Pancakes & History
Every civilization, it seems, has enjoyed pancakes.
Do you know of a civilization that never developed pancakes? We don’t either. They apparently got their start in 600 BCE Greece, a newfound recipe meant to use up ingredients that would have spoiled otherwise. Greek poets Magnes & Cratinus crafted works paying homage to the warm, sweet cakes called Tagenias, from the Greek word for frying pan.
Around 1100 CE pancakes were made every Shrove Tuesday, which came to be known as pancake day. The practice was meant to use up ingredients before Lent began the next day. No surprise that indulging these high-calorie confections led to the day’s better known name, Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday.
So, what does this have to do with mindset? In a general sense, from time out of mind we humans have centered our societies largely around food, its preparation, presentation, and consumption. What drove that gastronomic focus was the mindset of scarcity. Most human civilizations that cropped up through the last three or four millennia are now gone. The Aegeans, Assyrians, Dorset culture, Egyptian, Minoan, Gerzean, Hongshan, Inca, Aztec, Mesopotamian, etc., all of them are gone, as will ours be in a short blink of time.
Our guess is that whichever society succeeds us will have their very own version of pancakes. The human mindset is crafted to respond to its environmental, social, philosophical, religious, communal, and ethical pressures and influences. When we recognize this simple fact, that mindset is baked into our society like eggs and flour in the pancakes we eat, we can sift them, measure them, weigh them, and perhaps make better choices on what works for us or does not.
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What are you doing tomorrow, Wednesday November 22nd at noon Eastern in the U.S? Come join us for our webinar titled Thoughts Become Things. We’re going to teach mindset matters you never considered. This webinar will be the best 45 minutes you’ll invest in yourself for a long time. Come join us, you’ll be glad you did! And invite three friends. They’ll be glad you did!
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