What is pancake racing?

Answer 1

This is a great question as it is Pancake Day today, Tuesday 24th February 2009. It's not called Pancake Racing - it is a Pancake Race and is held annually on Shrove Tuesday. Competitors stand at the line, much as they do on a 400m athletics track and, when the whistle is sounded, racers run the distance, tossing cooked pancakes into the air and catching them in the frying pan (skillet) without dropping them. This is a fun kids/mums race but not as much fun as making the pancakes, filling them with sugar, lemon, chocolate drops, cream, jam, marmite...wahtever and eating them.