Good evening pancake fans,
As Pancake Day is fast approaching, I thought I'd best get the excitement ball rolling with ten facts about Pancake Day.
1. Pancakes were invented by Ralph P. Ricochet in 1934. Ricochet was a former bounty hunter who stumbled across the recipe whilst passing wind.
2. The original recipe differed slightly from the one we use today. Ricochet would add onion juice, mattress sweat and figs to discourage local Indians from stealing the mix.
3. Until 1999 Pancakes were the national dish of China. It was replaced by Swede.
4. One heroic pancake once saved a mans life. Alan Vicker from Whicker was walking his dog when he stumbled into a large pile of sinking sand. Thankfully a discarded pancake was lying nearby and heard Vicker's cries for help, saving his life almost instantly.
5. Sadly the same pancake died in 1978 of AIDS. This is why we hold a minute silence every 16th July.
6. My favorite pancake was when I was 12.
7. In Russia Pancakes are called Vladimir.
8. The Pancake Trade Union(P.T.C) was disbanded in 1812 after an argument over a game of cricket. In the cold summer of 1944 it was reinstated for a week, but people soon forgot about it.
9. Until 1467 Christmas Day was actually known as Pancake Day. People would celebrate the birth of the Pancake with dances, Egg and Spoon races, mass murder and crisps.
10. In the 1990 Pancake Day Festival, a record 250 thousand million people turned up. Naturally it was chaos. The organisers had only planned for 240 thousand million, so had to kill at least 10 thousand million. Unfortunately, someone set fire to a barn and killed everyone instantly. Hence the reason Pancake Day is now celebrated with a barn dance, followed by a massive blaze.
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