It depends on where you are in Germany. The correct word for it however is of course Pfannkuchen.

Crêpes in France. Those are ours, smaller than usual because I only have a small frying pan currently.

In the US those would be called Crêpes. The thicker, fluffy version are pancakes. And the things that Japan makes are perfection. Actual Pan Cake.

The things that Japan makes.

Those are some good lookin crepes

Pannenkoeken in the Netherlands and they look remarkably similar

In England those would be pancakes or more rarely crepés. They’re what we have on pancake day.

The thicker American pancakes would be called American pancakes, sometimes Scotch pancakes or drop scones.

My wife is English and she calls my pancakes "scotch pancakes". Meanwhile she makes crêpes and calls those "pancakes". Shit is crazy, yo.

In Denmark they're called pandekager and look like yours. American pancakes would be specified as amerikanske pandekager.

Pfannkuchen in Germany, but it's complicated...

In finland american style pancakes are not really a thing that people make. usually we make crepe style pancake called lettu but we also have a thing that translates to pancake(pannukakku) that is not made in a pan but in oven on trays and they are usually denser and thicker than american style pancakes.

In Croatian: palačinka (accentuated: palačínka, IPA: /palat͡ʃǐːŋka/, plural: palačínke). The origin is: Greek πλακοῦς (LS: "flat cake"), πλακόεντα > Latin placenta (OLD: "A kind of flat cake") > Romanian plăcintă > Hungarian palacsinta > Austrian German Palatschinke > Croatian palačinka. As Croatia has spent much of its history as a part of Austria-Hungary, its culture has left a strong mark especially on the northern dialects and the culinary practices there.

Sources:

• R. Matasović, Etimološki rječnik hrvatskoga jezika

• PGW Glare, Oxford Latin Dictionary

• Walde-Hofmann: Lateinisches etymologisches Wörterbuch

• Liddel-Scott: Greek-English Lexicon

However, Croatian pancakes are very thin and bigger in surface than American ones. They're made of batter, we usually fill them with jam and roll them up and eat like that (some other fillings are in use too, ofc). My sister sometimes buys herself some American pancakes, way thicker and covered in chocolate cream, and the rest of the family is always mildly horrified by them, lol. It's pretty much two different dishes IMO. Palačinke would probably better correspond to crêpes, but we don't have different words to distinguish American pancakes from crêpes...

Well in America we have pancakes, flapjacks, Dutch babies, crepes, Johnny cakes, and probably other things I'm forgetting about that are pancake-adjacent.

Please don't ask this on the German feddit.org you will cause a war within germany. (It is "Pfannkuchen" and I will die on that hill)

Panqueques in Chile

Pannenkoeken in the Netherlands.

that's crêpes in France , and блины (bliny) in Russia

Palatschinken, and if you cut then in stripes and put it in the soup they are called Fritatten.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pancakes

Seems very relevant. Found it while trying to find the etymology of "flapjack", since I thought about it and that's not a normal word.

I also found out that some countries have a pancake day, where they eat pancakes. Seems to be a different method of celebrating what we call Mardi gras or Fat Tuesday, depending on your proximity to France/Louisiana. We often have something like a donut.
Seems the intent is the same: eat all your animal fat before lent so it doesn't go to waste.

Your cooking looks delicious! I would call it a crepe, but whatever it's called I would eat it. :)

naleśniki :3

and it's the same in poland, i'd call what you made a pancake in poland, but in the UK i'd call it a crêpe

Палачинки (palachinki) in Bulgarian. Also, hello fellow Lidl-customer and Martenitsa-enjoyer.

In the US if someone served me something like in the picture I’d call it a “crepe”. My expectation of a “pancake” is for it to be thicker (maybe like 1cm thick), and very fluffy (while a crepe is usually a bit crispy). However I’m not much of a cook so I don’t know if there are other differences between a “crepe” and a “pancake”.

Back in university we had a pankegger, we got like 5 kegs and a costco bag of pancake mix and chocolate chips, we must have cranked out hundreds of pancakes. I just wanted to share that story it was so much fun.

So what you have looks more like crepes or what we would call in Russian blinchiki (блинчики) a pancake would be called aladia (оладьи)

Pannekoek in Afrikaans, pancakes in South African English.

The thick American version we call flapjacks.

In Brazil, the sweet, puffy ones are american pancakes (Panqueca Americana)

Because what we call pancake (unembelished 'Panqueca') is much closer to this thin pancake you're showing off. -- Except we make the batter with salt and fill it with savoury things like cheese or meat and roll it up in a... Roll. Closer to a burrito really.

Omelette or Crêpe in my area (Swiss German).

I'm actually not really sure what the difference is (if any), but I personally usually use Omelette for salty ones and Crêpe for sweet ones. OR Omelette for those made in a frying pan and Crêpe for those made on a Crêpe iron/plate (whatever that is called). OR Omelette for the thicker ones (>=5mm) and Crêpe for the thiner ones.

I also know the German term Pfannkuchen, but if someone uses that, then I immediately assume they're from Germany. It's not really used by Swiss people as far as I can tell (at least in my area).

In England those are pancakes. Flour milk egg to make a batter that you shallow fly in a pan for about minute. I serve with sugar and lemon juice.

In Sweden we can them Pannkakor, or in some parts of the country Plättar.

In Croatian we call them palačinka (singular) and palačinke (plural).

Naleśnik in Polish. Etymology is unclear but certainly slavic. Most current hypothesis claims it's from "na liściu" meaning something baked on a leaf.

We eat them with various jams, Nutella, anything sweet, sweetened cottage cheese or quark or curd or whatever a "twaróg" would translate to is a popular filling too.

I call these crepes. (USA, unfortunately.)

They are called Pfannkuchen in former West Germany and Eierkuchen in former East Germany. In the East, Pfannkuchen refers to something more akin to a doughnut, called Berliner or Krapfen in the West.

Palatschinken in Austria :)

Flapjacks

In Mexico those would be called crepas. The thick version (American pancakes) are called hot cakes

Fascinating, what do you call the white-red decoration? This is very traditional in Bulgaria and is called Martenitsa and is typically hung or given away on Baba Marta on March 1st, for good wishes in health and luck, until spring comes.

Is it the same /similar in Romania?

Hot cakes en Mexico

I like your flowers

"palacinky/palačinky" in Slovak/Czech which is same as some people here said in german “Palatschinken”. The thick ones like they make in northern America with butter and maple syrup we call “lívance” here. I want to try those Japanese ones tho

Dosa from South India.

Super thin and crispy. Often glazed with clarified butter (ghee).

Eaten with spicy chutneys (dips/sauces)

In Uruguay we call them "panqueques" if they have a sweet filling, we mostly use "dulce de leche" (similar to caramel) and eat them for dessert not breakfast. If they have a salty filling and are used as a meal we call them "canelones", always rolled in a cilindric shape.

Blynai (general term) / Lietiniai (specific type) American ones are Amerikietiški blyneliai, but no one talks about or makes them .

Pannenkoek in Dutch and Pandekage in Danish. (My mom's language and the language of the country I was born).

i think we call those crepes. They're thinner pancakes.

In the US, we call the thin, rollable ones you've got there crepes. Crepes aren't as common as "American pancakes," but you can still find them at many restaurants

In Croatia we call them palačinke ("pa-la-cheen-ke")

I had never made crepes until I met a Romanian at work and once she found out I cooked, she encouraged me to make her some things to remind her of home.

We had clatite first, with nutella and preserves. Now I usually think of crepes as clatite since that was what I got familiar with first. 😄

We also had Parprikash with mamaliga, and my favorite of the bunch, cozonac! I made 2, one with the nut filling, and I want to say the other was poppy. The nut one I have made a few times since. So tasty, and the rum flavoring makes it so unique!

She just randomly disappeared on day, so I don't know if she quit or what, but I will always have fond memories of my bried education on Romanian food!

In Portuguese, I'd call what you have there in the image (looks great, by the way) "crepes."

The thicker American pancakes are called "panquecas."

Danish

Pancakes = pandekager

American pancakes = amerikanske pandekager

Also:

SocCeR = fodbold

foOtbaLL = amerikansk fodbold

Depending on where you are in the United States you'll hear them called "pancakes" or "flapjacks." I think the difference is, a pancake is cooked in town on an electric or gas stove by someone wearing an apron, a flapjack is cooked in the woods over a campfire by someone wearing flannel.

Allegedly the term "hotcakes" also meant pancakes, but I think it's obsolete. It survives in the expression "to sell like hotcakes." In my experience, you're more likely to hear it used as a euphemism for tits than breakfast carbohydrate discs.

Pancakes. But in this household they are called sadness... because they are always deformed when I make them.

Pancakes, American, but I spent two years living in Hungary and they call them palacsinta.

Its the same in hungarian. These ones we call "palacsinta".

I was on holiday in Romania in the Bihor mountains. An old woman served us a kind of pancake she called plăcintă - a very funny word except the c is read as "ch", not "s".

Anyway, the Czech word is not far from that - palačinka. We also say omeleta or worse, amoleta.

(Thanks for the photos, yum! The red thingy also looks cute on them 😇)

In Greece the ones in your photos we call them crepes ("κρέπα"); for pancakes I don't think we have a word, e.g. brunch places list them simply as "pancakes", with the english writing

Pancakes are flapjacks if they're big and silver dollars if they're small, but in the picture I see crepes.

We call them Hot Cakes in Mexico (or in my town at least), also what am I seen in the second pic? A Hot Cake taco?

Mlyntsi

Here in Switzerland the name really depends on which one you're actually making. Omelettes, Pfannkuchen, Kaiserschmarrn, Crêpes, Pancakes. You can find them all. My mother likes making Omelettes the most, I like making Pancakes the most.

Those are crepes around these parts.

Panquecas. Literally a portmanteau of the english word.

In Poland those are also pancakes. Now I want some! 🥞

In Brazil we call it panquecas ...the American ones we just add "american" to it but most of us don't even cook the American version..the regular ones are better and are part of our culture. We usually eat them with salty fillings like ground beef or chicken with tomato sauce or a white roux. I've seen panquecas with sweet fillings in restaurants but they usually call it crepes..

Y'all hitting me with all these pictures and not one recipe? C'mon!

"Pannukakku" in finnish which literally translates to pancakes

In Czech we call them "palačinky", usually with marmalade or just powdered sugar.

Those look similar to crepes (American)

"Налісьнікі"(nalisniki) in Belarus

In Waloon they are called "vôtes". Traditionally they are thicker with raisins in them. When made with buckwheat, they are called "boûketes".

"Panqueca" pretty much pancake but with a portuguese pronunciation.

In Russia: Those flat ones - bliny (блины) The American ones - just pancakes (pankeiki, панкейки)

Fotznbredl

Pancackes.

In Australia, they're just called pancakes. However, we also have smaller pancakes, usually served cold, which we call pikelets.

Panqueques (pahng-keh-keh)

🤢 Jk, we call them 'pancakes' as Americans would say it but with a Mexican Spanish accent.

In Norway they are called pannekaker.

pancakes, or breakfast frisbees, or syrup tortillas, or standby drink coasters.

Clatite

Hot cakes.

More or less the same but we Americans probably wouldn't use decorative ribbons in home cooking.

Waffles that let themselves go.

Crepes in Italia

I want pancakes

Romanian living in the US. I call clătite "crepes" and American pancakes "pancakes". That way everyone knows what I'm talking about.

Also, don't call plăcintă "pie", or you're setting people up for disappointment (it doesn't matter that it's good, their brain was ready for pie and got something else).

Love the lidl milk and flour

In Poland we call these "naleśniki".

Yummy

Nutella? Lol...