Episode 38: The Pancake Predicament from Mammoths to IHOP
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This Father's Day, we're flipping back the clock on one of humanity's oldest foods.
A failed robbery at a San Antonio IHOP leads to a surprising question: where do pancakes come from? The answer takes us from a black-belt waiter tackling a crowbar-wielding robber to Ice Age campfires, woolly mammoths, ancient grinding stones, and some of the earliest evidence of flour production.
Along the way, we'll explore how nearly every culture developed its own version of the pancake, why some pancakes became symbols of the sun, how pancake races became a tradition in…
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