The latest TikTok food trend started as a joke but ended up as a gateway to something delicious
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Just as you might scramble eggs, Archived Chef (who reportedly prefers to remain anonymous) pours pancake batter into a pan, breaking it up with a spatula as it cooks. Once golden brown, she piles the pieces on a plate and tops them with icing sugar, whipped cream, blueberries and syrup. If you watch to the end of the one-minute, one-second video, you’ll learn that the whole thing was a joke. “Psych. Do not try this, and it was not good.”
As outraged as some TikTok users seemed by the concept of scrambled pancakes — commenting, “I would never disrespect pancakes in that way” and “This is a crime” — just as many were intrigued. One asked astutely, “How can it not be good?” To which the creator replied, “The texture was weird.”
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