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Pancakes are actually pretty good for you aslong as you don't go mad on the toppings. Use margerine instead of butter and/or add a sprinkliing of sweetner and/or some Jiff lemon. Try savoury pancakes too.
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It's the carbs that do it to me. Flour and Sugar being the main culprits.. and a pancake without flour is not a pancake.
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jayshields wrote:Pancakes are actually pretty good for you aslong as you don't go mad on the toppings. Use margarine instead of butter and/or add a sprinkliing of sweetner and/or some Jiff lemon. Try savoury pancakes too.
I never understood how margarine is better for you than butter... isn't margarine just whipped grease?
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I think it is the cholesterol, but without my margarine and butter wrappers in front of me, I can't be sure.

And pancakes can be good and/or bad, depending on what you put on them Chocolate syrup, chocolate chips and whipped cream can make them bad for you. Strawberry jelly can make them better for you.

/ Thinks about how bad I want pancakes.
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Everah wrote:/ Thinks about how bad I want pancakes.
me too :(
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Jenk wrote:A friend of mine used to work in a Waffle Waggon
what in god's name is a waffle wagon? I imagine a wagon stuffed full of waffles, but I need clarification on this please.
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Burrito wrote:I imagine a wagon stuffed full of waffles
If there is a heaven... it will have waffle wagons.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:If there is a heaven... it will have waffle wagons.
mine won't....mine will have bacon buses instead.
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Mine will have both.

People will hang around busy junctions hoping for a pile-up.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:
jayshields wrote:Pancakes are actually pretty good for you aslong as you don't go mad on the toppings. Use margarine instead of butter and/or add a sprinkliing of sweetner and/or some Jiff lemon. Try savoury pancakes too.
I never understood how margarine is better for you than butter... isn't margarine just whipped grease?
Rule of thumb: The harder the fat is, the worse it is for you.

Margarine is softer with less saturated fats. Saturated fats are bad for you and clog up your arteries. Polyunsaturated are what you want. But butter beats margarine any day (for taste I mean).... only when it's warm and melted though :)
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I'm not a big fan of margarine... it seems so artificial.
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d11wtq wrote:Rule of thumb: The harder the fat is, the worse it is for you.
So lard is ok so long as you melt it first?
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He must have meant:
Rule of thumb: The harder the fat is at room temperature, the worse it is for you.
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The Ninja Space Goat wrote:I'm not a big fan of margarine... it seems so artificial.
I can't remember the last time I ate butter, so I couldn't point out any differences between butter and margerine.
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onion2k wrote:
d11wtq wrote:Rule of thumb: The harder the fat is, the worse it is for you.
So lard is ok so long as you melt it first?
Of course it is, that is why, as a Mexican kid growing up, I would see a jar of manteca sitting on the stove melting all day long. Whenever we needed grease, it was already 'soft and healthy' for us kids to drink, er, eat as much as we needed...
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