Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2010/09/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Shrove Tuesday is "pancake day". We eat typical English pancakes which are not at all like the American kind, and they are delicious, not made to taste bad (at least not by anybody I have ever heard of). FD ----- Original Message ---- From: Mark Rabiner <mark at rabinergroup.com> To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> Sent: Thursday, 23 September, 2010 11:56:19 Subject: Re: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not! I thought you had some holiday once a year when you eat something resembling our pancakes and the point is they don't taste so good. Like your supposed to suffer? -------------------- Mark William Rabiner Photography mark at rabinergroup.com > From: Frank Dernie <Frank.Dernie at btinternet.com> > Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2010 11:35:49 +0100 > To: Leica Users Group <lug at leica-users.org> > Subject: Re: [Leica] The world's SMALLEST 35mm lens ever for M... Not! > > Much more complicated than that! Here in England "pancakes" are thin, usually > served flat sprinkled with lemon and sugar. Crepes are the similar but > thinner > French version. In France there are lots of Creperies and they are served > in a > multitude of ways, with both savoury and sweet fillings, pretty well always > folded over so the filling is "internal". Nobody in England would call a > pancake a crepe unless they were being pretentious. There is no real > equivalent in England of what Americans call pancakes, though those who > will > have travelled to the USA may well have tried and enjoyed them, as I have, > hence know what an American is talking about if he says "pancake". The nearest > equivalent to American-style pancakes in the UK would be Scotch pancakes, > or > drop scones. Being married to a Scot I am -very- familiar with them, and > make > them myself! They are much smaller than the American-style pancakes I have > come across, 3" to 4" diameter, but similar in thickness and texture to > their > american cousin. Scotch pancakes are normally served buttered with Golden > Syrup or jam. Few, if any, people in England would refer to Scotch pancakes as > simply pancakes, since in England a pancake is much larger in diameter and > much thinner. _______________________________________________ Leica Users Group. See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information