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DCist: It seems to be a very pancakey day today. Especially for priests in purple.
Austinist: We are now huge Michael Huff fans. And we're not even sure what he does (although we assume he plays baseball).
Chicagoist tips us off that IHOP was giving out free pancakes till 2PM today. We don't know where we could find an IHOP in the area, but believe us, if we knew, we'd have been there.
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Maybe there's an IHOP in Allentown. I know I've never seen one in Pennsylvania.
Actually, I've been to several in the suburbs here. For a while one of them was my uber-philistine father's favorite restaurant (he's still rebelling against my gourmet-hedonist-intellectual grandparents; and since he's an awful person in general, who tortured me when I was a child, and did his best to convince me that he's a wicked foolish idiot, he's successfully radicalized me along the inverse vector...). For both lunch _and_ dinner. (They actually have country fried steak... unfortunately, though, no deep-fried twinkies to go with it.)
I wonder whether national pancake day always coincides with Fat Tuesday. (Wouldn't it be better to make it the morning _after_ Fat Tuesday?... they should open early, around aubade-composing hour. And offer a little hair o' the dog.... (in Paris I was able to get a decent five-course dinner 24 hours. Carpaccio... foie gras... pig hoofs... escargot... mmmmm. Even better than Silk City.))
(Last semester I went to a show called "bad sex stories". A comedian from NYC told a story about how she was having sex with a male model from Jamaica for eight hours---his erection just wouldn't end (she later found out it was because he was on cocaine), and she was getting really really bored. And she started fantasizing obsessively about pancakes. Banana pancakes. And then, after a few hours, she finally had some. And they were incredibly delicious.)
When I was little, I did truly love IHOP's pigs in a blanket. Along with fettucini alfredo, and mushrooms stuffed with crab, and milk, and custard, my very favorite dishes from the ages of 3-11....
Here are some IHOPs in / around Philly:
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
4.3 miles
3400 Aramingo Ave
Philadelphia PA Map
8.4 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
6.2 miles
4310 Roosevelt Blvd
Philadelphia PA Map
7.1 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
7.7 miles
417 W Baltimore Ave
Clifton Heights PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
15.3 miles
1982 St Rd
Bensalem PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
16.2 miles
60 E St Rd
Feastervl Trvs PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
15.7 miles
1720 Dekalb Pike
Blue Bell PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
10.3 miles
481 Old York Rd
Jenkintown PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
8.0 miles
130 W Lancaster Ave
Ardmore PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
16.2 miles
60 E STREET RD
FEASTERVILLE TREVOSE PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
18.3 miles
136 Easton Rd
Warrington PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
5.3 miles
110 Black Horse Pike
Audubon NJ Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
10.1 miles
1991 Sproul Rd
Broomall PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
22.3 miles
110 Lincoln Hwy
Fairless Hills PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
15.4 miles
1720 Dekalb Pike
BLUE BELL PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
4.8 miles
115 W City Ave
Bala Cynwyd PA Map
7.0 Overall
IHOP
$, American (Traditional)
13.1 miles
10740 Roosevelt Blvd
Philadelphia PA
Damn it. Now I want pancakes really bad.
Damn you, IHOP. Come to NEPA.