Stale Pancakes

Today is my college roommate Joe's birthday. As I was leaving him a message this morning I began to think about fun memories we had together. Every Sunday was our ritual to go to the student center and have a pancake brunch. Then I began to think about unpleasant memories of the pancakes themselves.

A new car depreciates something like 50% of its value as it's driven off the lot. However, the quality remains unchanged: it's still effectively a new car. A pancake taken off the grill quickly loses its quality, but the value (price) remains the same.

I always hoped for fresh pancakes, and not for them to run out and begin to use the pre-made storage batch (made before the brunch-time rush) For some reason, it began that the workers at the line would make pancakes, take them off the grill, put them in storage, and then bring out the previously stored batch of pancakes to put on our plates, rather than the yummy combination of grill-to-plate. It's made for a continuous cycle of sucky pancakes.

Maybe they had their reasons...maybe the pancakes became very bad if stored even longer, so they opted for medium bad (in their view) stored pancakes. It's our own fault I've since learned; we had our own kitchen at that point, if only I had known then that pancakes are SO easy to make and SO SO SO cheap to make, we could have had fresh pancakes everyday. Maybe we liked sitting is the cozy student center, just to get out of the room. You could say we were then paying for the ambiance.