The plastic utensils complete it.
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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.
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.
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.
Pan-fried batter is always 👍
Agreed. I just want people know what I generally mean when I talked about "pancakes" in my pancake posts
"American pancakes"
Canadians: >:(
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?
i can verify that this is neither three feet 🦶🦶🦶 nor a meter 📏
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.
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.
Looks good. I'll also throw Okonomiyaki into the pancake competition
Soon they'll say the galette-saucisse is just like a hot dog.
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
Hey, what is all this crêpe?
looks like diabetes
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?
You've convinced me. I think I would like European pancakes. Rolling without being to thin sounds like a great on the go food solution. I have tried folding American pancakes around sausage and they always end up breaking apart.
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
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!
Our main units of measurement are freedoms per square hamburger and bullets per second
After the treaty of the meter though, we redefined the length of the handegg field to be 1.0435 soccer fields.
I haven't seen any measuring tool in this country without metric, its sorta a necessity as most Americans cant eyeball metric
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
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
for a moment pefore i read eny of the text i thought this was about kidney stones
Crepes are better by default imo but pancakes unlock the possibility of putting toppings in the batter which makes it an interesting matchup again
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
Just gonna leave this excerpt from the greatest 22 minutes of comedy ever recorded right here.
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.
How thick are European pancakes?
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

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