And Where They Are Today

in my fuckin mouth eyyy

shout-out to pancakes for best glow up.
posted by phunniemee at 9:29 AM on June 20 [15 favorites]

I never get tired of the classics! Yum!
posted by TedW at 9:46 AM on June 20 [1 favorite]

Today, pancakes can be found in "international" houses and diners across the United states.

The quotes around "international" are funny. It's no surprise pancakes have such a noble heritage, being simple (delicious) fellows, but I would like to know when the waffle was invented, because they are my fav.

(awesome post!! I love food history stuff)
posted by supermedusa at 9:48 AM on June 20 [3 favorites]

Where they are today:

Bread: Made manager of MI-T-MART, June 12, 2025.

Pancakes: Attending college in Riverside. Now living with its Abnormal Psych professor.

Bone broth: switched back to coffee.
posted by infinitewindow at 10:01 AM on June 20 [12 favorites]

A local brewer used an ancient strain of yeast and an ancient ingredient list to brew Egyptian style beer. It was fun to watch him figure out where to source ingredients and make it come together.
posted by msbutah at 10:09 AM on June 20 [1 favorite]

according to the Venerable Wikipedia the word "waffle" first appears in English in 1725. Earlier Dutch and Frankish words attest to the waffle's existence through the Middle Ages. The early Medieval moule à oublies was used to make communion wafers, but sounds a lot like a waffle iron. (similar appliances for cooking bready stuff between hot plates goes back to the Ancient Greeks). Although they may not claim "international" status, they are known for Houses of their own too.
posted by supermedusa at 10:34 AM on June 20 [4 favorites]

The World's 10 Oldest Dishes And Where They Are Today

Welcome, contestants! The first category for the day is: Passive Aggressive sharehouse Kitchen Notes in the form of a listicle
posted by zamboni at 10:37 AM on June 20 [2 favorites]

Waffle = modified pancake at our house. still awesome to know that the batter goes back so far!
posted by childofTethys at 10:56 AM on June 20 [1 favorite]

Hello, garum, my old friend. Glad you could make it.
posted by Capt. Renault at 11:08 AM on June 20 [2 favorites]

I have to admit I am aghast that the list isn't in oldest to youngest order.
posted by The_Vegetables at 11:29 AM on June 20 [8 favorites]

Hymn to Ninkasi, the sumerian Goddess of Beer, circa 1800 BCE...
posted by jim in austin at 1:37 PM on June 20 [1 favorite]

My first thought was: at the back of the refrigerator in the lunch room but no one is admitting to owning it and it's going to stay there until it evolves and develops sentience and mobility and escapes its chill prison.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 2:34 PM on June 20

Tamales have a long history that dates back over 10,000 years. Header: Circa 5000BC.
posted by biffa at 3:37 PM on June 20 [1 favorite]

there's a couple of folks that sell tamales on a corner in my neighborhood every day but sunday. thank you for not posting this on a sunday morning, when i would not be able to get a tamale
posted by phooky at 4:05 PM on June 20

my lazy brain read 'World's Oldest Fools' and I can't stop thinking about that now
posted by Didymus at 4:08 PM on June 20 [1 favorite]

under a white lace shirt on a plate on the floor
posted by Iris Gambol at 4:24 PM on June 20 [1 favorite]

...Welcome, contestants! The first category for the day is: Passive Aggressive sharehouse Kitchen Notes in the form of a listicle.

In  two words...

Thank you for this post, Lemkin.
posted by y2karl at 4:47 PM on June 20

Biffa, the Wikipedia article is worse, citing a cookbook for the 5-8k BCE date, then some archaeologists for a 100CE date, then some different archaeologists claiming somewhere between 250BCE-750AD -- a 1000 year range.

I would expect relatively late date, as teocinte was pretty tricky to domesticate.
posted by novalis_dt at 5:27 PM on June 20

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