You adults carry on however you wish. Cutting up pancakes for kids, however, requires a pizza cutter. I am not even kidding. Put the pancakes on a plate, add butter and syrup then roll that cutter until all you have is pancake pieces about 1 inch square. Lightning fast and easy for kids to eat.
I put eggs and a sausage link on mine, fold them up and eat them like a taco.
One of us! I do use a pizza roller when it’s useful for cutting up “kidfood.” Pancakes, waffles, and omelets definitely apply.
No, thanks. I will have some peanut butter and honey, though, 'cause that it the only way to top pancakes. Or waffles. Or sex partners.
I am right handed but hold the knife in my left hand and never put it down when I use a knife. I’ve been told that is called “European style” but with pancakes I don’t use a knife; I cut them with a fork.
When eating steak or some other knife-required food, I eat European style (left hand fork, right hand knife, not switching hands at all). When eating something like pancakes that only needs a fork (or spoon, for that matter), it’s in my right hand.
Maggie, I’m a little surprised we’ve never done pancakes together. I butter my pancakes, then neatly cut them into eighths (like a pizza) with fork in left hand and knife in right. And then set the knife aside altogether while eating. I once had an IHOP waiter describe my plate as “a work of art.” I take my pancakes seriously.
But, most germane to your question, I’m left-handed when eating, so the fork would be in my left hand no matter what.
The only cultures in the world that even use utensils are European and Chinese. Everyone not influenced by one or the other of those just eats with their bare hands, even formally. That’s everywhere south of the Himalayas/Mediterranean. If Muslims influence is present, it is an offensive faux pas to bring your left hand anywhere near your food.
If we’re having pancakes for breakfast, there’s a knife and a fork for both me and my boyfriend. He only uses his fork to eat pancakes, cutting them with the side. I use both the knife and fork, euro style, knife in right hand, fork in left hand. Old habits die hard. I can eat with my fork in my right hand if I’m eating something that doesn’t require cutting, so I suppose I am forking ambidextrous.
Quick tip for parents who hate having to cut up their kid’s pancakes. Pizza cutter. 
And as for the poll? Side of the fork. I never use a knife cause I’m lazy. If it can’t be cut with a fork, I stab it with the fork and gnaw on it.
Those sound like crepes to me.
But Euro-style for fork and knife always made sense to me. I’m sure I did it before I had ever heard it was a “style”.
I’m left handed. Between using my dominant hand and switching knives, forks, and spoons, I’ve decided to eat all my food mid-Atlantic style.
Look eight posts before yours. 
That said, had no idea this was a thing.
:smack: That’s what I get for skimming a thread super quick while at work.
You never heard of a pizza cutter? 
Best idea I’ve heard all day!
Is that European style? Oops, then, I want to take back what I said. This is how I do business with, say, a nice thick steak.
I am right-handed. Like several others have confessed, when eating something like steak, I hold knife in left (non-dominant) hand, fork in right (dominant) hand, and don’t switch hands.
This, I gather, is the way a left-handed European would do it.
In fact, people who see me eat this way have occasionally asked me: “Are you British” or “Are you left-handed?”
Any of you (in America) ever have people ask you either of those questions?
Yes. It has happened to me.
It’s also the way a right-handed European would do it.
Crepes and pannekoek are the best kind of pancake, and best eaten by hand. I never use utensils, unless it’s a knife to spread Nutella.