-PJ
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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-PJ
So what are waffles?
“Went there last week and was unpleasantly surprised at how much their prices have increased.”
Agreed.
My vote is boneheads because so many will first secretly think it means blacks.
That meme is around 20 years old and it still makes me laugh.
International House of Bankruptcy.
You heard it here first.
Maybe they're going to compete with Hooters in the morning market?
-PJ
Their food will still suck, no matter what they call themselves.
Bums?
You mean Eileen?
Maybe they are finally getting WIFI locations, and the “b” is for bandwidth.
Breads, meats, potatoes, cheeses and ales? I could live on that.
Well, if waffles are also unwanted by the PC Food Police, you will get a restaurant called Chicken and Stuff. Or Morning House. Where they replace the boardroom-determined offensive word.
If Jesse Jackson were waiting tables, it could be “Bodily fluids”.
What’s the deal about pancakes? I don’t get it.
And why did International House of Pancakes decide to become IHOP and downplay the “international” part? What about Swedish pancakes and blintzes? Too ethnic?
B, is for biscuits! ;^}
https://theeggandirestaurants.com/ , for biscuits and gravy!
I Hop For Pancakes!.................
International House of Blah.
The b is an upside down p. If you flip a p, like you flip a pancake, you get a b.
Isn’t that obvious, or is it just me?
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