To get a new identity and face and move to a new country?

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Just that, really.

I went for a brunch with some Mums from my oldest's new class. I chose pancakes, a safe choice. Or so I thought.

They came with a cute little meringuy decoration on top. I started with that. I cut it in 2, put it my mouth and realised that it was butter. I looked up and made eye contact with one of the Mums. She looked slightly horrified. I had no choice but swallow.

I hesitated between eating the other half like a boss while maintaining eye contact and praying that things don't start to slide down or up before the end of th e brunch or using the butter as mother nature had intended. I chose the latter (and still prayed)

The Mums are nice enough but they don't look like they would mix butter with meringue. I don't get out often.

I have no choice do I? We need to pack up and start a new life elsewhere?

Someone once told me their friend ate butter like cheese, they thought it was gross. So I tried it, it’s lovely. I keep nibbling the butter now. It has to be cold butter. Yum.

Ahahah, I love that 🤣 😂.

I will definitely try.

@TheBluntTruth it's ok to name change on Mumsnet. If you think you've read the tone wrong and want a fresh start here, just change your name and start again. Most posters don't sign off their posts with their name here, either.

Pancakes with whipped butter, sitting under a massive pool of maple syrup is the ONLY way to eat them. Gavel bang 🥞

Carry on.

I'll bring the meringues butter, you bring the pancakes.

Peru or Guatemala?

Yes, run for the hills and never look back.

When I was a child we had homemade 'scotch pancakes' with butter spread over the top? Totally different thing I know but just brought back that lovely memory

How about turning up at the school gate tomorrow nonchalantly chewing on a 250g block of butter like it's a choc ice. Make it a thing?

Nope. Sorry. One way ticket then.

If it makes you feel any better I have done this kind of thing hundreds of times. I moved to London to work in PR in the 00s as a very naive country bumpkin and have done every awkward food thing you can think of at events and fancy parties. The worst was mistaking the temporary urinals at a gig in Hyde Park for drinking fountains.

I'll come with you.

Since when do people butter pancakes?!

It looks like cream. Why would they do that?

I’ve traveled a lot in America. Their American pancakes always come with a round blob of pale whipped butter centre top of the stack. Yuk. Always scrape it off and pour a gallon of maple syrup on instead.

Oh fuck, did you actually drink from them!? 😱

Once went to a pancake (crepe) restaurant on a first date. There were lots of delicious looking options on the menu and I ended up choosing lemon to start with and chocolate for dessert. After I'd ordered, the waiter said, "So Madam is having two desserts?" I had no idea what to say to my date and just wanted the earth to swallow me up.

On my first visit to a posh restaurant I drank the finger bowl. My date was horrified! 😂😂😂

Not food related, but a friend of mine was a NQT and doing her first parents evening. She was really nervous and automatically went to push her glasses up when speaking to one parent.
Except that she'd taken her glasses off to'look more approachable' and instead just poked herself in both eyes. I still don't know how she managed it. She then had to style out the rest of the evening with both eyes streaming & bloodshot.

A different perspective: The woman who witnessed your butter trauma could well be your new mate. She could have called you out on it but didn't. She's quite possibly a decent human being.
The best thing I ever tasted was a square of miso butter at a Michelin restaurant. I don't remember anything else from that meal.

I once ate a blue wax crayon instead of a sweetie at a Wedding breakfast.

I hear Ulan Bator is lovely this time of year.

I love this! And now I have aspirations to reach this peak of social standing.

OP, next time you’re out with your friends, insist on extra butter swirls on everything 😍

Butter and sugar was my favourite pancake topping as a child...

Omg crying!!

I once ate the decorative green bean off the top of my curry .

Yes it was a chilli and no I didn't 'style it out' but made funny noises and knocked my beer back extremely quickly. Luckily I was only with my family at the time.

In Brittany they eat crepes with salted butter and sugar sprinkled on top, very tasty

@TheBluntTruth i really hope you haven’t reached your 30s without realising how boring you are, trying to belittle people on threads.
Hope you’re only doing it on here to make yourself feel better and not acting like this in front of friends and family-they’ll honestly think you’re a knob 🙈

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I butter scotch pancakes, all my friends and family do too.

We do too. My DF is Scottish.