The results show a fairly substantial percentage of people prefer caramel to vanilla, so I suppose it makes sense that caramel got further. Because I was unsure, I also asked which country people most associated with ice cream just to check my initial assumption was right, 11 out of 17 also said Italy, so I'm happy that I didn't make a stupid mistake. Further to this I wanted to find out just how popular caramel ice cream is. Of the 17 people that answered the survey, only 2 said caramel, this surely shows just how popular a topping ice cream is for a pancake in general, if it's not even most peoples favourite and yet it still came second.
When I asked people what their favourite topping was this was confirmed as it was similarly popular to the other classic pancake toppings.
I asked which, if any, of the more obscure pancake toppings that made it past the first round sound appetising to them. None of the toppings sounded appetising to half of the people, which illustrates the point I made in my conclusion, that people are quite happy to assume that some things will be horrible as pancake toppings.
I also asked how often people ate pancakes and why that was, expecting the vast majority to say only once a year for pancake day. The result was pretty skewed towards once a year, with 8 people saying, that, yet 9 people said because of pancake day, which is strange. The only two reasons given for eating them every 3 or 6 months were "my flatmate and grandma make them" and "I'm not a morning person", whereas the weekly person said "I have protein pancakes".
This suggested to me that pancake day wasn't necessarily as big or important a thing in general society as it was in my household growing up, but retrospectively maybe it was because my family is fairly religious, and pancake day comes from the idea of lent. Pancakes were eaten then because it was a good way to use up rich foods such as eggs, milk and sugar before the 40 day fasting period of lent, where Christians had to refrain from eating foods for pleasure, and instead had to eat only basic foods in order to survive.
This made me wonder just how the pancake day tradition compares to other food habits in terms of how it's followed, so I asked people how many times they had a sunday lunch this summer, to see how much that still occurs, I asked if they still eat breakfast every morning, as people seem to be getting busier and busier. The last thing I asked was how often they ate takeaway or fast food, so I could compare that to the sunday dinners. This is important because I feel like when I was younger, the meal I looked forward to the most in the week was Sunday lunch, whereas nowadays I feel like people more value the convenience and lack of washing up that a takeaway offers.
From the answers I was given I worked out that average person 2 sunday dinners a month, whereas they have either 3 or 4 month. This combined with the fact that the average person in my survey reckoned they ate pancakes 5 times a year suggests to me that when it comes food, people don't always take notice of tradition any more. Which suggests to me that pancakes don't have a place in British food culture, basically because I struggle to believe that Britain has a food culture in regular society any more. I just assumed that most people had a Sunday lunch most weeks and hardly ever had fast food, but apparently I was wrong.
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