Blogs Jun 23, 2014 at 9:15 am

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Gosh Dan, if you had only done a little research you would have known about IHOP and the anti-gay law in Uganda!.
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@1 I watched that documentary yesterday. Seriously disturbing and sad. More consequences from white American hero complex/guilt meddling in Africa. I'll take a short stack of mediocre pancakes over that any day.
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IHOP knows that July 8 is during Ramadan, right?
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Every time I have ever been in an IHOP I've had an unsettling encounter with a deranged person. One time in the old U District IHOP the guy at the next table got up and started waving a sword. I couldn't tell whether he thought he was D'Artagnan or a samurai, but I could tell it was time to keep my head down.
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When the gays came for our marriages, I didn't speak up because up because I wasn't married.
When they came for the pancakes, everybody was gay. And fat.
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@4: Oh come on. Where's your sense of adventure? Sword waving lunatics, the occasional appearance of six legged wildlife in your food, risking serious illness or even death from unsanitary food, that's all the spice of life(and in the cases of six legged wildlife, sometimes the spice in your food)
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I have fond memories of the old U district IHOP, I used to go there early in the morning before a big exam, have a plate of semi-digestible oily starch and a LOT of the endlessly refilled coffee, and review my study materials for an hour or two. I don't know if it helped my performance in the slightest, but there are worse rituals.

I never saw any notably deranged people. Maybe I counted as one? If so, I was an awfully quiet one.
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Yeah, Dan, and thanks for sharing the stack of free coupons (payola) they sent you for that blurb.

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How do they "give away" pancakes for 56 cents? That's not giving away, that's selling. Right?
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@9 beat me to it.
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IHOP? Seriously? Come on, seriously low-grade food, barfy...
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@9, 10,

I think Dan needs to take her up on the offer to reach out for further information. Maybe this serve could even serve as one of those back/forth style Savage Love Letters of the Day!
13
But, but...but I really like the harvest grain pancakes!

:-(
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What I want to know is what you have to do to be on IHOP's e-mail distribution list.

I've never gotten an e-mail from IHOP in my life.

There's an untold story here.
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@14, with hundreds of IHOPs around, someone could have easily signed up Dan's public e-mail because of the other IHOP that isn't famous for pancakes.
"IHOP founder Mike Bickle says gay marriage is 'rooted in the depths of Hell'"
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@14,15: I'm pretty sure this is a PR person. Note the phrase "your readers". His email address is public, and this is a clearly (at least slightly) personalized email. The job title is also a dead giveaway, Ihop hired some firm to do PR on this, and this guy got the job.
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How much did IHOP pay you to advertise for them? Seriously, why would you lower yourself like this?
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Shall we all shit-storm Wills Communications, Inc. with some feedback on the IHOP founder and his H8 the gays statements? Or a July 8 Twitter bombing of IHOP?
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This is possibly the only useful post for SLOG readers that Dan has done in years, excluding sex advice.
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I'm mostly puzzling over how the marketing department arrived at 56 cents. Why not go with the "heritage" price of 60 cents? I kept looking at the numbers in the press release and trying to figure out the reasoning... 1958, 60 cents, July 8 ... I tried adding things up (1+9+5+8), converting dates to numbers, but won't add up. My head might explode. Finally, I came to the conclusion that this press release is as inelegant as a mountain of chocolate chip pancakes covered in whipped cream.
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Whoops. I get it. It's IHOP's 56th birthday anniversary. I missed that in the first line. Now I'm just fretting over redundancy.
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For those fretting about IHOP's politics -- bear in mind that they almost certainly will lose money on this offer, especially if tons of people go in and ONLY order that cheap short stack. Sit there and have your nearly-free pancakes, taking up space that would otherwise be occupied by somebody ordering something profitable. :-)

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