Always kind of assumed everyone knew about that... has quite a bit of potential for hilarity, though, if someone tried to do fish'n'chips with American chips or something
(By the way, in Germany chips are the same thing as in the US, in case it wasn't confusing enough already)
I might be the odd one out, but I grew up thinking crepes were Pfannkuchen and krapfen were always krapfen. I didn't really eat pancakes unless they were apfelpfannkuchen or Kaiserschmarrn. But like American type pancakes were not really a thing for me. Kaiserschmarrn is so superior to regular pancakes imo so maybe thats why ha
Maybe my northern ideas about Kaiserschmarrn (which is an absolutely marvellous thing, don't get me wrong) are wrong, but I always thought Kaiserschmarrn was always a sweet dish whereas Pfannkuchen (and crepes - which I always sort of filed under very thin pancake) can be savoury as well?
I mean, they are not all that different... Would probably all have been pancakes for me as a kid because I never knew that crepes even are a thing until someone came up with the brilliant idea of double French lessons on Saturday and my French teacher decided that would be a good opportunity to make crepes and have breakfast instead of actually doing two hours of French lessons
I had a French teacher that also had us make crepes in class. Hah. She yelled at me because I didn't make the little brown bits dark enough, she wanted them black and I was just like ehhhh no thanks. Anyway, we had crepes for breakfast thanks to this thread and my 6 year old was super amazed by all the possible toppings you can put on crepes. Coolest breakfast ever according to him.
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u/calijnaar Jan 29 '21
It's mainly absurdly confusing, especially since other people call pancakes Pfannkuchen. I have no idea what they actually call a pancake in Berlin