Pancakes that look like Hostess Cupcakes

At least we can always have "Hostess Cupcake" pancakes. (Duhlicious, via Neatorama)

David Pescovitz is Boing Boing's co-editor/managing partner. He's also a research director at Institute for the Future. On Instagram, he's @pesco.

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Paul Renault

Hand-making food to resemble faceless industrial product makes Paul sad.
- gsilas
  
  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.
  - EH
    
    I’m not bovvered.
Henry Pootel

I’d put the word “pancake” in quotes, not Hostess Cupcake
- David Pescovitz
  
  OK, but you’d be mistaken. They are real pancakes but they are not real Hostess Cupcakes.
  - GawainLavers
    
    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”.
    - Donald Petersen
      
      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.
homasapiens

I wish there were a pancake that looks like 60,00 working wages.
ericka abraham

I absolutely love chocolate, but that thing looks fudging disgusting.