Brit Food: Pancakes -- Pound Cakes or Griddle Cakes?? EMWTK

[or.phan_ann]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "Steve" <bboyminn at ...> wrote:
> Jay was in England
> having breakfast and he asked the waiter for 'pancakes'.
> He said SIX would probably be enough. The waiter shouted
> back at him 'Pancakes! You want Pancakes?' After a bit
> of shouting the waiter went back to the kitchen, and
> the pancakes didn't come and they didn't come. When Jay
> inquired, the waiter said the cook was working on them.
> 
> Eventually the 'Pan Cakes' came out, but instead of 6
> flap-jacks, Jay got 6 Pound Cakes. Pound cake is a 
> dense sweet cake similar to shortcake that is shaped
> like a small loaf of bread. 

Ann:
Sounds like he got unlucky in the kitchen to me. Pancakes 
for breakfast would be a little odd, but not *that* strange.
But now I've got to ask what a flapjack is in the USA. Over
here it's made from rolled oats, hard fat, golden syrup and 
sugar, and it's solid compared to a pancake. This is the best
picture I could find: 
http://www.ukstudentlife.com/Britain/Food/Cooking/Flapjack.htm

Also, our flapjack can fly:
http://www.channel4.com/culture/microsites/W/weirdworlds/ufo/flying_fl
apjacks.html

> Though I'm not sure why, we have had extensive 
> discussions here about 'pancakes' in the UK. Apparently,
> there is even a 'Pancake Day' in the UK; a day on which 
> everyone, especially kids, eat 'pancakes'.

Ann:
That's Shrove Tuesday. We don't normally eat pancakes apart
from then, at least in my family.

Ann