Today is National Pancake Day, this mean we've got 24 hours to celebrate all the amazing things about pancakes, like how delicious they are and how they're really so easy to make and um...uh...other pancakey things that we can't really think of right now.
- Pancake Day originated as Shrove Tuesday, a day before Ash Wednesday when people stuff their faces with food before embarking on a fast for Lent.
- IHOP celebrates Pancake Day by offering every customer a free short stack of flapjacks in exchange for a small donation to a local charity
- Pancakes have been eaten since the prehistoric days as seed flours mixed with liquids and baked on hot stones. Yum.
- There are a billion varieties of pancakes from all over the world, including a savory type from Japan called okonomikayi and a bowl shaped crepe known as a Dutch baby.
- The largest number of pancakes throw in the shortest amount of time is 349 tosses in 2 minutes by some awesome genius in the UK; The Guiness World Record in the most pancakes served in 8 hours is 34,818.
- The largest pancake ever made measured over 41 feet long and weighed 3 tons. Pikelets are tiny pancakes served with butter and jam in Australia and New Zealand.
- The first pancake mix, known as Aunt Jemima pancake flour, was sold commercially in 1889.
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