# Pancake Day is here! What's for dinner? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** food-cooking\ **Created:** [February 21, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128 "2023-02-21T09:00:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/1 "2023-02-21T09:00:15Z")
Pancake Day is finally here (I think you might call it something else in the US? Fat Tuesday? Love that name). So what’s for dinner? I like to keep it simple and traditional (well, traditional for the UK, anyway) - we cook thin, crêpe-like pancakes and serve simply with lemon and sugar. Mandatory pan tossing is involved. Much like this: > **[Easy pancakes](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/easy-pancakes)** > > Learn a skill for life with our foolproof easy crêpe recipe that ensures perfect pancakes every time – elaborate flip optional ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 9:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/2 "2023-02-21T09:36:32Z")
It’s also called Shrove Tuesday. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/3 "2023-02-21T10:16:45Z")
It is indeed, but I’m a heathen so am very much focused on the food. ---
**Author:** ![Stanislaus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stanislaus/32/3391_2.png) [@Stanislaus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stanislaus)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 10:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/4 "2023-02-21T10:40:18Z")
We will also be making thin pancakes, but alongside lemon and sugar some of us will have golden syrup and some - gluttons all - will have Nutella. Tasty though the pancakes are though, the main point of the exercise is the flipping. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 11:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/5 "2023-02-21T11:35:44Z")
We had some hot cross buns yesterday. It gave me the opportunity to point out they’d gone up in price. I remember when they were one a penny. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 11:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/6 "2023-02-21T11:41:05Z")
We made _paczki_ yesterday, which are Polish jelly doughnuts that are traditionally made prior to lent. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/7 "2023-02-21T11:42:41Z")
Good Lord, it’s WAY too early for hot cross buns (despite what the supermarkets are trying to tell me) ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/8 "2023-02-21T11:50:00Z")
Hot cross buns may be eaten up to six months before or after good friday. Sorry, but them’s the rules. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/9 "2023-02-21T12:03:13Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Good Lord, it’s WAY too early for hot cross buns I’m not religious, nor am I spiritual. ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/10 "2023-02-21T12:39:41Z")
Nor me, but I don’t eat Christmas pudding or mince pies in June, either! You’ll be cracking into your Easter eggs next. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/11 "2023-02-21T12:45:54Z")
Well, I do celebrate St Practice Day. (A drinking holiday for preparing for St Patrick’s Day) ---
**Author:** ![SanVito](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sanvito/32/2805_2.png) [@SanVito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SanVito)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/12 "2023-02-21T13:43:07Z")
Now that, I could get on board with. ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/13 "2023-02-21T14:19:30Z")
> [@Chefguy](#): > > We made _paczki_ yesterday, which are Polish jelly doughnuts that are traditionally made prior to lent. Polish jelly donuts _ **on steroids** _. Paczis are big in the Detroit area (in popularity _and_ size-- I’ve heard they can be up to 1000 calories in one paczki). One of the things I both miss and am relieved I do not experience, no longer working in an office environment, is that I am no longer tempted by things like chocolate-topped, custard-filled paczis being brought into the office. Those were my Kryptonite-- the jelly-filled ones I could resist. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/14 "2023-02-21T14:38:01Z")
oops never mind ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/15 "2023-02-21T14:38:40Z")
I see these in our local grocery store’s bakery this time of year. Do they taste just like a bismark? ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/16 "2023-02-21T14:58:19Z")
Traditionally, they are jelly-filled and rolled in granulated sugar. Bismarks are cream-filled. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/17 "2023-02-21T17:28:30Z")
I’ve avoided cream or other dairy filled pastries since I got a bad cheese Danish at work once. Now, the thought of a cream-filled donut turns my stomach (although I can still eat cream puffs. Weird). I _lurve_ jelly donuts from Randy’s. There’s a pancake-fried chicken restaurant I’ve gone to since I was a little kid. They make a German oven pancake that’s rather thin and served with lemon and powdered sugar. Really yummers. I think I could really get into pancake day. ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/18 "2023-02-21T19:03:10Z")
This is the first time in forever that I’ve had a Shakespeare class that met on Shrove Tuesday, so I made my students apple fritters from [this more-or-less period recipe](https://medievalcookery.com/recipes/display.html?frut1001). Not bad if I do say so myself! ---
**Author:** ![Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dr.winston_oboogie/32/2945_2.png) [@Dr.Winston\_OBoogie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dr.Winston_OBoogie)\ **Post date:** [February 21, 2023, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/19 "2023-02-21T19:35:17Z")
> [@SanVito](#): > > Pancake Day is finally here (I think you might call it something else in the US? Fat Tuesday? Love that name). So what’s for dinner? Many in the United States (specifically around New Orleans) also call it Mardi Gras. Tonight we eat jambalaya made with andouille sausage. Been listening to Cajun music all day. Fat Tuesday (Mardi Gras) is a good Catholic holiday, being the day before Ash Wednesday. Gotta love it - “you’re going to give up something fun for 40 days, so go nuts partying the night before!” > [@TRC4941](#): > > I see these in our local grocery store’s bakery this time of year. Bought two dozen paczki this morning from a local bakery (why, yes, the owner is Polish!). Please do not confuse the mass-produced crap you find in a grocery store with actual bakery pastries. Find yourself a good Polish deli / bakery. Worlds apart. ---
**Author:** ![Tarataratara](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Tarataratara](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tarataratara)\ **Post date:** [February 22, 2023, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128/20 "2023-02-22T03:24:40Z")
I made a king cake yesterday, filled with cinnamon and sugar. Baby included, which my son found. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/pancake-day-is-here-whats-for-dinner/980128.md?page=2)