The Danger of Pancakes

Saxony Line I-XIV

Last time on our trek through this delightful little mind game of the Saxony Line we practice the long forgotten skill of mnemotechnics as we cantered through the year that was in 1917. The Saxony Line XIII was also the first time that anybody commented on Lebnizian Ramblings. Thank you very much Glenn for your support! But on our little stroll through the archives we touched on a number of topics. We shan't retell them all here so go ahead and click to be transported back to a time when Livery Stable Blues was bumping on the phonographs and the Danish West Indies only cost a cool $25 million dollars.

While we won't recall and thus bore you, with all the details of our 1917 post we will remind you that 1917 witnessed the birth of the NHL. Today in the NHL comes a story of delicious proportions. For full disclosure purposes I don't particularly enjoy pancakes. They are too thick. I'm not anti-pancake, I simply prefer the Swedish kind or possibly crepes topped with lingonberries. It's something about the thinness of the breakfast delicacy that lulls me into a false sense of security. The thickness of American pancakes is overwhelming to me. But let us not chase this rabbit to deep into that hole.

Dustin Penner, a Left Winger currently playing for the Los Angeles Kings has had a solid career since breaking into the league with Anaheim in 2005. He scores enough goals and he's won a Stanley Cup. His biggest problems have all centered around his weight. In 2008 while playing for Edmonton he was criticized by his coach Craig MacTavish after Penner sat out two games in a row for not being physically fit enough to play. So, Dustin has a bit of a weight problem. He enjoys eating, especially apparently, pancakes. Most people, your humble philosopher of note aside, like eating pancakes. The problem was when Penner sat down to a stack of the syrupy hotcakes the other day his back seized up and spasmed. He had to miss a game on account of the pancakes.

I know there has been a lot of sympathy and scorn surrounding this situation and the Leibnizian Ramblings maintains impartiality in our quest to simply inform so we will not wade into the waters of judgment on this occasion. We pride ourselves on our impartiality and would never do anything to jeopardize that vaunted status in our own mind. But, it may be in our interest to inform Dustin that it is possible to enjoy pancakes without the danger of throwing one's back out. As we mentioned earlier in this post the problem with pancakes is that they are simply so heavy.

If Dustin wishes to continue to enjoy pancakes without the possibility of a humiliating injury it might be advisable to switch to a lighter version of the breakfast dainty. While not everyone will enjoy the tartness of lingonberry on Swedish pancakes, we think that even the most diehard pancake fan will enjoy the skinnier versions. Maybe he should try palacinky, naleśniki or pannenkoek, all of which are significantly less girth than your average American or Scottish flapjack. But, Gottfried you may ask us, will this skinny pancakes be less filling? Don't the rigors of a North American classic sport like Hockey demand a heartier pancake? Well, the Swedes play a pretty mean puck too don't ya know? The Tre Kronor have gotten themselves a couple of those gold medals in recent olympics. That isn't all that bad eh? They eat skinny pancakes. But their strength might actually be from the lingonberries.