Flying flapjacks

[pat]

This is unbelievable.

A school somewhere in the UK has just banned triangular flapjacks. Apparently the pupils were having a food fight and one got hit in the face by a triangular flapjack, causing him to have to go home due to a sore eye.

1) Would the injury have been any less if the pupil had been struck by a square or oblong flapjack? (These shapes are still allowed.)
2) Was an inquest carried out to determine that the injury was caused by anything other than a right angle? If it was caused by a right angle then all flapjacks need to be banned. 

But seriously:

3) What sort of kids do they have at that school, who throw food around?
4) What sort of staff do they have who allow it?

I don't know whether to laugh or cry.

[ensiform]

I think the UK has become very much like the USA in its education system, where no one bothers to address your points 3 and 4 and instead just go ahead issue idiotic bans that do nothing to alleviate any problems.

[a non-amos]

another observation . . .

If their pancakes are rigid enough to cause injury, they might consider sending the cook home.

[TRex]

another observation . . .

If their pancakes are rigid enough to cause injury, they might consider sending the cook home.

Methinks a 'flapjack' in the UK is what the Yanks would call a 'cereal bar'  or 'granola bar'.

[a non-amos]

I had no idea.  What do they say, "two nations divided by a common language?"

Over here a flapjack (or pancake) is supposed to be light and fluffy, usually covered with maple syrup or (if you live farther south) easy-over eggs (the yolk is the syrup).

I am bilingual.  My tongue likes both toppings.

 

[Gaye Christine]

Pat, please could you clear this up - what is a flapjack in the UK?  I thought it was a sort of crumpet.

[mkenuk]

When I lived in UK (many years ago) 'flapjack' was simply the 'American' word for 'pancake' in the same way that 'sidewalk' was American for 'pavement' and 'faucet' was American for tap. We knew these words because people said them in American films and TV shows, but nobody would ever have said that he or she was going to make 'flapjacks' for dinner.

 We had 'pancakes'; they were large, flat ('flat as a pancake') soft, made in a frying-pan and could be tossed and eaten with (for example) sugar, lemon-juice  or maple syrup. (Yes, we knew what that was). Everyone ate them on 'pancake day' (Shrove Tuesday, the day before Ash Wednesday) and we even had pancake races, where people ran over a course, tossing pancakes as they went.

No doubt the admen have been busy in the last few years and have introduced something called 'flapjacks' to the British spending public, though what they are is beyond me.

MK

[pat]

TRex is closest. It's a chewy, but rigid, sweet concoction made primarily with rolled oats.

[Gaye Christine]

TRex is closest. It's a chewy, but rigid, sweet concoction made primarily with rolled oats.

And you learn something new every day!!

[TRex]

TRex is closest. It's a chewy, but rigid, sweet concoction made primarily with rolled oats.

I should get a prize .... perhaps a triangular flapjack?

[ensiform]

I should get a prize .... perhaps a triangular flapjack?

It is on its way.  It has been hurled in your direction by a schoolchild.

[TRex]

Ducking!

[rogue_mother]

Just make sure you don't chew it into the shape of a gun, or we will have to suspend you from Chihuahua for a couple of days!

[a non-amos]

I'm not sure we have to worry about this . . .

From what little I have heard about flapjacks in the UK, chewing them might entail considerable dental damage to no great effect on the intended flapjack.   

On a related note, one of our two best breakfast venues has reopened.  This is Thelma's Chicken and Waffles.  We still mourn the passing of Tudor's Biscuit World.