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I was a terrible father

When I made pancakes for my kids, I thought I was good by making them look like Mickey Mouse. I have been put to shame.

I can imagine my kids going in for psychoanalysis for the trauma, lying on the couch and weeping over my inferior, mediocre pancakes, which clearly testified to the fact that I didn’t love them enough.

But sometimes I mixed chocolate chips into the batter! Does that make any amends at all?

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  3. mattandrews says

    When I made pancakes for my kids, I thought I was good by making them look like Mickey Mouse. I have been put to shame.

    …

    But sometimes I mixed chocolate chips into the batter! Does that make any amends at all?

    Depends on whether you told them the chips were mouse droppings or not.

  4. bbgunn says

    Who has that kind of time, patience and mad skills? Mine always resemble amoeba.

  7. Stevarious says

    When I made pancakes for my kids, I thought I was good by making them look like Mickey Mouse.

    You were also… violating copyright!

    Expect to be whining the words ‘fair use’ to very dangerous men in black sunglasses very soon!

  10. rubymoon says

    1) I can log-in via Yahoo, but not Twitter???

    2) For *some* reason, my only thought is “that one in the bottom-middle looks like that poor AU!Aperture employee…”.

  12. Blondin says

    I heard a story from a friend about a relative who was making pancakes when the sticky fly strip fell from the ceiling into the batter. He pulled it out and continued to mix the batter but noticed a few of the flies had fallen off the the fly paper. Thinking he probably wouldn’t be able to pick them all out he just threw in a handful of raisins. An Edward de Bono solution?

  13. scrawnykayaker says

    No, no, no! The chocolate chips go on top after you flip the pancake, to make eyes and stuff, not in the batter. As they say on the webalogs, “you’re doing it wrong.”

  14. Louis says

    Octopus -> Octopodes. From the Greek for “foot” pus -> podes. Not the Latin.

    Louis

  16. Louis says

    Janine,

    Where I stole the margarine.

    A fellow Zappa fan. My love for you has only increased manifold.

    Louis

  19. Louis says

    Dental floss bush.

    Don’t go where the huskies go and don’t you eat that yellow snow.

    Louis

  24. keenacat says

    That technique is incredible! I thought I was moving up from Mickey Mouse by doing a few crude bats and rabbits.

    http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/96/batpancake.jpg

    Just me and pygmy pony, down by the succotash bush…

    Scrawnykayaker…
    I’m sorry to be the one to tell you that:
    But that is clearly a manfruit with dangly bits. It even has pubes.

    Not that there is anything wrong with manfruit pancakes. Just avoid adding blueberries.

  25. DLC says

    PZ:

    But sometimes I mixed chocolate chips into the batter! Does that make any amends at all?

    No way dude. blueberries or GTFO :-)

    I hope your children will someday forgive you for imposing such horrors on them. Your cooking is soulless, and godless.
    Whereas mine is a religious experience. My family see what’s cooking and yell “Oh God, not that again!”

  26. Desert Son, OM says

    My favorite Zappa quote (not from his prolific and awesome music catalog):

    “Most rock journalism is people who can’t write, interviewing people who can’t talk, for people who can’t read.” -Frank Zappa

    In re: subject post, I’m impressed not only by the shapes, but by the skill required to flip, for example, the sea urchin or nudibranch cakes and maintain overall structural integrity.

    Still learning,

    Robert

  28. Amphiox says

    The only way to settle this is to ask Skatje and the other kids whether or not being restricted to Mickey Mouse pancakes with the occasional chocolate chip has scarred them or not….

  31. says

    “You can’t always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.”
    – Frank Zappa

  35. Pierce R. Butler says

    Prof. Myers – attorneys from the Disney Company on Line 3 for you, they say it’s urgent…