Thrag
1614
So everyone knows the fluffy pancake trick where you add some vinegar to the milk and let it sit for a few minutes before making the batter, right?
If not, now you know.
Nesrie
1615
Why does anyone need to know a pancake trick when they should be making waffles?
Yes, but what did waffles ever do to help win WWII?
Soldier-come-chemist George Bogdan Kistiakowsky began work on a powerful powdered explosive designed for guerrilla sabotage purposes. A nitroamine high-explosive known as HMX (the origins of whose name is still subject to speculation) was mixed with regular baking flour to create a compound which could be turned into all sorts of un-suspicious looking culinary delights.
Aunt Jemima (the name of a popular brand of American pancake flour) could be baked and consumed without exploding, although ingesting it was generally not encouraged. The explosive powder, once perfected, was packaged in flour bags and easily trafficked through Japanese check-points to the Chinese resistance-fighters. If ordered to demonstrate that the contents of their flour bags were indeed flour, the smuggler could whip up an authentic-tasting loaf and consume it right in front of his doubters.
Enidigm
1618
Pancakes are indecisive, if not actually lazy. At least waffles try.
Pancakes helped secure HellBoy’s loyalty, thus protecting the earth from any number of super natural threats:
Menzo
1620
Why can’t we all get along? Like the great cake vs. pie debates, which have gone on longer and led to more bloodshed than necessary, can’t we all agree that we agree on more things than we disagree on?
Both waffles and pancakes have value. We don’t have to choose.
Amazing. I wonder how much cancer people got from this.
Nesrie
1623
Well if that’s on the table, then we have to bring crepes into the mix and look at this pretty things
Sharpe
1624
Nesrie has just won this digression. The rest of you poseurs can go home.
I’m always interested in waffles, but if we are going multicultural, I have to stand up for my Native Nederlandse Pannenkoeken and poffertjes.
Honestly, giant plate sized Pannenkoeken are slightly thicker then crepes, allowing you to fill them up with plain powder sugar and butter, to Cheese and Bacon, to Mexican or Greek Style (my preference is Apple and Bacon).
Sure, Crepes are pretty good, buy Pannenkoeken are a dinner option or a desert option.
While Poffertjes are what Silver Dollar Pancakes wish they could be, made with a bit of Yeast, and served with powdered sugar and butter.
Hansey
1627
Look, if we’re gonna allow Poffertjes, I’m gonna have to submit Aebleskiver.
I’ll take the leavening power of yeast over the chemical leavening that is baking powder and baking soda!
The only correct Waffle is a Belgian one!
Aren’t pizzas just a weird kind of pancake anyways?
