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Those are some good lookin crepes

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...

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.

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)

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

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.

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

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.

Pannekoek in Afrikaans, pancakes in South African English.

The thick American version we call flapjacks.

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

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

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

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

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.

Pannenkoeken in the Netherlands and they look remarkably similar

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

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

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

Icelandic: pönnukökur (plural), pönnukaka (singular)