On 8/4/2015 11:18 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> On 2015-08-04 9:14 AM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>>>> But who tastes their pancakes before adding syrup? I know I sure
>>>> don't.
>>>
>>> Me either. Pancakes are a convenient syrup delivery vehicle.
>>
>> Really, except at home, the syrup is real. I assume what
>> I get at a breakfast chain is not expensive stuff.
>
>
> My bad experiences with pancake specialty restaurants is not just the
> low quality syrup. The pancakes themselves are horrible. Pancakes are
> easy enough to make.... flour, salt, baking powder, a little sugar, some
> eggs, milk and oil. It takes about a minute to whip up a batch. These
> guys seem to want to dumb it down to reduce costs and so that the
> minimum wage staff can't screw them up too badly.

I never order pancakes out. I order a waffle if I want something
like that and hope for a good one. I generally get acceptable.
You'd think breakfast places would get breakfast foods right.

nancy