Pancake Tuesday

What's a Shrove?

Drift wrote:

I wish to inform all boarders of the following:

I and my minnions will be visiting everyones home tonight and will be assessing pancake eating habits and punishing accordingly. Bearing this in mind you should read the following instructions:

Pancakes are to be eaten with a gentle (or heavy) coating of either caster or table sugar.

The penalties for other accompaniments are based on severity:

1. The consumers of pancakes with maple syrup will be given a "talking to" and told to straighten up their ways.
   
2. The consumers of pancakes containing any type of fruit will have a whole specimen of said fruit placed forcefully up each nostril.
   
3. The consumers of pancakes containing any type of vegetable will be required to spend a night sleeping in the field from which said vegetable was cultivated.
   
4. The consumers of pancakes containing any type of meat will be expected to make sweet love to a specimen of the animal in question.
   
5. The consumers of pancakes containing cheese will of course be shot.

This message has been brought to you by Drift who knows the one true and correct way to eat pancakes.

Damn straight! Sugar (preferably caster) and lemon AND THAT'S IT! Anything else on a pancake is un-constitutional, un-Irish, un-holy, un-ethical...... dammit, it's just plain Communism, I say!

BrightEyes wrote:

Pancake Tuesday? Ill have pancakes tomorrow. I don't have to follow the man's rules and bend over and take it just because its "pancake Tuesday". Pancake Wednesday

Man you sure are one crazy mofo.

Archeron wrote:

Knock knock.

"Hi, I'm Archeron, I live next door. I was wondering if there's any chance I could borrow a cup of flour, two eggs, a whisk, some baking powder, a large plastic bowl, some greaseproof paper, a frying pan and a portable cooker please? I'll drop them back as soon as I'm finished".

Pancake Tuesday just snuck up on us this year. Normally Jif lemon remind me that pancakes are on the horizon, but this year they've failed.

For shame Jif lemon people for SHAAAAMMMMEEE!!!!

I emphatise with you on that one.
The problem is, because of the recent influx of damn fordenurrsh, they had to change the name to "Cif" (soft "C") so that the immigints could pronounce it.

BrightEyes wrote:

Pancake Tuesday? Ill have pancakes tomorrow. I don't have to follow the man's rules and bend over and take it just because its "pancake Tuesday". Pancake Wednesday

lol, reminds me of when my Ex first started making pancakes for desert, she could not understand the novelty of me eating pancakes in April. I then went to Finland with her and discovered that they often eat it as a desert during the summer (or it was just that her mum used to make them any time we went to visit, I have to check with other finns to find out). They ate them with jam though, and they gave me the strangest looks when I asked about lemon juice (and when I covered them in the juice)

I can't sleep because I'm so full of pancake goodness. I skipped lunch and dinner and had pancakes instead. I really don't recommend it!

simu wrote:

I had three. Nyom nyom!

And I got none.

It was pancake Tuesday?

Damn, missed it. That's one of the best Tuesday's too

What. Huh. Eh. Damn it. Did I miss pancake tuesday?
This country sucks. Nothing about it on tv or in the papers.

Arrgh...

Can someone tell me what the difference is between the american style and the crepe/european style. Is it just the thickness or are they made differently?