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From: Cindy Hamilton <chamilton5280@invalid.com>
Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
Subject: Re: Eggs and ethics
Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2025 09:45:09 -0000 (UTC)
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On 2025-02-08, Dave Smith <adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On 2025-02-07 9:26 p.m., Ed P wrote:
>> On 2/7/2025 9:17 PM, Bruce wrote:
>
>>> Why would they charge 50 cents extra if an egg costs 50 cents in the
>>> supermarket (and probably less for them)? It's not as if eggs were
>>> free before this egg crisis.
>>>
>> 
>> Because they can.  I've been to Waffle House twice.  The first time I 
>> ordered waffles.  Very disappointing.  Given the name, I had high 
>> expectations.
>
> I guess I saved myself some disappointment by not stopping to eat at the 
> one we passed on a road trip. I can't say I am surprised. I think I have 
> posted here before about how disappointed pancakes have been at pancake 
> specialty restaurants. One should expect that when a restaurant 
> specializes in a particular type of food they should be good.  They 
> could at least be mediocre. They should not be bad.

IHOP.  They use outlandish toppings to disguise the mediocrity of
their pancakes.  Chocolate-strawberry pancakes.  New York Cheesecake
pancakes.  Chocolate Chocolate-Chip pancakes.  Mexican Tres Leches
Pancakes:  layered with vanilla sauce and dulce de leche caramel
sauce and crowned with whipped topping.

Gack.

-- 
Cindy Hamilton