Comments on: Pancakes that look like Hostess Cupcakes http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html Brain candy for Happy Mutants Tue, 21 May 2013 11:53:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.1 By: ericka abraham http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html#comment-1587133 ericka abraham Tue, 20 Nov 2012 05:18:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195056#comment-1587133 I absolutely love chocolate, but that thing looks fudging disgusting. I absolutely love chocolate, but that thing looks fudging disgusting.

]]> By: homasapiens http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html#comment-1586532 homasapiens Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:48:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195056#comment-1586532 I wish there were a pancake that looks like 60,00 working wages.  I wish there were a pancake that looks like 60,00 working wages. 

]]> By: Donald Petersen http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html#comment-1586523 Donald Petersen Mon, 19 Nov 2012 21:33:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195056#comment-1586523 Nor does that qualify as a Hostess Cupcake.  I like pancakes, and I like Hostess Cupcakes as much as any child of the 70s who rebelled against his great aunt's "healthy alternative" carob creations, but <b>this</b>... I was a fan of anything and everything chocolate until a fateful April morning in 1980 when ten-year-old Donnie and his family visited Aunt Emma's Pancakes next to the Fabulous 7 Motel in equally fabulous El Cajon, CA.  I discovered they had chocolate pancakes, with chocolate chips!  I enthusiastically ordered a stack, drowned it in maple syrup, ate about six bites, then gave up, swearing off chocolate of all types for the next week or more.  I eventually got over it, but I've never forgotten how nauseatingly rich and overwhelmingly chocolatey those pancakes were.  My gorge slightly rises just thinking about it, and since I just finished off a Six Dollar Memphis BBQ Burger from Carl's Jr, I can't afford that thought at all right now. Can't look again at the picture above, either. Nor does that qualify as a Hostess Cupcake.  I like pancakes, and I like Hostess Cupcakes as much as any child of the 70s who rebelled against his great aunt’s “healthy alternative” carob creations, but this…

I was a fan of anything and everything chocolate until a fateful April morning in 1980 when ten-year-old Donnie and his family visited Aunt Emma’s Pancakes next to the Fabulous 7 Motel in equally fabulous El Cajon, CA.  I discovered they had chocolate pancakes, with chocolate chips!  I enthusiastically ordered a stack, drowned it in maple syrup, ate about six bites, then gave up, swearing off chocolate of all types for the next week or more.  I eventually got over it, but I’ve never forgotten how nauseatingly rich and overwhelmingly chocolatey those pancakes were.  My gorge slightly rises just thinking about it, and since I just finished off a Six Dollar Memphis BBQ Burger from Carl’s Jr, I can’t afford that thought at all right now.

Can’t look again at the picture above, either.

]]> By: EH http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html#comment-1586420 EH Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:34:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195056#comment-1586420 I'm not bovvered. I’m not bovvered.

]]> By: GawainLavers http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html#comment-1586402 GawainLavers Mon, 19 Nov 2012 19:16:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195056#comment-1586402 My heart just stopped looking at that.  I think Henry's point is that chocolate syrup covered chocolate cakey-slabs are not quite anyone's definition of "pancake". My heart just stopped looking at that.  I think Henry’s point is that chocolate syrup covered chocolate cakey-slabs are not quite anyone’s definition of “pancake”.

]]> By: David Pescovitz http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html#comment-1586388 David Pescovitz Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:51:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195056#comment-1586388 OK, but you'd be mistaken. They are real pancakes but they are not real Hostess Cupcakes. OK, but you’d be mistaken. They are real pancakes but they are not real Hostess Cupcakes.

]]> By: gsilas http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html#comment-1586381 gsilas Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:46:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195056#comment-1586381 I'm only bothered if you attempt to make it taste like tasteless/graceless/faceless industrial product.  To me, this is a subterfuge of expectations in order to point out how bland the industrial food can be. I’m only bothered if you attempt to make it taste like tasteless/graceless/faceless industrial product.  To me, this is a subterfuge of expectations in order to point out how bland the industrial food can be.

]]> By: Henry Pootel http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html#comment-1586376 Henry Pootel Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:40:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195056#comment-1586376 I'd put the word "pancake" in quotes, not Hostess Cupcake I’d put the word “pancake” in quotes, not Hostess Cupcake

]]> By: Paul Renault http://boingboing.net/2012/11/19/pancakes-that-look-like-hostes.html#comment-1586372 Paul Renault Mon, 19 Nov 2012 18:32:00 +0000 http://boingboing.net/?p=195056#comment-1586372 Hand-making food to resemble faceless industrial product makes Paul sad. Hand-making food to resemble faceless industrial product makes Paul sad.

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