Lincoln Lunch: pancakes
(not my actual lunch but very close) The all you can eat pancakes meal is back at IHOP. A Lincoln fiver gets you five large pancakes, hot and fluffy and smothered in butter. Just what the doctor ordered. I made it three-and-a-half pancakes through my stack and all were delicious. The waitress asked if I wanted more (could have brought them home in a to go bag) but I decided not to test IHOP pancake longevity.
Normally a five-stack is $6. Upgrades are available if you crave cheap, fried meat. (An odd, meaty flavor lingered after eating a strip of bacon off a friend's plate. Perhaps it had just been sitting around too long.) My esteemed colleagues, perhaps envious of my full belly, inquired how much individual pancakes would have cost. A three-stack is $4.50, which comes out to $1.50 per pancake. So ordering five pancakes for $5 only makes sense if you eat 3.333 of them. Thank god I had that last bite, pushing me to a consumption total of 3.5 pancakes! Some quick math: 3.5 pancakes x $1.5 per = $5.25. I saved a quarter.
Few other Lincoln Lunch options on the menu, however. An order of onion rings will run you $4, a small house salad is $3.29, and a bowl of soup is about $3.60. Not exactly filling choices. For six dollars you can get two pancakes, scrambled eggs and hash browns, tabasco included. Read their menu here. Find a location near you.
