Off Topic Pancakes

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PLT said:
We have this every year but I'll do my usual piece:

I'm not at all into the traditional pancake with lemon and sugar. I hate to be the 'everything foreign is better' hipster type, but American or Dutch style pancakes, with interesting stuff on them or the Turkish dish Gozleme (which isn't really a pancake but they call it that for tourists) can all be really tasty. Just lemon and sugar or just syrup seems like some wartime rationing situation to me. Boring as ****.
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You could literally say that about anything. You just have sirloin steak with garlic butter? Boring as ****. Literally just tomato sauce on a hot dog? Boring as ****. Just butter on toast? Boring as ****.
 
Walter Sobchak said:
You could literally say that about anything. You just have sirloin steak with garlic butter? Boring as ****. Literally just tomato sauce on a hot dog? Boring as ****. Just butter on toast? Boring as ****.
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I guess, but it really sounds like a historic thing that old people would tell their grandchildren to be grateful because in their day "all we had was lemon and sugar".
 
Walter Sobchak said:
You could literally say that about anything. You just have sirloin steak with garlic butter? Boring as ****. Literally just tomato sauce on a hot dog? Boring as ****. Just butter on toast? Boring as ****.
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At the risk of going OT I must be the only omnivore man who doesn’t like steak. I’ve eatdn it in numerous countries around the world and some reasonably pricey restaurants and every time I just think ‘meh’.
 
bum_chinned_crab said:
At the risk of going OT I must be the only omnivore man who doesn’t like steak. I’ve eatdn it in numerous countries around the world and some reasonably pricey restaurants and every time I just think ‘meh’.
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I sort've get what you mean as I've never had a steak that's better than when I've cooked it, which is daft considering the prices restaurants charge for it.

I'm having a rump steak tonight, I just do it in the pan on all sides and bung it in the oven for a bit. Fried onions on top. I haven't had a better one in the 'finest' steak places.
 
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bum_chinned_crab said:
At the risk of going OT I must be the only omnivore man who doesn’t like steak. I’ve eatdn it in numerous countries around the world and some reasonably pricey restaurants and every time I just think ‘meh’.
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I always convince myself that I'm missing something and continue ordering it thinking it'll be great this time, but yeah it's usually meh.
 
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PLT said:
I guess, but it really sounds like a historic thing that old people would tell their grandchildren to be grateful because in their day "all we had was lemon and sugar".
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It's probably because I like the actual pancake flavour, the lemon and sugar/syrup just compliment it. If you need to bung 100 things in it you might as well not have a pancake.

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PLT said:
I guess, but it really sounds like a historic thing that old people would tell their grandchildren to be grateful because in their day "all we had was lemon and sugar".
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Well, not to go all religious, but lest we forget it's actually Shrove Tuesday, the beginning of Lent. What you're supposed to do is get rid of the **** in your cupboard before the new year and the bounty it brings. Which is why I chuckled at Peter Andre on GMTV (or whatever the **** it's called now, Carabao Breakfast?) putting Strawberries on his pancakes. The strawberries he must have left over from last summer?

Lent. It's like the ****ing stone ages.
 
PLT said:
I always convince myself that I'm missing something and continue ordering it thinking it'll be great this time, but yeah it's usually meh.
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Exactly that. Well it turns out I’m not the only one then, but people always look at me like I’m mental when I say it.

I’m not a vegetarian by any means but I probs only eat meat once every 3 weeks.
 
Walter Sobchak said:
It's probably because I like the actual pancake flavour, the lemon and sugar/syrup just compliment it. If you need to bung 100 things in it you might as well not have a pancake.

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Yeah that's the other thing. To me, the traditional fluffy, floppy, English pancake is more texture than taste and I'm not a fan of things which meet that criteria. It also puts me off sparkling water and pretty much all beer. I realise this is getting increasingly controversial but anyway there it is.
 
PLT said:
Yeah that's the other thing. To me, the traditional fluffy, floppy, English pancake is more texture than taste and I'm not a fan of things which meet that criteria. It also puts me off sparkling water and pretty much all beer. I realise this is getting increasingly controversial but anyway there it is.
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Sparkling water is Satan's piss.
 
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Walter Sobchak said:
Yeah I really don't get your scrambled egg argument you trot out. Genuinely baffles me. They look and taste like pancakes. No one I know puts flour in when they make eggs.
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The flour doesn't change the taste though, it just thickens the batter. Effectively, you're beating eggs and adding flour to thicken. He may not be the greatest pancake maker in the world, but having taught myself how to make both, I know which ones I prefer. And much like BCC, I don't just have them once a year.
 
Walter Sobchak said:
You could literally say that about anything. You just have sirloin steak with garlic butter? Boring as ****. Literally just tomato sauce on a hot dog? Boring as ****. Just butter on toast? Boring as ****.
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I know somebody who has their steak well done with ketchup. He was asked politely but firmly to leave.
 
I try to put other things in , but find they just spoil the taste of the pancake , same reason I'm the boring git who orders margarita pizza, as I think the other toppings just get in the way <laugh>
 
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