15 Awesome Pancake Day Facts You Never Knew

12. Pancakes? That's An Egg-Cellent Idea

Kwang Soo Egg Smash Gif Due to the fact that on average two pancakes are consumed by each person on Shrove Tuesday in Britain, 52million eggs will be cracked and added to the batter mix - an astonishing 22million more than on a normal day. Interestingly, 13million kilograms of flour will also be used in the batter mix across Britain - and that will be combined with enough milk to fill more than 90 Olympic swimming pools.
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