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~
Depending on where you are in the United States you'll hear them called "pancakes" or "flapjacks." I think the difference is, a pancake is cooked in town on an electric or gas stove by someone wearing an apron, a flapjack is cooked in the woods over a campfire by someone wearing flannel.
Allegedly the term "hotcakes" also meant pancakes, but I think it's obsolete. It survives in the expression "to sell like hotcakes." In my experience, you're more likely to hear it used as a euphemism for tits than breakfast carbohydrate discs.
"Panqueca" pretty much pancake but with a portuguese pronunciation.
Pancakes are flapjacks if they're big and silver dollars if they're small, but in the picture I see crepes.
In Croatian: palačinka (accentuated: palačínka, IPA: /palat͡ʃǐːŋka/, plural: palačínke). The origin is: Greek πλακοῦς (LS: "flat cake"), πλακόεντα > Latin placenta (OLD: "A kind of flat cake") > Romanian plăcintă > Hungarian palacsinta > Austrian German Palatschinke > Croatian palačinka. As Croatia has spent much of its history as a part of Austria-Hungary, its culture has left a strong mark especially on the northern dialects and the culinary practices there.
Sources:
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R. Matasović, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika
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PGW Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary
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Walde-Hofmann: Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch
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Liddel-Scott: Greek-English Lexicon
However, Croatian pancakes are very thin and bigger in surface than American ones. They're made of batter, we usually fill them with jam and roll them up and eat like that (some other fillings are in use too, ofc). My sister sometimes buys herself some American pancakes, way thicker and covered in chocolate cream, and the rest of the family is always mildly horrified by them, lol. It's pretty much two different dishes IMO. Palačinke would probably better correspond to crêpes, but we don't have different words to distinguish American pancakes from crêpes...
I'm Austrian, we still call them Palatschinken. The extra thin ones are called crepe and the extra thick ones are called pancake, just like the French and English term, respectively. Palatschinken are somewhere in-between.
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Those are some good lookin crepes
Please don't ask this on the German feddit.org you will cause a war within germany. (It is "Pfannkuchen" and I will die on that hill)
I was already looking for any lost souls claiming "Eierkuchen" or similar. But I am a bit confused, I think you spelled "Palatschinken" a bit wrong 🤔
In Waloon they are called "vôtes". Traditionally they are thicker with raisins in them. When made with buckwheat, they are called "boûketes".
Pannekoek in Afrikaans, pancakes in South African English.
The thick American version we call flapjacks.
In finland american style pancakes are not really a thing that people make. usually we make crepe style pancake called lettu but we also have a thing that translates to pancake(pannukakku) that is not made in a pan but in oven on trays and they are usually denser and thicker than american style pancakes.
The oven made pannukakku is next level.
So basically a Dutch baby (I think that’s what they call it in the US)
Lettu or lätty
Literally just is synonym for flat
that's crêpes in France , and блины (bliny) in Russia
In England those are pancakes. Flour milk egg to make a batter that you shallow fly in a pan for about minute. I serve with sugar and lemon juice.
Палачинки (palachinki) in Bulgarian. Also, hello fellow Lidl-customer and Martenitsa-enjoyer.
In Hungarian its "palacsinta". Wow, I didn't know we say this similarly.
I think it's similar in Czech, and in our (Italian) family, my mother's side is Austrian and "palacinken" (some italianized german word) has been a family dish forever.
In Croatia we call them palačinke ("pa-la-cheen-ke")
We call them Hot Cakes in Mexico (or in my town at least), also what am I seen in the second pic? A Hot Cake taco?
My wife is English and she calls my pancakes "scotch pancakes". Meanwhile she makes crêpes and calls those "pancakes". Shit is crazy, yo.
Meanwhile in New Zealand, Scotch pancakes are called pikelets. I made pikelets here in Scotland and someone called them drop scones. Shit really is crazy.
Same boat my man. I eventually stopped calling a drink dilutin and call it squash more often than not after years with her and feel like a knob.
Note I’m obv talking about my English wife and not your English wife.
Thanks for your valued contribution
as someone from the north of England, “scotch” or “ scotch drop” pancakes are very different from crepes and folks here will fight over that
i think we call those crepes. They're thinner pancakes.
In the US those would be called Crêpes. The thicker, fluffy version are pancakes. And the things that Japan makes are perfection. Actual Pan Cake.
The things that Japan makes.
It depends on where you are in Germany. The correct word for it however is of course Pfannkuchen.
and when you add apples into the pastry(?), then they are Mälgribbelscha
Are they also the thin rollable kind? Or the thick, stackable American kind?
I would say in between. You can roll them, but they are not as thin as the French crêpes.
Well in America we have pancakes, flapjacks, Dutch babies, crepes, Johnny cakes, and probably other things I'm forgetting about that are pancake-adjacent.
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.
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.
To us flapjacks and pancakes are the same.
Sometimes they are bigger or smaller, flatter or fluffier
Crêpes in France. Those are ours, smaller than usual because I only have a small frying pan currently.
Note: some French regions also call them "galettes", either depending on the type of flour used, or on the type of toppings (sweet for crêpes, salty for galettes).
pancakes, or breakfast frisbees, or syrup tortillas, or standby drink coasters.
I had never made crepes until I met a Romanian at work and once she found out I cooked, she encouraged me to make her some things to remind her of home.
We had clatite first, with nutella and preserves. Now I usually think of crepes as clatite since that was what I got familiar with first. 😄
We also had Parprikash with mamaliga, and my favorite of the bunch, cozonac! I made 2, one with the nut filling, and I want to say the other was poppy. The nut one I have made a few times since. So tasty, and the rum flavoring makes it so unique!
She just randomly disappeared on day, so I don't know if she quit or what, but I will always have fond memories of my bried education on Romanian food!
You met some Romanian fairy creature that dined and ditched you.
Lol she was very secretive!
She had a husband supposedly, but she never really talked about him other than saying he existed. She came over for the paprikash dinner, but he did not. She supposedly came to America as a child. Her and some others were supposed to be here for some sports tournament thing, but whoever had the money in Romania stole it ,so they were stuck here and most of them just stayed.
We joked in the office she was in some weird kind of mafia situation, and then one day we never saw her again. Her whole situation was mysterious and fascinating from start to finish.
There are worse spirits I could have encountered and a hungry Romanian one! 😆
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pancakes
Seems very relevant. Found it while trying to find the etymology of "flapjack", since I thought about it and that's not a normal word.
I also found out that some countries have a pancake day, where they eat pancakes. Seems to be a different method of celebrating what we call Mardi gras or Fat Tuesday, depending on your proximity to France/Louisiana. We often have something like a donut.
Seems the intent is the same: eat all your animal fat before lent so it doesn't go to waste.Your cooking looks delicious! I would call it a crepe, but whatever it's called I would eat it. :)
My favorite thing about this comment is that your username is ricecake.
Cake appreciates cake.
Wikipedia never ceases to amaze me.
Blynai (general term) / Lietiniai (specific type) American ones are Amerikietiški blyneliai, but no one talks about or makes them .
naleśniki :3
and it's the same in poland, i'd call what you made a pancake in poland, but in the UK i'd call it a crêpe
Is the red/white band a Martenitsa? Happy baba Marta!
On topic, Bulgarians would call them палачинки (palachinki).
In England those would be pancakes or more rarely crepés. They’re what we have on pancake day.
The thicker American pancakes would be called American pancakes, sometimes Scotch pancakes or drop scones.
I'm curious how you pronounce "crepés" in English.
Kreps or kraeps
I wonder if drop scones are what the drop bears eat down undah
In Brazil, the sweet, puffy ones are american pancakes (Panqueca Americana)
Because what we call pancake (unembelished 'Panqueca') is much closer to this thin pancake you're showing off. -- Except we make the batter with salt and fill it with savoury things like cheese or meat and roll it up in a... Roll. Closer to a burrito really.
In Sweden we can them Pannkakor, or in some parts of the country Plättar.
Plättar are much smaller in area. Even smaller than American pancakes.
Hot cakes.
you must sell lots of em
Panquecas. Literally a portmanteau of the english word.
That's not what portmanteau means
Panqueques in Chile
This brings me joy.
In northern Mexico many know them as Hotcakes
In Denmark they're called pandekager and look like yours. American pancakes would be specified as amerikanske pandekager.
Pannenkoek in Dutch and Pandekage in Danish. (My mom's language and the language of the country I was born).
Back in university we had a pankegger, we got like 5 kegs and a costco bag of pancake mix and chocolate chips, we must have cranked out hundreds of pancakes. I just wanted to share that story it was so much fun.
Wait, that's amazing. I want to do that now, but I'm 40 and I only have like 5 friends. I'm so hungry.
Ya it was for a homecoming football game, must have been 10 years ago now but it was insanely fun. I don't even think we bothered going to the game haha! Just drinking pilsner and flipping pancakes, I made a core memory that day!
Pfannkuchen in Germany, but it's complicated...
"Eierkuchen" (literal translation "egg cake") is another word.
Where "Pfannkuchen" means something different, "Eierplins" is used (mostly in eastern Germany).
And then there is "Palatschinken" which is similar to the Czech word "Palačinke".
Pancakes. But in this household they are called sadness... because they are always deformed when I make them.
Fascinating, what do you call the white-red decoration? This is very traditional in Bulgaria and is called Martenitsa and is typically hung or given away on Baba Marta on March 1st, for good wishes in health and luck, until spring comes.
Is it the same /similar in Romania?
Yes. It’s called Mărțisor. Made those on 1 March. Women received and wear those (usually on their wrists).
Pannenkoeken in the Netherlands.
Flensjes?
Pannenkoeken are also often baked with cheese or bacon (spek anyway).
We call it panekuk in Indonesian I believe, based on the Dutch word. I’m more familiar with the American version growing up although that might just be because of American media. Also loved poffertjes as a kid (tiny versions of pancake). I don’t know if there’s an Indonesian spelling for that one.
I meant it more like what do pancakes look like in your country. What does the word represent. American pancakes:
In Canada, those are pancakes. The ones you made are crepes. It's a pan-cake because it's cooked in a pan, and rises like a cake. They have baking soda which is a levening agent and makes bubbles and a (hopefully) light and fluffy product. Crepes are more like a tortilla, decidedly flat.
Pancakes are also called flapjacks for some reason.
In Germany, they look like yours.
In Mexico those would be called crepas. The thick version (American pancakes) are called hot cakes
In Australia, they're just called pancakes. However, we also have smaller pancakes, usually served cold, which we call pikelets.
In Croatian we call them palačinka (singular) and palačinke (plural).
That is actually for the whole Yugoslavian area. To pronounce this correctly in english, one would have to write it like this: ''Pallachincka'' (singular) or ''Pallachincke'' (plural)... and greetings to all ''Palačinke'' lovers (had to scroll quite a while to find the comment, but I knew there had to be one...good job). :D
Greetings to you as well fellow Palačinke lover.
In Romanian, “plăcintă / plăcinte” (which sound very similar) means pie/pies.
So what you have looks more like crepes or what we would call in Russian blinchiki (блинчики) a pancake would be called aladia (оладьи)
Don't you also have налистники? Or is that just some specific "type" of блин?
I have eaten оладьи, even though I was not aware they were called like that, and they were made with kefir/expired milk, right?
Naleśnik in Polish. Etymology is unclear but certainly slavic. Most current hypothesis claims it's from "na liściu" meaning something baked on a leaf.
We eat them with various jams, Nutella, anything sweet, sweetened cottage cheese or quark or curd or whatever a "twaróg" would translate to is a popular filling too.
Naleśniki are 1:1 crepes, we don't have something that americans call pancakes. there are racuchy that are halfway between american pancakes and apple fritter (with less oil, and not deep fried)
Omelette or Crêpe in my area (Swiss German).
I'm actually not really sure what the difference is (if any), but I personally usually use Omelette for salty ones and Crêpe for sweet ones. OR Omelette for those made in a frying pan and Crêpe for those made on a Crêpe iron/plate (whatever that is called). OR Omelette for the thicker ones (>=5mm) and Crêpe for the thiner ones.
I also know the German term Pfannkuchen, but if someone uses that, then I immediately assume they're from Germany. It's not really used by Swiss people as far as I can tell (at least in my area).
An omelet we call the thing made with only eggs An eggcake as you would.
Interesting! Do you have a different word for the French " l'omelette", made with beaten eggs?
Not really, I would just pronounce that the (mostly 😅) correct French way. Because the Swiss German "Omelette" pronunciation is a butchered version of the French one (I guess), and sounds more like Ohm-uh-let-uh [ˈɔməlɛtə].
In Czech we call them "palačinky", usually with marmalade or just powdered sugar.
And by marmelade we mean jam made of any fruit.
Sugar with cinamon is also a classic topping.
And the smaller and thicker variant similar to American pancakes is called lívanec (pronounced lee-vah-netz).
In Poland those are also pancakes. Now I want some! 🥞
I thought in Poland they are called: ''Nalešniki''? So now I'm confused.
Actually, I KNOW in Poland these are called ''Nalešniki'' because I used to eat them in pancake restaurants called ''Nalešnikarne''... the most notable for me being ''Nalešnikarna Fanaberia'' in ''Svietojanska'' (St. John's) street in Gdinya.
Sorry if I didn't write ''Nalešniki'' 100% correcu, but... I use slavic phonetics, so...
Yes, you're right. I think I misunderstood the question. We call the pancakes in the post "Naleśniki". American style pancakes would be "Pankejki" or "Naleśniki Amerykańskie". Now I wonder - do Americans have a word for Naleśniki-style pancakes?
Any difference in naming when they're thick/small/savoury?
Hot cakes en Mexico
Falso, we call those crepas, the hot cakes are fluffier (not japanese level of fluffy, tho) and thicker.
That’s true. Crepas are crepes and hot cakes are pancakes.
Palatschinken in Austria :)
They are called Pfannkuchen in former West Germany and Eierkuchen in former East Germany. In the East, Pfannkuchen refers to something more akin to a doughnut, called Berliner or Krapfen in the West.
"Pannukakku" in finnish which literally translates to pancakes
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Pls send me some clătite those look rly delicious and I'm hungry
Those look similar to crepes (American)
In Portuguese, I'd call what you have there in the image (looks great, by the way) "crepes."
The thicker American pancakes are called "panquecas."
In the US, we call the thin, rollable ones you've got there crepes. Crepes aren't as common as "American pancakes," but you can still find them at many restaurants
Flapjacks
I like your flowers
I like the breakfast tassels.
Its the same in hungarian. These ones we call "palacsinta".
(Thanks for the photos, yum! The red thingy also looks cute on them 😇)
In Greece the ones in your photos we call them crepes ("κρέπα"); for pancakes I don't think we have a word, e.g. brunch places list them simply as "pancakes", with the english writing
While ours are typically smaller in diameter they are still τηγανίτες, of course under a brunch menu they are more likely to be called the trendier pancakes but I 've seen them also called τηγανίτες in some.
Ohh right, "τηγανίτες"! Thank youu, I haven't heard it in a while 😅
Pancakes, American, but I spent two years living in Hungary and they call them palacsinta.
"Налісьнікі"(nalisniki) in Belarus
More or less the same but we Americans probably wouldn't use decorative ribbons in home cooking.
We don’t either but I made those pancakes on 1 March which is a holiday called Mărțișor and those red and white strings are the symbol of it. Women receive and wear those.
Neat. I don't think we really have an equivalent to that. Maybe the wearing green on St.Patrick's but that's more the whole being a nation of immigrants thing than our own holiday.
Pancackes.
Those are crepes around these parts.
Waffles that let themselves go.
Crepes in Italia
That's how you call crepes. Crepes are not pancakes.
I would say crespelle. But even those are made with more eggs. Usually the version similar to OP's I make them with milk and flour + a single egg, so they are lighter.
Depending on when in my life you ask me, "pancake" or "jianbing/zinbeng" (or just "pancake" pronounced in whatever regional accent you have because English loanwords are trendy)
In Poland we call these "naleśniki".
In Norway they are called pannekaker.
Not sure what we call them both here. Maybe just pancakes... We have Apam Balik, which looks similar.
Love the lidl milk and flour
Yummy
Pancakes! some of my stacks
