When matter in the most beginning isn't got on, use expression "better luck next time". From where such expression went and what it designated at the beginning of the emergence? Now it can often be heard in kitchen when the hostess cooks fritters, hash browns and, of course, pancakes.
It is possible to allocate three options of emergence of a phrase "better luck next time".
The first of them is simple. Expression was used literally and meant that the first pancake sticks to insufficiently heated-up frying pan and up to the end isn't baked thoroughly. The hostess picks dough which gathers in a lump and spreads it on a plate.
Pancake at the same time can perform function of trial. Having tried it, it is easy to define what ingredients should be added. Also the first unsuccessful attempt of baking says to the hostess that it should be added temperature or to add oil.
The second option says that pancakes are a treat for deceased relatives. The first pancake could be presented to souls of the dead, and is it it was impossible.
Following this tradition, Slavs put the first pancake on a windowsill. So they wanted to show the respect to relatives, to show that they remember them. At the same time sentenced: "Our parents, here a blinok for your soul!"
The third hypothesis that this phrase initially meant belongs to the modern specialist in folklore Pankeev. According to its version, this expression is connected with a phrase "the lump in a throat costs" which means that at nervousness it is difficult to person to vzglotnut.