National Pancake Day 2011

National Pancake Day 2011 Like your breakfast topped with butter and syrup? If so, you're in for a real treat. National Pancake Day 2011 is being celebrated today at International House of Pancakes (IHOP) locations all over the country. The chain is giving away FREE short stacks of pancakes all day today.

The pancake ought to be celebrated. It is a gloriously fattening treat that somehow escaped the dessert menu and wound up as breakfast. Breakfast, of course, is the biggest lie society, the FDA, and whatever co-conspirators you could imagine have going. Ninety-nine percent of breakfast foods are just god awful garbage you really shan’t be pumping into your delicate human system.Pancake Day is also known as Shrove Day, which is the last day before Lent begins on Ash Wednesday. Why pancakes when observing Shrove Day? It's an attempt to cram as much high-fat food in your belly as possible before the fasting of Lent. Techhhhnically, Shrove Day isn't until next Tuesday, but it seems IHOP decided to get a leg up on the holiday today.

Thankfully, IHOP isn't just making it about the food. They're also asking their patrons to make a donation today to the Children's Miracle Network Hospitals. Last year, IHOPs served over 4 million pancakes to mark National Pancake Day and raised more than $2.1 million for children's charities.

Let’s start with cereal. Anytime you need a cartoon character to market something, whether it’s food or life insurance, it’s evil. If your cereal is not already pure sugar on the way in, your body will process it is such rather swiftly, leaving you bloated and tired.

Starbucks loves this because you’ll buy more coffee. You ever wonder why there is an incredible deficit of protein and vegetables at Starbucks, yet an unlimited supply of “breakfast” foods like muffins, bear claws, bagels, croissants, and donuts? They supply you with the refined sugar crash and the pick-me-up. Maybe the most successful companies really do think like drug dealers?

Of muffins, bagels, donuts, et al, the swiftest, tastiest health-destroyer is the pancake. Here are two good rules of thumb:
1) The word “cream” is synonymous with early death
2) If you’re eating something that is shaped like a circle, it is bad for you.