And when decadent parades sweep European and American streets for Mardi Gras, Ukrainians stand by their forefathers munching on pancakes during the Pancake Week celebrations.
But that is why, in the end, the pancake flips onto a plate ready for serving in a pool of warm maple syrup, and it looks just right.
Michelle Croich is attending the pancake contest from Rye, N.
His thirst insane, the tiger lapped up water from the leaky fountain where the flower women filled their buckets, and then put his nose into the face of a sleeping child who had been left, wrapped in blankets, under the pancake stand.
The problem involves creating a golden-side-up stack of pancakes out of all different size pancakes, each of which is burned one side, with the largest pancake on the bottom tapering up to the smallest on top.
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The floors of the twin towers lie stacked one on top of the other, the result of the "pancake effect" when the towers collapsed.
The resulting pancake pairs beautifully with the accompanying sauce.
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This I think is going be so hilarious to watch, because in Iowa, in New Hampshire, there's been the same diner, the same state fair, the same pancake breakfast people, every candidate has known that they had to go to for the last, you know, 40 years.
Scientists have successfully developed a computer out of E. coli bacteria ( again), which has managed to solve the Burnt Pancake Problem -- at least in a limited form.
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But then Wilson shifted gears, turned earnest and devoted the rest of his session to Soul Pancake, the website he co-founded to help people explore life's big questions.
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Pancake Day, or Shrove Tuesday to the traditionalists, is a last hurrah before the austerity of a pancake-free Lent.
Dr Major added a third outcome was the possibility that lava would work its way up the volcanic vent and "ooze another lava pancake on to the dome, increasing the dome size".
So even if the UK economy is only slightly less flat than a pancake, and the US and continental Europe aren't exactly booming, Asia, for example, is an altogether different and more buoyant economic world.
In addition to watching cowboys and cattle, there will be live country music events around the city and free pancake breakfasts to boot.
And yet, when just one such benefit was disclosed to ardent opponents of health care, they flipped their point of view like a pancake on the skillet.
Coming in first place, by the way, in the bedandbreakfast.com pancake competition is a long-shot, dark-horse entry: a lemon-blueberry ricotta-cheese pancake with a sweet lemon sauce, garnished with fresh strawberries.
The Delta may be as flat as a pancake, but its musical history is as rich as the soil itself.
If I were to plan a trip again, I would prefer to do more 'hands-on' tours, like the lantern making and rice pancake making in Hoi An.
After a big bowl of vegetable soup - the best yet - we resist the temptation of a Dracula dessert (fruit ice cream and jam in a pancake) and walk out through the Wolf Room into the dying day.
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It's just IHOP, an acronym that throws its pancake heritage on to the ash heap of pancakery just so we can throw down to tilapia hollandaise in a place that's not exclusively a house of carbohydrate gorging of global proportions.
He nods to the past with a dessert called "chicken oil pancake, " which uses lard and evokes old menus that often used "chicken" in the names of dishes (even meatless ones) because it was considered a delicacy.
If you are a pancake lover, chances are that you might be one of the more than 1 million people who will stop at IHOP tomorrow to celebrate National Pancake Day and enjoy free pancakes.
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Two thousand years hence, Sherwood says hypothesized collections of Asteroidal materials congregating at the Earth-Sun L4 and L5 gravitational equilibrium points would make for building materials to construct a large rotating pancake disk capable of housing thousands of people in the comfort of a free-breathing atmosphere and some form of artificial gravity.
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The E. coli computer differs from a regular computer in that it turn each piece of DNA into a simulated pancake, with sections of DNA being flipped to hide from a killer antibiotic if they get the answer right, and killed if they get the answer wrong.
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It was a question he faced repeatedly Monday, when Bauer also faced the embarrassment of accidentally falling off a stage during a pancake 'flip-off' campaign event.
After mingling with the cultured crowd, fuel up with a galette (buckwheat pancake) at Le Galichon.
In China, Microsoft's search engine Bing sounds like "illness" or "pancake" when spoken in local dialects, depending on the tone.
Stop for a bite of a Rio street food favourite, tapioca pancake filled with sweet or savoury fillings, at one of the many food carts lining the water, or rest up with a beer and bratwurst at Bar Lagoa, housed in an Art Deco building dating from 1934.
The take-up of loans by companies remains flatter than a very flat pancake.
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