Pancake

According to the Eighth Doctor, a pancake was a "breakfast food — very flat". He used the metaphor to explain how thinly the Kro'ka would be crushed for disappointing the Divergence. (AUDIO: Caerdroia) Jin-Ming once claimed that, after he attacked Washington, it was "flat as a pancake". (PROSE: Revolution Man)

Pancakes were commonly eaten on the holiday of Pancake Tuesday. (AUDIO: Empire of the Racnoss; TV: The Rings of Akhaten)

In 1968, Cristián Alvarez served the Seventh Doctor, Bernice Summerfield and Ace pancakes with maple syrup. When Benny later recalled this, she realised she hadn't yet eaten breakfast. (PROSE: The Left-Handed Hummingbird)

Graeme was a spatula made of Auton matter which could flip pancakes on his own. (PROSE: Return of the Living Dad)

Behind the scenes

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Jamie Oliver sets off to explore Beanotown with a tall stack of pancakes in his frying pan. (COMIC: Dennis the Menace in Balloonatics)

While floating over Beanotown in a Red Nose-shaped hot-air balloon to promote Red Nose Day, Jamie Oliver prepared a pancake in a frying pan with the help of a Dalek, who heated the pan.

After the balloon crashed in Beanotown, Oliver had prepared a tall stack of pancakes, which he held in his pan as he explored the town. (COMIC: Dennis the Menace in Balloonatics)