Thursday, January 04, 2007

Pancakes for Dummies

After I got off of work this afternoon, my mother and Patrick took me out for lunch at IHOP. I had been hungry for pancakes for a few days, so I was ridiculously excited by the prospect.

I got a lovely plate of yummy, fluffy, whole wheat pancakes, which I covered in butter. I decided to use syrup, something that I never do. As I was pouring the syrup, I was amazed by how thin it seemed. It splashed all over my plate and soaked right in. As I was eating my pancakes, I was surprised at the lack of sweetness- I had just drenched my pancakes in syrup. I was setting down the jug, thinking, "I like this syrup. I don't like overly-sweet syrup...." when my mother asked me to pass the coffee. I looked around for the coffee, and she pointed it out to me... right in my hand. I tried to explain to her that that was the syrup, but as she was pouring it into her cup, I realized that, yes, it looked much more like coffee than syrup.

We spent several minutes laughing at me.

There are two lessons to be learned from this. The first is that one should always read the labels before one dumps something all over one's food. The second is that coffee tastes pretty good on pancakes.

4 comments:

Katsuke said...

Wow... coffee pancakes, that's definitely got to be interesting. 0.o

Thomas said...

Was it caffeinated or decaf?

P.S. You may need to use threats of physical violence to make your brother post.

Anonymous said...

The real question is why you were drinking IHOP coffee... I don't imagine it to be very good, but maybe thats just my imagination...

Nat said...

Well, I can say proudly that I've only squirted ketchup into my milk once.