# Where can I score some Flapjacks? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [May 17, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119 "2006-05-17T16:37:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/1 "2006-05-17T16:37:40Z")
More specifically, _All Butter Flapjacks_. I’m really jonesin’ for some flapjacks, man. Can anyone help me hook up? I’ve got plenty of money, that’s not a problem. The only place I can find that sells them online is Sainsbury’s, but their web site doesn’t recognize my post code. Stupid metric system. If I don’t get me some All Butter Flapjacks I’m gonna freak out, man. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/2 "2006-05-17T18:27:35Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] More specifically, _All Butter Flapjacks_. I’m really jonesin’ for some flapjacks, man. Can anyone help me hook up? I’ve got plenty of money, that’s not a problem. The only place I can find that sells them online is Sainsbury’s, but their web site doesn’t recognize my post code. Stupid metric system. If I don’t get me some All Butter Flapjacks I’m gonna freak out, man. [/QUOTE] Can’t you like grow…er… make your own? There’s recipes all over the internet, man. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 17, 2006, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/3 "2006-05-17T18:43:52Z")
[QUOTE=Uncommon Sense] Can’t you like grow…er… make your own? There’s recipes all over the internet, man. [/QUOTE] Yeah, right. Have you seen what they’re made out of? The missus would _never_ stand for that. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 1:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/4 "2006-05-18T13:44:56Z")
OK, then. Let’s try this again when UK Dopers are more likely to be at their computers. (I refuse to believe nobody can help me score some Flapjacks) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/5 "2006-05-18T16:55:41Z")
I suspect I am going to regret this, but what is the difference between flapjacks and pancakes? Cause, if there is none, then I can provide you with the scratch pancake recipe that has kept my kids and their sleep-over pals stuffed and happy since 1994 or so. 🙂 Cartooniverse ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/6 "2006-05-18T17:19:34Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] I suspect I am going to regret this, but what is the difference between flapjacks and pancakes? Cause, if there is none, then I can provide you with the scratch pancake recipe that has kept my kids and their sleep-over pals stuffed and happy since 1994 or so. 🙂 Cartooniverse [/QUOTE] [Flapjacks](http://www.katescakes.com/impulse-slices/honey-flapjack/) are sort of like chewy granola bars in appearence and general tecture, made from rolled oats, “golden syrup” (whatever that is), butter and (maybe) honey. I’ve only had one (on a recent trip to the UK), and it was so goddamned good I’ve got to get some shipped here. I’ll give this thread another day and then I guess I’ll have to enlist somebody in the UK office to ship me some and mail them the £. Be easier to order online, though. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/7 "2006-05-18T17:46:43Z")
**Winston Smith** , did you move to the UK? I was on vacation & must’ve missed the story; got a thread name or linky to help me catch up? For some reason, the word “flapjacks” always reminds me of those 2 drunk guys with Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day” - didn’t one of them keep talking about wanting flapjacks? I thought they were the same as pancakes, too. ---
**Author:** ![Lissla\_Lissar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8491ac/32.png) [@Lissla\_Lissar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissla_Lissar)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/8 "2006-05-18T17:47:55Z")
Is there a serious problem with making your own? Golden syrup is Lyle’s Golden Syrup, or in a pinch corn syrup. I don’t think it would be difficult to make them. They sound yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/9 "2006-05-18T17:54:29Z")
[QUOTE=YaWanna] **Winston Smith** , did you move to the UK? I was on vacation & must’ve missed the story; got a thread name or linky to help me catch up? For some reason, the word “flapjacks” always reminds me of those 2 drunk guys with Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day” - didn’t one of them keep talking about wanting flapjacks? I thought they were the same as pancakes, too. [/QUOTE] I spent a week there on business (actually, 4 days on business, then a long weekend sightseeing in London). [Here’s the thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=368066). The best part is about 3/4 of the way down the first page when I’m drunk and mistakenly lash out at an innocent poster in the thread. 😃 Heh. too many John Smiths. I had a really good time, and I’m looking forward to returning there this fall. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/10 "2006-05-18T17:58:11Z")
[QUOTE=Lissla Lissar] Is there a serious problem with making your own? Golden syrup is Lyle’s Golden Syrup, or in a pinch corn syrup. I don’t think it would be difficult to make them. They sound yummy. [/QUOTE] Well, I might have to. We’ll see. There’s just some things I think are better left to the professionals, and I suspect Flapjacks may be one of them. ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/11 "2006-05-18T18:52:52Z")
That was fun. It sounds to me as if you’re a _much_ more fun travelling companion than Mr. Wanna. Especially in regards to beer. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/12 "2006-05-18T19:24:43Z")
[QUOTE=YaWanna] That was fun. It sounds to me as if you’re a _much_ more fun travelling companion than Mr. Wanna. Especially in regards to beer. [/QUOTE] Well, thanks, but you know by day I’m a mild-mannered white collar professional and totally square dad, right? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![YaWanna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/bbce88/32.png) [@YaWanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/YaWanna)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/13 "2006-05-18T20:53:18Z")
Of course, of course. Me, too (well, except for the dad part). ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/14 "2006-05-18T21:46:53Z")
[QUOTE=Cartooniverse] I suspect I am going to regret this, but what is the difference between flapjacks and pancakes? Cause, if there is none, then I can provide you with the scratch pancake recipe that has kept my kids and their sleep-over pals stuffed and happy since 1994 or so. 🙂 Cartooniverse [/QUOTE] By the way, dude: hook me up with that recipe, will you? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/15 "2006-05-18T22:00:38Z")
**Winston** , make them, seriously, they’re easy. Takes about 5-10 minutes to prepare, and 30 to bake, and you end up with gorgeous beautiful flapjacks. The recipe I use is 200g butter, 200g demerara (brown) sugar), 200g golden syrup or honey. ( **Don’t** use corn syrup, it is not the same thing. If you can’t get golden syrup, use honey, or maple syrup), 400g oats. Melt the butter, sugar and honey/syrup in a pan, and then add the oats, and mix till all the oats are covered in the mixture. Then pour out into a greased baking dish, and bake in an oven preheated to 220C for about 15 mins. ---
**Author:** ![Winston\_Smith](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e95f7d/32.png) [@Winston\_Smith](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Winston_Smith)\ **Post date:** [May 18, 2006, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/16 "2006-05-18T22:42:21Z")
[QUOTE=Angua] **Winston** , make them, seriously, they’re easy. Takes about 5-10 minutes to prepare, and 30 to bake, and you end up with gorgeous beautiful flapjacks. The recipe I use is 200g butter, 200g demerara (brown) sugar), 200g golden syrup or honey. ( **Don’t** use corn syrup, it is not the same thing. If you can’t get golden syrup, use honey, or maple syrup), 400g oats. Melt the butter, sugar and honey/syrup in a pan, and then add the oats, and mix till all the oats are covered in the mixture. Then pour out into a greased baking dish, and bake in an oven preheated to 220C for about 15 mins. [/QUOTE] OK, I guess I’ll make them myself. Anyone know where I can score some Golden Syrup? ---
**Author:** ![percypercy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8baadc/32.png) [@percypercy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/percypercy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/17 "2006-05-19T00:58:41Z")
Where do you live, Winston? Lyle’s Golden Syrup, like **Lissla** suggested, is in the grocery stores around here. -Lil ---
**Author:** ![Angua](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@Angua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angua)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 12:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/18 "2006-05-19T12:07:56Z")
[QUOTE=Winston Smith] OK, I guess I’ll make them myself. Anyone know where I can score some Golden Syrup? [/QUOTE] Let us know how they turn out. ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2006, 3:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/where-can-i-score-some-flapjacks/357119/19 "2006-05-19T15:43:27Z")
Mix dry and wet separately very well. Then blend together using wire whisk or hand-held mixer. 1 1/4 Cup Flour 1 1/4 Cup Milk 2 T. Sugar 1 t. Salt 2 t. Baking Powder 2 Eggs 1/3 Cup Vegetable Oil This recipe can be doubled or tripled without loss of taste or quality. Depending on size of eggs or what milk you use, batter may come out a wee bit thin for some folks’s tastes. I tend to dash in extra flour to the finished batter and re-whisk or re-blend, until it’s the right viscocity. But that’s just me. 😃 Cartooniverski, Komrade Baker to The Czar Of All The Dopers.