Pancake Day/Mardi Gras/Fat Tuesday

[danny la rouge]

Then call it whatever you need to call it when you are not in England. Go into a restaurant and ask a chef (or anyone anywhere for that matter) to make you pancakes in England and see what you get. Are you going to say "Those are english style pancakes, I wanted scotch pancakes, drop scones". The reply will be "You are in england numb nuts".

That's a point, except I'm not in England, and you're on the World Wide Web.

 

[foo]

an argument about pancakes...

only on urban

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

That's a point, except I'm not in England, and you're on the World Wide Web.

On pancake day where you are, does everyone make scotch pancakes? If not I don't think there is a real need to point out that we are making english style pancakes.

Do I really need to call everything all the names it might have all around the world just because this is the 'world wide web'.

"Today I ate bread "
-"Bread what's that?"
"Well it's just bread."
-"You mean 'Pan', that's what it is called in France and Japan. I didn't know what you were on about. You are eating Pan, not bread. "
"Well it's called bread here, and anyway the way bread comes in the UK is slightly differnt from Japan. "
-"Then you should call it 'English Pan' so there is no confusion. "
"But I am in england."
-"Well I'm not and you are on the world wide web. This site is global. "



Get a grip.

 

[danny la rouge]

The thicker ones are already known as scotch pancakes or drop scones.

Well, funnily enough not here (Scotland) they're not. They're called pancakes.

 

[danny la rouge]

"Today I ate bread "

Plain or pan?

 

[pigtails]

This is fabulously amusing!


I made myself feel sick AGAIN last night by eating more pancakes but also

 

[Maggot]

If we followed Danny's argument, then Tuesday was Crepe day, not Pancake day.

 

[danny la rouge]

If we followed Danny's argument, then Tuesday was Crepe day, not Pancake day.

Well, it was actually Shrove Tuesday.

 

[Maggot]

Well, it was actually Shrove Tuesday.

It has many different names as the thread title says. One of them is Pancake Day, but I've never heard of Crepe Day.

 

[danny la rouge]

I've never heard of Crepe Day.

No indeed. So why did you eat crepes and not pancakes?

 

[Maggot]

Jesus Wept.

I ate pancakes according to this:

They're scotch pancakes or drop scones. Like normal pancakes but thicker made with more flour. Crepes are thinner than pancakes and made with more egg

And according to everyine else except you.

 

[danny la rouge]

And according to everyine else except you.

Imperialist!

 

[ATOMIC SUPLEX]

No indeed. So why did you eat crepes and not pancakes?

You have already admitted that crepes are a type of pancake and that there is a difference between a crepe and an english pancake.

You have also conceded that a pancake in any form is still a cake. Stop backtracking.