Sunday, September 14, 2008

Flapjacks

The breakfast menu offered "Flapjacks" which in this instance meant "pancakes". But where did the word "flapjack" come from? And why is it different in various countries - in the UK, for example, a flapjack can be a cookie or a muesli bar; in the US, as it is here, it can be a large pancake. In other instances, a flapjack is a wrestling move or it can be used as a derogatory term for a person from an indistinguishable country of origin (or so Wikipedia says) - hopefully neither of which will turn up on the breakfast menu.

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