 It turns out, though, as with most TikTok hacks, this idea is not new. According to the New York Post, scrambled pancakes go back to the mid-19th century Austria, used in a traditional dessert there and in Germany. Oh, tracked us all the way to Europe. Yeah, I guess so. We've got to get to the bottom of this. Well, because we have to prove, as with all TikTok hacks, that they are not new. Right. We have to go all the way back to 19th century Austria to make sure that you know that what you came up with was not original at all.