Have you noticed that some restaurants have become rather stingy with their oven time?<\/p>\n
First, it was IHOP, doing away with their iconic warm syrup, forcing us to us the decades-old, occasionally mislabeled communal dispensers. Now, as a kid, I was always amazed at the bounty of available sweet and sticky substances to be found in those containers – who doesn’t love dollar pancakes drowned in a combination of pecan and blueberry syrup? But that sort of thing lost its appeal roughly four decades ago, and now all I desire is a simple maple-like flavor delivered in a form that will actually melt the solid lump of butter atop the short stack. But, no, even that simple pleasure is now denied,*<\/p>\n
And then there’s Cracker Barrel, which has apparently adopted a strategy of combating global warming by serving its breakfast muffins cold.* (And without butter, although that’s a perverted blessing given the inability of the muffins to melt it.) Does anyone really prefer their blueberry or apple bran muffins unheated?<\/p>\n
C’mon, folks. Life’s short and hard enough without making us suffer these basic indignities. <\/p>\n
*In the interest of full disclosure, it should be noted that warm syrup and heated muffins will be provided, but only upon special request. But that’s sort of like ordering a bottle of wine with dinner and, oh, by the way, do mind also uncorking it for us?<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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