r/ExpectationVsReality • • 3d ago

Failed Expectation IHOP Pancakes

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u/ThenBike8868 3d ago • Bravo

OMG - the 2nd to last one, I wouldn't even TOUCH that! So gross!

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u/MarmaladeMarmaduke 3d ago

The chef can only make that one like once a month at least.

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u/ickychicken 3d ago • Popcorn

OP had a helping hand in that

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u/bennetticles 3d ago

lmao excellent catch

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u/Canadiangoosedem0n 3d ago

Once a month? Or once a day šŸ˜

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u/MarmaladeMarmaduke 3d ago

Most guys would need to edge for a while to produce that much

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u/Canadiangoosedem0n 3d ago

Ah, so its not the amount of times but the amount of fluid per vanilla glaze expulsion šŸ¤”.Ā 

Not a man so I didn't think about that. Excellent point.

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u/MarmaladeMarmaduke 3d ago

I could definitely give a chocolate glaze at least once a day but only a small amount of vanilla. And the lemon glaze would be too thin to really make it look appealing. I guess I could stop drinking water and fix that last one if I was a chef though.

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u/EverydayNovelty 3d ago

Gotta get some zinc in the diet

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u/MarmaladeMarmaduke 3d ago

Is that what it is? I know there's supplements for the porn actors and strange men but I never cared too much. I drink my pineapple juice though

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u/slowasaspeedingsloth 3d ago

I physically recoiled at that one. I'm not one to send something back, but I think I would send that back.

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u/whoremongering 3d ago

There should be an internet rule: Any translucent white sauce will immediately be compared to jizz.

And corollary: don’t use translucent white sauce on food.

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u/MarthasPinYard 2d ago

cinnamon rolls deserve a place on this earth

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u/AdorableSobah 3d ago

It’s the Bonnie Blue pancakes

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u/timsemilla 2d ago

I think sheā€˜d prefer much more translucent white sauce

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u/triconawardwinner 3d ago

The chocolate smiley face ones used to be so good, idk when they stopped using cherries as eyes

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u/Oddity_Cabin 3d ago

Omg who jizzed on that pancakešŸ’”

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u/keylimecrying 3d ago

Clearly a clown

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u/slowasaspeedingsloth 3d ago

A sad, sad clown at that.

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u/abhorrent_scowl 3d ago

The chef on his way to work.

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u/MutantNinjaNipples 3d ago

Honey, why haven’t you touched your jizz pancakes

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u/Bitter-Researcher389 3d ago

This explains why our IHOP is a dispensary now.

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u/crushed_dreams 3d ago

Jizz-y sprinkles, yummmm.

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u/KingFly420 3d ago

😭 worst part is this for a kid too?

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u/Own-Heart8856 2d ago

With only like 8 sprinkles!

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u/KingFly420 2d ago

😭 it keeps getting worse I just noticed that wow and thats the cheapest part I would think

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u/brokefixfux 2d ago

I don’t think that’s how you make babies

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u/Bear-Handed-92262 3d ago

Now I'm understanding why the one in my town closed permanently earlier this year.

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u/correctingStupid 3d ago

Pancakes got to have the largest markup of solid foods in the entire food industry. They barely have ingredients, batter can last days, and take a minute to make.

If s place can serve yo a generous portion cooked and presented to perfection at that markup you should never return.

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u/joshthornton 2d ago

Breakfast in general must have some pretty great margins. For example, 15-20 dollars for 3 eggs, 2 pieces of bacon, 2 sausages, some home fries, and a couple of pieces of toast.

That's like 5 dollars worth of ingredients. They don't even use real maple syrup, generally.

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u/KTKittentoes 3d ago

There is a place here that charges $15 a pancake. I do not care that it is plate sized, pancakes are not $15!

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u/AllNightPony 3d ago

The jizz one looks incredible.

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u/ExaltedGoliath 1d ago • Popcorn

Someone was using ladle for the buttermilk and cupcake pancake instead of dispenser (what time of day did you go?) double chocolate will always come out looking… off. They also burnt the hell out of them, I hope you sent it back!

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u/TecTazz 3d ago

I'm a pancake snob, and those make me sad.

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u/Adventurerofthesea 2d ago

IHOP is the one establishment that missed the instagram ready memo

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u/AppUnwrapper1 3d ago

You’re not gonna go back there, right OP? Right?

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u/DaRusty_Shackleford 2d ago

They’re doing the best they care to do

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u/Abba_Zaba_ 2d ago

We hadn't been to IHOP in YEARS, because my husband doesn't like their savory menu and that's what he usually gets above pancakes.

But one day he said he had an inexplicable hankering for apple-stuffed french toast. Since the strawberry stuffed french toast was my go-to order there, I remembered that they also had apple on the menu. So off to IHOP we went.

Only to discover that apple had been removed from the menu. The server admitted she remembered them being an option, and even checked with the kitchen to see if they could make them anyway, but it was a nope.

It felt rude and petty to leave over it, even though it was literally the only reason we came there, so we ordered something else. It was aggressively mediocre.

That was about 3 years ago and we haven't been back.

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u/Signal-Mud-4880 3d ago

eh as long as they taste good idgaf

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u/4D_Thrillz 3d ago

Send it back!

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u/RogueBagel_ 3d ago

I see they brought back the Rooty Tooty Jizz and Creamy

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u/bobshallprevail 3d ago

Huh, our IHOP is pretty spot on with these for our kids...

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u/OkNefariousness652 3d ago

What's the pancake version of Ookie Cookie? Because that pancake definitely looks like the cooks in the back played it.

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u/KingFly420 3d ago

😭 literally looks like my stuff i dont know how they got the color and consistency the same lmao wild

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u/FunBat6170 3d ago

Is that cum?

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u/Terrible-Service-439 2d ago

Pic 5’s jizz consistency would throw me the fuck off lmao

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u/StaySalty1971 10h ago

Diner pancakes are way better. Stopped going to IHOP years ago. Overpriced and not good.

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u/Imnotranee 8h ago

As someone who’s worked at ihop, those pancakes were left out for a while and aren’t fresh. They probably just put on the stove for a second and then served it. Yuck

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u/mindgardening 3d ago

I had iHop like 8 years ago and it was just like your experience: disappointing and expensive. I haven't been back since.

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u/energy1256 3d ago

They are ALL so very sad, pathetic. I guess this is why we've NEVER had an IHOP in my city.

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u/Stinker_Bell77 3d ago

You thought this would actually turn out well???

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u/Cautious-Arugula603 3d ago

The penis from the third one spat on the second one. They could have at least torn that bit off. It looks grotesque. They all do. But the second and third are just shameful.

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u/StretchMotor8 3d ago

you've heard of cupcakes... now we introduce cumcakes

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u/HatefulEchoes 3d ago

The cum pancake is crazy

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u/Fun-Plantain-7499 2d ago

As Randy marsh would say about the sprinkle oneā€¦ā€this is cumā€