The breakfast menu offered "Flapjacks" which in this instance meant "pancakes". But where did the word "flapjack" come from? And why is it different in various countries - in the UK, for example, a flapjack can be a cookie or a muesli bar; in the US, as it is here, it can be a large pancake. In other instances, a flapjack is a wrestling move or it can be used as a derogatory term for a person from an indistinguishable country of origin (or so Wikipedia says) - hopefully neither of which will turn up on the breakfast menu.
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