Depending on where you are, a pancake might be called a flapjack, clapjack, or a flapover. It can also be referred to as a flat, a flatcake, a flatjack, a flip, a flipjack, a flipper, a flopjack, a flopover, or a slapjack. If you’re in South Carolina, a flapjack is defined as a “fruit turnover,” also known as an applejack, fried puppy, or jack. In Illinois and other states in the Midwest, a flapjack is “a kind of fried bread or biscuit” and can also go by flatcake, jack, or slapjack.
