civilized ku # 263 ~ short and stout

A so-called short stack ~ Old Forge, NY • click to embiggenYou know that you live in the middle of nowhere just south of the Canadian border when you drive 120 miles after dark and you only see 12 other cars on the road and the only place you have to stop is at a US Border Patrol road block / check point and prove that you are not a terrorist.

That said, the next morning I stopped at a small-town diner for a "light" breakfast - a breakfast sandwich and a "short stack" of pancakes. Imagine my surprise when the short stack turned out to be short but as wide as a full-sized dinner plate and a little over a 1/2 inch thick. Very, very delicious but "light" it was not.

Comments

[Jimmi Nuffin]

In my day, that is how all pancakes were.

[Andre]

Hi Mark,

That breakfast doesn't look so bad, when compared to what we're not getting in Québec: Poutine. Even for breakfast. Some restaurant in Montreal may have more than 20 varieties of this stuff, others may called it food.

But lo and behold, "Poutine" is now showing up in as far away as Vietnam. And New York has been attacked by it :)

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/11/23/091123fa_fact_trillin

http://www.martiniboys.com/NYC/T-Poutine-review.html

"Poutine" is a deformation of the english word "Pudding".