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.
I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one.
i have a bmi of 17 and can take down 5 with two slices of bacon, hashbrowns, and eggs over easy what is wrong with you
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. =)
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.” 😀
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.
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.
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
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’m skeptical that the Americans would plan to have a pancake specifically 2cm thick … or even have a tape measure with cm on it.
All measuring tapes I’ve seen here have metric on them, not sure why this is 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.
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!
After the treaty of the meter though, we redefined the length of the handegg field to be 1.0435 soccer fields.
Our main units of measurement are freedoms per square hamburger and bullets per second
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.
I haven’t seen any measuring tool in this country without metric, its sorta a necessity as most Americans cant eyeball metric
Hey, what is all this crêpe?
Very flat French pancake thing
Pancakes in Berlin.
Das ist kein Pfannenkuchen, das ist ein Kräppel!
In Hessen ja, hier heißen die Berliner.
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.
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.
Suzie Izzard reference again :))
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
Pan-fried batter is always 👍
Hoecakes
“American pancakes”
Canadians: >:(
Sorry. North American pancakes.
Agreed. I just want people know what I generally mean when I talked about “pancakes” in my pancake posts
Soon they’ll say the galette-saucisse is just like a hot dog.
hotdog is just a frikandel with cake around it
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.
looks like diabetes
yes
we never said a man sized pancake was a healthfood
Also, yes.
Crepes are better by default imo but pancakes unlock the possibility of putting toppings in the batter which makes it an interesting matchup again
this looks like Kaiserschmarrn ~ ~ <3
They’re just cut up into little pieces!!! There were two big fat pancakes that I cut up like this:
Do you have a special pancake compass tool (like the kind used to draw circles, not the kind that points to the nearest breakfast place) for the inner circle or do you use a cookie cutter for that?
knife and fork :/
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’ve been to a number of diners in the states (my fiancé is a gun monkey). And yes they’re very filling but they also taste like bicarbonate of soda and greasy buttermilk.
I implore you to visit the Netherlands before claiming pancake supremacy. I wouldn’t want you to make a fool of yourself.
Oh, I don’t think America is supreme by any metric. This place has almost no redeeming qualities
Most of the wilderness areas are beautiful, so we’ve got that going for us I guess.
Republicans: but what if instead of that national park we had an oil field and a Walmart there?
Yeah…. That part is sad and I hate it.
American pancake = cake
Crepe = crepe
Pancake = pancakeIs that so difficult?
Imo, a lot of pancakes aren’t all that sugary. The syrup that we drench them with, on the other hand… Yeah, maybe not particularly healthy.
Cake is like 3-4 inches thixk though, and has layers and icing.
American pancake = cake
American bread = cake
American tea = soda
American soda = red 40 and chemicals
Everything else can be categorized into the following food groups (with significant overlap): Fried, disgusting, microplastics, slop bowls, flavorless, and something that other countries do significantly better
Don’t know much about American food, huh?
I’ve never had (or knew about) European pancakes. What are they like?
Very thin, can be rolled up
Isn’t that what a crepe is though?
No, thicker than that
Oh, so how i like my pancakes. My wife likes the big thick ass ones but I always have to convince her to make them thin and she’s like, these are like crepes and im like I guess, but thats how I like them.
Indeed. Pancakes are like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pannenkoek
Something like that but I like a lot of smaller ones rather than one big one.
Something between a crepe and an American pancake.
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…
