John Locke’s recipe for Pancakes (2021)

Post by philliphaydon » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 1:12 AM UTC

mathewsanders wrote: post #124

philliphaydon wrote: post #42

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Pancakes in nz are not thick. You get pancakes which are like crepes, or pikelets which are like small American pancakes. American pancakes are disgusting. It’s like the equivalent of American carbon bacon.

Hmm. Maybe it’s regional? I spent years of my life finding all the best pancakes and French Toast of Auckland cafes and they all (at least aspired) to be thick and fluffy- unless they were intentionally crepes which are also very common. The outlier I remember being when McDonalds started doing breakfast and they offered pancakes - I think I got them once when I had a super early flight at the airport and they were a…

I never liked McDonald’s… hotcakes? I don’t recall them calling them pancakes. I believe they called them hotcakes. But yes rubber!

But I didn’t know what a thick American pancakes was until I moved to Australia mid 2000s. In NZ if I got them in a cafe they were like max 5-6mm in height. But always soft and fluffy.

But when I got to Australia and had American style they were always very thick. And it clogs the mouth. I don’t know how to explain it, but it requires me to have a drink while I eat them because there’s so much… cake… every Kiwi I knew in Australia also hated them.

Post by hilbert42 » Tue, Feb 01, 2022, 11:22 AM UTC

jfengel wrote: post #111

hilbert42 wrote: post #22

Well, that's interesting. That wasn't in my textbooks. It certainly makes Locke seem a bit more human. BTW, I've had a bee in my bonnet for years over examples like this. So much stuff is edited out from what we are taught. Sure, this is trite and somewhat useless example but so often this is not the case. Another example is documentary footage: almost daily, one sees a tiny snippet of a scene cut of some important n…

Much of history is taught on the Great Man Theory, which focuses on individuals doing important things. Their humanity, as well as the contribution of anybody else, is ignored in favor of a simpler narrative of history as a series of great events. Historians are increasingly looking at history as a fuller story, but that hasn't really trickled down to schools yet. It might engage students more, but it is harder to qu…

Precisely.

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