Well, here's the fundamental problem with a pancake: no grid. Nothing to catch the syrup. Just a slab-sided hunk of slickness that lets the syrup run down unhindered to the plate.

How can you even consider that good food engineering?

You can take a knife and carve in a grid. Or a Gioconda. Where's the Gioconda in your waffles? The people demand to know.

Fuck Gioconda. And why would I carve a grid in my pancake when I can order a waffle instead?

That is a false dichotomy. Also a litotes.

I can't recall if the Krauts have Pfannkuchen. Or maybe I made that up.

Yes they do.

It's in my mind, nevertheless.

There's also Eierpuffer, Plinsen, and even Omelettes and Crepes. Not meaning proper omelettes or crepes. It is very confusing.

Well it isn't confusing at all, but people are dead set on making it be.

So if I were you I'd roll with Pfannkuchen. Also if I were anyone but you. Also if I were you I'd roll with Waffeln. We discussed.

I could enlist in the Waffeln SS, perhaps.

I could punish the hell out of those waffles.

That's one we used to laugh at in school. But then Bush came along and it got eclipsed by Massenvernichtungswaffeln.

Waffles of mass destruction. It is so genuinely funny I'm genuinely finding it funny now.

Dem waffles are definitely WMDs.

Too bad they never found any and went with pancakes instead.

Hence all the terror in the world now.

See, better living through food engineering.

A simple grid turns a lowly pancake into a divine waffle.

Oh, also: more crust!

@Robusto No room in the budget for that.

I should send that one in to Engineering Explained.

You have to be careful with crust in America, they like to start putting cheese in it.

Not where I'm from.

Just a heads-up.

Also, Dude, we don't put cheese on waffles. We just don't. I don't know if Euro-trash can understand that, but it's not even a thing here.

First they put cheese in pizza and you said nothing because you were not pizza. Then they came for the waffles, and you couldn't say anything because there was no waffles left.

Laugh all you want, cheeseboy. But the Waffeln SS will get you in the end.

@Robusto I've not seen anything savoury on a waffle ever. Not even in Belgium. Fuck, not even in France. Triple fuck on a sandwich, not even in Albania.

It's strictly sweet stuff or GTFO.

As it should be.

Just saying. Euro-trash is what those people dance to. Different genre. Not the same ballpark, not the same fucking stadium, not the same fucking game.

Not even the same fucking sport.

Yes, that's how it went.

Even when they twist a waffle into a cone, they put ice cream in it. Cream, not cheese. Mainly because ice cheese would be horrible, and we all know it.

Is what I'm saying. Tell that to Americans. Keep reminding them of that, of all people.

Eeeuwwww, ice cheese. I'm getting sick just saying that.

Because they are the ones holding the cheese cans with the one hand, whatever they are holding in the other.

No Waffle SS will save you.

Now I'm hungry.

Where are my waffles!

I believe they have some ice cheese left in Japan.

With wasabi and tuna in it, too.

I would have to wait till tomorrow morning, and then I won't have the energy to actually make the fucking things.

@RegDwigнt Do not taunt me about ice cheese.

I have a limit beyond which I am not prepared to go.

I do not. It's that whole country on the other side of the world. They're weird.

BTW, it's "Ain't no fuckin' ballpark, neither."

I forgive you because you had to listen to that movie in German.

Yeah I was too lazy to google.

See, I don't have to google that shit. I watched it in English.

No I listened to that movie in four languages including English the last seven times around, like.

But as I told you, the last one of the last seven times was easily years ago.

Che ridicolo.

Do not taunt me about watching all of Breaking Bad in three different languages start to finish, several times over.

I have a limit beyond which etcpp.

See, but listening in German set unreasonably low expectations for those films.

Actually just the other week I was sitting here bored and looking for a movie to watch and found nothing so I just watched a few episodes of BB and turns out I didn't remember a thing.

Time to rewatch it all again!

Comedy is like butterfly wings, once touched they can never get off the ground.

@RegDwigнt I've seen it three times now, and each time I notice new stuff.

And it's never, ever boring. Well, except the fly episode. Too much fly!

The Fly is a great movie, LOL.

It was Season 5, picked at random because I happened to be in that folder. I watched a couple episodes whole and fast-forwarded through pretty much all the other ones. There was stuff in there I had forgotten all about.

And like, two years ago I could have recited every single line from memory. In three languages. Wake me up in the middle of the night.

You never sleep. How can we wake you up?

Speaking of hungry, think I'll go help my wife make dinner so I can cadge some odds-and-ends snacks.

Latezr muchachos!

@Robusto That is my defense mechanism.

@Robusto that also is my defense mechanism.

And I was about to leave myself. Also I am about to get hungry myself.

WMDs will do that to you.

CU latorz.

Also, Shaun just uploaded a 35-minute episode on transphobia in the UK, so I guess I have to watch that now.

Today really is the International No-Video-Under-30-Minutes Day.

This will be like the sixth or seventh that I watch in the last four hours alone. I've lost count frankly. But the math checks out either way so wevs.

@Robusto also also, the fly was a great episode. It would have sucked if every other episode were like that, or even just two in total. But as a one-off it had its charme, and it had its place. And left enough room for everything else. Of which there was heaps. It may have been boring but it also was perfect. And much better than the one with magnets anyway.