The Pancake Personality Test
It's Shrove Tuesday and you're going on a date. What do you do? Eat some pancakes of course! Now, you may be unaware of this but you can tell an awful lot about your date from the type of pancake they choose. It's a bit like an IQ test, but batter (we thank you for your continued patience with that outrageous pun).
1. Sugar and Lemon
Ah, the timeless classic of pancakes. If your date chooses this, you'll know they're a down to earth, no-messing, straight forward type. That's not to say they're boring, far from it, but they know what they like and what they like is the best. If this pancake was a car, it would be a Rolls Royce.
2. Crepes Suzette
Ooh la la, you've got a lively one there! Essentially a Crepe Suzette is a pancake covered in alcohol and butter so whoever chooses this boozy, oozy indulgence is going to be fun and flirty and you're in for a good time (just try not to imagine them 30 years down the line after a lifetime of drink and saturated fat).
3. The savoury pancake
The savoury pancake is the intellectual of the pancake world. Thoughtful and sober but with hidden depths and charm, the savoury pancake won't provide the quick-fix excitement of it's sugary cousins, but rather a more measured and dependable pleasure.
4. Nutella, banana and maple syrup
This pancake is like an e-number crazed toddler running at your new white chinos with chocolate smeared hands: very sticky and a bit scary. If your date chooses this you'll know that they are embracing the child within and will be energetic and fun, but liable to whinge that they're tired and fall asleep with their face in their plate at the end of the evening.
5. Buckwheat gallette with proscuitto and asparagus
Feel intimidated? We certainly do. This is a sophisticated and probably rather snooty pancake. If your date chooses it they are either a) rather snooty and sophisticated or b) trying very hard to impress you. Let's hope they're trying to impress you as that is at least slightly endearing. If it's because they're snooty, you'll probably never see them again because you took them out for pancakes rather than to The Fat Duck, you pleb.
So there we go, an exhaustive and highly scientific guide to pancake day dating. And remember, this is not just dating advice, this is MSF dating advice.