Well, I am a pancake and these are my thoughts. Because I did not make up the term "pancake" to describe thought processes, I will turn this over to my fiance (who did come up with this wonderful breakfast analogy).
Pancake Thoughts - An Explanation Your brain holds an amalgam of thoughts. It does not allow you to remember all of them or even most of them unless you are one of those so fortunate, (or unfortunate) to remember every little detail of your life. For everyone else there is two iconic breakfast items we can use to describe how our brains hold and allow us to access the ludicrous amounts of mostly unnecessary information that we take in on a daily basis. Pancakes and Waffles, you probably grew up with one or the other. You may have even had a family allegiance to either waffle house or IHOP in your youth. But these two heavily processed and refined options for breaking ones fast (probably with a heart attack one day) can also tell us a lot about how we process (see what I did there) our cognitive functions. Okay so I lied, it’s more of how a waffle or pancake’s partner in crime, namely syrup, interacts with each of these respective foods that does the explaining. People either have brains that work like syrup falling onto a pancake or brains that work like syrup falling onto a waffle. Allow me to explain. When the dark maple-y substance pours slowly from your southern stereotype themed and shaped bottle of sugary goodness and falls onto a pancake something happens. The syrup goes everywhere. I like to call this pancake brain model. People with pancake brains take in new information and it touches every part of their brain, mingles with all of their previous thoughts and leeches on them like a vampire upon so many virgin necks. Although there are exceptions to every rule, most women have a pancake model brain. They relate everything to every other thing effortlessly leaving all us waffles behind in the dust (more on waffles in a moment). Pancakes hear someone say the word baseball and immediately everything they can remember that is connected to baseball is brought up. This is not the same as remembering everything to do with the sport of baseball for anyone who might be confused. This is simply a shockwave of memories that have something to do with baseball. When these memories run out they cascade into other memories that were related to anything having to do with anything connected to the memories that the word baseball brought up. And all this happens in under a second, the mind of a pancake is truly amazing. So guys the next time you mention baseball to your lady and she replies with did you think that girl was hotter than me. It was related, they were paying attention, it was you who wasn’t or couldn’t be paying enough attention. Waffles on the other hand do not allow their syrup to run amuck. They might like to, but they cannot. The syrup is caught in little compartments and rarely touches each others little comfy dwelling. Thoughts in a waffles mind are accessed one at a glorious time and the previous thought is left to fend for itself in its own little cubby. While sometimes difficult for a pancake to understand, a waffle can hear a new piece of information and relate it to absolutely nothing. It can stand completely on its own. All emotions related to a previous instance of this information are not forgotten about, all memories of this previous instance are there, but they can’t see each other over the walls of the waffle’s enormous dimples. So I ask, which are you, waffle or pancake?
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