edit: I love how Europeans still struggle to believe that these are what America sees as pancakes. For context, these buttermilk pancakes were so big that I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one. If you went to our “International House of Pancakes(IHOP)” and ordered pancakes, this is what you’d get. America really is on another level.
Behold, Spanish Christmas Pan Cake
pizza is just crepe with tomatoes and other stuff
(don’t change my mind)
but the defining property of a pancake is that it’s cooked in a pan or on a similar surface. A pizza could be a pancake, but isn’t necessarily one
oooooooh i get it now, pan-cake lol i never thought about that before
well here in austria we call them palatschinken so there’s no “pan” in that word at all.
At home they’re about 1/2" thick, and 4-6" in diameter, that’s what you get most non-chain places too.
Can confirm the archetypal American pancake is much more like half an inch. OPs pancakes would def be considered thick.
These are Paul Bunyan approved type pancakes, your heritage has been stolen from you
They definitely were on the thicker side, but this was compared to European expectations of 1 cm being crazy. They came out looking bigger in the pic, so they were closer to 3/4 of an inch than 2 cm
Just gonna leave this excerpt from the greatest 22 minutes of comedy ever recorded right here.
I’ll take a Korean pancake any day.
Called haemul pajeon. Korean seafood and green onion pancake. Packed with shrimp, squid, and clams (shelled) and green onions for colour and flavour. It’s the ultimate bar snack!
Looks good. I’ll also throw Okonomiyaki into the pancake competition
There are a ton of Korean pancakes. Haemul pajeon, pajeon, kimchi jeon, gamja jeon, yuk jeon, bindaetteok, hotteok, buchimgae, etc.
All of them are tasty too, and lots of meatless and/or shellfish-less options.
Oh yes. Haemul pajeon is just the one I’ve had the most. I also really love pajeon and kimchi jeon. I need to try more!
The pancake pizza 🤤
I recently took a trip to the Great Smoky Mountains, popped into Crocket Breakfast Camp for… breakfast.
Kids pancake is a singular pancake, about 12" wide and 2"+ thick
Oh, man, I love that place.
I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one
Rookie mistake. Everyone knows the only way to eat pancakes is to stack them on top of each other and eat them all at the same time.
I wasn’t that hungry, ok? 😫
Precisely, hell at black bear if you get a volcano they stack the whole meal on em and you just do it all in one go
A few years ago I moved from the Southeastern US to the Pacific Northwest. The upgrade in diner food from Waffle House to Black Bear blew my mind.
In my opinion I’ve rather have waffle House than black bear anytime. Black Bear diner is bland boring old person food whereas waffle House at least comes with fights.
Ehh. Waffle House has the worst grits I’ve ever tasted, and there’s no excuse for that in the South.
Black bear is mid teir as well. The best pancakes are likely to come from your mom and pop place where the people cooking actually know how to cook homestyle americana well, not just random minimum wage workers
Now try to eat a single Japanese pancake. I’m a 6’3" 230lb man and failed to finish the large one. The shop I went to had 3 sizes, something along the lines of a 4", 7", and 10" diameter pancakes. Japanese pancakes are generally at least 2" thick.
Yeah that’s just a fucking cake at that point
Cake, huh? Maybe some kind of cake that you cook in a pan? Some kind of pan-cake?
I love that everyone comments about how the USA has too much sugar, but nearly every time I’ve watched a Japanese recipe they add just silly amounts of sugar to things.
Hell I watched someone add sugar to a scrambled egg.
Occasionally you see chirashi sushi boxes in supermarkets with pink sugar crystals sprinkled on them. I can’t for the life of me imagine who wants sugar on fish, but they persist in selling them
(couldn’t find a great picture of it)
Oh gods, when I was in japan on business that was the worst. I just wanted something nutritious and familiar for breakfast after a few days and so I tried the eggs at the hotel and they were so sweet. I imagine that’s how Europeans feel about our bread (I know I hate how sweet it is)
In Colombia, one of their traditional beverages is literally just hot water with a whole lot of panela (unrefined sugar) in it.
But it’s cooked in a pan rather than baked in an oven, so we need some way of differentiating between the two. So we’ll have cakes and bakecakes.
I refuse to engage in the pancake wars, and love all the world’s pancakes equally.
Fluffy American pancakes are fantastic with maple syrup and butter on top. Crepes and Euro pancakes are more versatile, nice with just a little lemon and sugar, or even with a more savory topping. I haven’t tried those Japanese super-thick rice cooker pancakes, but I bet they’re good.
“American pancakes”
Canadians: >:(
Sorry. North American pancakes.
Pan-fried batter is always 👍
Hoecakes
Agreed. I just want people know what I generally mean when I talked about “pancakes” in my pancake posts
That’s borderline a casserole cake.
The plastic utensils complete it.
Really wish more people carried their own utensils to places that are too stupid to use metal ones.
I carry chopsticks because they’re easy to pack.
Flapjacks, silver dollars, thic crepes
i can verify that this is neither three feet 🦶🦶🦶 nor a meter 📏
that’s approximately how long the entire tape measure is. it’s a keychain thing
I see where your confusion comes from. You think you have a pancake there =) To me that looks more like a Austrian Kaiserschmarrn. Delicious, but how are you supposed to put a spread on that and roll it up?
Though your point stands that pancakes are just close approximations of proper crêpe. =)
Please gather up those eggs before you accidentally bump one and it rolls off the table.
Though I agree that those do look better and now I want (thin) pancakes and delicious toppings to turn into sweet burritos. If I want something heavier, I’ll make waffles.
Austrian Kaiserschmarrn
You have to use the proper translation, otherwise Americans won’t understand you:
As a Brit your picture is definitely a normal pancake. Op has posted a extra bloated Scotch Pancake.
American food is far more Scottish than English, mostly because the Scottish understand the proper amount of decadence
I did enjoy battered deep fried burger followed by a battered mars bar when I did the Edinburgh festival I’m not ashamed to say.
Scotch Pancakes are just normal pancakes in America. If you gave a British pancake to an American, they’d probably be confused by it.
Americans being confused by things is not a high bar.
TBF usually the Americans take the concept then claim and rename it. So I am surprised they kept the name. Either way…the European pancakes were being made and being seen before westerners started colonizing America…so how the Europeans see pancakes is true to the origin.
You don’t roll up American pancakes, you cut them up into pieces. I used a piece from the center to better demonstrate just how thick they are.
I thought you were going to write, “I used a piece from the center as the foundation slab for my house.” 😀
looks like diabetes
yes
we never said a man sized pancake was a healthfood
Also, yes.
