Yes! It is indeed that time again…Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast!! Can I get and AMEN!!? I know that I say this every year but I really, truly, am completely enamored with a good pancake breakfast.
The Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast that happens in Racine is superb. Perfect pancakes (and lots of them), crinkly sausage, barely cold mini milks, syrup-like food stuff and those strangely flat and round containers of “mostly” orange juice. I get a little choked up just thinking about.
As some of you may know, Max has been to 7 of these soirees and this will be his 8th, if you count the in utero visit we made in 2004. I count it because technically, he did consume the food even if I ate it first. Max got a moment of recognition for his dedication to this event in 2007 when he appeared in this video about the pancake breakfast.
Watch for him around 3minutes and 17 seconds in the video. As you may notice, at that time he was struggling a bit with the whole “using a fork to get the pancake off the plate and into the mouth to enjoy its pancakey goodness”. They do allow him to redeem himself at the very end of the video. Max is the closing shot as he finally gets those stubborn pancakes where they belong.
Did you know that the giant spinning pancake griddles were designed by some of the founders of the Racine pancake breakfast because the rental ones they used the first year in 1955, just couldn’t handle the demand. A Milwaukee Journal article in 2005 told the story that Jim Jude relayed to them about those giant griddles.
“It (the rental griddle) was 4 feet in diameter and ran on electricity, but we knew it would be too slow,” Jude said. So he, an engineer from Acme Die Casting, George Aschauer from Twin Disc, Gordy Van Remmen from Harris Metals and Bill Nelson from Modine set about creating two 5-foot-diameter machines with Modine gas heaters and Alcoa table tops. At first, Jude says, members had to crawl underneath the machine to change the temperature. Now, Anderson said, the machines have digital controls. The third year of Pancake Day, they made two more machines, one just for the seconds line.
So, on Saturday May 5th we will be eating our hearts out and enjoying all that is the pancake breakfast. To all of you I wish the same joy that this event gives us.
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