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And a Norwegian cafe renamed one of their dishes [edit: American pancakes] to "Canadian pancakes"!

Reminds me of "Freedom Fries"...

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Were they American pancakes before?

Serious question, I just call pancakes, pancakes….

Ah right, I guess that name for them is Norwegian/European.

Around here, "American pancakes" are about 1 cm (1/2 inch) thick and the size of a hand. Contains baking soda

"Pancakes" are larger, the size of a plate, and much thinner (a couple of mm). No baking soda. Like the French crepe but smaller diameter.

They taste quite differently.

Being canadian, you just described different styles of pancakes that we just call all pancakes.

Thin, thick, size of a plate, sand dollar size, size of your hands... just all called simply pancakes.

I find the thick ones not good.

Theres a chain of big pancakes size of plate restaurants called dedutch pannekoek house, or just dedutch.

But if you go to a cafe and order pancakes how do you know what you'll get!

A simply unacceptable gamble in my mind! Imagine looking forward to a normal pancake and getting a rubbery American one popped infront of you.

Do Canadians not call the Scandinavian crepe style Swedish pancakes? That’s the common term in the US regardless of size and fold.

This is not a common term in the US.

Yes it is. You’ll find it on breakfast menus in every part of the country, if they make them. There are variations though. What do you call them?

Well I'm 40 and lived all over the country and I've never heard it a single time. You sure you don't live in an alternate timeline? Also just to make sure I'm not crazy I looked at iHop's online menu and it's... just pancakes. Never heard anyone call a pancake anything other than a pancake.

Ah, yeah you're thinking of regular pancakes. In this thread, we're talking about crepes made in one of the Scandinavian styles. I haven't heard of IHOP selling those unless it's a special menu item.

Edit: I googled IHOP Swedish pancakes and they apparently had them for awhile and discontinued them a couple years ago.

never heard anyone call a crepe anything other than a crepe either.

Bizarre. :) From one well-traveled ~40-year-old to another, eat more breakfast.

I have heard of it maybe at a distinct place, but not common.

Alot of things also passed off as crepe but not...

Not alot of standards lop

FWIW you can get pancakes 1cm thick in both the size of a hand and the size of a plate in the US. When they're the size of a plate you usually get a couple just stacked on top of each other. Source: I am American.

Thank you, this is new to me.

Those large pancakes sound like Belgian crepes.

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