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.

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[–] 78 points 6 months ago (3 children)

The plastic utensils complete it.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Really wish more people carried their own utensils to places that are too stupid to use metal ones.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    I carry chopsticks because they're easy to pack.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 30 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago*

    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

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  • [–] 53 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (7 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 15 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    Yeah that's just a fucking cake at that point

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago*

    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)

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    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)

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  • [–] 13 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    i can verify that this is neither three feet 🦶🦶🦶 nor a meter 📏

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  • [–] 10 points 6 months ago (6 children)

    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!

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Soon they'll say the galette-saucisse is just like a hot dog.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    Hey, what is all this crêpe?

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    this looks like Kaiserschmarrn ~ ~ <3

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    They're just cut up into little pieces!!! There were two big fat pancakes that I cut up like this:

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 6 points 6 months ago

    Flapjacks, silver dollars, thic crepes

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  • [–] 14 points 6 months ago (9 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 30 points 6 months ago*

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    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 ;)

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (4 children)

    Ahh the industrial inch .. if only there were some barleycorns we could really get down to the true height of these tēganitēs ..

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  • [–] [S] 10 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    We actually use American football fields as our base unit.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago

    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!

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    At home they're about 1/2" thick, and 4-6" in diameter, that's what you get most non-chain places too.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Can confirm the archetypal American pancake is much more like half an inch. OPs pancakes would def be considered thick.

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  • [–] 5 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    pizza is just crepe with tomatoes and other stuff

    (don't change my mind)

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    for a moment pefore i read eny of the text i thought this was about kidney stones

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    Crepes are better by default imo but pancakes unlock the possibility of putting toppings in the batter which makes it an interesting matchup again

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    I love the pancake-posting but there is no reason to look down on crepe. We can have both.

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago

    Just gonna leave this excerpt from the greatest 22 minutes of comedy ever recorded right here.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (5 children)

    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.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 6 months ago* (4 children)

    Oh, I don't think America is supreme by any metric. This place has almost no redeeming qualities

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    Most of the wilderness areas are beautiful, so we’ve got that going for us I guess.

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  • [–] 4 points 6 months ago

    That's borderline a casserole cake.

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    How thick are European pancakes?

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  • [–] 3 points 6 months ago (1 child)

    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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