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.

[aquamizuko.livejournal.com]

You shake sugar on first, then dribble on lemon juice. The sugar cancels out the sourness and the combo tastes good. :P I usually do that for french toast.

[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...)

[aquamizuko.livejournal.com]

PS: I think it's something the English do.. Don't really know how common it is for Americans. (I'm Canadian though, don't know how many people do it here either)

[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.

[tsukikage85.livejournal.com]

Yeah, change mine to frying pan. Although sometimes househoulds don't have a "frying pan", so they cook it on that flat thing which I'm not sure if it's a "griddle" or "skillet".

[conuly]

Pretty sure it's a griddle, though I know at least a few people use "griddle" interchangeably with "skillet" and "pan/frying pan". Just like I know consciously that skillets are supposed to have feet on them, but I use it to mean anything I cook pancakes or sausage or eggs in, and I know spatulas are what you use to scrape batter off the sides of a bowl, but I use the term for "turners" as well (and use spoons and knives to scrape batter off the sides of a bowl).

[moggymania.livejournal.com]

Now you have me curious about which syrups actually have any appreciable amount of maple syrup in them... I don't recall ever even *seeing* the word "maple" on the types my family bought, but it could be that I just wasn't paying attention. (We would get Aunt Jemima and Log Cabin... I can't remember what others, if any.)

[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. :(

[rantinan.livejournal.com]

yup. traditional australin way of eating em too.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I know consciously that skillets are supposed to have feet on them

They do? I always thought they were a synonym/regionalism for "frying pan".

But then, I haven't come across the word a whole lot, and never in face-to-face conversation (where the object might have been seen or pointed to).

I know spatulas are what you use to scrape batter off the sides of a bowl, but I use the term for "turners" as well

Well, whaddaya know.

When I heard "spatula", my first thought was something more along these lines (http://www.awesometools.com/barrbros/15in-BBQ-Spatula-Perf-Poly-450.jpg) (but made out of plastic), though I see that Google Images also dredges up things such as this (http://store.digitalfaucet.com/gallery/spatula.jpg) for that search term. Never thought those were called "spatula". I guess I'd've called it a "scraper" if I had been forced to name it.

[conuly]

1. Well, they're a synonym for frying pan *now*, but I'm pretty sure originally the term only meant those with feet on them.

That's the most common term here, I think (though I may think that because that's what *I* use, and my family).

2. Yup. I'd do the same. I think of those thingies as nameless because I never use them. There's a lesson in here, somewhere.

[conuly]

http://m-w.com/dictionary/skillet

Incidentally, what you call spatulas is also what *I* call spatulas (hm. spatula... is that a diminutive of something?), except I usually call the metal ones that, and worry about melting the plastic ones.

[conuly]

Aha! Yes! It *is* a diminutive!

Well, duh.

[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.

[concordantnexus.livejournal.com]

My mum used to make this cake with an icing made from mixing icing sugar with lemon juice. :-)

[azarias.livejournal.com]

Butter and cane syrup.

[pne.livejournal.com]

except I usually call the metal ones that, and worry about melting the plastic ones.

See, with metal ones I'd be worried about harming the Teflon/non-stick coating that most of our frying pans have.

[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]

That stuff's not good for you, y'know.

Teflon

[pne.livejournal.com]

It's not?

I thought the idea was that (a) it's chemically pretty inert and (b) it's baked into the pan and isn't supposed to come off anyway.

[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.