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proof that flour, milk, and a hot surface can engineer pure morning happiness
means A thin, flat cake made from a batter of flour, eggs, and milk, cooked on both sides on a hot griddle or pan.
from Exactly what it says on the tin: a cake cooked in a pan. "Pan" descends from Old English 'panne' (a cooking vessel), itself likely borrowed from a Latin source, perhaps 'patina,' a shallow dish. "Cake" arrived from Old Norse 'kaka,' a cousin of the German 'Kuchen.' The compound "pancake" has been flipping around English since the 1400s — a plain, sturdy word for a plain, sturdy comfort.
- ancient food
- Otzi the Iceman ate one 5,300 years ago
- world record
- largest weighed over three tons in Manchester
- flip physics
- first side always cooks better than the second
- tossing day
- England races while flipping them mid-sprint
- global shapeshifter
- crepes, blini, dosa, injera all qualify
shrove tuesday pancake race — olney, england since 1445 where housewives race 415 yards flipping pancakes
hungarian palacsinta — thin crepes with jam or chocolate, national dish of hungary since 19th century
japanese okonomiyaki — savory pancake from osaka with cabbage, meat, and bonito flakes, popularized post-wwii