The 'Great British Baking Show' Is Straight-Up Wrong About Flapjacks

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I just got around to last week’s episode of The Great British Baking Show , and I was wondering if other Americans were confused by the first challenge. It was “Back to School Week,” so the challenges were school-themed, and the first one involved baking flapjacks.

I thought it was an unusual challenge because I don’t associate flapjacks with school, and also, we don’t bake flapjacks. We use a griddle. Or a pan. This became even more confusing when the first baker they spoke to, Tom, said he was going to hide his flapjack in an apple.

How do you hide a flapjack in an apple?

Of course, I soon discovered the source of confusion. In Britain, flapjacks are not pancakes. Flapjacks are oat

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