving for them.

Yesterdayforgotten · 25/02/2020 05:53

'I've only had them once when I was little, I can't stand them.'

Maybe that's because you only tried them once and when you were little too. My husband thought he didnt like them but realised it was because his parents were just really bad at making them and now loves my homemade ones.

Yesterdayforgotten · 25/02/2020 05:57

Oh savoury pancakes are good too, you can sort of stuff then with ingredients and turn over like a pasty Grin

PicsInRed · 25/02/2020 05:58

You gonna sing Jerusalem too, OP?

sashh · 25/02/2020 05:59

It's the one day of the year I won't make pancakes.

BTW top tip for making pancakes, use two pans, one slightly smaller than the other.

Put the smaller pan on the hob on high, put the second pan on the hob on not quite as high (easy on my hoba s the burners are different sized). I also put a plate on a back barner with the burner off.

Have you pancake mix in a jug or use a ladle.

Put fat in big pan and wait until it smokes (lard is the best) pour batter into the pan and move thepan around to cover the bottom.

Wit until little dots - sort of holes- appear, turn the pancake into the other pan.

Heat oil in the first pan pour in the batter, the pancake in pan 2 will be cooked, Tip it up over the plate.

By this time the batter in pan one will be cooked.

|Keep going until all the batter is gone.

JRUIN · 25/02/2020 06:00

What are you,12? Confused

TheMammothHunters · 25/02/2020 06:01

Too busy today. We had our pancakes for breakfast on Sunday morning.

PonteLaCorona · 25/02/2020 06:03

*40 mins? What are you doing?

Get a bowl and a whisk add flour milk and an egg - whisk

Heat pan and start cooking 5 mins tops.*

Cooking more than one?
Still. Not today!

OtherVoicesOtherRooms · 25/02/2020 06:15

Sugar is available in grotesque quantities nowadays OP.
I doubt our little darlings will be deprived of 'something sweet' for long.

BarbaraofSeville · 25/02/2020 06:34

Pancakes take no time at all, what do you normally have for dinner if pancakes are considered 'too time consuming' Confused

I can't believe that anyone raised in the UK or another Christian country doesn't know the origins of Shrove Tuesday, even if you're not religious, it's like not knowing about Christmas or Easter.

We won't be having them because we're both trying to eat healthily, don't particularly like them and we could have them whenever we like and funnily enough almost never have them., because we're not that bothered about them.

Completely ironic that we all buy stuff in for pancakes, and the whole point of them was to clear out the cupboards before lent begins

I know, of all the ways that rampant consumerism has taken over, the sale of pancake mix, and big displays of pancake related stuff in the supermarket is surely the most ridiculous and unnecessary?

tigger1001 · 25/02/2020 06:41

This thread is hilarious.

It's mean not to make pancakes..... no it really isn't.

Another job teachers have to do as parents won't...... really?? Maybe parents don't take part as they don't feel they should as they are not religious.

It's once a year..... that one really made me crack up. You can make pancakes anytime you like. It doesn't have to be on a prescribed day.

Just use three pans..... what if you don't have three frying pans?

It just takes 5 minutes...... as another poster pointed out, not if you are making a batch, can easily take half hour.

Make pancakes or don't make them. This is not the deciding feature on whether you are mean or not.

We might, if I have time. But as I am out of the house for 12 hours and still to have tea when I get home (savoury pancakes are yuck in our opinion) then I might not have time. If not though we will have them another time. It seriously doesn't need to be today. Can't believe "pancake day" is being used as a stick to beat parents with.

SunshineCake · 25/02/2020 06:42

What utter nonsense. I'm embarrassed for you you think this is something that would make you a mean parent. Try living in the real world.

OkMaybeNot · 25/02/2020 06:43

I make Scotch pancakes probably about once a fortnight, usually as part of a big family breakfast, so bacon and eggs etc. It's not super special for us so I wasn't going to bother tbh.

As it happens I've been up since the very, very wee hours so I made some to heat up for when the kids are awake

Bluewavescrashing · 25/02/2020 06:45

I'm up early making them but mainly for me 😊 although kids will love them!

BRITISHAIRWAYSSUCK · 25/02/2020 06:48

Lol, utter nonsense! Hardly depriving a kid by not exposing them to pancakes!

ColourMyDreams · 25/02/2020 06:52

No one here likes pancakes.
No idea what sort of parent that made me. 🤔

MinnieMountain · 25/02/2020 06:55

DS doesn't like them. Is that my get out of jail free card?

FenellaMaxwell · 25/02/2020 06:58

I pick DS up from nursery at 6pm. I have a precious hour to spend with him before he goes to sleep, into which I need to fit bath, bedtime stories and getting him ready for bed. I’m not missing half of that time with him in the kitchen making pancakes he won’t want to eat because he’s had dinner at nursery just so I’m not considered ‘mean’ by some random on mumsnet. But thanks for the parenting advice!

SuperFurryDoggy · 25/02/2020 07:12

Didn’t even realise it was Shrove Tuesday. We’re not religious.

We do have pancakes every Sunday though, and if the children ask for them this evening I will make them.

I don’t really think it’s mean not to partake though.

BumblebeeBum · 25/02/2020 07:30

I’m a single Mum with the flu and a long day at work ahead of me after very little sleep. If the kids have to have pancakes on a different day - I can cope with that.

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