deanb Posted June 22, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 22, 2014 European Nutella on the left, American on the right. 30 minutes after spoonful taken out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SomTervo Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 But what... What does it mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post TheMightyEthan Posted June 23, 2014 Popular Post Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 It's an allegory for the mobility of American society compared to you Europeans and your hereditary class systems. 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 23, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 So it turns out if you ask for a "flapjack" in America you'll get one of their attempts at a pancake (aka a scotch pancake of a fucked up crumpet*). And not a crunchy bar of oaty goodness. For that you have to ask for a granola bar, and it's not quick a flapjack but more a kind of "muesli crushed into a bar", rather than edible brick bound by sugar and baked with grandmas love. Range from pretty hard and fibrous: Through to soft and chewy: It's a topic that cropped up on Twitter *I should note given the cheap availability of crumpets I haven't the fucking foggiest how you'd go about making one. They're just a thing that exists, maybe they're mined from the ground, or a leftover by product of making paper or something. Or like it turns out 1 in 10 batches of sponge come out perfectly edible? Crumpet: (obviously baking powder gets involved somewhere) Also we should totally swap recipes for stuff at some point. i.e biscuits. I've a couple recipe books here I'm sure I could delve into, though a fair chunk of the recipes are pretty multi-cultural. I guess really for british food you'd need a Be-Ro book. (Holy fuck, they're only £2.50, you'd have thought that was how much your grans or mams copy cost) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 Well now I know what a crumpet is, making me fully qualified to understand cricket. As far as flapjacks go, that top picture looks like a granola bar, but the second one looks more like blondies. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted June 23, 2014 Report Share Posted June 23, 2014 Well now I know what a crumpet is, making me fully qualified to understand cricket. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 The bottom picture isn't like a Blondie, which is just a white chocolate brownie isn't it? The photo Is still made of oats. Just oats butter and sugar mixed and baked. I've never made crumpets before, but I have made pikelets. I think the only difference is you pour the batter into a ring when you're frying it to make it taller and therefore a crumpet. Definitely worth the effort to make them fresh. Absolutely yummy. I prefer pikelets to crumpets, which can be a bit rubbery. A nice one is nice though and we probably have them more than pikelets as they're hard to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 No, blondies aren't white chocolate brownies. The link in my post explains what they are. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 i read the article, prior to my previous post. it says they're brownies without cocoa. I've never seen one without white chocolate chips in so it is bascally what i said and completely different to the oat flapjack in the photo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Blondies are often confused with white chocolate brownies... I get that they're different than your flapjacks, I just meant they were visually similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 "Flapjack" is an old-timey word for pancakes. I haven't regularly heard it used in the USA, outside of advertising and old-timey movies. Pancakes are fucking delicious and are better than the vast majority of terrible English baked goods. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Pancakes are good, but, for the money, skip pancakes and go straight for the french toast or crepes. With french toast, the flavor is hard to get wrong in most restaurants, where they can sometimes make the pancake taste like cardboard (homemade is always best!). But, I'm not sure the British people eat pancakes for breakfast. I think they do all that stuff for tea time, which I believe is their next break time (aka "rest period") after lunch (aka "meal period"). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 24, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 I'd maybe not mention the "tea" "Lunch" "supper" "dinner" thing given 8 onwards.: http://www.buzzfeed.com/danieldalton/now-then Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
staySICK Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 Americans can't decide on supper or dinner but didn't we have this conversation already Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 What are examples of terrible British baked goods? I wouldn't even call pancakes baked goods myself and it's not like we don't have pancakes here, people just generally prefer the bigger flatter more crepe like ones. Of course ours aren't as paper thin as a French crepe. I guess you like what you grow up with as I find American style pancakes kind of dry and tasteless. But I've never had them in America so maybe no one here makes them right. If anyone had any tips on making them nice I'd love to be convinced of their virtues. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madbassman39 Posted June 24, 2014 Report Share Posted June 24, 2014 My dad is from Whitby (North Yorkshire area), so all of my family out there does talk like this which is pretty funny. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 Actually, I was using the legal jargon for labor laws regarding breaks and lunch. We had some HR training last week for supervisors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted June 25, 2014 Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 This is quite handy. I think a lot of people (including British people) use some of these terms interchangeably and don't realise there is a difference. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 25, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 25, 2014 The joy of millennial old political history with some fun marriages and empire building does kinda make things all kind of quirky. I think the hang up is we have different countries on two landmasses, whereas most countries share the name with the land they're based on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRevanchist Posted June 26, 2014 Report Share Posted June 26, 2014 I must admit, the history of England is one of the most fascinating things for me to study. It's been that way since college when I too literature classes that tied in events with writings and people's lives. The Roman times were probably the most fun to learn about. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted June 27, 2014 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2014 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheFlyingGerbil Posted July 16, 2014 Report Share Posted July 16, 2014 If half chips, half rice a thing in America (or the rest of the UK come to think of it)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TornadoCreator Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 "Flapjack" is an old-timey word for pancakes. I haven't regularly heard it used in the USA, outside of advertising and old-timey movies. Pancakes are fucking delicious and are better than the vast majority of terrible English baked goods. Yeah... Flapjacks aren't pancakes, not even close. Flapjacks are baked oat cakes made with either syrup, honey or treacle depending on the type (most common is syrup). I keep hearing this, even from other British people and wondering where they're getting it... this is a flapjack: If half chips, half rice a thing in America (or the rest of the UK come to think of it)? Yeah, half and half is a thing pretty much everywhere in UK. You'll occasionally find places in villages all across the country who claim it's not a thing " 'round these parts", and act like you've asked for hippo tongue; but usually it's a normal request. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 (edited) Half chips, half rice does not exist in lands with real and good food, like the USA. We pick our starches and STICK WITH THEM. Furthermore, chips, to us, are what you mistakenly call crisps in the UK. What you mistakenly call chips are actually French fries or just fries for short. Edited July 17, 2014 by Mr. GOH! 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TornadoCreator Posted July 17, 2014 Report Share Posted July 17, 2014 I think you'll find Mr. GOH that you're the one mistaken. As the Englishman I'll explain how to speak English... as an American I'm sure you speak the native languages of your land; such as Salish or Navaho, and I promise to not correct you on those languages Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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