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Urbane Guerrilla · 12-24-2009, 01:25 AM

Buckwheat pancakes come out darkish in color, about the same tint as pale pumpernickel. Definitely a starch food, with a somewhat tangy, faintly smokelike flavor. Tastes -- dark. Put that way it doesn't sound all that fun, but it is tasty enough, and comes up robust under flavorful syrup, rather than overwhelmed as a milder-flavored pancake might. Probably go well with dark treacle, though this treatment would doubtless give the plate an English accent.

The local Mexican restaurants with breakfasts and restaurants with bilingual menus show us the term has been adopted whole by Spanish speakers as a tasty novelty from el Norte: panqueques, pronounced "pan-KAY-kays."

12-24-2009, 01:25 AM	#4
Urbane Guerrilla Person who doesn't update the user title Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Southern California Posts: 6,674	Buckwheat pancakes come out darkish in color, about the same tint as pale pumpernickel. Definitely a starch food, with a somewhat tangy, faintly smokelike flavor. Tastes -- dark. Put that way it doesn't sound all that fun, but it is tasty enough, and comes up robust under flavorful syrup, rather than overwhelmed as a milder-flavored pancake might. Probably go well with dark treacle, though this treatment would doubtless give the plate an English accent. The local Mexican restaurants with breakfasts and restaurants with bilingual menus show us the term has been adopted whole by Spanish speakers as a tasty novelty from el Norte: panqueques, pronounced "pan-KAY-kays." __________________ Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.