# It's Pancake Day! **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 4, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057 "2003-03-04T19:21:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Tansu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/67e7ee/32.png) [@Tansu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tansu)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/42 "2003-03-05T11:42:43Z")
I had pancakes last night. But I made them American style, and served them with bacon and scrambled eggs. ---
**Author:** ![manwithaplan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f1d935/32.png) [@manwithaplan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manwithaplan)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/43 "2003-03-05T13:10:17Z")
I made some pancakes last night and they were delicious. Lemon and sugar or nutella were on offer and we stuffed our faces. For some strange reason, we won’t repeat the experience until next year. In related news, the parties in Northern Ireland narrowly missed out on concluding the Pancake Tuesday Agreement last night;). ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 1:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/44 "2003-03-05T13:23:31Z")
If only they’s call it that it would solve all the probs IMO. No pancakes for me. I stuck to guinness. ---
**Author:** ![little\_bit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/258eb7/32.png) [@little\_bit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/little_bit)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/45 "2003-03-05T16:34:28Z")
For all you Paczki lovers out there… I had a strawberry (w/berries) & powdered sugar yesterday. Today when I got to work there were still 3 dozen left. Today’s Paczki was raspberry w/glaze. Where’s the drooling smilie? ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/46 "2003-03-05T17:56:47Z")
Well, last night I made some of the worst pancakes ever (I’ve never made them before) but still pretty good. Not a bad tradition there. They had butter and syrup, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/47 "2003-03-05T18:39:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by yojimbo \* > **No pancakes for me.** Not even if [Guinness is in the pancakes](http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22beer+pancakes%22)? ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/48 "2003-03-05T18:41:30Z")
Found a [Guinness-specific](http://www.irishcultureandcustoms.com/2Kitch/1Home.html) recipe. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 5, 2003, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/49 "2003-03-05T23:40:35Z")
Whoo-hoo! Kansas beats the British again in the annual battle of the pancake racers! [http://cjonline.com/stories/030503/kan\_pancake.shtml](http://cjonline.com/stories/030503/kan_pancake.shtml) ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/50 "2003-03-06T00:27:09Z")
Does anyone else have the ‘p-p-p-p-p-p-p-pancake day’ song stuck in their heads whenever they hear the word pancake? just me then. And the English winner of that pancake race was blatently [cheating](http://cjonline.com/stories/030503/kan_new.pancake2.shtml), there’s no way she could’ve held a pancake in that pan at that angle :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![OpalCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8edcca/32.png) [@OpalCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OpalCat)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/51 "2003-03-06T00:33:37Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by friedo \* > \*\*There’s a diner accross the street from my apartment that has an amazing deal on the weekends. You can get two eggs (any style), bacon, ham or saussages, and pancakes, belgian waffle or french toast, complete with toast and as much OJ and coffee as you want, all for $10. > > I have pancakes every damn weekend. > > So nyah. \*\* Holy CRAP that’s expensive!!! :eek: > [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Exgineer \* > \*\*Let’s compare and contrast English and American food-related holidays. > > England - pancakes > America - turkey with all the trimmings > > Somewhere along the way the poor English people got shafted. \*\* Even before I became a vegetarian I’d have disagreed with you here. Pancakes are waaaay better than turkey. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/52 "2003-03-06T00:40:45Z")
**Tuco** , you wouldn’t believe how seriously folks take the race. The English winner couldn’t have been cheating because there is no way to do so, with so many witnesses. She may have had the pan angled in that way because she was flipping the pancake at the time. I think the racers have to flip two or three times during the race. ---
**Author:** ![Exgineer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Exgineer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exgineer)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/53 "2003-03-06T01:18:48Z")
Obviously, **Opal** is fundamentally insane. Pancakes are better than turkey? That’s just crazy talk. [Waffles](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=167550) are better than pancakes, and roast turkey is better than waffles. I trust I’ve made my point. ---
**Author:** ![yojimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yojimbo/32/232_2.png) [@yojimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/yojimbo)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 11:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/54 "2003-03-06T11:08:59Z")
Cool **Jeff Olsen** I’ll have to try them out some time. I’ve nothing against pancakes at all, in fact I really like them with or without guinness 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Tuco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tuco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tuco)\ **Post date:** [March 6, 2003, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057/55 "2003-03-06T12:07:03Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Baker \* > \*\ ***Tuco** , you wouldn’t believe how seriously folks take the race. The English winner couldn’t have been cheating because there is no way to do so, with so many witnesses. She may have had the pan angled in that way because she was flipping the pancake at the time. I think the racers have to flip two or three times during the race. \*\* Perhaps cheating was the wrong word, it just seems to me that on that picture the woman is just running with a frying pan in her hand. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-pancake-day/159057.md?page=2)