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a word that's a pancake in America and an oat brick in Britain, depending on geography
means A flapjack is a pancake (in American usage) or a dense baked bar of oats, butter, and golden syrup (in British usage).
from A compound of "flap" and "jack." The "flap" almost certainly comes from the act of flipping or flapping the cake over in the pan, while "jack" was a common all-purpose tag for an ordinary object or fellow (as in "jack of all trades" or "flapjack" itself). The word goes back at least to the early 1600s — Shakespeare's contemporaries knew it — long before either modern food fully settled into its current shape, which is why two countries could later wander off with the same name attached to very different things.
- two foods
- Pancake in US, oat bar in UK
- old slang
- Meant a flat cake since the 1600s
- flap origin
- Flap refers to flipping it over
- octopus namesake
- Flapjack octopus is real and adorable
- sailor staple
- Oat flapjacks fueled British naval rations
pancake day in verona — italian carnival tradition where flapjacks are tossed in the air and caught in pans, dating back centuries
lyle's golden syrup flapjack — british oat biscuit bar made with golden syrup, mass-produced since 1890s, sold in uk supermarkets