# All you can eat pancakes??? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [January 28, 2017, 6:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411 "2017-01-28T18:04:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/41 "2017-01-31T14:36:47Z")
> [@Whiskey\_Dickens](#): > > In a row? > > Hey, try not to eat any more pancakes on your way through the parking lot! Yeap. People are sometimes amazed at what my tiny, 120 pound body can hold. A friend once won a “all-you-can-eat-at-one-sitting-Christmas-Eve-dinner-for-two” at a diner. She brought me with her. After I had consumed a cheese omelet, hash browns, sweet potato fries, whole wheat toast, garlic bread, five slices of bacon (I’m normally a vegetarian, but what the hell) on a toasted buttered salt bagel, and a hot fudge sundae , washed down with six cups of coffee, we left. ---
**Author:** ![Wesley\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wesley_clark/32/20581_2.png) [@Wesley\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wesley_Clark)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 3:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/42 "2017-01-31T15:55:17Z")
Steak n shake has all you can eat pancakes for $3.99. I’ve never gotten them as I don’t like pancakes enough and a cheap buffet is only a couple dollars more. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/43 "2017-01-31T16:24:54Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > At least 76. In 1976 one of my classmates set a world record in the Pancake Day (sorry, IHOP, you did not invent Pancake Day, and it’s INTERnational, not just national) pancake eating contest at age 16. I don’t know whether that record still stand, but it did as of 1982. > [Cite](http://www.upi.com/Archives/1982/02/22/The-world-pancake-eating-record-remained-intact-Monday-in-pre-Lenten/4226383202000/): Looks like [113 as of April 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSgM4gAhK0), if this Youtube video is to be believed. ETA: Actually, those are “silver dollar” pancakes, so they’re a good bit smaller than what I assume what’s being eaten at a standard pancake eating contest, right? Looks like there’s some Australian who ate 80 pancakes, but I have no idea if there’s any standardization to this. I doubt there is. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/44 "2017-01-31T21:21:44Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Looks like [113 as of April 2016](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1jSgM4gAhK0), if this Youtube video is to be believed. > > ETA: Actually, those are “silver dollar” pancakes, so they’re a good bit smaller than what I assume what’s being eaten at a standard pancake eating contest, right? > > Looks like there’s some Australian who ate 80 pancakes, but I have no idea if there’s any standardization to this. I doubt there is. The [International Reference Pancake](Not a real link!) is stored at the [International Bureau of Weights and Measures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bureau_of_Weights_and_Measures) in Sevres France. It is defined as a pancake with a radius equal to 76 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the electromagnetic spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum. ---
**Author:** ![purplehearingaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@purplehearingaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/purplehearingaid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/45 "2017-01-31T22:01:47Z")
> [@Son\_of\_a\_Rich](#): > > I had a coworker who took his girlfriend to an all-you-can-eat buffet, where they ate off the same plate, and couldn’t understand why the buffet took umbrage. I dated a guy who was a huge meat eater and I was a vegetarian and we would go an all you can buffet . I would load up 2 plates , one with all kind of meats and the other with veggies and my b/f did the same . We did think a few times and the manger took umbrage too but he never said anything to us. I agree with you my b/f and I felt the same way that it was all you can eat and I was only eating veggies and beans and my b/f was only eating all the meat he could . LOL! ---
**Author:** ![snowthx](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowthx/32/10660_2.png) [@snowthx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/snowthx)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/46 "2017-01-31T23:25:35Z")
> [@Annie-Xmas](#): > > Yeap. People are sometimes amazed at what my tiny, 120 pound body can hold. > > A friend once won a “all-you-can-eat-at-one-sitting-Christmas-Eve-dinner-for-two” at a diner. She brought me with her. After I had consumed a cheese omelet, hash browns, sweet potato fries, whole wheat toast, garlic bread, five slices of bacon (I’m normally a vegetarian, but what the hell) on a toasted buttered salt bagel, and a hot fudge sundae , washed down with six cups of coffee, we left. You are amazing. I want to meet you! ---
**Author:** ![RadicalPi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/radicalpi/32/9806_2.png) [@RadicalPi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RadicalPi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2017, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/47 "2017-01-31T23:36:03Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > The [International Reference Pancake](Not a real link!) is stored at the [International Bureau of Weights and Measures](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Bureau_of_Weights_and_Measures) in Sevres France. It is defined as a pancake with a radius equal to 76 wavelengths of the orange-red emission line in the electromagnetic spectrum of the krypton-86 atom in a vacuum. That’s like 46 microns. That’s really small. ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/48 "2017-02-01T15:07:59Z")
> [@RadicalPi](#): > > That’s like 46 microns. That’s really small. I may have been off by an order of magnitude or so. It’s been a long time since I worked with the International Union of Pancake Scientists (UISC in France). ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2017, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/49 "2017-02-01T15:26:51Z")
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuO4OZJ5ncY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nuO4OZJ5ncY) “The meal is not over when I’m full, the meal is over when I hate myself.” - Louis CK ---
**Author:** ![Maurie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/df788c/32.png) [@Maurie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maurie)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/50 "2017-02-02T18:15:49Z")
> [@purplehearingaid](#): > > I dated a guy who was a huge meat eater and I was a vegetarian and we would go an all you can buffet . I would load up 2 plates , one with all kind of meats and the other with veggies and my b/f did the same . We did think a few times and the manger took umbrage too but he never said anything to us. I agree with you my b/f and I felt the same way that it was all you can eat and I was only eating veggies and beans and my b/f was only eating all the meat he could . LOL! I don’t get why you did this, or why the buffet manager would take umbrage? Why didn’t you each just take as much as you wanted of the food you liked? ---
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/51 "2017-02-02T18:34:20Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Seems like a pointless promotion. It’s nearly impossible to _not_ get pancakes at IHOP. I swear I once ordered just an iced tea, and it came with pancakes. And if the IHOP was in the south, you could have just poured the tea over the pancakes. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411/52 "2017-02-02T18:47:29Z")
> [@DCnDC](#): > > Jason Lee Thanks! You know, before I posted that question, I was seeing that IHOP ad all the time. Since I asked the question and you answered, I haven’t seen it once! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/all-you-can-eat-pancakes/778411.md?page=2)