Maybe they weren't even pancakes, but just pastry crusts. When we were kids, our parents took us to granny's farm. Our granny used to make food for her pigs in a real oven with a fire inside. When she had finished making vegetable stew with corn grits for the pigs, we put pieces of dough into the heated stove. We rolled the dough with wheat flour and water and added salt. And you know, we called it pancakes and put it on the menu at our kid's restaurant. Which one of you also played restaurant when you were a kid? I'm glad I know how to make real pancakes and thin pancakes today. I found the clearest recipe at [palacinky.org] if you're interested.

You are interested in funny topics. I think you could have some kind of interesting and informative blog to tell people about some of your experiences or knowledge. I have a tumblr diary. Even my minor knowledge of science or botany sometimes draws readers to me. By the way, to learn the answers to such questions you can watch short documentaries on youtube. I watch them at breakfast.

Modern form of maple syrup? Corn syrup with artificial flavor? Unheard of with genuine pancakes, flapjacks or French toast! IMO

Everything, including the babble, the Illiad & Odyssey, for example, were Only verbally retained for thousands of years. Our brains still have that capacity, but writing makes it superfluous.

How cool, here’s a pancake history link: [nationalgeographic.com]
I never knew, thanks for the education

Who knew pancakes had such s fascinating history? Well, now we all do.

This is silly, random, and fun lol

Our lives are just a blip.

A wonderful post for me to read as I rouse myself from bed in the morning. My day has started well. Thanks.

I prefer Bing so I Binged a few to compliment your stuff.

-- The Earth has a mass of 5.9736×10 24 kg (5.9 trillion trillion kilograms) or 1.31668×10 25 lbs (13 billion trillion tons -- 1.3,170,000,000,000,000,000,000,000)

-- The Sun is 5,000,000,000 years old and burns 600,000,000 tons of hydrogen fuel every second -- the equivalent of one Earth mass every 70,000 years. It will burn for another 5,000,000,000 years then run out of fuel, expand into a red giant and incinerate Venus, Mercury, and, sadly, the Earth.

--- The largesty known star is VY Canis Majoris, a red hypergiant at 1,800 to 2,100 solar radii; which is about 1,975,000,000 kilometers or 1.227 x 10^9 miles in diameter. Now I don't kno what all that means but it sounds really big.

-- Quasars inhabit the center of active galaxies, and are among the most luminous, powerful, and energetic objects known in the universe, emitting up to 1000X the energy output of the Milky Way, which contains 200 billion–400 billion stars.

This is the reason I never became an astronomer, too much math.

Learning new things is fun!

Fun. Pancake making, self rectifying system.

If it wasn't cooked in a pan... it's it still a pancake?