Before the war, it was called 'yoshoku yaki' (Japanese pancake), 'issen yoshoku,' 'nikuten' (Japanese pancake) and so on, and the noseyaki (Japanese pancake), where the flour was mixed with water, spread in a circle, the green onion, tenkasu (crunchy bits of deep-fried dough produced as a byproduct of cooking tenpura) and so on were put on it and grilled, was the mainstream and it was something like a kids' snack.
戦前までは、「洋食焼き（大阪）」「一銭洋食（京都）」「にくてん（神戸）」などと呼ばれ、小麦粉を水で溶き鉄板に円状に広げ、その上にネギや天かすなどを載せて焼く「のせ焼き」が主流であり、子供のおやつのようなものであった。