edit: I love how Europeans still struggle to believe that these are what America sees as pancakes. For context, these buttermilk pancakes were so big that I only ordered two and could only eat half of the second one. If you went to our “International House of Pancakes(IHOP)” and ordered pancakes, this is what you’d get. America really is on another level.
As a Brit your picture is definitely a normal pancake. Op has posted a extra bloated Scotch Pancake.
American food is far more Scottish than English, mostly because the Scottish understand the proper amount of decadence
I did enjoy battered deep fried burger followed by a battered mars bar when I did the Edinburgh festival I’m not ashamed to say.
Scotch Pancakes are just normal pancakes in America. If you gave a British pancake to an American, they’d probably be confused by it.
TBF usually the Americans take the concept then claim and rename it. So I am surprised they kept the name. Either way…the European pancakes were being made and being seen before westerners started colonizing America…so how the Europeans see pancakes is true to the origin.