The cultural elites on social media are clutching their pearls over a dish our grandparents used to treat as a normal weekday dinner.
In 1975, a woman named Johanna Rhodes submitted a recipe to her local community cookbook. Her simple “pancake soup” is now making the rounds online — and modern food snobs can’t handle it.
A Viral Discovery on Reddit
The storm started when someone posted a photo of Rhodes’ recipe to Reddit.¹
Her instructions were simple: fry thin pancakes in bacon fat, let them cool, slice into strips, and drop them into hot broth made with bouillon cubes. That’s it. A dish that feeds eight, costs next to nothing, and uses only pantry staples.
But that was enough to trigger food critics online.
“I would rather just eat pancakes and have my broth on the side,” one Reddit user complained.² Another griped that the bouillon “brought that to a grinding halt.”³
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