Pancake conundrum

[Prinnny]

Okay, my DH thinks I’m weird AF so I need to seek opinions!

So growing up as a 90s kid I never had a sweet pancake, on pancake day we had ash and pancakes (ash being a stew with either beef or corned beef, onions, carrots, swede and potatoes).

I’ve just tried my first sweet pancakes, first one with Nutella and then one with golden syrup and I’m not a fan. For me it’s pancakes and gravy all the way! AIBU?

Savoury pancakes are nice - filled with vegetables and cheese sauce or baked like cannelloni .

But they are nice with ANY sweet filling . I think today will be sliced banana and caramel syrup with squirty cream on top.

I had a yearning for the Findus ones with cheese a couple of years ago - quite hard to find, I think I tracked them down in Sainsbury eventually. A mistake, not as good as I'd remembered.
I think they're Birdseye rather than Findus now.

@ginslinger

I've never heard of Ash - only Hash.

Ash, in my experience, was the stew meat version.

Hash, was the corned beef version, also known as pinakelty to some.

We're having spinach and ricotta pancake bake snd then sweet ones, syrup, Nutella, biscoff, fruit, lemon and sugar for afters.

As an adult I find it too difficult to just eat afters for tea and not have savoury. We'll see how much room we have! Growing up, my mum did pancake parcels sometimes with like cheese sauce and chives and ham and then sweet ones, but usually just sweet.

Smarties. The only filing worth having.

Gravy 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

Savoury pancakes for me are things like spinach and cheese, like a French galette. Gravy with pancakes is weird. We always have ours with lemon and sugar on Shrove Tuesday.

Always had sweet ones as a kid in the 80s, lemon and sugar usually although my mum did sometimes do blackberry pie filling from a tin with squirty cream or ice cream. I would love one of those but couldn't get any pie filling today!

On holiday in Brittany a few years ago we had savoury crepes at a creperie. DH had andouillette on his which he enjoyed but was slightly revolting to me.

As a child, we always had sugar and lemon juice with our pancakes, but we did eat Yorkshire Pudding spread with jam.

I was a 90s kid and always had sweet pancakes. I've never had a savoury one.

I prefer sweet ones to savoury, but as it’s St David’s Day today and that is more important, we had Welsh cakes.

Well, both are nice!

I haven’t had the exact “ash” recipe you mention, but I like a savoury pancake. We had a choice of both, offered at the same time as it’s a special occasion.

Both - crepes have savoury and sweet, and I lived in Paris snd used to get them on street corners. English pancakes seem pretty much the same, though I think my mum served them with lemon and sugar.
I grew up with thick American pancakes which combined it on the same plate - bacon and maple syrup together!

I was born in the 70's .. lemon and sugar all the way

DS2's idea for a savoury pancake was banana and strawberries. 🙈 you would think that at 14 he would know better but he was genuinely serious.

I actually made a spinach and ricotta pancake bake on a bed of tomato sauce which was really tasty but we still had the traditional lemon and sugar ones to use up the rest of the pancake mix.

We always had them with lemon and sugar, grew up in the 90s,

We did however have corned beef hash the day after pancake day - on Ash Wednesday,

pancakes you eat with sugar and lemon juice, golden syrup and butter or maple syrup and butter.

not with a corned beef hash thats just odd, but then I grew up sticking chocolate spread on yorkshire puddings and cant fathom anyone who puts gravy on em.

It was sugar and lemon growing up, but I would like to try them your way OP.

We went in a different direction today and had American pancakes with bacon, egg and maple syrup (DS was yogurt, banana and honey). I feel like i want some traditional lemon pancakes now for desert.

We’ve just finished an entirely sweet tea. Pancakes with lemon and sugar or lemon and maple syrup or Nutella. I had one of each Food of the goods - I don’t waste my pancake day on savoury nonsense. I’ll be back to the veggies and roughage tomorrow but pancake day is for piggery.

Extra mature cheese for mains, lemon and sugar for pudding.

80s child here and always lemon and sugar on pancake day. On other days we often had savoury pancakes - most often stuffed with tuna in a white sauce and baked in the oven. That could just be a random recipe of my mum’s though.

We always had lemon with either sugar or golden syrup as kids.

I do the same now, or the kids like Nutella, whipped cream & strawberries/banana.

Intensely dislike savoury pancakes or crepes. I remember having a ham & cheese galette in France as a teen and gagging. Wrong!

I only ever do sweet pancakes but one year my DD decided to have leftover gravy on hers instead and it stuck. For years I used to have to make bisto when we had pancakes for breakfast 🤢

Maple syrup, bacon and blueberries for me.