It's funny, but throughout my childhood and teen years at home, I would always eat pancakes whenever we had them, but they weren't something I craved or totally loved. I think I ignored them for many years after that -- the one syrupy breakfast thing I loved now and then being french toast -- and that may, in fact, still be my all time favorite. But now... NOW... I crave, and adore: pancakes, waffles, the aforementioned french toast... all of it...with real butter, fake butter, real syrup, fake syrup...you name it, it goes in my belly. It's a good thing we don't have any IHOPs or such nearby, because I'd soon be able to blame mucho extra pounds on them.