It's Pancake Day! - How do you eat yours? (2024)

• Onyx Accountants and Business Advisors
• February 25, 2020

Tuesday, 25th February 2020

It’s Pancake day!

We all know someone who likes pancakes. How do you eat yours? Why not share your favourite Pancake recipe, we would love to hear yours.

Here are some fun facts to get you in the mood for Pancake Day.

1. The idea of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday is more than 1,000 years old! They were originally invented as a way of using up all the leftover fatty and rich foods before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday.

2. In total, Brits use an unbelievable 52 million eggs on Pancake Day. That’s 22 million more than any other day.

4. The most flips anyone has ever done with a pancake is 349 flips in two minutes. That’s ‘flipping’ good!

5. Over a lifetime, an average person will eat 7,300 eggs.

6. In France, people like to make a wish before flipping their pancakes. They do this while holding a coin in the other hand.

7. On average we consume two pancakes per person on Pancake Day, which means that we get through 117 million pancakes in one day! This requires enough milk to fill more than 93 Olympic swimming pools and almost 13 million kilos of plain flour.

8. We all have our preferences for pancake toppings but the weirdest pancake toppings have to be sour cream and caviar, ketchup and mustard, peanut butter and ice cream, coco pops and cream, cream cheese and strawberries.

9. Andrei Smirnov from Russia ate a colossal 73 pancakes in one hour! That’s more than one a minute.

10. The Guiness World Record for the most pancakes served in eight hours is 34,818.

11. Before baking soda was invented, cooks often used fresh snow as it contained ammonia, which helped the pancakes come out fluffy and soft.

12. It isn’t just us – William Shakespeare was a pancake lover! It is reflected in many of his plays.

13. The highest pancake toss reached 329cm high. Good luck trying to beat that!

14. In France and the United States Pancake day is called Mardi Gras which means ‘Fat’ or ‘Grease Tuesday’.

GET IN TOUCH WITH ONYX – and share your Pancake Day experiences!

Got any non-pancake day related questions or queries? Our friendly team are happy to help. Just drop us a line! Call us on 0121 753 5522 or 01902 759 800.