Rocking in Hakata

Jonadab - that sounds mighty good, actually. I'll have to try it. Thanks for the tip.

Just heat some canned fruit, with the juice, in a saucepan, and thicken with cornstarch, and possibly some added sugar, depending on how sweet the canned fruit is to start. Tastes much better than traditional pancake syrup. We usually use home-canned peaches, but whatever is available locally should work, as long as it tastes good.

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I am sooo lost, but I love it. Ha ha.

Still not sure I believe John Leslie is a sex pest

But we're getting off the point here

Pancakes are yummy, whatever shape or form they come in!

Or it could be because Blue Peter didn't give two damns about their Scottish viewers and didn't bother to ever make a distinction. Cultural imperialism from a London based show! Why didn't John Leslie stand up for Scottish rights? He let his countrymen down. Although he's let you down in other, more severe, ways since I'd argue.

I guess my conclusion is: John Leslie is a freak.

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Hhmm.....Tom I think you may be speaking about England only.

Cos in Scotland, when I was a kid, we always made smaller denser pancakes....and called them pancakes! We never did that large crepe style pancake flipping thing in my family....(like they did on Blue Peter)

However that may just be because my family is weird and not because Scotland is different at all

Do you have a costco by you at all? I bet they have "normal" sized syrup there. I thought the local Carrefour would have syrup, but they only had the same stuff you have here.

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If we're all chucking in our two pence worth when it comes to condiments, I might as well contribute my own.

We don't really eat what you call pancakes back home, or if we do we call them hot cakes I think. When we talk about pancakes we are talking about what I guess what North Americans might call crepes.

I don't know how this would sit with your kind of pancakes, but I like mine simple with a squeeze of lemon all over and a spoonful of sugar on top. Lovely stuff.

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Tom - you're absolutely right about the disparity. What gives? It's like the people who sell in bulk are some shadowy organization inaccessible to your random private citizen. Ha ha. Also - have you ever noticed the trend in dropping a theme on everything to make it stand out? (I bought "Summer Milk" today, just to find out what the heck makes it summery. Probably the packaging, like always. At least, that was true of Botchan Milk.)

Ken - huh, it sure does say that. I was using some kind of crazy cooking weight and volume calculator online, so I will definitely put that under human error. My bad! The figure is updated. Thanks for that catch. (It still pales in comparison.)

Alex - whipped cream? Do you eat them crepe style or something? I've never tried that. Sounds yummy. I'd go for a wee bit of butter and a drizzle of syrup, maybe a bit of peanut butter. But ever since Malaysia, nothing can beat Black Currant Jam for me. It is made in heaven, I'm convinced. Mmmm. (But hey - if you like whipped cream, just buy the whipping cream instead of the pre-whipped kind. Problem solved? Though I'm not sure about the price.)

Koichi - that's the same reason host families ask for beef jerky from me. Ha ha ha. Trade ya...

Nic - honey is quite good on pancakes. But it leaves me wanting something more. Honey and peanut butter on freshly baked whole wheat bread, though - that cannot be beat. Except by the aforementioned black currant jam. Mmmm.

Jordan - your bottles had better be bigger than these. And heck, if they are, I'll be first in line to buy! Ha ha.

Wow. I got more of a response from this entry than I thought I would. Awesome. People are passionate about their breakfast condiments. Ha ha.

The syrup situation in Japan is indeed pathetic. We need Canada to airlift Japan some syrup, asap. I will have one carry-on piece full of syrup when I arrive. I'll be selling them for only $10 bucks a bottle. XD

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honey. honey on pancakes. yum.

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This explains why my host family is always asking for maple syrup...

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Lucky for me, I don't like syrup on my pancakes. I prefer to top them off with just butter, sometimes some whipped cream. But that's where trouble looms once more - Whipped cream. There's no whipped cream sold at smaller markets, and at larger markets it costs an arm and a leg for like 8 puffs of fluffy deliciousness.

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Deas, Google tells me:

http://www.google.com/search?q=tablespoons+in+a...

There are 256 tablespoons per gallon, making it 2.3 cents per tbsp.

This is actually a case where international shops might work out cheaper. Things like this come in pretty small bottles (another thing is cake ingredients) so if you go to an import shop you could find a bigger size that is cheaper per unit.

The size of portions in the supermarket here drives me crazy. To this day, every time I see a "loaf" of bread consisting of 4 slices I want to go on a rampage.

Yet, sometimes the size of a meal you order in a restaurant can be massive, and the teachers at my school eat mountains of food at enkais and the like. I don't understand the disparity between the two.

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