"Pancake Stackers": IHOP Doubles Down With Pancake-Sandwiched Cheesecake (PHOTO)

Seventeen days after KFC launched its infamous double down creation to a storm of coverage and opinions, IHOP is introducing its effort at grabbing headlines (guilty as charged) with its own middle finger to responsible eating, the AP reports.

IHOP's "Pancake Stackers" will be a limited-time offering through June 20, and consist of: a layer of cheesecake sandwiched between two pancakes, available in strawberry, blueberry, or cinnamon apple, all topped with whipped cream. They will be available a la carte or as part of a combo meal, with eggs, hash browns, plus bacon, porks sausage links, or ham, which will tally up to 1,250 calories -- over twice that of a 540-calorie KFC Double Down.

Said Carolyn O'Keefe, IHOP's senior vice president of marketing, to the AP: "It's an opportunity to give our guests another reason to come into IHOP."

Or not!

IHOP's "Pancake Stacker":

Comments

[princeza]

12:37 PM on 05/10/2010

The thought of trying to eat that makes me nauseous. I like pancakes (I'm a Vermonter), not a fan of cheesecake though. But add that to IHOP's nasty fake syrup, butter and whipped cream (yes, I've had the "pleasure" of eating at a few of these in my lifetime). But add in eggs, ham, whatever else to it... is it humanly possible for one person to eat all that?

I'll pass, just like I pass on KFC. If I want to go out to breakfast, I'll just stop at the diner near the condo, where the people are friendly, and the food is great. Or if I'm feeling extra lazy, I'll make it myself from scratch.

[Debbie338]

02:07 PM on 05/08/2010

Reminds me of a Carnival Cruise we recently took. We stepped into the elevator with a sign that said "maximum 15 persons." My husband said "Do they mean Americans?" Everyone laughed and thought we were Canadians.

[Steamboater]

12:22 AM on 05/08/2010

I could eat pancakes when a kid but not any more. They make me nauseus. Don't know whether it's the pancake or the syrup but I just can't hold it down, and especially after eating them and getting in a car.

[MeatlessMonday]

01:59 PM on 05/06/2010

Social Darwinism at its finest. Enjoy your cheesecake breakfast and be sure to go for some extra bacon!

[jcd8822]

11:21 PM on 05/05/2010

We tried the ones at Christmas, talk about gag. No more IHOP for us. Our crepes and pancakes are better at home. They are not covered with all of that stuff they use.

[SpaceboySD]

02:55 PM on 05/05/2010

This, and the latest monstrosity from KFC TOTALLY remind me of...

"Domino's Scientists Test Limits Of What Humans Will Eat":

http://www.theonion.com/video/dominos-scientists-test-limits-of-what-humans-will,14252/

[SwingingFromCenter]

11:45 AM on 05/05/2010

This is as much of a non story as the Double Down from KFC.

This is nothing but their cheesecake pancakes (which they've offered multiple times in the past) with the cheesecake in between the pancakes instead of on top of them.

[josephebacon]

12:56 AM on 05/05/2010

Just looking at that picture breaks my blood sugar meter :-(

[ChemcalJr]

04:43 PM on 05/04/2010

i wouldn't eat that.....

[Cheapthrills]

11:52 AM on 05/04/2010

Looks like they captured the hand of the Hamburger Helper dude between those two pancakes.
Yuck!

[alieninvader]

05:27 PM on 05/03/2010

Maybe they're going after the stoner demographic.

[DynamiteKid]

04:56 PM on 05/03/2010

We learned this recipe from the French.

Over there it's called a crepe.

[alieninvader]

05:27 PM on 05/03/2010

Over there it's much smaller and with less sugar and real ingredients.

[magicmary]

03:47 PM on 05/03/2010

What makes me crazy is that people will buy this stuff! I think there is a huge epidemic of willful and even stubborn and proud ignorance in this country on many many levels. How the he// do you overcome that?

[alienobserver]

04:36 PM on 05/03/2010

Proud ignorance - I like that. IHOP home of sticky tables and flies.

[sherifffruitfly]

05:22 AM on 05/03/2010

Looks good to me. If someone wants to spend their own money and chooses to eat this for themselves, rock on. I wouldn't take a person's ability to choose what they eat away from them.

[UpstateNY]

07:03 PM on 05/03/2010

Nobody has taken away anyone's ability to eat what they want - just allow us to right to say this is a stupid choice. If you wanted to put pure sugar into your car, I guess that's your right as well - just don't expect it to work.

[sherifffruitfly]

07:21 PM on 05/03/2010

Then we're in complete agreement.

[Clare53]

05:10 PM on 04/30/2010

IHop and Olive Garden, Norm's, etc. have the most disgusting photographs of their food. They are just piles of sugar, carbs and fat. It's just gross.

[samoisdead]

07:42 AM on 05/01/2010

This is state fair type food, lol.

[josephebacon]

12:59 AM on 05/05/2010

It's only a matter of time before somebody decided to dip cheesecake in pancake batter and then deep fry it!