Holy Crêpe!

The Tab reveals some flippin’ interesting Pancake Day knowledge.


10 pancake-related facts:

1) In 1994 in Rochdale (of course) the world’s biggest pancake was made. It was 15m in diameter, weighed three tonnes and contained 2 millions calories!

2) Ross Mcurdy holds the record for the most pancakes made by one individual with a heroic 1,092. E set this in Washington, USA (who’d have known) in August last year.

3) The record for the most pancake tosses in one minute is 140, by Australian celebrity chef Brad Jolly. Brad clearly got a Jolly from tossing, could you beat that?

Anyone who does earns themselves a free Tab t-shirt and repetitive strain injury. The British record for the most pancake tosses in a two minute period is 349.

4) Russian Andrei Smirnov once ate 73 pancakes in one hour! If you can topple Smirnov you get a free Tab t-shirt….and an emergency bog roll.

5) In October 1999, Mike Cuzzacrea, (known as The Pancake Man), finished the Casino Niagara International Marathon in New York whilst continuously flipping a pancake.

It took him just 3 hours, 2 minutes and 27 seconds. Good job Mike.

6) Mike ‘The Pancake Man’ Cuzzacrea was smashing more records in 2010 when he set the record for the highest ever pancake toss. He registered an incredible flip of 9.47m (31 ft)!

That’s like flipping a pancake as high as the third floor of BU library and catching it again! Can you toss bigger than Mike? Tab t-shirt if you can (do please do film any efforts!).

7) The record for the most people tossing (pancakes) together goes to The University of Sheffield! In 2012 930 people teamed up to flip pancakes but 40 had to be disqualified for dropping theirs…..amateurs.

8) The Guinness World Record for the most pancakes served in eight hours is a monstrous 34,818.

9) On Pancake Day, Brits will use an average of 30 million more eggs than on any other day! Cracking stuff!

10) In Britain on average we will devour two pancakes each today.

That means we will get through 117 million pancakes between us, using enough milk to fill more than 93 Olympic swimming pools and almost 13 million kilos of plain flour. Hungry yet?

How many of these bad boys will you be eating tonight?

Top 3 pancake jokes:

1)      Pancake Day: The only day of the year when hitting the ceiling is considered a bad toss.

2)      Rihanna’s coming over for pancakes later. She likes hers with Nut-ella-ella-ella.

3)      The commercialisation of Pancake day is ridiculous, they’ve been selling flour, eggs and milk in supermarkets for months now.  

Crêpe pancake puns:

1)      “Oooohhh what a feeling, there’s a pancake on the ceiling” #pancakedaysongs

2)      “I’m so egg-cited, and  I just can’t hide it….” #pancakedaysongs

3)      “Here I am, stuck in the griddle with you.” #pancakedaysongs

4)      “Pancake on the streets on London, pancake on the streets of Birmingham” The Smiths #pancakedaysongs Remember – Pancake puns are for tossers.

Best Pancake Day video: Mac Lethal raps while cooking pancakes, top effort Mac.

Tab top Pancake Day tips:

Do – Try pancakes with bacon and maple syrup, an American classic. Don’t knock it before you’ve tried it. Makes pancakes into an entire meal and adds more weight to the argument that everything is better with bacon.

The lazy student Pancake Day solution

Don’t – Buy pre-cooked store bought pancakes, this takes all the fun out of Pancake Day. It’s the pancake equivalent of watching the last five minutes of a film so you can join in with your mates’ conversation – no one likes that guy. Remember; if you’re not tossing, you’re not bossing. #doyouevenflip?