Tribal People Discovering Nutella Pancakes Will Make Your Day
About this video
Tribal People Try in the kitchen. In "Tribal People Discovering Nutella Pancakes Will Make Your Day" the tribe do the cooking themselves — sometimes their own recipe, sometimes a foreign one from written instructions — and the result is usually better than it has any right to be.
What is pancakes?
American pancakes are thick, fluffy discs of leavened batter, cooked on a griddle and stacked with butter and maple syrup. French crêpes and English pancakes are thinner; Dutch baby pancakes puff in the oven.
Nutella comes from Alba in northern Italy, where Pietro Ferrero stretched scarce post-war cocoa with local hazelnuts; the jar as we know it dates from 1964.
What to watch for
Sweet bread for breakfast is the idea to get past. Once it is treated as a dessert rather than a meal, most people enjoy it. Maple syrup reads as an unfamiliar kind of sweet — thinner and woodier than the sugar syrups used for jalebi and gulab jamun.
The comparison they always make
A paratha with sugar or a meetha paratha is the nearest thing, and it gets mentioned every time. The fluff, from baking powder, is what the village version lacks.
This episode
It's the tribe's 4th pancakes video out of 8. They first tried it in June 2021 ("Tribal People Try Pancakes for the First Time"). The most-watched pancakes episode is "Tribal People Try Pancakes for the First Time" (245.6K views). The video runs about 9 minutes, went up in June 2022 and has 86.9K views and 4.6K likes.
Frequently asked
Who are the people in Tribal People Try?
Villagers from rural Punjab, Pakistan. They're families from the same area, not actors, and they've been part of the channel for years.
What is pancakes?
American pancakes are thick, fluffy discs of leavened batter, cooked on a griddle and stacked with butter and maple syrup. French crêpes and English pancakes are thinner; Dutch baby pancakes puff in the oven.
Did the tribe like the pancakes?
Watch to the end — nothing is scripted, and when something doesn't suit them they say so. A paratha with sugar or a meetha paratha is the nearest thing, and it gets mentioned every time. The fluff, from baking powder, is what the village version lacks.
Have they tried pancakes before?
Yes — this is the 4th of 8 pancakes videos. The first was "Tribal People Try Pancakes for the First Time" in June 2021.
Is there Nutella in Pakistan?
Nutella products reach Pakistan through imports and city supermarkets, but for a village a few hours from Lahore this was a first.