Regarding the Ripon cancellation:

(1) When pancakes are outlawed, only outlaws will have pancakes.

(2) You'll get my pancakes when you pry them from my cold, dead fingers. Or when I serve them. Whichever comes first.

Just some popular wisdom courtesy of your friends across the pond. What you folks need is an organization dedicated to protecting the rights and interests of law-abiding pancake owners through organized political lobbying: the NPA (National Pancake Association). Invite a few politicians to breakfast, to discuss the issue of pancake rights. Finance some parliamentary campaigns. Get the issues raised during Question Time. You know the drill.

Mark Adkins, Phoenix, Arizona, USA

Yum Yum We make our own and I still like them the way we had them as children. A squirt of lemon and a little Sugar!

MNKB, UK, UK

We don't use ready made batter, didn't know there was such stuff. Perhaps its an Australian invention. Waste of time anyway, its far too dangerous a prospect. News item on the radio this morning announced the canceling of the traditional pancake tossing race in Ripon due to health and safety reasons. This country really is becoming a joke. In Spain they run through the streets with bulls in full pursuit but here it is too dangerous to take part in a pancake tossing race!!!

Geoff Douglas, Truro, UK

As a child growing up in Sweden, panncakes in various forms were a part of my weekly diet (a Swedish variant of pancakes is "plattar" - miniature pancakes cooked in a special pan) and I still absolutely love them! Quick and easy to make and using ingredients that you will always have in your fridge.

Therefore, it always make me laugh when I see how many people in the UK, as well as here in Australia, buy the ready-made batter!!! Adding water to powder is not that much easier than adding eggs and flour to milk....

Jennie, Sydney, Australia