15 Awesome Pancake Day Facts You Never Knew

5. Cheating On Pancake Tuesday... For More Than 130 years

Upsetting Number Of Pancakes Gif It is quite common for people to buy pancake ready-mix from the supermarket on Shrove Tuesday rather than purchase all of the ingredients individually. However, this is not a new phenomenon - the first ready-mix food sold commercially was pancake flour. Aunt Jemima's ready-mix pancake flour was invented in 1889 in Missouri, USA, and sold to the southern American market.
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