Saint Pancake Day
5With Thanksgiving just around the corner, it’s easy to forget the equally important Dutch Holiday, Saint Pancake Day.
Saint Pancake Day is always celebrated the 29th of November and is the unofficial Dutch start to the Christmas season.
How to celebrate St. Pancake Day? The traditional celebration involves gathering with friends and family and cooking crepes. One each of the crepes is to end up on the head of everyone in attendence for photographing and posting to social media.
This will be my first year celebrating, but this has to be a holiday that catches on in the US too… It’s too good a holiday to not be celebrated.
Article from the economic times on St. pancake day
https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/us/dutch-pancake-day-why-do-people-put-pancakes-on-their-heads-here-is-why/articleshow/105596225.cms
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Okay with it.
Not amused.
@rockblossom I will definitely have to try with my pets. I suspect little cooperation… Except from the dogs who will eat them before I can get photos
Those are American pancakes, so you are doing it wrong.
@Cerridwyn One could argue that there is no wrong way to wear a pancake on one’s head, as it is a matter of personal style. Some, however, do it with more style than others:
I prefer not to wear the thin ones as they really crepe me out.
@Cerridwyn @rockblossom Very noble beast.
I’ll bet this gets messy if you use make syrup.
@heartny I won’t be using maple syrup. The smell makes me spontaneously want to throw up.
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But they probably stay on [stick] better…
Oops, that should have been Maple syrup. I have to remember to proofread after posting.
I have a soft spot for recently started traditions.
I grew up knowing crepes as Swedish Pancakes. My ancestry is mostly British, but with a strong contribution from Sweden.
@blaineg in England if you say pancake it generally refers to crepes. Although it can also refer to Scotch pancakes (which are like American pancakes, only usually smaller).
@blaineg @OnionSoup shouldn’t scotch pancakes have something Scottish in them - like scotch, or Guinness, or haggis?
@blaineg @OnionSoup @ybmuG …tape?
@blaineg @ybmuG it’s the Scottish style of pancake. That’s why called scotch.