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This is a dialects of English thing. In Britain: pancakes don't use baking powder. They're flat like a slighly thicker crepe. I would describe a thick fluffy
by GlennS 5y ago
This is a dialects of English thing.
In Britain: pancakes don't use baking powder. They're flat like a slighly thicker crepe.
I would describe a thick fluffy pancake made with baking powder as a "Scotch pancake", but in Australia, the USA, Canada and New Zealand, that style is just a "pancake".
- kemayo 5y agoI'm sympathetic to the confusion, despite having a British origin myself, just because the thick-fluffy pancake is objectively more similar to other things we call "cake".
- lostlogin 5y agoThis sort of thing has gone to court - the biscuit versus cake saga of Jaffa Cakes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaffa_Cakes
- jahewson 5y agoWait until you hear about flapjacks.
- throwaway984393 5y agoAnd johnnycakes!
- philliphaydon 5y agoPancakes in nz are not thick. You get pancakes which are like crepes, or pikelets which are like small American pancakes. American pancakes are disgusting. It’s like the equivalent of American carbon bacon.
- mathewsanders 5y agoHmm. Maybe it’s regional? I spent years of my life finding all the best pancakes and French Toast of Auckland cafes and they all (at least aspired) to be thick and fluffy- unless they were intentionally crepes which are also very common. The outlier I remember being when McDonalds started doing breakfast and they offered pancakes - I think I got them once when I had a super early flight at the airport and they were almost inedible- thin and rubbery! Easily the worst pancakes I’ve had in my life.
- philliphaydon 5y agoI never liked McDonald’s… hotcakes? I don’t recall them calling them pancakes. I believe they called them hotcakes. But yes rubber! But I didn’t know what a thick American pancakes was until I moved to Australia mid 2000s. In NZ if I got them in a cafe they were like max 5-6mm in height. But always soft and fluffy. But when I got to Australia and had American style they were always very thick. And it clogs the mouth. I don’t know how to explain it, but it requires me to have a drink while I eat them because there’s so much… cake… every Kiwi I knew in Australia also hated them.
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- GlennS 5y agoApologies, thanks for the correction.
- djur 5y agoMore pancakes and bacon for us, I guess. Don't know why you felt it necessary to make that unwarranted attack, though.