Posted on 06/06/2018 7:01:44 AM PDT by BBell
International House of Pancakes has created a stir by saying that after being IHOP for 60 years, it is "flippin' our name to IHOb" setting off speculation over what that mysterious b could signify.
For now, the company isn't saying. IHOP promises to reveal the meaning on June 11.
But the Internet isn't big on waiting. Hungry for answers, people responded to the cryptic tweets: Could it be breakfast? Biscuits? Brunch? The improbable bancakes? Simply, and minimally, bacon? The on-trend bitcoin?
Those are a few of the more popular guesses on IHOP's Twitter feed, in a thread that's littered with the company's coy responses and an annoying/cute (depending on your patience level) insistence on replacing p's with b's.
"Please tell me you're joking," a Twitter user named kayla said.
"Oh blease, this is no joke!" IHOP replied.
Patrick Ford tweeted, "I'm just over here wanting some answers! Stop b-ing elusive and tell me what the answer b!" and the company responded, "batience, Batrick, batience!"
After the company wrote, "There's so many obtions, what could it b?!" Extra D0G replied, "Can you not blease?"
Encouraging people to keep guessing, the folks running IHOP's social media account repeatedly cited the endless "possi-b-ilities." But at least two people noted that the company was missing out on a chance to say "bossibilities."
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They might be proposing to make the best BAGLE in the world.
Here’s a website with a list of some 100 guesses.
Broccoli?...................
That would be dOHI................
IHOP? Home of the One-Legged Waitresses?
“International House of Paying way more than Denny’s or Norms or any other pancake house.”
Went there last week and was unpleasantly surprised at how much their prices have increased.
Maybe the “B” stands for “Bsticker shock.”
Whoever came up with this idea was as drunk and/or high as IHOP’s 3am customer base,
Oh crap, they roped me in to their cooperate scam!
Depends on which axis you rotate the letters.
KFC did this same crap as IHob. Board meetings where people all agree to let fried chicken and pancakes be the food that dare not speak its name.
I’m pretty sure that their ad agency geniuses thought that turning the p into a b would represent turning pancakes “on their head”! Or something equally stupid! (stubip?)
Maybe they are following Starbucks lead.
BACON !!!!!
They’re going Vegan:
Bamboo Shoots, Bean Sprouts and Broccoli.................
“”There’s so many obtions, what could it b?!””
Blackness.
“”There’s so many obtions, what could it b?!””
Smith & Watson
“”There’s so many obtions, what could it b?!””
Smith & Watson
“Whoever came up with this idea was as drunk and/or high as IHOPs 3am customer base,”
Is Gretchen Carlson running IHOP too?
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