A brief comment on IHOP/IHOb

Hello all.  It's been awhile.  Apologies for the light posting, I was in a brief multi-year coma.  It's unclear why, but it's probably not connected to red meat consumption, because no research I've ever read has shown consuming red meat to be bad, and please stop sending me that research because I'm never going to read it.

But I had to give an update, because it came out today that the famous International House of Pancakes, or IHOP, has rebranded itself as the International House of Burgers, or IHOb.  The acronym was released before the name, and many people thought that IHOP was rebranding itself as the International House of Breakfast. That would have made sense; much of IHOP's menu was omellettes, waffles, and various non-pancake breakfast foods.  A name chance to show this inclusiveness might have been warranted.

There are also burgers on the IHOP/IHOb menu.  Calling it International House of Burgers is stupid.

Reader, there was a period in my life when I ate at IHOP every day.  Not really every day.  Not even every weekday.  Probably 3 days a week, with the occasional weekend visit (it was the closest restaurant to my workplace and the refrigeration situation at said workplace was questionable).  That's still a lot of IHOP visits, more than you've made at any period in your life unless you were one of my coworkers that particular summer (it was a great summer, wasn't it guys!)

We ate at IHOP almost every day.  I never once at a burger.  I might not be the the only authority on hamburgers, but I'm the only one who blogs at this particular blog, and even I, eating at IHOP nigh daily, never wanted to try the burger.

My comment to you the reader: It's a pancake place.  You eat pancakes, maybe with syrup, maybe with a cup of coffee.  Don't get the burger.

My comment to the CEO and board of directors of the International House of Pancakes: I'll accept an apology in writing.