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.
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.
Oh smart. We have reusable ones (wood and home and metal for the road), but never really considered using then for everything.
We have a spoon/fork/knife set thats the “hardest material knife you can bring on a plane” for food. That way we can keep it in our bags, too.
Behold, Spanish Christmas Pan Cake
Beholding in progress.
delish!
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.
It tickles the crap oudda me how aggro southerners can get over grits
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
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.
Agreed. I just want people know what I generally mean when I talked about “pancakes” in my pancake posts
Pan-fried batter is always 👍
Hoecakes
“American pancakes”
Canadians: >:(
Sorry. North American pancakes.
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. =)
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.
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.
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.
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.” 😀
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.
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!
Oh damn. I used to make these years ago and have totally forgot about it since. I loved it. That is 100% going back on the menu.
Yummmmmmmmmm 🦐🦑🦪
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 🤤
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
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.
Cake, huh? Maybe some kind of cake that you cook in a pan? Some kind of 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.
i think the austrian palatschinken has it’s name from a hungarian language, so still a chance, that there is a pan hiding in there.
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 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.
Pancakes in Berlin.
That’s a Berliner. Please, everybody, don’t be fooled by this untrustworthy person.
There is a reason why i specified “Pancake in Berlin”. I’d just call them Berliner or “Marmeladen-Döner”, when drunk or silly.
Das ist kein Pfannenkuchen, das ist ein Kräppel!
In Hessen ja, hier heißen die Berliner.
Wow, that’s new to me
Bit late to the party, but this is a German internal culture war. Basically each village has its own name for those. Some names make more sense then others… Berlin calls them essentially pancakes other places call them Berliner and no one is giving an inch on what to call them.
They are doughnuts. When Kennedy said “ich bin ein Berliner” he was claiming to be one of those.
Although Japanese souflee pancakes are about that thick.
No he did not. It can be deliberately misinterpreted like this though.
Besides, it’s correct to phrase it like he has. Had he said “Ich bin Berliner”, then it would imply being from Berlin. His phrasing is rather about being in solidarity with the people of Berlin.
Ok now I know. As an island monkey, the subtleties of the German language are largely lost on me. Although I am led to believe that if he’d tried to express solidarity with the people of Paris, it would have raised a chuckle?
Je suis un Parisian? I don’t speak French so this is the closest thing I can try. Besides, if you look at the whole speech it doesn’t even require much nuance:
Two thousand years ago, the proudest boast was civis Romanus sum [“I am a Roman citizen”]. Today, in the world of freedom, the proudest boast is “Ich bin ein Berliner!”… All free men, wherever they may live, are citizens of Berlin, and therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words “Ich bin ein Berliner!”
It’s the difference between:
“I am a Londoner” and “I am from London”
I meant in German. “Ich bin ein pariser”.
Suzie Izzard reference again :))
They are doughnuts.
what they are and how to call them is a highly debated topic accross the german speaking countries.
they are however baked in fat just like doughnuts, i don’t know if the used batter is the same however.
baked in fat
Wow, maybe less healthy then US pancakes.
this is dessert not breakfast food ;)
Cold pizza and doughnuts is the breakfast of champions!
In the states there are 2 general types of donuts. One is cake which looks similar to the pic. The other is yeast which consists of flaky thin layers and is more like a deep fried biscuit.
To be perfectly honest I don’t think Ive actually had one in Berlin. I was binging on pfeffer brezel while I was on holiday in germany. but the shitty Norwegian version is made with doughnut dough.
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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.
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
These are Paul Bunyan approved type pancakes, your heritage has been stolen from you
looks like diabetes
yes
we never said a man sized pancake was a healthfood
Also, yes.
I love the pancake-posting but there is no reason to look down on crepe. We can have both.
Yes! I wasn’t looking down on them, just highlighting the difference
I think I will cook pancakes for tea time. These day, it feels like both Internet and my surroundings are conspiring to make me eat them…
I’m skeptical that the Americans would plan to have a pancake specifically 2cm thick … or even have a tape measure with cm on it.
I took this picture myself after getting the pancakes from a genuine American establishment. This is the average for our restaurants. Someone with me mentioned they had a small tape measure, so I decided to capitalize on it.
Also, it’s not that uncommon for our tape measures to have metric.
All measuring tapes I’ve seen here have metric on them, not sure why this is surprising
I’ve never been to a US hardware shop, so I don’t know what all of youses tapes look like. If I can be honest, when an American talks about minutes, I sometimes stop myself and think “do they use the same minutes as the rest of the world?”
Maybe that’s why it’s surprising.
They must’ve gone for the classic thirteen sixteenths of an inch!
Though an inch is of course defined as 25.4 mm, so Americans are basically always using metric, just with extra steps ;)
Ahh the industrial inch … if only there were some barleycorns we could really get down to the true height of these tēganitēs …
We actually use American football fields as our base unit.
After the treaty of the meter though, we redefined the length of the handegg field to be 1.0435 soccer fields.
Damn restaurant better be making their pancakes at 13/69,120ths of a standard Football field or I’m gonna be mad, they better be able to prove it with their 192/69,120 standard football field ruler too!
Our main units of measurement are freedoms per square hamburger and bullets per second
I haven’t seen any measuring tool in this country without metric, its sorta a necessity as most Americans cant eyeball metric
