What do you call "pancakes" in your country?
What do you call "pancakes" in your country?
This is what we Romanians call “pancakes” (clătite). In the US for example, these are not “pancakes”. What Americans call “pancakes”, we call “clătite americane” (American pancakes) or just “pancakes” (the untranslated English word).
~The pancakes in the photos were made by me~
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Well in America we have pancakes, flapjacks, Dutch babies, crepes, Johnny cakes, and probably other things I'm forgetting about that are pancake-adjacent.
Dutch baby should be more popular. So good!
gone so fast though ;_;
we need to normalize a dutch baby being like three dutch babies
a Dutch child? 😆
Silver dollar pancakes for the small ones. About 3 inch diameter. (About 7 cm?)
flapjacks
What would you call flapjacks if flapjacks refers to pancakes?
I think in the US it's synonymous with pancakes mostly but it may refer to more old-fashioned, rugged, whole wheat ones that are a bit thicker than most modern pancakes. It's definitely a bit ambiguous though. Whatever you linked to is definitely not something I've ever seen or heard of in the US though. Edit: I'll also mention I'm not sure what golden syrup is. We have stuff like karo or molasses as baking ingredients, or various maple or maple-ish syrups that typically top pancakes.
Granola?
Oats, butter, sugar, and sugar? Probably just a granola bar.
Maybe a "breakfast bar" or an "oatmeal bar." I think a UK flapjack has a more cake-like texture than a US granola bar.
Granola is different, that's oats, nuts & berries. Flapjacks are rolled oats & golden syrup which are then baked.
Wikipedia says a "North American granola bar is similar to a flapjack." It definitely looks like what I'd call a granola bar.
Hey, while we're here and talking dialects, I've got a similar question for UK folks. What the U.S. calls "cookies," you call "biscuits." So then what do you call this kind of biscuit?
(Unrelated side note: I'd just like to express my gratitude that Lemmy can easily handle links to URLs that end in a closed parenthesis. Back on Reddit, that caused a ton of broken links, but on Lemmy it just works.)
That kind of biscuit is a scone.
But they aren't sweet, and they're softer than scones are.
I would clarify that most Americans probably aren’t actually aware of anything besides pancakes and maybe crepes unless there’s a regional variety in their area
I think it will probably vary regionally. Diners and breakfast places often have lots of variations. A couple others I thought of are griddle cakes (old-fashioned pancakes) and saddlebags (which are pancakes mixed with meat and other stuff). I've seen stuff like yeast-raised whole wheat pancakes (which I don't know if they have a particular name). I could also name a few places where you could get things like okonomiyaki or scallion pancakes in my city. Those super thick Japanese-style pancakes also seem to be kind of trendy. America is a big place and there's lots of food variety.
America is a big place and there's lots of food variety.
That’s actually the point that I was trying to make, but did so quite poorly. I think pancakes themselves are the only thing that are going to be known across the whole country vs other pancake-like things, which would be increasingly regional
To us flapjacks and pancakes are the same.
Sometimes they are bigger or smaller, flatter or fluffier