"I wrote a good chunk of this column at my favorite IHOP on Sunset and Orange. No strippers sitting in the next booth this time, but I did order the heart attack special -- aka chicken-fried steak with scrambled eggs, hash browns and three buttermilk pancakes on two plates. Total cost: $12.99 and two complimentary angioplasties. I wasn't even that hungry; I just wanted to see what it looked like. But that's not why I'm telling you this. Did you know they're serving coffee cake streusel pancakes at IHOP right now? Are you kidding me? Did the IHOP executives have an emergency creative meeting recently because they had run out of ways to make America fat? "Well, coffee cake's fattening, and pancakes are fattening, and so is maple syrup … what if we just combined the three?" I can't get over this. IHOP should build an advertising campaign around Bizarro Jared, a skinny guy who gained more than 350 pounds in six months after eating only IHOP meals. He'd be a national hero.)"
By the way, the pancakes were uber delicioso.
By the way, the pancakes were uber delicioso.
