Horton Hears from Hypoglycemia

First a few quick words about copyright: The, um, er, breakfast (?) photo to the left is the property of the International House of Pancakes. In most cases, you cannot download and use artwork from IHOP or anybody else's site for that matter. However, this post is a "review" and a "critique" and that makes our use of this art perfectly legal, no permission necessary.

It's why Hollywood can make spoofs of entire movies and not be obligated to pay any royalties to the spoofees.

Okay, now that the copyright thing is out of the way, let's get down to brass tacks. Let us please get serious-- just for a moment-- about IHOP's new "Who Cakes", celebrating the new film Horton Hears a Who.

Should it eat even be legal to serve this heaping pile of sugar to an innocent child?!? A child who really knows no better? Aren't we supposed to protect the poor innocents?

Okay, I will admit that I have not tried the Who Cakes. So I am not acting completely fair right now.

In all truthfulness, they just might be delicious. The pancakes are dressed with two opaque sauces-- one pink, one blue-- in the style of classical French sauce-making of course. Although I can't say for certain, I would guess both sauces to be a simple confectioner's sugar icing and differentiated from one another only by the food colorings. Hmmmmm..... Pretty good idea, I think. Maybe the next time I make pancakes, I'll try the icing thing. Ooooh! Delicious! Like cinnamon roll pancakes. And icing is so much less expensive than syrup! Just powdered sugar and water. If you want to be super fancy, you can add a dropper of vanilla to your icing syrup.

But wait. It actually gets worse. What's that on top? Is that a lollipop? Are you kidding me? Well, I certainly hope it's the kind of lollipop that's stuffed with chewing gum or a Tootsie Roll.(TM) It seems a shame to go through all that trouble and miss a last-minute detail like the stuffed-with-more-candy lollipop. The devil is in the details you know.  I know that I would be up in arms if I ate all of my icing-covered, fried-dough breakfast-- just like a good girl is supposed to do-- and then didn't have a Tootsie(TM) stuffed lolly as an after breakfast treat.

Thanks patient reader, for allowing me this forum to screw around and write a post about about nothing. Sometimes, I like the posts about nothing most of all.  We don't need to be serious all of the time, do we?  However, with home prices and interest rates as they are-- soon, we should all be too busy to write fanciful posts about nothing.