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To the OP, I cut 'em all up together and eat em like a salad. You didn't ask but i save the syrup until the second half. The first half is just cakes and butter… yum!
Stacked dollar size, please. OR if you make a Mickey Mouse pancake it’s one at a time.
If it was four, I would say two at a time. Any more than that at once, and you don’t get enough syrup on them.
With three, it would depend on the size. Most likely, eat a coupe of pieces of the top two, then eat the two pieces of the bottom that are left over together.
One at a time, and I’m a butter only type of guy. I liked syrup when I was a kid, but, unless I’m in Vermont, I’ll eat them with only butter these days. It helps save a few calories.
I most likely won’t eat three…one to one and half is more my style.
The stack is the natural unit of pancakes, and so I serve them stacked, cut them stacked, and eat them stacked.
At least, for American pancakes. Things are different if we’re talking blini or crepes, which are naturally rolled with some sort of filling.
Oh, and butter and syrup. Real maple syrup is of course optimal, if available, but it’s way too expensive to eat all the time, and so I usually have to settle for the artificially-flavored stuff. And lite, low-sugar, or low-carb syrup is, of course, an abomination unto Nuggan.
your classic british pancake is somewhere between an american one and a crepe. The best way to eat it is as the kitchen counter. Cook it, flip in onto your plate, get the next one in the pan, then quickly pop sugar, syrup and lemon juice on the cooked pancake, roll it up, slice across and eat. stop after half of it has gone, flip the pancake in the pan, eat the rest.
I haven’t had them in years (perhaps even decades) but always ate them stacked. And also with lots of syrup, because I found dry pancakes hard to swallow.
If you are a Costco member or know one, their real maple syrup(Canada) is (more or less) $11 for a liter.
Of course. 
I eat them stacked. I’ll lift the edge of each one to put butter and syrup in between them, though. Well, not real butter and syrup. Vegetable oil spread and sugar free syrup. I like to eat healthy, you know. 
When I was a kid, all we ever had was the fake stuff (Log Cabin, Mrs Butterworth, etc) so when I was an adult and buying my own groceries, I bought real maple syrup once. I was surprised to find I didn’t like it as much, I think just because I was used to the fake stuff.
I never liked stacked because the bottom cakes get very little syrup (or, the top one gets way too much). Also depending on the thickness/heaviness of the cakes eating a bite of the full stack can be impractical (can’t get a bite small enough.)
If they are served stacked (e.g., at a diner) I cut and eat them one at a time while stacked, reapplying butter/syrup as needed for each. If I am serving myself, I would only take one at a time.
When I am at home I eat them one at a time. If I order a stack at a restaurant I leave them stacked.
Apart. A wedge of three pancakes is too big of a serving size to put in my mouth all at once.
Together. And I’ll put the over easy eggs on top of them and then slice 'em all up.
I leave them stacked at the restaurant. Cut off a bite from the stack.
My favorite is silver dollar pancakes. I wish more restaurants offered them.
I make them at home.
QFT. My mind may be considered blown.
Some of you peoples is weird!
I haven’t eaten pancakes in forty years. But I remember the proper procedure is to lift them up and spread butter on each layer, to pour (real) maple syrup over the top, and to cut into small wedges of the layers to eat. Ugh — no eggs or sausages should intrude. The division between the sweet and the savory breakfast is inviolable.
What sort of ANIMAL eats his pancakes individually?
Stacked, butter and syrup between and on top.
Or if there is real honey, like honey bought from a bee keeper friend, it’s butter on top and between and honey on top.
Also good as pigs in blankets. Pancake wrapped around sausage link, ketchup on top.
actually for me most of the time my pancakes come cut up so I just dump what ever I want on em scrambled eggs style