Why does mcdonalds call pancakes hotcakes

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More related stories. In the Netherlands, your hotcake order comes standard with a sidecar of Nutella. That's right. If there's one thing left on earth that could somehow make eating piles of cake for breakfast even better, it's spreading those already delicious pancakes with chocolate hazelnut goodness, and chasing it with a piping hot cup of strong coffee.

While traditional maple syrup is also an option, we're not sure why anyone would opt for ordinary tree water when "hot liquid chocolate" is an option. Hotcakes served with Nutella only proves what a small country can accomplish when it focuses its entire system of government on legal weed and universal healthcare. After you've completed the amateur science experiment that we refer to as "How Many Packages of Syrup Can a Single Hotcake Absorb," you may be left wondering what new culinary frontiers can be crossed using only a platter of McDonald's hotcakes and your bare wits.

And to you we say, "Hey, have you tried making 'hobo crepes' yet? Okay, to be fair, the name isn't entirely accurate and we might have made it up — some refer to these as "McCrepes" , since crepes are usually much thinner than regular ol' pancakes, and unless you're reading this while riding a freight train with all of your worldly possessions bundled up into a handkerchief tied to the end of a stick, you're probably not a hobo.

Inaccurate nomenclature aside, these are pretty delicious, and the directions couldn't be simpler: Purchase an order of hotcakes. Roll pancakes up around dollops of yogurt and fruit, then pour on maple syrup and sprinkle the whole shebang with the included granola packet from the parfait. Boom: You're a chef. Have you ever wondered why McDonald's, unlike literary everyone else in the developed western world born after the year , calls pancakes "hotcakes?

Is that different than the regular old pancakes you've eaten hundreds of times in your lifetime? According to Reference. Both words describe the popular round, flat cakes cooked on a griddle or inside a skillet. In addition to hotcakes, pancakes go by other names, such as flapjack and griddle cake.

But why did McDonald's decide to go with "hotcakes," to describe their particular brand of popular round, flat cakes cooked on a griddle? McDonald's has been coy, responding to a customer on Twitter that "hotcakes" is just the term they "prefer," but we'd guess it probably has something to do with the term being more popular when the item was first introduced. The more creative amateur fast food menu hackers among you may have brainstormed about the possibilities of creating a sort of budget version of chicken-and-waffles, by eating the chain's fried breaded chicken patties with a few forkfuls of delicious fluffy hotcake.

And as it turns out, the corporate chefs at McDonald's HQ were on exactly the same page. The chain tested a Chicken McGriddle in , combining the salty, savory crunch of chicken wrapped in sweet, comforting pancake that could be eaten one-handed while driving your car.

Though the item never made it to the national menu in wide release, don't despair, because you can cobble one together yourself, if you don't mind getting your hands a little greasy. Thanks to the new all-day availability of most breakfast items, you can just order a Sausage McGriddle and a plain McChicken. Asked by: Prof. Irma Walsh. What is the difference between pancakes and hotcakes? What do they call pancakes in England? What is the difference between American pancakes and Scotch pancakes?

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