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When will the car companies give us the feature we REALLY want? Like a built-in waffle iron. – Ms. Fix-It
Favorite Comment: Fixer Moxie Man says, “No, you don’t understand. It’s currently maple sap season here in the northeast USA. They’ve flushed the coolant out of this car and replaced it with maple sap. Once enough sap boils off, it will ooze out of the pin holes in the heater core, through the vent and directly onto the pancakes! It’s brilliant!”
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“Remember…only one pancake per flap, Jack.”
Cookie…er, pancake dispenser on-line. The syrup’s still in beta though.
Mrs Butterworth is still tinkering with 5W-30 maple syrup.
No, you don’t understand. It’s currently maple sap season here in the northeast USA. They’ve flushed the coolant out of this car and replaced it with maple sap. Once enough sap boils off, it will ooze out of the pin holes in the heater core, through the vent and directly onto the pancakes! It’s brilliant!
I would hazard a guess this will go over big with the kiddies…
Yep, they’ll eat them all in a flash.
Without even blinking.
Or switch to something else.
Stop the car so I can lift the hood to see if the bacon is done. Ummmm…bacon.
Somewhere, I once read instructions for baking a pizza on an engine block. You had to stop driving every 10 minutes or so to check for doneness, so I don’t know how I’d weigh the convenience factor of it. Hmmm, let’s see… where DID I leave that recipe…
There’s a cookbook, “Manifold Destiny” that has several dozen recipes for cooking while driving, most of it some kind of broiling (prepare stuff, wrap in tinfoil, wedge on exhaust manifold). Cooking times are given in miles.
Wow, that sounds high-maintenance! I should clarify: baking a FROZEN pizza on an engine block.
I bet this has some real potential in the right touristy area, though. Just need a vehicle that’s big enough (can potentially prepare more food) but not too big (so that number of people isn’t more than number of servings that can be prepared). Drive around, point at landmarks, and then it’s time for dinner.
Actually, better make it a more rural setting, with fewer food options. And maybe fewer people to know about this…
Actually, it looks to me like someone is cooling pancakes, not heating them. I have seen people do the same thing with French Fries that they got in a drive through and were too hot to handle, especially for kids.
Yup! I do this for my boys when their french fries with the A/C on.
That was the first thing I thought when I saw this pic.
Grand Slam breakfast in 3…2…1…
apparently someone couldn’t wait for theirs to be done.
I wonder how the car dealer took the add-on request:
-”Oh, b.t.w. I wan’t the gap in the valves to be exactly 15 millimeters!”
Wow, how did they get the pancakes so thick? Mine are usually half that thickness.
I personally think they’re english muffins, a type of bread/biscut, which would explain why they’re not flopping over, as well as why they’re thicker.
I believe its the mini pancakes.
I concur. Either Eggo or Krusteaz. Mmmmm…pancakes.
Instant pancake mix? FAIL.
Those aren’t pancakes, they’re corn cakes. They’re served with pulled pork BBQ, which is being heated in the engine compartment. And I’d bet the rent that there’s red clay in the wheel wells.
Wow… Noone actually does this. This is stupid.
Are you kidding me? I bet 8 out of 10 people who regularly read this blog are all over this idea by Monday morning. It has the added bonus of you getting to be the carpool driver with the car that smells like pancakes, which is only a problem if your carpool is heading to your weekly weigh-in at Weight Watchers.
Well kc/cc, it’s Monday morning and I have french toast hanging in front of my vents. I think you were right.
Remember, before removal, to press the hazard lights on.
Can you put otter pops in there when using the A/C?
A man once asked for sexual antics
In a car whose vents were stuffed with pancakes.
“Just ten minutes…” he pled,
“Oh my dear,” his wife said,
“That’s twice as long as the milkman takes!”
This is not a kludge… fail. Phew… it’s not even a fail, it’s just silly
They unfortunately had to use the heater because the microwave oven for cars is broken and they are using it as drawer.
A Toyota’s a Toyota
But it’s not a toy Yoda.
At least they knew the pancakes went there and not in the CD player
Of course not, that’s where the coffee goes.
The new car smell is overrated, isn’t it?
Well, the Ford Thundercougarfalconbird does come with the optional margarita maker and toaster over.
The margarita maker comes in handy during rush hour. I prefer keeping in touch with my buddies Jack, Jim and John.
Sorry, gotta go with the Beta Romeo. It’s luxurious seats are stuffed with eagle down and and the dashboard inlaid with the beaks of a thousand eagles. Also, there are some eagles under the floorboards. But the luxury edition has so much more eagle. It saddens me to think of you missing out.
Your car will have to drive a few extra miles to work off this breakfast.
Look more like Warburtons potato cakes in a Kia Rio, to me.
Not pancakes, but English Muffins, split by a fork in the road. The driver is warming them while they search for a traffic jam.
Nice, but a little too punny.
We’re Big on puns here, Momma.
Darn right! And every chance I can, I like to egg dono on.
Oh Anna, you’re such a ham.
Punny side up, extra cheesy!
Ugh! That butter be all from you.
“We’ve syruptitiously replaced Dan’s usual car fragrance with something new. Let’s see if he notices.”
Now you’re on the right track LGB. Welcome to ‘thereifixedit’.
Thanks, TAC.
Strangely, I feel right at home…
Car Freshener, available in Fir, Spruce, Pine and now the all new Maple (syrup)
Letterman’s Top 10 Ways American Cars Would Be Different if Ralph Nader Had Never Been Born:
10. Dashboard Hibachis
9. Seat belts made of piano wire
8. Windshield replaced with ant farm for kids
7. Strobe headlights make oncoming traffic look like old time movie
6. 50-foot antennas allow you to broadcast while driving
5. Optional front-seat hammocks
4. Wiper fluid reservoir routinely filled with Thousand Island dressing
3. New York City taxis would be exactly the same
2. The paper Buick
1. Speedometer replaced with electronic voice chanting “Punch it! Punch it!”
Made me LOL a whole bunch! Thanks!!!
Gottra favrite the piccie so I can reed your comment again.
Hell yes! F*ck Nader.
I know, how many time could you use a dashboard Hibachi? Like, every day, right??
How many ‘time,’ indeed!
Letterman’s Top 10 has not been anywhere near that funny for the past 20 years. Don’t accept less than $100k per list when they discover you, kc/cc.
The only thing I can take credit for is, sadly, remembering this list from Letterman about 20 years ago. I think you’re right, though- not much has been worth referencing in more recent years.
Suddenly, I have a craving for car-warmed English Muffins.
They are actually “arepas”, not pancakes. These are made with corn flour and cheese. Still a cheesy way to warm them up!
No vale, que arepas ni que arepas. Arepas are not that floppy and the burn pattern is all wrong for arepas.
Those are Arepas and the photo is from Colombia.
while a high carb diet does give you gas, i don’t think thats gonna help his mileage…
The one with a bite taken out of it was a nice touch.
The one with the bite out of it is the one that indicates there was a food temperature intervention needed here. The police will need it as evidence, when the distracted driver runs the light in a minute, but I think the right judge will understand. Especially if there are children involved.
Hey kc/cc, we should invent a device that holds donuts in front of the vents. Hot donuts to bribe cops? i think so.
Only if you want them to follow you everywhere, and they won’t even quite know why.
That’s a CR-V! How come he got a pancake warmer as an option? I didn’t get one in mine…
They said I was mad to put waffle batter in the A\C blower – MAD! Well who’s laughing now that my Dash-Operated Pancake Extruder is fully operational?
Oh, I see. They’re all still laughing. Perhaps I’ll hold off on demonstrating the Ashtray Syrup Storage for the time being.
It’s just a marketing issue. It’s hard to convince people to go with the D.O.P.E./A.S.S. option.
best… acronyms… evar.
ICOP…..International Car of Pancakes!
Those are English muffins you idiots.
No, they aren’t, you idiot. They’re pre-fab mini pancakes that come frozen. The driver probably came up with this as a time saver.
Definitely not English muffins, at least not the ones sold here in England.
then wouldn’t you just call them muffins?
Great, another sticky substance to add to the ocean of “Sticky Substances” Yes siree Maple Syrup goes along with Ketcup, Juice, and yes Mcdonald’s Secret Sauce.
Unintended pancakes are an epidemic.
Being a teenage driver is a stressful time in life. Please talk to your children about keeping their waffles under control.
Just then Bob regretted not cleaning out the air ducts after that accident at the Pancake Hut.
Aunt Jemima called she wants her cars back.
mmm air conditioner flavored breakfast
It reminds me of the car commercial where there’s a toaster in the front seat. Makes me sure I’m not the only one who was hoping her car came with a built in toaster.
Fatty knew the gig was up when Skinny hit the Play button on the secretly installed mini-pancake dispenser…
These pancakes are really stiff… like… they are standing up straight!
Ah, yes humans have done a fantastic job at domesticating the pancake. Before, we had to catch them from the wild using large heated pads covered in maple syrup odor, but now they have successfully been bred in captivity, and love the delicious warmth of our automobile’s heating vents. It just goes to show that man can tame even the wildest of beasts.
Sorry for being serious, but it’s a 2nd gen Honda CR-V. I work on them all the time.
No, these are not arefas. They are definitely Lefse, a potato pancake. Trust, we just had them, and they look exactly like that.
For those on the go mornings….
Those are english muffins, dude. It’s the best part of a Land Rover!
2 Minutes on Radio 5 please.
Yur all crazy, those are crumpets.