Because once you’re eating the pancake, then it is breakfast, and therefore, it can’t be before breakfast any more. Thus, it is impossible to have pancakes before breakfast.
There is such thing as a pre-meal snack, no? And breakfast is a meal I do believe; the first of the day in fact. So who’s to say that one couldn’t enjoy a pancake as a pre-meal snack before eating a full breakfast later?
Ah, but there is a problem here.
We can agree that there a point in time, which we’ll call A, that is clearly before breakfast, and a point in time that is clearly breakfast, which we’ll call B. There is necessarily an interval of time between A and B, and that interval necessarily has a halfway point that must be crossed on the way to B ; which we’ll call Pancake. However, the interval of time between A and Pancake also necessarily has a halfway point (let’s call it Maple Syrup), and so on and so forth ad infinitum. Since there is an infinity of halfway points they can never all be crossed, especially if you’re already running late for work.
Therefore, it can never be breakfast. And thus, any pancake consumption necessarily happens before breakfast.
You see? This is why ‘pancakes’ is such a trigger.
It’s not just the physics: the gravity, suspension, the surface tension, the chemical changes. I want to know - would they be smaller on the moon?!?
And how important is the angular velocity of the pancake equaling the square root of Pi times the gravity divided by the distance to the elbow times four?
How many can be stacked before a monumental collapse? What is the Pancake Theory?
Whipped butter or plain? Salted or unsalted? Melted or room temperature?
Maple, molasses, boysenberry, strawberry, cranberry, raspberry, mulberry, blueberry - how can I choose?
Could I eat nothing but pancakes? Would I die? And what kind of life am I leading when the answer to this is purely contingent upon the quality of the pancakes?
Curse you, Darth Panda. You just couldn’t leave it be.
Thanks, Miller, >sniff< for having my back. It will not be forgotten. No matter how much pancakey carbon dioxide I may now try to inhale.
well well, someone provides a little background anecdote,factoid, exposing the rape fantasizer, then gets told to shut up? wtf for, to protect him from what?..
Dude, Skald starts like, a thread a day - by the law of averages, some of them are bound to be about rape.
Scanning all the threads he’s started, you have to go back over 200 threads to find one with the word “rape” in the title. Admittedly, I’m ignorant of any issues at other venues, but based on the information at hand, I’d say there may be some confirmation bias at play here.
Although I’m not sure if their power extends to breakfast-related rulings.