Do blini have to be thin? In case you're wondering, Blin (or Блин) is just Pancake in Russian.
It was given by my favorite YouTuber that these pancakes have to be thin to be a proper blin. Is this true?
This seems to be more of a linguistic question to me.
It depends on who you ask. In the region where I live: not necessarily, both the American style and French crêpe style pancakes are sometimes called &quot;блин&quot; and &quot;блинчики&quot; (little pancakes).
But for a lot of people it's only the French thin ones. And they call the other one &quot;оладушки&quot;. (Read: oladushki)
It's not exactly defined by region as much as simply what you're used to.
Also: the word is also a curse word, although a very childish one. The English version might be 'crap', I  think.