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Pancakes and Wantoness

― anthony, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anthony where does the wanton-ness come in? I for one am feeling most un-wanton.

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

well its the last day you can live yr usual sinful life tom , its lent tomorrow and you know what that means !

― anthony, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Blimey, if I'd remembered I'd have got some more sleep last night.

― Tom, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I can never remember if pancakes became a tradition because people had used up all the luxuries in the house in readiness for Lent or because in them days eggs, flour and milk were sodding luxuries. The former seems more likely, but in that case why not have leave a few roast boars and cakes for a final night's nosh up? It doesn't make any sense. Still - pancakes num num.

― N., Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nick: i think milk and eggs were the luxuries. after tomorrow 'twill be nowt but lukewarm gravel for 40 days.

i love pancaXor!

― rener, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

it was and on a more practical level there were not alot of eggs and milk in farms during the winter anyways. This has been loosened up since V2

― anthony, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Roast boar? NUM NUM. Hey! Where have my COOKIES GONE? This question is one I ask a lot. 'You didn't buy any' is usually my answer. Mmmm ILE Wild Boar Day. Mmmmm.

― Sarah, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't like pancakes and every year I get 'ooh how can you not like pancakes Emma they are so yummy' blah blah. But they are not. They are rubbish. I am not giving up anything for Lent after the roaring success of the Month Without Booze, I have decided to give into my Taurean overindulgence urges. Well I might give up Roast Boar.

― Emma, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Annual Pancake Quote of the year at the Fitzgerald household, "yes we SHOULD have them some other time".

mmm sure.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I assumed that emmaluvscake meant you loved all sorts of cakes, Emma. That includes pancakes, cow cake and urinal cakes. How wrong I obviously was.

I am sulking because a work-related day trip to the North means I will have no opportunity to pancake today. Bah.

― Tim, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

In what way is a pancake anything like a proper cake Tim? It is a travesty of the word cake. Also counted in the non-cake but calling themselves cake category are Pontefract cakes.

― Emma, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

pancakes? I thought fat tuesday was all about gumbo and alkyhol

― Samantha, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Someone has to mention urinal cakes again. So there.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

last time i went to "my old dutch" (it was a family thing, OK!) i had duck in a rolled up pancake. the whole thing seemed like a vast misunderstanding by some pancake loving old dutch nutter chef that once walked through Chinatown and saw "crispy duck pancake" and then ran home to write down this brilliant new idea.

In the event it was very nice, if very fatty (surprise), yet still somehow misguided.

What on earth were those crappy little beer-mat sized "pancake" things that my mum used to buy in the 80s. they were sort of bready and lemony and you were meant to pour syrup on them and go "mmm, lovely", but they were just shit.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Scotch Pancakes? Not sure about lemony though.

― Emma, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

/me image googles scotch pancakes. hmm, seems about right, thanks. freshly made these sound quite nice. we bought them in packs like crumpets, hence just cold, rubbery shit warmed up = warm rubbery shit.

― Alan Trewartha, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'd rather have a packzi than a pancake. Yummy.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

How the hell have you lot BEEN TALKING ABOUT THIS ALL DAY WHEN i'VE ONLY JUST GOT HERE, THAT'S WHAT i WANT TO KNOW???

― chris, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pancake Day! Yay!

― jel, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

the bars in philadelphia open at 6 am today. can't wait for the looting tonight!! I AM GIVING UP BREAKING STUFF FOR LENT WHOOOOOOOO

― maura, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

you can't beat paczkis, twelve pound doughnuts from hamtramck, yum! but you have to avoid the cheap imitations sold at the grocery store.

― keith, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

MY I think I need pancakes tonight (pref Wild Boar obv). I have some SATAY hmmm ones at home. How do you make pancakes without pancake mix?

― Sarah, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am off RIGHT NOW to buy flour and milk and lemons and golden syrup

(in tescos scotch pancakes also come w.lemon and raison flavour emma: they are a bit like beermats, but i wuv em)

― mark s, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pancake mix is easy. It's 1 of everything. 1 cup of flour(sieved), 1 cup of milk, 1 egg, 1 pinch of salt. Mix it all up and leave to stand for half an hour to thicken it. If too thick, add milk. Easy.

― Sam, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Easy. And VILE.

The best things in life are extremely complicated.

― Emma, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Those scotch pancakes are okay, but they get stuck in the toaster, which I have to use since we got a pointless electric oven, which takes 45 to do toast.

Question: which side of a scotch pancake should be used for spreading butter and jam on?

― jel, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Answer: the one facing away from the surface the pancake is resting on

My batter is standing!! My starch is expanding!! Soon there'll be grease stains all over the landing!!

(ps sadly i haf no landing, but neither kitchen nor ceiling rhymed...)

― mark s, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't think brits ever get pancakes right.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

who is brave enough to try and toss their pancakes?

― michael, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am!! w.my new two-man skillet!!

hush samantha just for that you aren't having ANY (even though i've made enuff batter to float the moon)

― mark s, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i am!! w.my new two-man skillet!!

Now them's TASTY!

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's fine mark. I don't want your limey pancakes.

― Samantha, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

advantage of "two-man" skillet = it is heavy = i am unable to stick any pancakes to ceiling, as mum once did, when showing off

disadvantage = it is very wide so quite hard to get the batter to go thin enough before it cooks = a couple were a wee bit leathery

― mark s, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

leathery = cockney slang = for the most delicious thing you evah tasted (or NEVAH tasted in yr case samantha)

mmm limey pancakes i must help myself to some more

(blimey golden syrup doesn't help the workings of the mac keyboard, now, does it?)

― mark s, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

GUINNESS IN PANCAKE MIX! Honestly.

I don't even drink Guinness but for better pancakes you must listen to me. Throw some Guinness in.

That is all.

― Ronan, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Ronan-style Guinness pancakes: "yes we SHOULD have them some other time"

― mark s, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

grrr..

― Ronan, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

crispy bacon bits make a savory and crunch-tastic addition to the batter. also sesame seeds sprinkled on while cooking = quite nice. your languid wantoness (samantha) will love em.

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Pancakes = you can never eat enough.

― jel, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

who is brave enough to try and toss their pancakes?
I flip ALL, muhaha. Well I try to flip all, bits of omlettes used to end up on the floor but nobody was looking.
Chocolate chips in pancakes is GRATE.
Supposedly there was to be no meat during Lent but fish on Fridays. I dont know, I think my relatives were nutz.

― Mr Noodles, Tuesday, 12 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

fish on fridays is all year round Christian thing, only no one follows it any more

― michael, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I thought fish on Fridays was only a Catholic thing. My-little-old- aunt, who is Anglican, is in a Catholic nursing home and one of the other women there always quizzes her on Fridays about whether or not that stuff on her plate is fish. My little-old-aunt always says that it is fish because the other woman won't speak to anyone she catches eating meat on Fridays.

― toraneko, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

It is a catholic thing I think. Why do you think Ireland consumes less fish than any other EU country? Years of being forced to eat it on Fridays. Before my time thankfully.

Today is a non-meat day aswell. I don't have any money so when I go home theres going to be a fish dinner which I'll have to eat.

Oh dear.

― Ronan, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We were too tired to make pancakes like lamers. But to celebrate the CHINESE NEW YEAR OF THE HORSE!!!!! we ur... ate Chinese food. I love the people in 'New China'. They gave me free prawn crackers also I CAN I CAN'T! Mmmmmm.

― Sarah, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

My mum used to often cook fish on Fridays and we weren't Catholic. Also, our canteen always has fish on Fridays and that isn't Catholic either. Actually, the manager is Irish and so possibly it is in some way, but I think the fish thing predates him.

― N., Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mandee told me yesterday about a marvellous US Shrove Tuesday staple that I was sadly unable to locate and consume in time: KING CAKE ie a special cake that has LITTLE PLASTIC BABIES in it. Which somehow symbolise the lickle baby jesus. And if you get a slice of KING CAKE with a lickle plastic baby in, you are obliged to make next year's KING CAKE. Is she pulling my leg - or WHAT?

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Things to do in Denver when you're a headcase.

― N., Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Can we get a less snippy "Nu N." to go with the "Nu Tom"?

― Edna Welthorpe, Mrs, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

That's not snippy!! It's gentle joshing.*

New kids' drama with added Pynchon content?

― N., Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

American PanCakes vs Belgian Pancakes: The former wins cuz of buffy look. The latter wins cause of his partner in cream (har har) the Waffle.

― helenfordsdale, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Mmmmm waffles. Why can't it be Waffle Day instead of Pancake Day?

― Emma, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We rebelled by going to chinatown and having tuck stufffed with ground cuttlefish and deep fried chilli and salt soft shell crabs to celebrate the start of chinese new year. All day dragon dancing and explosions in chinatown this sunday.

― Ed, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

YOU SEE i was going to celebrate the christian and the chinese traditions simultaneously by having the pancakes with MOCK DUCK, but unfortunately by the time i got to Loon Fung it was closed... so i made chili instead, mmmm. never mind eh next year....

― katie, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

MMM King Cake. Sadly I didn't have any king cake this year.

King cake's awesome. It's a circle of sweet bready cake topped with purple, yellow and green sugar. somewhere in the cake is a plastic baby. If you get the plastic baby in your slice you are indeed entitled to buy the next cake. (I suppose at one time it was "make" the next cake but I don't know anyone who makes them anymore.) However I don't know anyone who waits till next year to provide the next cake. Due to this tradition, at past places of employment we would have steady plates of King Cake in the kitchen for a couple of months straight!

mmmm, king cake.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

EW! so it IS true. and what happens if you get a slice of baby, or a baby with bits sliced off?

― Alan Trewartha, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The baby is hard plastic. the worse that could happen is a cracked tooth.

― Samantha, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I mock your mock duck, Katie. Quack. I had pancakes. They were spiffing.

― Ally C, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Am I an idiot, or what? I had no idea I was supposed to be eating pancakes yesterday. I am a cultureless freak. But, sopapilla anyone? Much better than pancakes anyway.

― Mandee, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

anthony you should come to planet pancake in dunedin. it has a fluffy red couch, and the yummiest pancakes in the world.

― di, Wednesday, 13 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

When I was in Paris one January, we ate Gallette du Roi, but that was for Epiphany rather than Shrove Tuesday.

― rosemary, Thursday, 14 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

nine years pass...

PANCAKES!

WANTONESS!

― Mark G, Tuesday, 8 March 2011 12:34 (fourteen years ago)

what are yis goin off for lent

― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 12:54 (fourteen years ago)

religion

― a murder rap to keep ya dancin, with a crime record like Keith Chegwin (snoball), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 12:58 (fourteen years ago)

enjoy hell, sucker!

― Achillean Heel (darraghmac), Tuesday, 8 March 2011 13:02 (fourteen years ago)

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