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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

How to not shit for 3 days

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I made pancakes with a British recipe that was specifically trying to be American style and they were still practically crepes. I even omitted a bit of the liquid to try and correct for this.

... Use a recipe from an American, I hear you say? And measure volumetrically, like some kind of animal?

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

half crepes half pancakes are the best imo

thick enough to be satisfying to bite into, thin enough to use like a tortilla wrap around yoghurt or fruit

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago (4 children)

It's definitely nice, but... That's not really the American pancake experience. They're supposed to take up nearly the whole plate and stand tall enough to absorb no less than eight hundred kilocalories of maple syrup. Sometimes you get two and they call it a short stack. American-style irony.

At least, that's how I remember them. It's been about five years since I've had them like that, which is roughly how often that cheat day comes around.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

It's called a short stack because pancakes are often served "family style" as a big stack

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 hours ago

I believe you but I grew up on the west coast and I never once saw it offered.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 hours ago

Short stack is 3, full stack is 6.

Anything less and it's not worth opening the barrel of maple sirup, or carve into the butter cow.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 hours ago

They should also be about 1cm thick and made with buttermilk, and paired with a side of bacon.

Fuck now I want pancakes.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 hours ago

I'm from the states and when I lived in a rural area there was a pancake house that was all you can eat. I didn't finish all of the first serving, I can't imagine needing seconds or thirds.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

"Watch Queen Pancake's speech"

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 hours ago
[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago

I'm like Karl Pilkington with pancakes.

Have 'em when you want.