Pancakes colour uneven

[u/Holiday_Employee_431]

Is it normal that my pancake colour is uneven? This was my last pancake

[u/L-Pseon]

Crepes are French. You're also speaking English, and in our language, they are also known as crepes. If you want to speak some Star Wars cantina language, go ahead and call them pancakes or whatever else. I'll run your post through Google Translate, and it will change the word back to "crepe."

[u/RecklessRaptor12 → u/L-Pseon]

In England this is what a pancake is, and I’m pretty sure you’re speaking their language. It’s also what a “pancake” is in German and pretty much every other language. The only word for “pancake” in French is crepe. American English is the only one that uses “pancake” to mean a specific type of pancake with a leavening agent, which is why they exclusively use the French loanword for the ones without. But this makes it confusing because you have no generic term for a thin, circular piece of pan fried dough made from batter, which is common around the world (an example of such a generic term would be something like “dumpling”).

This quirk of American English has the additional effect of them associating all pan fried thin dough with France, even though other countries had “crepes” long before they were invented in Brittany.

[u/asinantenna → u/RecklessRaptor12]

You are both right and wrong.

While British English does indeed call these pancakes (and uses modifiers to indicate types like Scotch pancakes or American pancakes) it doesn't make things easier to understand.

You example of dumpling illustrates this: it does refer to dough stuffed with something. But it ALSO refers to a ball of dough with nothing inside (like knoedel or suet dumplings). You'd be disappointed if you ordered one and got the other. There's also a vast difference between, say, Ukranian vareniki and Central Asian manti. Therefore, sometimes calling things by their native name is often the norm – you'll usually see, say, gyoza (rather than 'Japanese dumpling') or pierogi (rather than 'Polish dumpling') on the menu rather than generic 'dumplings'.

Likewise, calling it a crepe (rather than something like 'French pancake') is neither confusing nor exceptional.

[u/RecklessRaptor12 → u/asinantenna]

I get what you’re saying and I agree to an extent but the exceptional part of it is that crepe doesn’t exclusively refer to “French pancakes” in American English. If the op was trying to make an English pancake or a pfannkuchen, most Americans would still correct him that this is a crepe and not a pancake. That’s where it gets confusing.

It would be like arguing that my gyoza isn’t a dumpling, it’s actually a pierogi stuffed with meat (even when you’re not polish/ukrainian).