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?

@Ihateslugs yep that's how it's done. Surprisingly nice if slightly weird.

I always put butter on scotch pancakes. I'm Scottish though and put salt in my porridge.

Hope you feel better with everyone’s stories now OP.
Years and years ago I worked for the CEO of one of the then biggest investment banks in Australia. We were at a work function and sushi was being served with wasabi on the side. He thought it was avocado and scooped up a whopping great pile and popped it in, then looked at me in horror when it hit 😂
Now he was well educated, well versed in fine dining etc but still make a mistake. I’ve never forgotten it and often drag it out of the memory bank to console myself.

I have done this exact same thing, years ago in America, never seen whipped butter before. Thought it was ice cream. Put the lot in my mouth. I was on holiday with my parents and they were 'kind' enough just to laugh at my shock and stupidity. I still remember it so clearly. I have moved to the other side of the world ( but for unrelated reasons😂)

Unironically here for TheBluntTruth's self important grandstanding 🤣

Lean into it OP, be that weird quirky friend. Then you can eat whatever you want however you want 😉

Somebody's watched too much Bridgerton,...or Gossip Girl 😅

XOXO
Lady Whistledown

In your situation I would pretend to swallow, try to hold the butter subtly in my mouth while it melts and slides down my throat copiously anyway, wait until the mum looks away then stuff a massive chunk of pancakes into my mouth to complement the butter, then probably choke on the pancake wad in my haste in front if everyone

It's spring in Argentina now, you'll like it there.

I've noticed your comments around MN recently.

Firstly, we can all see your username, you don't need to do a weird "sign off".

Secondly, this is obviously a lighthearted post about a funny mistake that isn't that deep.
I've done all sorts of random things that make me go hot with embarrassment.

We are humans, it happens.

Next time, try the pancakes with the butter and the maple syrup. They're delicious.

My mum used to make griddle cakes/ Scotch pancakes and serve them with butter and golden syrup. YUM.

I'm late 50s and eat out quite a bit but haven't seen butter on pancakes. Didn't notice it in America or on crepes in Brittany, but then I wasn't really looking.

I had an almost food related disaster when I was just a few weeks into my new job and we had a works in-house get-together and as we walked in someone to a woman "oh Jenny I hope you have made some of your famous mince pies?" she said she had and picked up a plate of little pies for us, being polite I took one and was about to stuff it into my mouth when my colleague said "Mothership you do know it is a meat pie?" as they knew I was vegetarian. Fortunately it didn't go in as I wouldn't have been as polite as the OP and would have spat it straight out! In my defence, to me a mince pie uses sweet mince and it was December.

Well, you can pack up and move to the US or Canada where butter is standard on pancakes (though they must then have maple syrup poured on them and it has to be the real stuff from trees not some godawful corn syrup with chemical flavouring), so that you have a chance to get used to it. Then return in 5 years or so in triumph to the UK having mastered meringue-shaped butter, invite the mums (who no longer remember you) out to brunch and triumphantly smear the butter on the pancakes, demanding real maple syrup from a confused waiter whilst the mums text each other saying 'Have you got any idea who she is? Me neither, wait is she the Penelope who got drunk at Eric Snodgrass' christening and tried to dunk her head in the baptismal font, or the Penelope who ran over the Pendletons' angora rabbit with her child's scooter?'

This is hilarious

Just go. Well done for not gagging. I always laugh at the ridiculous things we do not to look silly in public

Don’t worry OP I’ll make you feel better.

I was on my way home from work event in the states and was flying business. Despite what I’m about to say I’ve flown business plenty of times with work.

meak time comes and I start spreading my pate on to my crackers and eating away. The whole time thinking this tastes rank.

My pate was vanilla cheesecake.

Looking at your picture I'd have thought it was meringue too 🫣🤣

And ignore blunt. Some people just like to be miserable.

I loved your writing style and think you probably styled it out in RL just as well.
Maybe next time suggest somewhere for toast . That's definitely comes with butter 😉

As an aside - I NEVER knew you got butter with pancakes. Is that really a thing?

Ah it’s easy done. I was confused the first time I saw whipped butter on pancakes in the US. I travelled there, a lot as a kid so it’s entirely expected if I order American style pancakes.

However, (back in the 90s) I had never had calamari before when I went to Spain as a teen with my parents and we stayed dinner bed breakfast. Meals served buffet style. One night they had battered onion rings. I ate one, it’s tasted weird and didn’t have the texture of an onion ring. It was actually calamari. Loads of people eating at the same time thought the same and you could see people who thought they were onion rings. You could see the lm tucking in, the look of confusion and the refusal to remove it from their mouths. Then someone would get up and go speak to someone.

I love calamari now, I know now that wasn’t good calamari. So it felt like an ordeal, at 15, to eat them to be polite 😂

Crackers with vanilla cheesecake. sounds quite nice @Baffled1989

My kids did exactly this the other day thinking butter was ice cream. Easily done. And my husband once made what he thought was cheese sandwich with a block of marzipan 😭

"I once got a lift from a colleague. On autopilot I gave him a kiss on the cheek when I got out of the car. I have never wanted so desperately for the ground to swallow me up!"

@TryAgainWithFeeling I took my child to his music lesson after lockdown, when they'd had to go online and when I saw his teacher, I kissed him 🫢 🙈🤣

My kids always loved chocolate chip pancakes. Me, I love blueberry pancakes, or, as my DH likes to tell me (in a loving, we have fun way), "I am having butter blueberries and maple syrup with a side of pancakes".

OP--this is a fun thread. Some people lack a sense of humor, so they are incapable of seeing the "lighter side" of funny disasters.

I would tell mine, but I've spent years with my new identity in a new country after my faux pas and don't want Miss Manners/Emily Post to hunt me down.

You managed to not immediately throw up over the table so I reckon that's pretty admirable. Stay. You will become a legend in your own lunchtime.

Hey, American pancakes are good! So are what we call "crepes", though I admit to only having them with fruit and whipped cream. But nothing beats a good American pancake when you are hungry, though they are filling.

Now I want to go to Cracker Barrel and get pancakes and bacon....but it's not open (middle of the night here). sigh

As for America? Eh, it's out to get all of us. 😉

I would love this and laugh so much and want to be friends with the person that did it.

@TheBluntTruth is obviously just some butter troll. They are probably sat at home infront of their computer screen smearing butter all over themselves while screaming obscenities and people on MN like some kind of Lurpack goblin 🤷‍♂️