So....

[conuly]

[Poll #715815]

Wow. Lots of people picking "other". I'm dying of curiosity, in a low-pressure kinda way. More like "not really dying, but still curious".

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[aquamizuko.livejournal.com]

And they're eaten with...

..Sugar and lemon juice for me. :D Really nice. Otherwise just syrup..

[conuly]

Sugar and lemon juice?

I'll take your word on it.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

For my two "other" responses...

-- They're cooked in a frying pan.

-- They're served with butter and just syrup, rather than "maple syrup" ... Real maple syrup simply wasn't being sold in any store out here that I could find until a couple of years ago, and the labels on the stuff that was available just said "syrup"... (Because, IIRC, it's not maple syrup, it's all synthetic.) I had no idea there was anything else aside from in old tales until someone from Vermont gave me a couple of jugs of *maple* syrup a long time ago.**

(**Which in turn created an amusing classic "overly literal autie" miscommunication... He sent a couple more to me through mail, and when I asked the cost so I could pay for them, he told me that my money was 'no good' there. I didn't realize he meant 'you don't have to pay' and asked him in complete confusion what currency form Vermont used, if not the same US stuff that the other states do...)

[conuly]

Frying pan. That's the term I forgot. I knew I missed one, thanks.

And yeah, fake maple syrup sucks. My family is maple syrup snobs, every one of them. Even me, and I only eat the stuff when we're out of honey. (Which we go through incredibly fast).

It's not all synthetic. I think a lot of fake maple syrup has a little maple syrup in it, stretched out a lot with some sort of other syrup - corn syrup or somesuch.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

My "other" on the soda question, usually we just say it by specific name. Otherwise it's just whatever comes out of our mouths. Around here, it's a large mix of what people say anyway. It could be pop, soda, carbonated beverage, Coke, Pepsi, whatever.

[pne.livejournal.com]

"Mandarin (orange)" or "Satsuma" for me, I think. The first, no doubt, influenced by the most common German word (in my speech, at least) for "small orange-coloured citrus fruit with easily-peelable, uh, peel", "Mandarine".

And "frying pan" rather than just "pan" for me, mostly.

And "soft drink" for the sodapop thingy, I think.

And usually fruit jam for pancakes. That or minced meat and spinach (a recipe from my wife's family).

[xmorningxrosex.livejournal.com]

to be honest i didn't think clementines and tangerines were the same thing, so i've used both depending on what the can/sign/box is labelled.

frying pan

and i switch between syrup (doesn't have to be actual maple, i grew up on mrs. butterworth's), and fruit syrup (like knotts boysenberry) plus butter. but with waffles, it has to be PB and syrup. nummy.

this poll made me hungry for breakfast. :(

[lakidaa.livejournal.com]

Note that, in my area, the default may be Coke, but if there are no actual cokes in the fridge, we'll say, 'You wanna X', where X is the most visible can in the fridhe.

Also: Damn you, now I want some IHOP. Or Waffahaus. Mmm, Waffahaus.

Er, waffle house.

[azarias.livejournal.com]

Butter and cane syrup.

[ser-kai.livejournal.com]

Oooh-- I think that's what we call golden syrup which is especially good on crumpets with butter.

[abstract-design.livejournal.com]

My "others":

Soft drink, here. No-one ever ever EVER says "soda" or "pop".
I think I picked "pan", by which I mean "frying pan".
I eat em with white sugar and lemon juice.

[conuly]

Really? I didn't even think of saying soft drink because it always sounds to me like a term invented by the beverage industry that nobody ever really uses, much like KFC's stupid commercials where characters talk about "Casual Dining Restaurants".

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

A pan, skillet and griddle are all very different things used for different types of food! You can use any of them to make pancakes, though the pan would be your worst option, the sharp edge instead of a slope makes flipping very difficult.

I rather dislike pancakes, but if I eat them it's usually with butter and powdered sugar.

[spitefairy.livejournal.com]

I should also point out that a tangerine and clementine are different fruits. Thus you can't substitute one for the other, so says my inner food police. So there will be no My Darling Tangerine!

[leora.livejournal.com]

I grew up with soda. I now am okay with several, but still usually say soda. But I consider soda to refer to the carbonation, because I have learned more of its origins. By any name, I don't drink it.

I usually say pan because it is short, but am also okay with skillet. I wouldn't call it a griddle unless it was flat.

I'll eat pancakes in many different ways. Syrup or butter and syrup are just my most common.

[velvetchamber.livejournal.com]

1. Orange
3. Gosdrykkur
4. Pönnukökur
5. Panna
6. Sugar or whipped cream and jam

[conuly]

Orange? Really? But... they're different!

[wakasplat.livejournal.com]

With pancakes, I don't like them, but when I did eat them, it could be anything from that list except honey, and also could be (and often was) corn syrup.

[phoenixdreaming.livejournal.com]

Pancakes: served with sugar (sprinkled thickly on top), cooked in a frying pan. I ticked 'pan', anyway, since it's close enough.

[phoenixdreaming.livejournal.com]

And, oh, I've tried pancakes with maple syrup (/real/ syrup, brought from America by a flatmate), and that was delicious. The pancakes were thin, unpleasant things, but the syrup! I wish I'd cooked some real pancakes before the syrup ran out.

[rachelkachel]

My mom cooks pancakes with a waffle iron (using the flat back side). She cooks about half her dinners with a skillet, which to me means a square pan with legs that has a heating element underneath.

My impression, however wrong it may be, is that the usual way to make pancakes is on a griddle.

We have a frying pan but we only use it for grilled cheese sandwiches (and until recently, crepes). Everything else goes in the skillet.

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Most of my "others" were because I use several of the choices.

I personally use soda because one of the few times I asked if I could have a drink of someone's pop, the answer I got was "Only if he doesn't object." "Soft drink" can include things that aren't carbonated, such as Kool Aid, fruit punch (but no one-kind-only fruit juice), and cold tea.

Pancakes or hotcakes, but hotcakes only because that's what McDonald's calls them. Griddlecakes or flapjakes to me have a subtext of "cooked outside", with griddlecakes being on a gas or electric griddle and flapjacks being over a campfire. Funnelcake is something completely different: thinner batter, poured through a funnel into a vat of heated oil, and served as fairground food with powdered sugar on top.

"Pan" to me means "saucepan". Skillets have flat bottoms, vertical or slightly-sloped sides no higher than three inches, and are used for frying things usually with some form of oil or fat. Griddles are completely flat and have no sides, and usually used for cooking something that doesn't result in grease or has the grease drained away as it cooks.

What they're eaten with depends on what kind of pancakes they are. Cornbread, corn, or mashed potato pancakes are eaten with butter on them and sometimes honey. "Regular" pancakes are usually butter and mock-maple syrup (I have yet to try real maple syrup, but I have a recipe for maple-flavored syrup). Crepes are filled with some sort of sour cheese filling and can have fruit syrup, powdered sugar, jam or jelly, fruit compote, apple butter, or honestly whatever you want with them.

[conuly]

Psst - that's not funnelcake in the poll, it's flannelcake, like the fabric.

Crepes with sour cream? Mmm, but once you put sour cream in it, it's no longer a crepe but a blintz.

Pans and the like

[sayga.livejournal.com]

OK, as far as the pan question goes: if i'm cooking eggs, i use a frying pan, which has edges. if i'm making pancakes or frying quesadillas, i use a griddle, which is a flat cooking surface, maybe with a slight lip around the edge. if i'm making something like hamburger helper (or something else that has a lot of substance and is kind of saucy), i would use a skillet, which is big and has a high lip but not as deep as a saucepan. only i don't own a skillet. they're too expensive and i just use a big pot instead.

[failstoexist.livejournal.com]

pancakes get either powdered sugar OR maple sugar-strong preference for maple sugar,but it depends where I am. It's just like syrup but a better texture-I don't really like sticky syrup-y things.

[conuly]

Mmmm. The Union Square Farmer's Market has maple sugar candy parts of the year. I used to love that stuff as a kid. I mean, it'd make the roof of my mouth itch (quite a lot of foods do that, and I still can't figure out what the common factor is in them), and it was too sweet for me to ever finish one of my chunks of hardened maple sugar, but it was heaven while I could eat it.

[l33tminion]

"Frying pan" and "griddle" both work.

Regarding pancake toppings, any of the above are valid options.

[firingneurons.livejournal.com]

Note about the pancakes question, all of my family calls them pancakes but they're really crêpes.

[conuly]

Which are a *type* of pancake.

[marveen.livejournal.com]

Oh, and my "other" on the pancakes--

You butter them generously and sprinkle with brown sugar. Mmmm, salty-tangy-sweet.

[conuly]

Mmm, I forgot about that.

When I was a child, and prone to this sort of insanity, I used to slather my french toast with all of the following: First, cinnamon, then nutmeg, then powdered sugar, then brown sugar, then honey.

(After doing this I'd proceed to scrape much of this off, because it was far too sweet. I was a strange little girl.)

[mayna.livejournal.com]

I married a guy who is also born and raised in Ohio but he says things differently than I always did...

1. He says 'clementines' mostly I think because they come in a cheap wooden box and are labeled clementines. I always called them tangerines until I met him. Now I guess they're tangerines unless they come in the box labeled "clementines".

2. However, we both say "pop" so that issue is a who cares. ;-)

3. I always said "frying pan" until I started cooking and then all the recipes say "skillet". So now it's either. It's skillet if I'm talking about a recipe and frying pan if I'm just making something without a recipe. However "pans" are anything you cook with on the stove, so you have to qualify it with the "frying".

4. I like applesauce on my pancakes.

[aquamizuko.livejournal.com]

And they're eaten with...

..Sugar and lemon juice for me. :D Really nice. Otherwise just syrup..

[conuly]

Sugar and lemon juice?

I'll take your word on it.

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

For my two "other" responses...

-- They're cooked in a frying pan.

-- They're served with butter and just syrup, rather than "maple syrup" ... Real maple syrup simply wasn't being sold in any store out here that I could find until a couple of years ago, and the labels on the stuff that was available just said "syrup"... (Because, IIRC, it's not maple syrup, it's all synthetic.) I had no idea there was anything else aside from in old tales until someone from Vermont gave me a couple of jugs of *maple* syrup a long time ago.**

(**Which in turn created an amusing classic "overly literal autie" miscommunication... He sent a couple more to me through mail, and when I asked the cost so I could pay for them, he told me that my money was 'no good' there. I didn't realize he meant 'you don't have to pay' and asked him in complete confusion what currency form Vermont used, if not the same US stuff that the other states do...)

[conuly]

Frying pan. That's the term I forgot. I knew I missed one, thanks.

And yeah, fake maple syrup sucks. My family is maple syrup snobs, every one of them. Even me, and I only eat the stuff when we're out of honey. (Which we go through incredibly fast).

It's not all synthetic. I think a lot of fake maple syrup has a little maple syrup in it, stretched out a lot with some sort of other syrup - corn syrup or somesuch.

[fjorab-teke.livejournal.com]

My "other" on the soda question, usually we just say it by specific name. Otherwise it's just whatever comes out of our mouths. Around here, it's a large mix of what people say anyway. It could be pop, soda, carbonated beverage, Coke, Pepsi, whatever.

[pne.livejournal.com]

"Mandarin (orange)" or "Satsuma" for me, I think. The first, no doubt, influenced by the most common German word (in my speech, at least) for "small orange-coloured citrus fruit with easily-peelable, uh, peel", "Mandarine".

And "frying pan" rather than just "pan" for me, mostly.

And "soft drink" for the sodapop thingy, I think.

And usually fruit jam for pancakes. That or minced meat and spinach (a recipe from my wife's family).